The Benedict Center is an interfaith nonprofit agency working with victims, offenders and the community to achieve a system of criminal justice that is fair and treats every person involved with dignity and respect.

• We offer real opportunities for change to women in conflict with the law through the Women's Harm Reduction Program, a gender-specific jail and prison alternative, grounded in substance abuse treatment and education.
  
  
• We organize citizens to advocate for systemic change in the criminal justice system, with emphasis on restorative community alternatives to imprisonment through the Community Justice Advocacy Program.
  
  
• We provide spiritual support to men and women in the jail and their families ouside through the interfaith Jail Chaplain Program.
  
  
• We promote sentencing plans that emphasize safe, productive community alternatives to incarceration through the Sentencing Advocacy Program.
  
  

We reach out to men and women in conflict with the law through the operation of Outreach Programs:  Restorative Community Service at the Day Reporting Center and street outreach to women involved in drugs and prostitution.

Click here to read about the Milwaukee County Jail and House of Correction libraries, a Benedict Center program that was disbanded by order of the Sheriff's Department in fall 2009.


At the Benedict Center, there are many ways for every person who champions human potential, human dignity, and human rights  to make a personal difference.

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