The Criminal Justice Institute, Inc. (CJI) was established in 1978 to make significant contributions to criminal justice systems by providing consultation, research, and information dissemination services. CJI is a national firm with its main office located in Middletown, Connecticut, and a Washington, DC area office in Hagerstown, Maryland. CJI has an extensive history of successfully completing work funded via cooperative agreements and grants for the federal government, including several multi-year, million-dollar projects. CJI has a staff of fourteen employees, and a pool of several hundred consultants upon whom it draws for specific services for various projects. CJI has both the staff resources and the infrastructure, including state-of-the-art data/word processing and multimedia technologies, to complete its assigned project tasks.