Campaigns

Partnership for Safety and Justice works to help Oregon achieve a smarter approach to criminal justice, and to counter the tough-on-crime rhetoric. Our work is currently focused in the following campaign areas:

Youth Justice – We believe that public safety is best served when youth in trouble are held accountable and given the services they need to succeed in the juvenile justice system rather than the adult criminal justice system. Our Youth Justice Campaign works to combat the laws that automatically try and sentence and imprisons youth in our adult system.

Legislative Work – PSJ works with the Oregon Legislature as one avenue toward criminal justice reform. Since 1999, our staff and members have created a well-worn path to Salem to educate state legislators and to bring about change.

Ballot Measures – PSJ monitors initiative petitions that have been filed with the Oregon Secretary of State's Office which might have an impact on our issues and focuses very seriously on preventing Oregon’s criminal justice system from taking a dramatic turn for the worse. For example, in 2008, we worked very hard, and successfully, to defeat Kevin Mannix’s Mandatory Madness Measure 61.