Founded in 2016, Restoring Justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Houston, Texas that provides holistic and client-centered representation to marginalized members of our community facing criminal charges. This includes the provision of expert criminal defense legal representation, social work services, trauma-informed counseling, spiritual support, volunteer connections, and more. We also post bail to those who cannot otherwise afford it.

Our mission is to end mass incarceration one client and heart at a time. We take cases of those who are unsatisfied with their legal representation and/or are represented by appointed counsel who exceed recommended caseload guidelines and offer them holistic representation, free-of-charge.

As a grassroots, human-centered organization, we also take community engagement seriously and routinely participate in educational endeavors and innovative collaborations that bolster the criminal justice reform movement. We strive to pursue all kinds of criminal justice reform, with a focus on removing racial disparities and reforming the indigent defense system.

We fight for rights to prevent unnecessary and wrongful incarceration while changing fear-based perceptions in our system to love-based hope. We provide individualized care to lift people out of our system, while simultaneously reforming our system to one of restorative justice, based in making communities whole again.