Northeastern Law’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration’s (CPIAC) flagship interdisciplinary research initiative, the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Project (C2P Project), has been awarded a Northeastern Impact Engine Grant to expand its work supporting advocates and stake- holders dedicated to dismantling the cradle-to-prison pipeline.

Launched in 2019 with a Northeastern University Tier 1 grant, the C2P Project is a collaboration among CPIAC, Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media and Design and Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. The project team is building a holistic model of contrib- utors to mass incarceration in Massachusetts to identify and validate policy interventions.

It will also provide a model for other states while connecting stake- holders to facilitate identification of collective interest and scalable solutions. Beyond Northeastern University, the project has been strengthened by engagement and collaboration with people currently and formerly incarcerated, lawyers, policy advocates, nonprofit organi- zations and people impacted by the family regulation system.

“CPIAC is thrilled to be able to channel Impact Engine support into a cutting-edge tool to empower advocates,” said Professor Lucy Williams, faculty director of CPIAC. “With this grant, the Cradle-to- Prison Pipeline Project will address an urgent need for data access, and in so doing will continue to advance advocates’ critical work dismantling the systems that feed incarceration.”