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Lone Star Justice Alliance (LSJA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with offices in in Dallas and Austin.
LSJA drives systemic change in Texas's criminal legal system through advocacy and innovative, evidence-based programs that improve outcomes for justice-involved youth and young adults (ages 10-24). Our three program areas engage, redirect, rehabilitate, advocate for young people who have been chronically disengaged and mistreated.
Program Areas
Over the next five years, LSJA’s work to promote the improvement of the social determinants of health as an essential component of rehabilitative outcomes for young people involved in the legal system will serve as a national policy and practice model. Our ultimate goal is to make justice accessible to all youth and young adults in Texas through evidence-based programs, innovative policies, strategic litigation, and community engagement.
Join us on North Texas Giving Day as we work to build our capacity and serve thousands more justice-involved youth and young adults.
Let's Transform Justice and Transform Lives TOGETHER!
To boldly address systemic failures in the justice system through advocacy and innovative evidence-based programs that improve life outcomes for youth and emerging adults.
- Fund wraparound services and case management support for program participants
- Fund litigation services to represent youth and young adults who are survivors of abuse, have received extremely harsh sentences, or have been traumatized by the criminal legal system;
- Build a strong coalition of organizations and stakeholders who are committed to educating and advocating on behalf of system-impacted youth.
Justice is often defined by words like equality and fairness. But the way most people enter the criminal legal system and the treatment they receive is all but just. Systemic racism has tilted the scales of justice against communities of color. This imbalance demands acknowledgement and reckoning of a system that has advantaged some and disadvantaged others.
Since inception, the Lone Star Justice Alliance has challenged the inequities that disproportionately impact people of color in the legal system. Data shows that in the United States, Black and Latinx populations are overrepresented in the prison population. While all human lives should be valued, our country’s history and current policies produce outcomes that tell us they are not.
To effectively drive system change, racial equity is integrated into the fabric of our organization as well as our theory of change.
We are committed to challenging the policies and practices that produce disparate outcomes to establish a system where each person can receive equal justice under the law.
Organization name
Lone Star Justice Alliance
Causes
Justice-involved adults or youth
Operating Budget
$3,000,000 - $9,999,999
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Tarrant
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latinx
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Address
624 N. Good Latimer Expressway