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Despite decades of reform, racial disparities have remained unchanged or worsened in juvenile and adult justice systems across the U.S. While important strides have been made in the justice reform movement, Black, Indigenous and Latino/a/x communities continue to experience harsher treatment at every point in the system, including arrest, adjudication, pre-trial incarceration, and sentencing. Moreover, people of color are the most likely to lose their lives at the hands of police and while in carceral settings. In this context, government accountability and transparency have become little more than buzzwords.  

While there is no singular solution to this centuries deep systemic problem, Race Forward and racial equity practitioners in the GARE network are asking and answering the questions that get at the root cause, in service of building root solutions.