Justice For All
Our Liberty & Justice program is the framework for our long-standing client and public
advocacy work to promote fairness and due process in law enforcement and imprisonment. It includes our prison project, and our law enforcement oversight and reform efforts.
Integrity of Justice Project
Despite the strengths of our justice system, recent advances in DNA testing confirm that people are convicted of crimes they did not commit. Erroneous conviction of the innocent destroys the lives of those convicted and their families. It allows the real offenders to go unpunished, endangering public safety, and undermining public trust in the criminal justice system.
To address these issues, the Center for Justice joined with the University of Washington School of Law, Gonzaga Law School, and Seattle University School of Law to launch the
Integrity of Justice Project, a new public policy research and community education effort to promote criminal justice reforms in our state. The project is fostering a partnership among prosecutors, law enforcement, defense lawyers, judges, and others in the justice community to identify best practices and procedures that can help ensure accurate determinations of guilt or innocence and thereby promote the integrity of the criminal justice system.