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Capacity Building for Community-Based Organizations as an Investment in Social Change
This latest policy brief explores how the CJII capacity building program was designed, key approaches to its successful implementation, and lessons learned to maximize grantees’ immediate and long-term impacts.
Reducing the Misuse and Overuse of Jails in Safety and Justice Challenge Sites
This interim report focuses on performance three years into the Safety and Justice Challenge (through April 2019), an initiative supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to reduce populations and racial disparities in American jails. Three years of data from SJC sites across the United States shows it’s possible to successfully reduce jail populations.
Jail Population Trends in Safety and Justice Challenge Sites During COVID-19
A new brief highlights jail population trends during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout 2020, as the extensive impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic became clear, many municipalities—including those participating in the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC) — implemented emergency measures to reduce their jail populations. Here we describe how those measures influenced jail populations in SJC sites between February and October 2020.