Promote Alternatives to Prison and Jail
Let's invest in more effective ways of holding people accountable and meeting the needs of crime survivors. Restorative justice is at the center of this strategy. 

End Poverty Jailing
Too many people are behind bars just because they can't afford to pay bail. Let's stop using wealth to determine whether someone should be held before trial, and start thinking about risk.

Organize Voices for Change
We need an inclusive movement to end mass incarceration. We hope to amplify the voices of crime survivors, formerly incarcerated people, and their families and friends.

Hold Prosecutors Accountable
Prosecutors have enormous power over who goes to prison and for how long. Let's make sure our prosecutors represent the true needs of the people who elect them.

Smart Justice California

General Support

Smart Justice California educates and emboldens policymakers who support meaningful criminal justice reforms that promote safety, fairness and healthy communities.

Amity Foundation & Center for Employment Opportunity

Returning Home Well

Returning Home Well is a new public-private partnership with the State of California that provides essential services — like housing, health care, treatment, transportation, direct assistance, and employment support — for Californians returning home from prison after July 1, 2020. These are individuals that have either met their natural release date or are being released on an expedited timeline due to COVID-19.

Recidiviz

General Support

Recidiviz is a non-profit engineering team driving towards a smaller, fairer criminal justice system. They use modern data infrastructure and thoughtful product design to empower criminal justice agencies, policy makers, and advocates to safely and sustainably improve outcomes for communities. Recidiviz began as a 20% project at Google and has since grown to become one of the brightest and kindest teams that tech has to offer.

Color of Change

Prosecutor Accountability Efforts

Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. They help people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by over one million members, CoC moves decision-makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.

Silicon Valley De-Bug

California Bail Reform Effort

Silicon Valley De-Bug is a community organizing, advocacy, and a multimedia storytelling organization based out of San José, California. They are collaborating with the lawyers behind the 2018 Humphrey victory to ensure the proper implementation of the court’s ruling. They will involve families, community members, organizers, public defenders, and system actors to maximize pretrial release and minimize pretrial detention, intrusive supervision, and extraction of community wealth.

Reform L.A. Jails

Los Angeles County Bail Reform

Reform L.A. Jails represents a coalition of citizens, community leaders, and organizations working towards a more effective approach to jails and pretrial justice in Los Angeles County. They are currently supporting a 2020 county-wide ballot initiative to grant the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Civilian Oversight Commission with subpoena power to investigate misconduct and to develop a plan to reduce jail populations and to redirect the cost savings into alternatives to incarceration.

Florida Rights Restoration Coalition

Florida Voting Rights Restoration Constitutional Amendment

FRRC is a grassroots, membership organization run by Returning Citizens who are dedicated to ending the disenfranchisement and discrimination against people with convictions, and creating a more comprehensive and humane reentry system that will enhance successful reentry, reduce recidivism, and increase public safety. They created and ran a Florida-wide ballot initiative campaign to reinstate voting rights for formerly incarcerated people, which passed in November 2018.

Californians for Safety and Justice

California Bail Reform Effort

Californians for Safety and Justice works with Californians from all walks of life to replace prison and justice system waste with common sense solutions that create safe neighborhoods and save public dollars. Through policy advocacy, public education, partnerships and support for local best practices, CSJ promotes effective criminal justice strategies to stop the cycle of crime and build healthy communities.

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

California Bail Reform Efforts

The Ella Baker Center builds the power of black, brown, and poor people to break the cycles of incarceration and poverty and make our communities safe, healthy, and strong. They work locally in the Bay Area, statewide, and nationally to change policies, reinvest in communities, and redefine safety.

Youth Justice Coalition

California Bail Reform Efforts

The Youth Justice Coalition is working to build a youth, family, and incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination in Los Angeles County’s, California’s and the nation’s juvenile and criminal injustice systems. 

Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice

California Bail Reform Efforts

The mission of CURYJ (pronounced Courage) is to interrupt the cycles of violence and poverty by motivating and empowering young people that have been impacted directly and indirectly by the criminal justice system to make positive changes in their lives and prepare them to become the community leaders of today.

Fathers & Families of San Joaquin

California Bail Reform Efforts

Fathers & Families of San Joaquin works to address the varying needs of men, women, youth, their families and the community of the San Joaquin Valley. FFSJ addresses critical problems such as institutional inequity, fatherless homes, wide spread poverty, employment disparities, inadequate access to public health services, community re-entry and youth on youth violence.

The Marshall Project

General Support

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. They achieve this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums. In all of our work we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.

Civil Rights Corps

General Support

Civil Rights Corps challenges systemic injustice in the American legal system.  They engage in advocacy and public education and specialize in innovative, systemic civil rights litigation with the goal of resensitizing the legal system and our culture to the injustice and brutality that characterize the contemporary American criminal system.

Million Voters Project

California Proposition 57 Advocacy

The Million Voters Project – a collaboration of California’s strongest community-based networks – will reshape the face of the state's electorate by delivering one million voters to the polls by 2018. Their targeted organizing will reach people one-on-one, build relationships, and inspire people to vote consistently to reverse the low turnout trends that are hurting our state, our cities, and our families.

Alliance for Safety and Justice

Crime Survivor Organizing Convenings

Alliance for Safety and Justice is a national organization that aims to win new safety priorities in states across the country. ASJ partners with leaders and advocates to advance state reform through networking, coalition building, research, education and advocacy. ASJ also brings together diverse crime survivors to advance policies that help communities most harmed by crime and violence.