JRF FOUNDING CAMPAIGN
A $250,000 founding campaign to fund the research, professional network, and public education needed to confront systemic failures in the justice system.
$250,000founding goal
Every founding gift supports all three programs.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Government has the power to investigate, raid, seize assets, and bring criminal charges against individuals and businesses. Those powers are necessary.
But when safeguards fail, or when a matter that belonged in a regulatory, civil, or state process is escalated into a federal criminal case, the damage lands on families, careers, and businesses long before any verdict. And the system tends to correct its failures one case at a time, if at all.
WHAT WE'RE DOING
The Founding Campaign builds lasting capacity to study where the system fails and develop practical safeguards that protect due process while preserving legitimate law enforcement.
$100,000
Research, legal analysis, and expert collaboration to develop PAPTA—a proposed framework for prosecutorial accountability, independent review, systemic case repair, and safeguards that protect good-faith public service and lawful convictions.
$75,000
When misconduct or systemic failure appears in one case, we ask whether other cases tied to the same people or practices deserve review, and turn what we learn into safeguards.JRF does not take individual cases, provide legal representation, or promise legal outcomes.
$50,000
Podcasts, expert panels, documentaries, and case studies that make complicated justice issues understandable and visible.
$25,000
Research tools, measurement, and the infrastructure that lets all three programs deliver.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Make a founding gift to fund JRF’s research, public education, and reform work.
Make a founding giftJoin a network of attorneys, former prosecutors, medical professionals, business leaders, and other experts. Lend your expertise, advise our research, or introduce JRF to people and organizations that share the mission.
Join the professional network“My story is one case. JRF is about the system.”Stephen Keller, President, Justice Restoration Foundation
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We argue the system, not the verdict. We don't ask anyone to accept that a particular person is innocent. We ask whether the process can reliably tell the difference, and what safeguards would make it more likely to.
Led by Stephen Keller, President, and Lucky Ott, Vice President.
Restore Justice. Restrain Abuse. Build Better Safeguards.
SUPPORT THE FOUNDING CAMPAIGN
Founding gifts support all three programs and the shared capacity needed to turn research, professional collaboration, and public education into lasting reform.
Justice Restoration Foundation is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3).
Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
LEND YOUR EXPERTISE
Attorneys, accountants, former prosecutors, researchers, medical professionals and business leaders can help strengthen JRF’s research and reform work.
