Fault Lines: How a Leading Criminal Justice Funder Is Navigating a Historic Moment
Taken together, Arnold’s COVID-responsive criminal justice grants aim to reduce the system’s footprint in ways that benefit incarcerated people and those who work at those institutions. They’re also meant to sustain those reforms even after the pandemic subsides. Beginning on the front end, there’s a grant to the R Street Institute to promote alternatives to arrest via advocacy and outreach on the state level. There are also several grants to places like Fair and Just Prosecution, the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution, and Zealous to cement COVID-era pretrial reforms to prosecution and litigation.
