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Includes some of CJPC's committee work for juvenile sentencing, especially to raise the age of juvenile jurisdiction in NC from 16 to 18. Project files include: DJJDP (Department of Justice Juvenile Delinquency Prevention), JRA (Justice Reinvestment Act), and RTA (Raise the Age).

Subseries documents drug treatment and violence prevention, especially CJPC's efforts to help pass HB 27 (Forensic Sciences Act) in 2011. Other materials derive from violence prevention forums, whose function was to gather research, compile media packets, and identify networks of experts and practitioners in the field of violence prevention.

The focus of this subseries is on CJPC's efforts to improve north Carolina prison conditions and halt the building of private prisons in NC. Materials are arranged into topical subseries further subdivided by project, and may include correspondence, newsletters, photographs, articles, fundraising and legislative materials, and materials on alternative penalties for death row inmates. Also houses some inmate art. There are also some large tear sheets with goals and planning from a PJP meeting and an oversize 1970s chart showing NC Congressional districts.