Reimagining justice solutions

We engage with policymakers, practitioners, and communities to implement policies and programs that reduce the system’s reliance on incarceration, keep people in their community, and lead to more equitable and effective outcomes at all points in the system.

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Public Safety Assess...

CEPP assists jurisdictions in implementing the Public Safety Assessment (PSA), a research-based tool that evaluates the likelihood that a person charg...

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Implementing the Ill...

The Fair Access to Indigent Representation (FAIR) Act establishes Illinois’s first statewide public defender system, marking a historic shift in how t...

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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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Supporting the Imple...

CEPP supported the implementation of the Public Safety Assessment (PSA) in Mariposa County, California, with tailored technical assistance and trainin...

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Provision of Technic...

The Superior Court of California engaged CEPP to review Stanislaus County’s Public Safety Assessment (PSA) implementation practices and help carry out...

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Pretrial Improvement...

Stakeholders in Pitt County, North Carolina, wanted to explore opportunities to improve their pretrial system. CEPP conducted a comprehensive evaluati...

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Community Supervisio...

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Federal funding supporting the Community Supervision Resource Center (CSRC) was terminated in 2025, bringing the project to a close. Th...

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Pretrial Training fo...

CEPP is partnering with the Chief Probation Officers of California (CPOC) and collaborating with the Judicial Council of California (JCC) to develop a...

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