The Center for Studies on Justice and Society of the Institute of Sociology (CJS) stands as a cornerstone of research and policy excellence in Latin America, affiliated with the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. With an unwavering commitment to social justice, the CJS team has dedicated over a decade to pioneering groundbreaking applied research and policy design on the areas of social inclusion, security and justice, within Chile and other countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Their focus centers on investigating and working on policy regarding the justice system, the penitentiary system, excluded populations, and other related areas. Some of the topics they have developed focuses on the consequences of deprivation of liberty, sensibilizing on the inequities that people who are incarcerated have faced in their trajectories, the type of unequally criminalized offenses, the impacts of the current justice and penitentiary system, studying the processes of social insertion and desistance, and advocating for alternative policies to deprivation of liberty.