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CJCJ’s research focuses on sentencing and correctional reforms that strengthen community safety. Our team investigates conditions in state prisons and county jails. We highlight institutional failures and the need for broader reform. We also track criminal justice sentencing practices that disproportionately impact people of color. 

Since 1986, CJCJ has conducted research on innovative community-based alternatives to incarceration. We investigate programs that best support formerly incarcerated people reentering their communities. These models build a foundation for successful reentry by addressing people’s diverse needs.

Below you will find our research and reports on adult prisons, sentencing, and transformative community programs for justice-involved individuals.

For more information, contact CJCJ Communications at cjcjmedia@​cjcj.​org or (415) 621‑5661 x. 103.

Learn more about how AB 109 funds are being spent in your county.

Every year, California makes a massive investment in jails and probation, with little county transparency or state oversight.

CJCJ’s new fact sheet finds that the costs of confining youth in California’s state youth correctional syste are expected to climb to $271,318 per youth.

CJCJ’s new report finds, in California’s state youth corrections system, violence has increased, gang culture is pervasive, and mental health treatment is at times nonexistent.

CJCJ has updated it’s Farrell Litigation Timeline to include relevant events from 2013 — 2015.