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Redefining Community Safety in Three Local Counties
Everyone wants to feel safe in their community. Yet, we know little about how people make sense of what community safety looks and feels like to them. Discussions among policy makers and the media...
View ArticleThe Importance of Prosecutorial Independence
Prosecutors are elected by voters to protect the safety and wellbeing of the communities they serve. Removing prosecutors from office can have a chilling effect on the rule of law. It blurs the...
View ArticleLooking Deeper at The First Four Months of Illinois’ Bail Reform
January is Poverty Awareness Month in America, so it is an appropriate time to look at the early implementation of Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act (PFA), which eliminated cash bail for all criminal...
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Why It Matters That Women Are Disproportionately Locked Up in America’s Jails
Data is a key part of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge, in its efforts to reduce local jail populations across the country. Likewise, a new data-based...
View ArticleFive Best Practices for Trauma-Informed Reentry
Reentering the community after incarceration is a complicated, lengthy process, made more difficult by system failures and lack of support and services. Many survivors have specific needs, but these...
View ArticleAchieving Racial Equity and Improving Culture in Jails Using a...
Jails are racialized organizations. Many jails have racialized subcultures, where residents of non-White racial backgrounds face increased segregation, tensions, or violence; limited employment...
View ArticleToward Community Justice: Upstream Investment Is Criminal Legal Reform
Criminal legal reformers are increasingly adopting a more holistic conception of safety, one where the goals of reducing crime, violence, and recidivism are necessary but not sufficient. This means...
View ArticleSafety, Justice & Research: Tapping into a Decade’s Worth of Criminal Legal...
Since 2015, we’ve worked with the Safety and Justice Challenge in communities across the country to develop, implement, and study tailored strategies to safely reduce jail populations. Now, we’re...
View ArticleTransforming Reentry: A Human-Centric Approach
At the heart of every policy change, every system overhaul, and every reform initiative are the lives of real people. There are the individuals who drive the systemic change forward and the individuals...
View ArticleExpanding the Reach of the Just Home Project
The Just Home Project–a partnership between MacArthur and the Urban Institute–is expanding to support community-driven efforts to break the link between homelessness and incarceration in more cities...
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