The Center for Justice and Human Dignity (CJHD) is a nonprofit organization, founded in 2021, that advocates for safely reducing reliance on incarceration while improving conditions for incarcerated people and correctional staff. CJHD works with judges, prosecutors, corrections leaders, policymakers, survivors and system-impacted people to design and scale alternatives to incarceration, diversion and reentry programs, and reforms to sentencing and conditions of confinement.
Alternatives to incarceration and diversion programs; sentencing reform and early-release strategies; reentry and reintegration services; conditions-of-confinement and correctional culture reform; trauma-informed, restorative justice, and evidence-based public-safety approaches.
Primarily funded through individual donations and charitable contributions, philanthropic foundation grants, and revenue from events and program partnerships.
Incubated by The Aleph Institute; Executive Director Christopher Poulos; board members and advisors including Brittany K. Barnett, Hon. Nancy Gertner, and Hon. Jeremy Fogel; partners and convening hosts have included the U.S. Sentencing Commission, corrections agencies and academic hosts such as George Washington University Law School.
Non-profit public charity (operates as a tax-deductible advocacy and policy organization, commonly described as a 501(c)(3) public charity)
