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In this report, we analyze the landscape for family-based alternative sentencing programs to assess the effectiveness of these programs in meeting their program goals.

This brief offers context on the youth criminalization crisis in the United States. We then outline a series of harmful elements in the BSCA.

In many states, people with drug-related felony convictions are banned from SNAP and TANF. This impedes successful reentry.

The public health and economic crises of the past year have exacerbated existing economic inequities. The pandemic has devastated Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color; workers in jobs paying low wages; youth and young adults; women and women of color; and people impacted by…

In this report for federal, state, and local government entities, we offer examples of states that have created good mental health mobile response systems

The Biden-Harris Administration must undertake criminal justice reform with an obligation to divest from systems of oppression and invest in the healing of historically oppressed communities.

New report, Reconnecting, Realizing and Reimagining Justice, written by Duy Pham, Kisha Bird and Shae Harris

This report offers practical programmatic solutions that support second chances for young people and raise policy and systems considerations to address equity, collateral consequences, and opportunity. 

This brief shows how Trump's justice department has turned back progress for youth and young adults of color. It also provides an anti-incarceration framework to combat law-and-order policies.

This brief explains how Ohio is aligning education and training opportunities for people who are currently or formerly incarcerated.