Press Releases

  • CJI to take Mass. pulse on community safety with Boston Foundation Grant as returning prisoner numbers remain at record levels.

    Boston – 6/30/03. Boston – Community Resources for Justice has been awarded a grant of $60,000 by the Boston Foundation, CEO John Larivee said today. According to Larivee, the grant is in support of a public opinion survey to be conducted by the agency’s think tank, the Crime &Justice Institute (CJI), headed by Elyse Clawson.

  • Girls in Crisis Forum

    Boston – 6/6/03. A group of public policy directors, community leaders, academics, and law enforcement officials responded to a national report by a Boston-based advocacy group on the failures of the juvenile justice system to address the wide range of needs of delinquent girls at a public forum, Girls in Crisis: The Challenges for Our Community, today at the Boston Foundation.

  • South End Half-Way House Ends 37 Year Stay

    Boston - 12/5/02 - Brooke House, Community Resources for Justice’s long-running halfway house program relocates today from 79 Chandler Street in Boston’s South End to 107 Park Drive in the Fenway.

  • D.O.J. And Boston Think Tank Join Forces To Cut Offender Recidivism:

    Boston - 9/10/02 - The National Institute of Corrections (NIC), part of the U.S. Department of Justice, has recently awarded a three-year, $1 million cooperative agreement.

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