Circle for Justice Innovations’s Leadership Circle supports grassroots organizations working to transform and reimagine the current U.S. criminal legal system, build new alternative community-based solutions, and organize to stop the criminalization of marginalized identities and communities. Support will be provided for movement-building organizing efforts that build alternatives to create safe and healthy communities that don't rely on arrest and incarceration, invest in approaches to end mass criminalization and incarceration, create policies to reform and dismantle current repressive criminal legal systems, lift up the leadership and experience of those affected by the criminal legal system, reestablish rights and access to those formerly incarcerated and newly criminalized, and promote transformative and restorative justice that heals. Eligible organizations must be led by people who have been incarcerated or others who have been directly impacted by the system, have budgets of $1 million or less, and be committed to achieving systems change through organizing.
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