Real public safety comes from real community investment

From Shackles to Scholarship: A Vision for a 21st Century Bordentown School

Today, on a site that once served as a pinnacle of Black excellence and achievement sits the Johnstone Campus, which houses New Jersey’s only youth prison for girls — the Female Secure Care and Intake Facility, also known as Hayes. Next to Hayes is the Albert Elias Residential Community Home, used as a work readiness program to house justice-involved young men. Across the street sits another youth prison, the Juvenile Medium Secure Facility (“JMSF”) for boys.

We have a better idea.

$600 To Damage Our Kids Forever

This report addresses the myriad costs that youth incarceration in New Jersey imposes on individual youth, their families and the state – financial, emotional and beyond.

Refunding Communities

This report explores the ways New Jersey can make meaningful investments in community-based public safety systems.

To Record and Protect

This short brief addresses the need to protect community members who record police encounters in New Jersey.

Transforming Policing in Newark

The Newark Police Division is under a Consent Decree. Learn about what that means and how you can help ensure it is a meaningful process.