Collaboration

CJI designs, administers, and scores promotional exams for correctional officers applying to be sergeants, lieutenants, and captains at county-based jails in Massachusetts.

CJI has received a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to provide technical assistance to county and tribal justice systems as part of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI). Justice reinvestment is a data-driven approach that enhances public safety, reduces corrections spending, and redirects savings to alternative criminal justice strategies.

CJI worked with the Greater Lowell Ex-Offender Reentry Partnership through the Greater Lowell Workforce Investment Board, and the Career Center of Lowell, to develop a three-year strategic plan to begin to slow the revolving door of incarceration in the community of Lowell, MA.

This series of interactive free of charge webinars was designed to share information, answer your questions, and create a community of learning around evidence-based practices (EBP) in corrections.

As part of CRJ’s commitment to support many of our most challenged citizens, Community Strategies offers individualized treatment in residential or community-based environments to over 160 adults across New England. In an effort to demonstrate the impact of the CS model on the clients it serves, in 2008 CRJ launched an initiative to bring together two of its operational divisions — Community Strategies (CS) and the Crime and Justice Institute (CJI) —for the purpose of facilitating a systematic program evaluation.