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We are a community justice organization that centers safety and racial justice in partnership with communities, courts, and the people most impacted.

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Giving Thanks for Community

This Thanksgiving, our teams and community partners are working together to make sure everyone has delicious meals to share with family and friends.

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Investing in Community, by Community

To build lasting safety, we need to invest in communities. Through a unique model of civic engagement, our team puts resident voices at the center of those investments.

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Drug Testing and the Ordeal of Probation

Think of probation as an enormous testing period: will you be able to adhere to the thicket of conditions governing your daily life? Fail at any of them and you could be sent to prison. At the heart of this testing ethos is drug testing, affecting almost all of the 2.9 million people on probation in the U.S. The tests are time-consuming, expensive, and traumatic. There is also little evidence justifying their use.