Figuring Out FEMA

Public Access Design

Figuring Out FEMA

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

Draw the line!

Technical Assistance

Draw the line!

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Planning for your children's future

Technical Assistance

Planning for your children's future

Print Innocent Until Proven Risky

Everyday, nearly half a million people who have only been accused of a crime are held in jail before their trial, mostly because they can’t afford to pay bail. And 70% of them are people of color. One proposed solution to lower the rates of people held in jail pretrial is to use Risk Assessment Tools (RATs), or decision-making tools, to help judges set a person’s pretrial conditions. RATs use demographic information to guess how a person accused of a crime will behave if they’re released from jail before trial. But as RATs are being used more frequently across the country with little transparency, the racial disparities in pretrial detention have not improved, and in some places, have worsened. 

To help communities understand how RATs work and how to organize for alternatives, CUP collaborated with JustLeadershipUSA and designer Katrin Bichler to create Innocent Until Proven Risky. The fold-out poster illustrates how pretrial Risk Assessment Tools work and how they can impact individuals differently based on their race and class. The guide folds out into a poster that explores community-based alternatives to RATs.

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Making Policy Public

Our Values, Our Voice, Our Vote

Care Aware

City Studies

Care Aware

Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

SERVE!

Public Access Design

SERVE!

Safe Space?

City Studies

Safe Space?

Not on Our Watch!

Making Policy Public

Not on Our Watch!

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky