ABOUT

We are focused on safely reducing incarceration across the United States while improving conditions for incarcerated individuals and staff.

Who We Are

The Center for Justice and Human Dignity (CJHD) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is safely reducing incarceration while improving conditions for incarcerated people and correctional staff. We also work to promote successful reentry and reintegration. We promote values of human dignity and shared safety while keeping in mind the needs of survivors, directly impacted people, and society at large. Alongside diverse partners, we collaborate with judges on alternative sentencing, correctional leaders on the conditions of confinement, and policymakers on early release strategies.

Challenge

Far from supporting people’s successful return to their communities, many prisons perpetuate trauma, and the experience of lengthy incarceration negatively impacts people, families, communities, and society at large. Yet nearly two million people are imprisoned in the United States.

Opportunity

There is an unprecedented political and public will to change the criminal legal system for true shared safety. We have an opportunity to help end mass incarceration in the United States while reducing harm along the way.

Mission

Our mission is to reduce the use of prison sentences in the United States and improve the conditions people experience while behind bars by centering the criminal legal system on the shared safety and dignity of all people.

Meet the Team

Christopher Poulos, Esq.
Executive Director
Rochelle Ginsburg, MBA
Director of Operations

Board of Directors

Alexandra Amrami
Alexandra Amrami
Founder and Executive Director, Community of Good
Gary Apfel, Esq.
Gary Apfel, Esq.
Senior Counsel, Troutman Pepper
Brittany K. Barnett
Brittany K. Barnett
Founder & CEO, Manifest Freedom Foundation
Hon. Jeremy D. Fogel
Hon. Jeremy D. Fogel
Executive Director, Berkeley Judicial Institute; Former U.S. Federal Judge
Hon. Nancy Gertner
Hon. Nancy Gertner
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Law School; Former U.S. Federal Judge
Steve Rosenberg
Steve Rosenberg
CEO and Founder, Greystone
Michael S. Sitrick
Michael S. Sitrick
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Sitrick and Company
Hon. Larry D. Thompson
Hon. Larry D. Thompson
Counsel, Finch McCranie LLP; Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General
Alan Vinegrad, Esq.
Alan Vinegrad, Esq.
Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP