MacArthur Foundation Awards $18 Million in Grants to Rethink Local Justice Systems and Advance Racial Equity
Building on significant momentum for evidence-based reforms to local justice systems, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced an additional $18 million in grants as part of its Safety and Justice Challenge, a national initiative to reduce over-incarceration by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails. In conjunction with today’s announcement, the City University of New York’s Institute for State and Local Governance (ISLG)—the organization that tracks Safety and Justice Challenge progress—released a new report measuring the effectiveness of strategies to reduce jail populations over the first three years of the initiative.