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EQUAL JUSTICE

The Equal Justice Initiative works toward reshaping the state's criminal justice policy to assure equal access to justice and expansion of cost-effective, innovative reform strategies and programs to make the state a safer and better place to live. Our core initiatives include:

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A Freedom of Information Act revealed that since the Souder Amendment took effect, in 2000, over 189,000 students have been denied financial aid.
The average reading level for a New Jersey inmate is 6.0.

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Leroy

Making Newark home again Leroy first sought assistance with his job search at New Careers in May 2007. With numerous non- violent criminal convictions resulting from a 15-year struggle with addiction, Leroy could not find work in the career he prepared himself for: construction trades.