Evidence

Cutting through the noise on what really creates safety in America

The American Punishment System is Destroying Trust in Government

Read the Report

Family

EXPLORE TOPICS:

Safer Neighborhoods Start With Trees

Simple neighborhood designs can do more for public safety

Read the Report

Parenthood in the Criminal Legal System

Parents need better protection

Read the Report

Child Support Enforcement Drives Mass Incarceration

Our system isn't helping kids--it's putting parents in prison.

Read the Report

Cash Bail Is Expensive And Unsafe

Across the US, cities, counties, and some states are re-evaluating the use of cash bail.

Read the Report

Criminal Court Processes are Punishments Themselves

It is critical that Americans also acknowledge that powerful institutions inflict violence on people presumed innocent under the law every day. As it stands, the system is directly at odds with the idea that Americans are “innocent until proven guilty”, inflicting severe and traumatizing punishment long before a person sees a jury of their peers.

Read the Report

Policing and Punishing Childhood

Read the Report

Transportation Access and the Criminal Legal System

Read the Report

"Collateral Consequences" of the Criminal Legal System: An Overview

Read the Report

Gang Documentation and Gang Injunctions Harm Communities

Read the Report

Public Benefits Access and the Criminal System

Access to public benefits may be an under-appreciated public safety mechanism. When people are able to pay their rent, support their families, not go hungry, have a roof over their heads, and have access to healthcare, they are less likely to engage in crime.

Read the Report

Access to Education Creates Safety

Interacting with the police, being arrested, or spending time behind bars make it more difficult for a person to get a quality education and access to opportunity. If we care about improving opportunity—and public safety—through education, we must consider shrinking the criminal legal system itself.

Read the Report

Strong Social Ties Increase Safety

It turns out relationships are everything.

Read the Report

Generational Harm

Children and families are the "hidden victims" of the legal system.

Read the Report

Impact of the Carceral System on Economic Stability and Mobility

The criminal legal system is keeping people poor.

Read the Report
MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN

What is the impact?

Learn more about the impact of Partners for Justice in communities across the country.

Learn More