Site offers links to CCA programs such as Crossroads, a substance abuse treatment program for women in New York. See also the Links to Related WebPages. Private, nonprofit institution offers a variety of planning and research services to criminal justice and social service organizations throughout the country. Site links to NCIA s Community Based Alternatives Initiative and provides Research, Publications, and Press Releases that discuss prison and criminal justice issues from an anti-incarceration angle. Like NCIA, it seeks to reduce incarceration as a solution to social problems.
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Also contains links to publications and programs sponsored, as well as links to other organizations involved with progressive justice. Criminal Justice Consortium California-based organization which advocates the least restrictive alternatives to imprisonment. Contains links to articles on issues surrounding inmates and correctional institutions. See Closing the Gap , an article which presents proposals to decrease California's prison population. Justice Policy Institute Development and research body of the Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice offers links to recent criminal justice publications, commentary and news, some of which address alternatives to prison.