Northeastern Law’s Criminal Justice Task Force Receives Shaw Foundation Funding to Support Reentry and Recidivism Projects

09.13.2024 – Northeastern Law’s Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) has received a $10,000 grant from the Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation to support CJTF’s vital projects that assist justice-involved individuals in the areas of reentry and recidivism. The grant will bolster CJTF’s efforts to create public, state-wide, state-funded networks to increase resource accessibility for justice-involved individuals, while also addressing the issue of labor shortages. This is the third consecutive gift from the foundation to CJTF.

“We are thrilled to receive this year’s gift,” said Professor Deborah Ramirez, founder of the CJTF and faculty co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR). “This year we are focused on outreach with community groups and connecting justice-involved individuals with educational opportunities. We want to help publicize the efforts of the Massachusetts Office of Community Corrections and its growing network of Community Justice Support Centers. We’re also recruiting employers and coaching them on how to recruit, hire, train and retain formerly incarcerated people.”

This vital work is being conducted by CJTF and CLEAR in partnership with Northeastern’s Center on Crime, Race, and Justice and its Corrections and Reentry Lab.

The Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation, established in 1959, is committed to supporting initiatives that tackle current problems within the criminal and juvenile justice systems. It was founded in honor of Gardiner Howland Shaw, a native Bostonian who graduated from Harvard in 1915, and served as assistant secretary of state from 1941 to 1944. Shaw dedicated his life to offender rehabilitation and corrections.