Justice System Partners

What Justice System Partners does

Justice System Partners (JSP) is a U.S.-based nonprofit consulting firm, founded in 2014–2015 and headquartered at P.O. Box 970, South Easton, Massachusetts, that provides research, technical assistance, training, and program evaluation to criminal and juvenile justice agencies. Its mission is to help state, county, and local jurisdictions transform punitive systems into equitable, effective, and humane institutions, with work organized around four pillars: keeping people out of the system, getting people out quickly, centering people who remain in the system, and caring for the staff who serve them. JSP operates across more than 20 U.S. jurisdictions with a small multidisciplinary team of approximately 20 staff and a network of senior practitioners, researchers, and formerly incarcerated advisors. The firm works through relationship-based engagement via federal networks (National Institute of Corrections, Bureau of Justice Assistance), private foundations (MacArthur Foundation, Laura and John Arnold Foundation), state commissions (PCCD), and academic partners (University of Cincinnati, CUNY ISLG).

JSP's core offerings are proprietary frameworks and validated instruments rather than packaged software. Flagship products include the Coach(Referee) Model for Change (an organizational transformation framework paired with the OCA-EBP assessment), the PSA Pretrial Services Assessment (JSP serves as lead technical assistance provider and Arnold Foundation master trainer), the ORAS and OYAS adult and juvenile risk assessment suites, and the Coaching Network for Change virtual community of practice. Additional programs include the Community Supervision Leadership Learning Lab (a 12-month leadership curriculum co-developed with NIC), the COSSUP opioid/substance use initiative across five Pennsylvania counties, a retail theft diversion pilot with the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys across five prosecutor offices, police-led deflection evaluations in Pima County and Charleston County, the Kansas City Violence Prevention Fund 5-year evaluation, and a Probation Conditions Rewriting framework. Technology-adjacent add-ons include the Illinois Pretrial Tool (in development), a Virtual Reality Employment Readiness Training, and the PET Network Automated Court Reminder System.

JSP's business model is grant- and contract-funded professional services rather than fee-for-service consulting. Revenue streams consist of multi-year federal, state, county, and municipal government contracts alongside private foundation grants, with no public pricing or commercial product sales. Go-to-market is sales-led, leveraging relationships within NIC, the MacArthur Safety and Justice Challenge network, APPA, and the National Association of Probation Executives to access public-sector buyers. Customer segments are vertical: primary is criminal justice system agencies (probation, parole, courts, prosecution, law enforcement); secondary is government funders and policymakers seeking independent evaluation; tertiary is the communities impacted by criminal justice systems, whose voices JSP explicitly centers in delivery.

Name

Justice System Partners

Legal name

Justice System Partners

Website

https://justicesystempartners.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Justice System Partners is a U.S. nonprofit consulting firm providing research, technical assistance, training, and evaluation to criminal and juvenile justice agencies across more than 20 jurisdictions, helping transform punitive systems into equitable, effective institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Criminal Justice Technical Assistance and Consulting

NAICS

Legal Services (5411), Parole Offices and Probation Offices (922150), Courts (922110), Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (922)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Corrections (Probation, Parole & Reentry) (BPAIAFAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

State/Provincial Corrections, Probation & Parole Administration (BPAIABAF), Judicial Courts & Court Administration (BPAIAFAA), Prosecution & District/State Attorney Services (BPAIAFAB), Reentry & Justice-Involved Support Services (BPAGAEAN)

Keywords

• Criminal justice consulting
• Technical assistance services
• Pretrial assessment services
• Evidence-based practices training
• Justice system reform

Headquarters

HQ city

South Easton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Grants and Contracts: JSP operates primarily through federal, state, county, and municipal grants and contracts. Major funders include Bureau of Justice Assistance, MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge, National Institute of Corrections, and Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
2. Private Foundation Grants: The organization receives funding from private foundations including MacArthur Foundation for Safety and Justice Challenge implementation and evaluation work.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Justice System Partners is a non-profit consulting firm that delivers technical assistance, training, research, and evaluation services to criminal and juvenile justice agencies in the United States. Its practitioners help state, county, and local agencies implement pretrial risk assessment tools, organizational change frameworks such as the Coach (Referee) Model for Change, leadership academies, deflection and diversion programs, violence prevention evaluations, and probation conditions reform, operating across more than 20 jurisdictions nationally.

Product overview

Justice System Partners (JSP) is a non-profit consulting organization offering a portfolio of interconnected programs and tools for criminal and juvenile legal system transformation. The core offerings include pretrial assessment tools (working across 20+ jurisdictions), the Coach (Referee) Model for Change organizational transformation framework, the Coaching Network for Change virtual community, and the Community Supervision Leadership Learning Lab with NIC. JSP also provides specialized programs including COSSUP for opioid treatment expansion, retail theft diversion programs, police-led deflection evaluation, the Violence Prevention Fund evaluation, and probation conditions rewriting methodology. These products are delivered through technical assistance, training, research, and evaluation services rather than as a traditional software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Coaching Network for Change (CNC): An interactive virtual network for community corrections organizations to participate in continuous, collaborative learning environment while sharing experiences and innovative ideas.
• Coach(Referee) Model for Change (CRMC)
• Pretrial Assessment Tools
• COSSUP C.A.R.E.E.S.

Products and services

• Coach (Referee) Model for Change (CRMC) Proprietary organizational transformation framework that helps probation and community corrections agencies shift from punitive cultures to learning environments with growth mindsets, addressing policies, practices, physical environment, data systems, staff wellness, and training to help individuals successfully complete supervision. Includes the Organizational Coaching Assessment for Evidence-based Practices (OCA-EBP).
• Community Supervision Leadership Learning Lab (CSLLL) A 9–12 month leadership training program developed with the National Institute of Corrections for probation and community corrections leaders, delivered in two phases including learning modules and capstone projects, focused on authenticity, DEI-B, and organizational culture transformation.
• Coaching Network for Change (CNC) A virtual community of practice powered by a partnership between JSP and the University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice, offering monthly trainings, practice sessions, and peer-to-peer learning for community corrections organizations implementing coaching models.
• Pretrial Assessment Tools Validated risk assessment instruments (including the Public Safety Assessment and related PSA-based tools) that help ensure individuals who are likely to attend court and unlikely to commit new crimes are not unnecessarily detained; deployed across more than 20 jurisdictions with implementation support and evaluation.
• COSSUP (Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Use Site-based Program) A program developed with the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to reduce overdose deaths among Pennsylvanians on probation and parole by building community capacity to support culturally responsive treatment services through community advisory boards, needs assessments, action planning, and implementation.
• Retail Theft Diversion Program A national model program partnering with the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys across five cities (Columbus OH, 18th Judicial District CO, Shelby County TN, Santa Monica CA, East Baton Rouge LA) to divert individuals to community programs addressing root causes of retail theft, with metrics and evaluation to inform a national diversion model.
• Police-Led Deflection Programs Programs and evaluations that allow police to deflect individuals to community-based services instead of arrest, studied in jurisdictions like Pima County, AZ and Charleston County, SC.
• Violence Prevention Fund (VPF) Evaluation A 5-year independent evaluation of Kansas City's $30 million community-based violence prevention programs, assessing effectiveness of neighborhood associations and funded programs addressing root causes of violence.
• Probation Conditions Rewriting Framework A methodology for jurisdictions to examine and rewrite probation rules to allow staff to treat people as unique individuals, working with stakeholders to identify and remove conditions driving disparate outcomes.
• Initial Appearance Enhancement Program Programs working with local indigent defense firms to enhance due process at initial appearances, increase least restrictive pretrial release, and reduce racially disparate pretrial outcomes.
• PET Network Automated Court Reminder System An automated reminder system that helps individuals remember and appear at court dates, reducing failure-to-appear rates as part of JSP's pretrial work.

Quantifiable outcome

• JSP works across more than 20 jurisdictions implementing pretrial tools prioritizing release
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and key.

• National Institute of Corrections (NIC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2022JSP collaborates with NIC to develop and deliver the Community Supervision Leadership Learning Lab (CSLLL), a 9-12 month leadership training program for probation and community corrections leaders. JSP staff led the redesign of NIC's executive leadership curriculum into a new training approach focused on authenticity, DEI-B, and organizational culture transformation.
• Kansas City Health DepartmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJSP serves as the research evaluator for Kansas City's $30 million Violence Prevention Fund (VPF), a 5-year comprehensive assessment of community-based violence prevention programs. The evaluation examines program effectiveness and neighborhood associations funded to address root causes of violence.
• Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJSP collaborates with PCCD on the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Use Site-based Program (COSSUP) to reduce overdose deaths among Pennsylvanians on probation and parole. JSP facilitates community advisory boards, needs assessments, action planning, and implementation across 5 Pennsylvania communities.
• CUNY Institute on State and Local Governance (ISLG)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJSP partners with CUNY ISLG on the COSSUP project. ISLG monitors implementation of community action plans and evaluates key outcomes including referrals to treatment, engagement in treatment, revocation rates, and new drug-related offenses across the five Pennsylvania communities.
• Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJSP partners with APA as the evaluation partner for a retail theft diversion initiative across five cities. JSP research staff collaborate with prosecutor offices to understand program structure, build metrics, and analyze data to understand impact on reducing retail theft. Findings will inform a national model for retail theft diversion.
• University of Cincinnati School of Criminal JusticecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJSP partners with University of Cincinnati School of Criminal Justice to power the Coaching Network for Change (CNC), an interactive virtual network for community corrections organizations. The partnership provides a continuous collaborative learning environment for organizations implementing coaching models.
• Pima County Justice ServiceskeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerJSP collaborates with Pima County Justice Services on evaluating police-led deflection programs. The partnership examines how deflection to crisis centers impacts future arrest and how police make decisions about who to deflect.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD): Non-profit research and consulting organization focused on criminal and juvenile justice reform, providing research, policy analysis, and technical assistance similar to JSP's consulting and evaluation offerings.
• Vera Institute of Justice: Non-profit research and policy organization working on criminal justice reform including pretrial, sentencing, and incarceration. Larger scale than JSP but highly comparable in mission, multi-site reform initiatives, and grant-funded model.
• Crime and Justice Institute (CJI): Non-profit consulting organization that provides research, policy analysis, and technical assistance to criminal justice agencies. JSP's founders (Clawson, Florio, Dal Pra) all came directly from CJI, making it the closest historical and operational peer.
• The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center: Non-profit, nonpartisan policy and consulting organization serving state and local justice leaders on behavioral health, corrections, and justice reinvestment. Comparable in mission, funding model (foundation/government grants), and core customer base of state justice agencies.
• Center for Effective Public Policy (CEPP): Non-profit that provides training, technical assistance, and policy guidance to justice system stakeholders, particularly on sentencing, corrections, and evidence-based practices - directly overlapping with JSP's organizational transformation work.

Broad incumbents

• Urban Institute - Justice Policy Center: Major non-profit research organization with a Justice Policy Center that conducts large-scale criminal justice research and evaluation. Operates as a broad incumbent with substantially greater scale and resources than JSP.
• RTI International: Large non-profit research institute conducting criminal justice research, evaluation, and technical assistance for federal and state agencies. Competes for similar BJA, NIJ, and foundation-funded contracts at a much larger scale.
• MDRC: Non-profit social policy research organization with criminal justice programs evaluating reentry, prosecution, and corrections reforms. Larger scale research peer that competes for evaluation contracts at the federal level.

Emerging players

• Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI): Non-profit focused on pretrial reform - a core JSP service area. PJI is a more specialized emerging player whose mission and technical assistance offerings directly intersect with JSP's pretrial assessment and Safety and Justice Challenge work.

Others

• American Probation and Parole Association (APPA): Professional membership association for probation and parole practitioners. JSP's president (Brian Lovins) is APPA President-Elect, indicating deep integration. Functions more as an ecosystem partner than direct competitor, but APPA shapes the standards JSP implements.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles25 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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