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PROJECT DESCRIPTION Community Alternatives to Jail Expansion (CAJE) Project seeks to stop the widescale expansion of the population incarcerated in the United States in local jails, whose population has increased even as growth in prisons has slowed. As community members, advocates, and elected officials alike are faced with the critical decision of how to deal with the growing number of people in jail, the CAJE Project works to provide real alternatives that can help keep communities safe and strong, while cutting the social and economic costs of jail expansion. WHO WE ARE The CAJE Project is housed out of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The project is currently staffed by Dana Kaplan, a Soros Justice Fellow at CCR. Prior to receiving the fellowship, Ms. Kaplan worked as an organizer with the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice, a partnership between CCR, Prison Families of New York and Prison Families Community Forum to end the unjust contract between MCI and the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS). She has also consulted with the National Resource Center on Prisons and Communities on jail construction in New York State, as well as been on staff at the Prison Moratorium Project, working on juvenile detention issues in New York City and prison expansion in upstate New York. The advisory committee of the project is comprised of: Alejandro Cantagallo, Consultant Research assistance has been provided to the CAJE Project by Ari Wohlfeiler.
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