• $150,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Cooler Bandits is a documentary film about incarceration, reentry, and sentencing policies. It is the story of four friends who were given decades-long prison sentences for a string of robberies in 1991. The film picks up their story as three of the four men are released on parole after serving twenty years. It shows them trying to build a new life in a changed world that they must navigate as felons. The Cooler Bandits is produced and directed by Julie Janata and John Lucas, and executive produced by the Justice Policy Institute.

• $485,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Policy Institute, an independent research, public policy, and communications organization dedicated to reducing incarceration and promoting juvenile and criminal justice policy reforms, provides communications-related services for the Models for Change initiative as part of its National Resource Bank. It will use this grant to continue to provide strategic communications assistance to the initiative's partners, maintain and enhance the initiative's website, and produce publications to support initiative goals, to help educate political leaders and the public about Models for Change, promote broader interest in juvenile justice reform, and diffuse the initiative's innovations to other states and localities.

• $315,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — To support strategic communications technical assistance to the Models for Change states.

• $885,000Active Strategy

  2009 (Inactive Grant)

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — To support policy advocacy and communications planning for the Models for Change initiative (over two years).

• $54,000Active Strategy

  2009 (Inactive Grant)

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — To complete work on the Models for Change website redesign.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Justice Policy Institute $1,889,000 between 2009 and 2012.