OUR IMPACT

Each year, we help more than 1,000 individuals in RI avoid the revolving door of criminal justice system that can have lasting negative effects. More than 90 percent of those who received and completed Justice Assistance services have turned their lives around, become law-abiding, employable citizens and have had their records expunged.

  • 96,682 crime victims and 94,877 justice-involved individuals served

  • $5.6 Million collected and returned to crime victims

  • 91% of clients referred satisfy the court order

  • 9,500 victim contacts annually

  • 4,400 wellness calls annually

  • $235,000 State funds saved through avoidance of court hearings

    (Washington State Institute for Public policy)

  • Potential savings of $1,669,175 State attained, based upon control cost

    (Rhode Island Justice Reinvestment Commission).

2020

The Papitto Opportunity Connection awards Justice Assistance $11.2 Million over 6-years to create the Comprehensive Offender Resource and Employment Service (CORES).

2003

United States Department of Justice presents Certificate of Excellence.

1995

Community Correction Act is written and becomes law.

1995

United States Attorney General, Janet Reno, visits Rhode Island and gives the Keynote Address at the Neil J. Houston, Jr. Memorial Awards ceremony.

1990

The Annie Laurie Aitken Foundation awards Justice Assistance a 15-year grant to support crime victims. Project Restitution and Project Victim Services went statewide.

1986

Article I, Section 23 of the Rhode Island Constitution, entitled, The Rights of the Crime Victim is written and wins passage with 65% of the vote. The first such constitutional amendment in the United States.

1983

Crime Victim Bill of Rights is written and becomes law.

1978

Justice Assistance is founded.