GETTING PEOPLE OUT OF THE SYSTEM QUICKLY
Safety + Justice Challenge: Enhancing Equity Earlier in the System, the Pretrial Equity Transformation Learning Network
One approach to reducing the reach of the criminal legal system on individuals includes developing policies, programs, and practices reducing the reliance on jails. Planning, preparing for, and implementing these strategies takes dedicated coordination and expertise.
Funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the Safety and Justice Challenge aims to change the way America thinks about and uses jails. Learning opportunities for professionals in the criminal legal system are key to reducing racial-disparities system-wide. To that end, JSP is facilitating an educational network focused on increasing equity in pretrial reform.
The PET Network is a collaborative learning network for professionals working at the front-end criminal legal system. The learning network offers strategies that improve racial equity, decrease the number of people booked into the jail, and decrease the length of stay pretrial. The network helps professionals unpack challenges and offer innovative solutions through practitioner and researcher-led discussion that center equity and address racial disparities at the front end of the criminal justice system.
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Evaluating the Evidence Automated Court Reminders
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Pillars Guiding Our Work
Keeping People Out of the System
Keeping People Out of the System
Getting People Who are in the System Out Quickly
Getting People Who are in the System Out Quickly
Centering People Who Remain in the System and Individualizing Services
Centering People Who Remain in the System and Individualizing Services
Caring For People Who Care For People Impacted by the System
Caring For People Who Care For People Impacted by the System
We organize our work into four key pillars. The goal of these pillars is to eliminate the reach of the carceral state on people and communities, and to take care of people and staff impacted by involvement. At JSP, we acknowledge that structural racism exists both in society and within the criminal legal system. We also acknowledge an individual’s race, skin tone, gender, disability, sexuality, age, and income, and the intersection of these and other factors exacerbate the structural inequities they experience navigating the criminal legal system.
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