RF CUNY (Institute for Justice and Opportunity)

As a champion of institutional, structural, and personal transformation, the John Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity (the Institute) opens doors and eliminates barriers to success for people who have been involved in the criminal legal system. We create access to higher education and pathways to satisfying careers. We advocate for the right to housing, employment, healthcare, and other human rights too often denied people with criminal convictions.

The Institute was founded in 2005 as the Prisoner Reentry Institute (PRI) by then John Jay College President Jeremy Travis and Founding Director Debbie Mukamal. Under Mukamal’s leadership, PRI worked on a range of issues, including reentry from jail, entrepreneurialism and reentry, employing formerly incarcerated people, and siting residential facilities in the community.

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