Coalition for Effective Public Safety (CEPS) is a California-based criminal justice reform coalition of approximately 40 organizations united behind specific principles aimed at increasing public safety in California while curtailing the reliance upon costly, ineffective practices such as mass incarceration.
CEPS works through advocacy, organizing and public education to reduce prison spending by: a. eliminating barriers to successful re-entry for those coming home from prison; b. reducing recidivism through effective educational and vocational programming and comprehensive treatment; c. opposing new prison construction in California; d. utilizing parole reform, sentencing reform and re-investment in communities to reduce the number of people in prison.
Member organizations
CEPS member organizations include:
A New Way of Life
Action Committee for Women in Prison
All of Us or None
American Civil Liberties Union
American Friends' Service Committee
A New PATH
Behind the Walls
Books Not Bars
California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
California Families Against Mandatory Minimums
California Prison Moratorium Project
California State NAACP
Center for Young Women’s Development
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Centerforce
Citizens for the Three Strikes Reform
Critical Resistance
Drug Policy Alliance
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
ESPINO Coalition
Families to Amend California‘s Three Strikes
Friends Committee on Legislation
Get on the Bus
Justice Now
Justice Policy Institute
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Lutheran Office of Public Policy
Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation, Inc. National Action Network- CA Chapter PICO California Project Progressive Christians Uniting SEIU-Local 535 SEIU-Local 1000 SEIU-State Council Women & Criminal Justice Youth Against Youth Incarceration Youth in Focus Youth Justice Coalition/ Free LA!
See also
Department of Public Safety
References
Drug Policy Alliance Reports in February 2006 CEPS action Retrieved February 12, 2007 Aug. 2006, Floor Alert, CEPS Opposes New Legislation to Build More Prisons Retrieved February 12, 2007 SEIU Local 1000 supports CEPS in 2004 Retrieved February 12, 2007 Common Counsel Foundation- 2006 Grantees Retrieved February 12, 2007 CA Assembly Bill 505 (2005) - Bill Analysis Retrieved February 12, 2007 Oakland Tribune, April 11, 2005, "Lawmaker tackles parole reform" Retrieved February 12, 2007 San Diego Union-Tribune, April 27, 2006, "The high cost of prison overcrowding" Retrieved February 12, 2007