What we do
Eight areas where the outcome is reliably worse than the facts warrant, and where organised effort changes it.
Excessive sentencing
Sentences that bear no relation to what was done, handed down because a statute left no one any discretion.
Wrongful conviction
Cases where the verdict is wrong, and the system has no interest in revisiting it.
Prison and jail conditions
What happens to people after sentencing is not separate from the sentence.
Children in the adult system
Children prosecuted, sentenced and imprisoned as though they were adults.
Reentry, parole and clemency
Getting out is the beginning of a second problem, not the end of the first.
Fines, fees and debt-based jailing
Court debt that turns a fine into a jail sentence for the people least able to pay.
Voting rights and civic exclusion
Disenfranchisement that outlives the sentence, often permanently.
Police accountability
Patterns of conduct that no individual complaint ever reaches.