Rhode Island Justice Reinvestment Initiative
This brief outlines the effects of superior court changes in Rhode Island in 2016 and JRI legislation that passed in 2017.
JRI Publications
Alabama Justice Reinvestment Initiative
This brief explores how Alabama has addressed its Justice Reinvestment goals since enacting legislation in 2015.
Alaska Justice Reinvestment Initiative
This brief describes the impacts of Justice Reinvestment legislation passed in Alaska in 2016.
Maryland Justice Reinvestment Initiative
This brief explores how Maryland has addressed its Justice Reinvestment goals since enacting Justice Reinvestment Initiative legislation in 2016.
Georgia Justice Reinvestment Initiative
This brief examines the effects of Justice Reinvestment legislation that passed in Georgia in 2017.
Utah Justice Reinvestment Initiative
This brief explores how Utah has addressed its Justice Reinvestment goals since enacting Justice Reinvestment Initiative legislation in 2015.
Mississippi Justice Reinvestment Initiative
This brief explores how Mississippi has addressed its Justice Reinvestment goals since enacting Justice Reinvestment Initiative legislation in 2014.
South Dakota Justice Reinvestment Initiative
This brief explores how South Dakota has addressed its Justice Reinvestment goals since enacting the Public Safety Improvement Act in 2013.
Louisiana Justice Reinvestment: Improving Public Safety, Reinvesting in Evidence-Based Practices
In 2017, Louisiana passed a comprehensive justice reform package as a result of its JRI effort. This brief explores Louisiana’s progress toward the legislation’s overarching goals.
Justice Reinvestment in Action: Eliminating Concurrent Supervision in Kansas
This article explains how Kansas’s JRI criminal justice legislation addressed the ongoing problem of concurrent supervision within the state’s community supervision system.
Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Prioritizing Prison Resources Where They Matter Most
This brief details how JRI has helped a number of states focus prison space on people who have committed serious, violent, or repeat offenses, freeing up resources to invest in recidivism-reduction strategies.
Justice Reinvestment Initiative Innovations: Tennessee Office of Reentry: Creating Pathways to Successful Reentry through Employment
This brief explains how Tennessee’s Office of Reentry is pioneering several innovative strategies to accomplish its reentry and employment goals.
Nebraska’s Criminal Justice System: Urgent Challenges & Proposed Policy Solutions
This brief explains criminal justice system challenges in Nebraska and proposed policy solutions to address them.
Justice Reinvestment Initiative in New Hampshire
This overview outlines a number of criminal justice and behavioral health challenges in New Hampshire and provides a summary of the JRI process.
The Justice Reinvestment Initiative in Kansas: Improving Supervision and Expanding Diversion
This policy framework outlines policy recommendations developed as part of JRI in Kansas from 2020 to 2022 in collaboration with the Kansas Criminal Justice Reform Commission.