Addressing unique needs

We promote evidence-based and research-informed policies and practices that improve the outcomes of unique populations involved in the criminal justice system, including women, LGBTQ+ people, young people, and people who have committed sexual offenses.

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Gender-Responsive Po...

The National Resource Center on Justice-Involved Women (NRCJIW) collaborated with the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) and CORE Associates to ...

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Building Pretrial Su...

With support from Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, CEPP will examine the needs of women who are detained in jail pretrial or placed on pr...

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CEPP Justice Policy ...

CEPP seeks to ensure that currently and formerly incarcerated people have opportunities to apply their lived experience, collective skills, and intell...

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Gender Justice Pretr...

This project emerges from the urgent need to interrupt a 50-year trend of rising pretrial detention and incarceration of women, despite them having th...

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Opportunity Scholars

Opportunity Scholars is an initiative that supports people with lived experience in the carceral system to grow personally, professionally, and academ...

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Incarceration to Com...

CEPP was part of the 2022 cohort of Qualcomm’s Racial Justice Giving Initiative to address the needs of BIPOC justice-involved women. In partnership w...

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Translating Research...

CEPP is preparing a series of white papers for the Reentry Coalition of New Jersey to guide criminal justice policy development related to release dec...

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CEPP’s Racial ...

CEPP recognizes that racial inequity and disparity persist at every phase of the criminal legal system, with devastating effects on BIPOC communities....

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