Criminal Justice Reform

Center for Policing Equity measures bias in policing. That means we can stop it. Working directly with police to measure behaviors and revise policies results in fewer people killed and fewer people in jail.

https://www.policingequity.org/ Center for Policing Equity Jobs

Fresh Lifelines for Youth is an award-winning nonprofit working to break the cycle of juvenile violence, crime, and incarceration. We give young people a chance to take their lives in a whole new direction.

https://flyprogram.org/ Fresh Lifelines for Youth Jobs

JusticeText helps public defenders save time reviewing video evidence in order to improve outcomes for low-income criminal defendants and enable greater transparency and accountability around police interactions.

https://justicetext.com JusticeText Jobs

American Witness marries journalism with transparency and data. Our goal is to bring unprecedented transparency to the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD criminal justice systems.

https://dcwitness.org/ American Witness Jobs

We envision a society that respects the dignity of every person and safeguards justice for everyone. Our mission is to end the overcriminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants, and people experiencing poverty.

https://www.vera.org/ Vera Institute of Justice Jobs

FRRC is a grassroots, membership organization run by Returning Citizens (Formerly Convicted Persons) who are dedicated to ending the disenfranchisement and discrimination against people with convictions, and creating a more comprehensive and humane reentry system that will enhance successful reentry, reduce recidivism, and increase public safety.

https://floridarrc.com/ Florida Rights Restoration Coalition Jobs

Color of Change leads campaigns that build real power for Black communities. We challenge injustice, hold corporate and political leaders accountable, commission game-changing research on systems of inequality, and advance solutions for racial justice that can transform our world.

https://colorofchange.org/ Color of Change Jobs

Using a collective impact model, we bring leaders together to design solutions for students. Each partner brings their own resources, expertise and data to make sure we look at the full picture of a student’s experience when making policies. Our policy and strategy decisions are based on shared data that’s broken down by race, ethnicity, gender, geography, and income.

https://uppartnership.org UP Partnership Jobs

The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (CFSY) is a national nonprofit that leads efforts to ban juvenile life without parole and other extreme sentences for children.

https://cfsy.org/ Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth Jobs

Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Our research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.

https://www.upturn.org/ Upturn Jobs

The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities.

https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/ Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Jobs

FWD.us is a bipartisan political organization that believes America’s families, communities, and economy thrive when more individuals are able to achieve their full potential. For too long, our broken immigration and criminal justice systems have locked too many people out from the American dream.

https://www.fwd.us/ FWD.us Jobs

Uptrust assists clients in overcoming barriers to appearance, significantly reducing the rate of incarceration for technical violations without placing additional work on public defenders, probation officers, or court staff. Uptrust is focused on eliminating the 1 million technical violations that result in avoidable incarceration every year.

https://www.uptrust.co/ Uptrust Jobs

CCA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We seek talented, dedicated individuals who possess a strong commitment to CCA’s mission, including those with relevant personal experience in terms of recovery and/or justice involvement

https://www.communityalternatives.org/about/ Center for Community Alternatives Jobs

We work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.

https://innocenceproject.org/ Innocence Project Jobs

IPNO frees innocent people sentenced to prison and those serving unjust sentences. We support our clients living well and fully in the world after their release.

https://www.ip-no.org Innocence Project New Orleans Jobs

The National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC), an internationally recognized action research center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, provides proven, evidence-based, life-saving violence reduction strategies to dozens of communities across America and beyond. The NNSC’s mission is to create safer communities.

https://nnscommunities.org/ National Network for Safe Commnities Jobs

The Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission is charged with creating a mandatory certification process for police officers, as well as processes for decertification, suspension of certification, or reprimand in the event of certain misconduct.

https://www.mass.gov/orgs/post-commission Massachusetts Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission Jobs

Dream Corps believes that together we can lead our country to reach its fullest potential. Together we can create a place where “we the people” means all of us. We believe that freedom and dignity for all communities is possible, where everyone has their basic needs met and we are free and able to pursue our dreams. We envision a future where everyone has the freedom to thrive on a healthy planet. We know this must be done together, and not apart.

https://www.thedreamcorps.org Dream Corps Jobs

Unlocked Labs is building a better justice system from the inside, out. We train, empower, and employ justice-impacted technologists, building tools to power systemic change and decarceration.

https://unlockedlabs.org Unlocked Labs Jobs

National Action Network is one of the leading civil rights organizations in the Nation with chapters throughout the entire United States. Founded in 1991 by Reverend Al Sharpton, NAN works within the spirit and tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to promote a modern civil rights agenda that includes the fight for one standard of justice, decency and equal opportunities for all people regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, criminal record, economic status, gender, gender expression, or sexuality.

https://nationalactionnetwork.net/ National Action Network Jobs

UTEC’s mission and promise is to ignite and nurture the ambition of our most disconnected young people to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success.

https://utecinc.org/ UTEC Jobs

Rooted in the great human rights struggles for equality and justice, we exist to fulfill America’s promise of a caring, inclusive and just democracy. We use innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements and achieve high impact policy change. Our partners are in the forefront of battles to restore voting rights to populations who were overly criminalized and remove barriers to the ballot before Election Day. Importantly, we are also pioneers in the fight to eliminate these wrongs once and for all by establishing a national right to vote. We have been on the front lines of fights for voting rights because access to the ballot gives communities of color power and self-determination in the matters that impact their lives.

https://advancementproject.org/ Advancement Project Jobs

The Bail Project is an unprecedented effort to combat mass incarceration at the front end of the system. We pay bail for people in need, reuniting families and restoring the presumption of innocence. Because bail is returned at the end of a case, donations to The Bail Project can be recycled and reused to pay bail two to three times per year, maximizing the impact of every dollar.

https://bailproject.org/ The Bail Project Jobs