This collection contains documents from the San Francisco Citizens Council on Criminal Justice (SFCCCJ), an organization directed towards exposing cruel conditions in Bay Area prisons/jails and advocating for alternatives to incarceration. 

As an advocacy group sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, the Family Service Agency of San Francisco and the Northern California Service League, the SFCCCJ was represented by figures like Jan Marinissen, an ordained minister and longtime advocate with the prisoner's rights movement. Marinissen and other SFCCCJ members focused their efforts on criticizing punitive modes of "rehabilitation" within the 70s criminal legal system, urging policymakers to put a halt to the construction of new prisons and instead adopt reforms like "diversion programs" which would see far fewer individuals convicted and incarcerated. 

The collection is organized into four folders, including: Correspondence Agendas & Meeting Minutes, Diversion Campaign and Prison Construction Moratorium. Notable documents include the organization's "Statement of Principles" prepared by President Gregory Stout and Chairperson Jan Marinissen, a transcript of a 1974 forum on diversion reforms attended by figures like Margot St. James (COYOTE Chair-madam), and a flyer advertising a local prison construction moratorium conference.