Jailing a person pretrial has wide-reaching consequences for that individual, their family, and their communities. Given the widely documented harms associated with pretrial detention and recent efforts to reform pretrial practices across the country, we sought to understand how people experience the pretrial process in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

This series of short documents explore research connected to the restoration of voting rights

Community supervision is one of the most widely used forms of correctional control in the United States. Given its intensive reliance on community supervision, Minnesota has become a critical site for analyzing the impacts of mass supervision for the individuals, families, and communities caught in its wake. Long sentences and revocations are frequent challenges in Minnesota community supervision and evidence suggests that this inflates jail and prison populations, is costly to taxpayers, and is harmful to public safety and wellbeing.

This toolkit provides information and resources for members of the public interested in communicating their support for recent administrative rules changes at the Minnesota POST Board.

Check out our survey to listen to the broader community’s understanding and opinion of the Minneapolis BCR and learn about perspectives around safety. The Minneapolis BCR is a team of mental health responders dispatched by 911 that responds to people experiencing behavioral health crises. \

As part of the development of a consent decree, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) is partnering with the Minnesota Justice Research Center (MNJRC) to meet with community members and stakeholders this summer to gather ideas on what should be included in a consent decree to address race-based policing in Minneapolis.