About Us

The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Effective Justice, through its Texas work and national, Right on Crime initiative, provides our nation with cost-effective solutions to enhance public safety, empower and restore victims, remove barriers so those offenders who re-enter society may become productive citizens, and limit the scope of criminal law to truly wrongful conduct. We have contributed to major changes in criminal justice policy in Texas and across the nation because of our unique strategy for policy transformation. We conduct comprehensive research on criminal justice reform and find innovations that increase effectiveness, reduce recidivism, and save state budgets millions of dollars. We then go beyond our research to educate policymakers across the nation how to implement these reforms. The Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime are leading the way in advancing solutions that prioritize victims, reform offenders to be productive members of society, save taxpayer dollars, keep families together, and make America safer.