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Justice System Partners

Portland, Oregon
  • Grants
    7
  • Total Awarded
    $9,353,600
  • Years
    2014 - 2023
  • Categories
    Criminal Justice

Grants

2023 (1 year)
$500,000

Justice System Partners (JSP) works to improve the criminal justice system and provides technical assistance and training to sites under the Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC). JSP also coordinates the SJC California Network, which convenes systems stakeholders from ten SJC sites to share information about strategies and discuss statewide issues. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently approved the State’s request to cover a set of pre-release services for incarcerated individuals beginning 90 days prior to an expected release date to improve re-entry and reduce recidivism. This award supports JSP working in collaboration with the Health and Reentry Project (HARP) to support the SJC sites in services implementation for individuals leaving the jail system. Project activities include virtual and in-person workshops bringing together experts and site representatives in jail policy, corrections health, healthcare and behavioral health, managed care, and housing; and the production and dissemination of project reports on local, state, and federal policy implications of the Medicaid waiver and related operational and policy considerations. The aim is to create space for cross-site and cross-sector learning and information sharing; strengthen justice reentry implementation plans; and build stronger collaborative relationships within and across local jurisdictions. Finally, JSP currently provides intensive technical assistance and subject matter expertise to a group of SJC sites seeking to understand the drivers of local jail usage and racial inequities, and to implement and sustain strategies to address them. This award supports JSP's site coordination activities to two additional SJC sites: Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

2021 (2 years)
$250,000

Justice System Partners (JSP) works to improve the criminal justice system through training and technical assistance to leaders and practitioners. Illinois recently enacted a historic statewide criminal justice reform measure, which will among other things, eliminate the practice of imposing cash bail as a condition of pretrial release across the state. This award enables JSP to provide technical assistance to the Cook County Pretrial Fairness Act (PFA) Implementation Working Group via flexible technical assistance that centers racial equity and prepares the County to successfully pilot and implement the related policy, practice, infrastructure, and culture changes over the next 18 months. Technical assistance includes facilitating meetings, strategizing, identifying subject matter experts, mapping the future system, assisting with prioritization, and sequencing, conducting tactical planning, and supporting pilot and implementation.

2021 (2 years 6 months)
$2,000,000

Justice System Partners (JSP) works to improve the criminal justice system through training and technical assistance to leaders and practitioners. This award supports JSP’s continued participation as a site coordinator in the Safety and Justice Challenge, the Foundation’s criminal justice reform initiative aimed at reducing over-incarceration by targeting the misuse and overuse of jails and racial and ethnic disparities. JSP works with the Foundation and other initiative partners on the ongoing planning, monitoring, and coordination of the initiative, and provides intensive technical assistance and subject matter expertise to a group of Safety and Justice Challenge Network sites seeking to understand the drivers of local jail usage and racial inequities, and to implement and sustain strategies to address them. JSP’s activities have expanded to include participation in various efforts to extend the initiative’s reach and spread its influence to new jurisdictions and to the nation as a whole, including the sharing of learning and policy and practice innovations across peer and professional networks and a sharper focus on eliminating racial inequities.

2019 (2 years 5 months)
$2,453,600

Justice System Partners (JSP) works to improve the criminal justice system through training and technical assistance to leaders and practitioners. This award supports JSP’s continued participation as a site coordinator in the Safety and Justice Challenge, the Foundation’s criminal justice reform initiative aimed at reducing over-incarceration by targeting the misuse and overuse of jails and racial and ethnic disparities. In addition to working with the Foundation and other initiative partners on the ongoing design and coordination of the initiative, JSP provides intensive technical assistance and support to Safety and Justice Challenge Network sites as they seek to understand the drivers of local jail usage and develop and implement plans to address them.

2017 (2 years)
$2,000,000

Justice System Partners (JSP) works to improve the criminal justice system through training and technical assistance to leaders and practitioners. This award supports JSP’s continued participation as a site coordinator in the Safety and Justice Challenge, the Foundation’s criminal justice reform initiative aimed at reducing over-incarceration by targeting the misuse and overuse of jails. In addition to working with the Foundation and other initiative partners on the ongoing design and coordination of the initiative, JSP provides intensive technical assistance and support to a group of five Safety and Justice Challenge Network sites as they seek to understand the drivers of local jail usage and develop and implement plans to address them.

2015 (2 years 7 months)
$2,000,000

Justice System Partners (JSP) works to improve the criminal justice system through training and technical assistance to leaders and practitioners. A previous award supported JSP's participation in the planning, design, and launch of the Safety and Justice Challenge Network, which will be composed of20 competitively selected local jurisdictions committed to finding ways to reduce unnecessary jail incarceration safely and sustainably. The Safety and Justice Challenge Network is at the core of the Foundation's initiative to reduce over-incarceration by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails. This award enables JSP to provide project coordination and technical assistance in 2015 to a cohort of five of these jurisdictions, as they work to assess drivers of local incarceration and develop collaborative plans to address them. In 2016, the award provides support for JSP to continue to work with selected sites to implement their plans.

2014 ( 9 months)
$150,000

Justice System Partners , the Vera Institute of Justice, the Center for Court Innovation, and the Justice Management Institute work to advance knowledge and practice in criminal justice through research, program evaluation, training, and the provision of technical assistance. This grant will enable them to assist in the planning, design, and launch of the Safety and Justice Challenge, a Foundation initiative aimed at reducing the overuse and misuse of jails nationwide.