The Pretrial Justice Institute examines and recognizes “SF Pretrial’s efforts to incorporate procedural justice into their client interactions and organizational culture.“
In 2017, SF Pretrial won a bid for the SMART Pretrial Grant, a joint initiative between the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI). Our focus was Procedural Justice, the theory that building trust requires an emphasis on dignity, transparency and open dialogue. Over the next year, we trained our staff and revised internal policies to reflect a procedurally-just culture, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the trust we share with our clients. Check out the article posted by PJI.