National and regional services in the criminal justice system utilizing a social model approach for community building in collaboration with policy makers and other leaders in the correctional community. Developer of the COMMUNITY MODEL program in American jails.

NEWS

• SAVE the DATE Tuesday June 25th, 2008
  One Day Community Model Introduction in Richmond, Virginia with CFTJ founding member Penny Patton -- More Info
• CFTJ CM Document Available (formerly called CFTJ Correctional Community Recovery-CCR)
  CFTJ Community Model (CM) represents a shift in a correctional environment that can readily be provided by a facility's administration. The resulting cultural change, experienced by the participants and staff alike, promotes the best values of our society inside the institution. Additionally, it provides the best chance for the replication of pro-social skills in the "free-world" community leading to a NEW-ENTRY lifestyle in harmony with the recovery support network most available in society. Rewards for administrators and policy makers are significant because citizens are ready to see an improved return on their correctional investment.
• NEW-Entry Preparation from Day 1
  34 page NEW (New - Entry Workbook) for all jails or prisons and probation and parole. Individualized for the institution or agency. Can be used alone and sold in canteen or used in existing programs. Developed by CFTJ to address forensic, substance abuse, social, and life skill problems, needs, and solutions. Does not require staff involvement. Workbook is always
  REVIEW: Sample cover, Table of Contents, and sample page and contact CFTJ to make this a match for your jail or prison today. Contact CFTJ directly to make arrangements or for further information.
  

What is Therapeutic Justice

"…one nation...justice for all…" says the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America. That promise and the fact that things change over time, make therapeutic justice a practical way to guarantee the rights of all citizens today. Therapeutic Justice means that any involvement, and all contact with the criminal justice system, would offer an opportunity for education, healing, and restoration for the victim, the offender, the community, and the criminal justice system staff.

Therefore, Therapeutic Justice means working together to increase respect, usefulness, and safety in an area of human experience that has all too often been characterized by pain, neglect, and frustration. In 3,000 years of western history, we have never gotten safe by being tough (James Gilligan, Harvard Researcher).

Therapeutic Justice means communities reassume the responsibility for satisfying justice and correctional systems become known as human service centers.

The Center for Therapeutic Justice is committed to solutions that come from making policy decisions that offer changes that reduce misery and crime and increase safety and cost savings.