Measures for Justice

Measures for Justice (MFJ) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to flag and fix systemic problems in the lower criminal courts across the United States. Its mandate is two-fold:

1. To devise and maintain a Justice Index that will gauge how well or poorly the courts are performing basic legal services.
2. To use data aggregated by the Justice Index to help local and state communities agitate for change.

MFJ’s vision is for a statistical index that empowers people who encounter the court system— attorneys, judges, defendants, victims, court officials, and local citizens—to identify problem areas in their courts and gives policymakers ammunition to say, “we have to do better.”