The Center for Justice Innovation—and our operating programs—are regularly featured in the media. Here is a sampling of the press coverage of our work.
New York City’s new law—approved last week by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council—will require the city’s most reckless drivers to complete a program modeled on the Driver Accountability Program that we pioneered at the Red Hook Community Justice Center or risk having their vehicles impounded.
Comparing it to the eternal debate between Spock and Captain Kirk on Star Trek, our director Greg Berman
writes about the public debate around New York’s bail reform law and how—and when—to judge the success of this new law.
A new grant from the CITIES Rise program will train and hire community ambassadors to help Syracuse residents find solutions to housing issues. Leah Russell from our Syracuse office says the grant shows the community that their voices have been heard.
Bail reform and risk assessment algorithms have been closely entwined, but amid concerns about the role of algorithms in criminal justice, Julian Adler, our director of policy and research, says, "It raises a lot of questions about what’s to come."
In an article looking at crime rates in New York City in the immediate aftermath of New York State's bail reform, our director of jail reform, Michael Rempel, points to the potentially crime-producing effects of pretrial detention itself, arguing that, in the long run, such detention can make the public less, not more, safe.
After a nationwide search led by former New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, Courtney Bryan has been chosen as the new director of the Center, effective March 16. She succeeds Greg Berman, who is resigning but will remain a member of the board.
The New York Times reports on the expansion across New York City of the restorative response to driving-related offenses we pioneered at our Red Hook Community Justice Center. We anticipate our Driver Accountability Program will now reach 2,500 drivers annually while reducing the negative impacts of the justice system.
The scope of New York City’s supervised release program has broadened under the recently enacted bail reform law in New York. “We’ve been in a major hiring push in order to engage the kinds of social workers that we need to deal with this,” said Greg Berman, the outgoing head of the Center for Court Innovation, which runs supervised release programs in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
What will bail reform in New York on January 1 look like? “Estimates of what’s going to happen have ranged...There are still a lot of unknowns,” says our director Greg Berman in the New York Times.
The New York Times highlights laws across the country going into effect on January 1, 2020, including New York's criminal justice reform. "New York will become the latest state to eliminate cash bail for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, which could see more than 40 percent of inmates released from pretrial detention," citing our bail reform analysis.
