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.
A close look at the Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety, which is being employed in 15 public housing complexes in New York City with help from the Center for Court Innovation.
The Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety and the Center for Court Innovation work to improve the environment in which people live, like better building maintenance, having access to necessary services, engaging in civic life, and the community coming together to collaboratively solve problems. The article quotes engagement coordinator, Karla Alonso, and highlights the Harlem Community Justice Center and St. Nicholas housing complex in photos.
A profile of Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets (YO S.O.S.), the youth leadership arm of our neighborhood-based anti-violence initiative, Save Our Streets.
An audio profile of Project Reset, our diversion program for low-level offenses, begun as a pilot project for teens, now expanding Manhattan-wide for all ages.
A profile of the remarkable multi-year project—part augmented reality, part oral history—of the young coders at our Brownsville Community Justice Center.
A video profile of our Restorative Justice in Schools program, an effort to address racial and other disparities in New York City school suspension rates and improve relationships school-wide through the use of alternative responses to misbehavior and conflict.
Our director, Greg Berman, argues the fight to transform the American justice system will not be won "from the offices of our foundations, elected officials, or editorial boards." Along with macro reform ideas, look for micro changes in practice with far-reaching implications.
A profile of Project Reset—formerly a pilot project for teens, our point-of-arrest diversion program is expanding across Manhattan for all ages—and a report on our event with Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance, Jr. highlighting Project Reset's use of art programming as an alternative to criminal court.
Rather than going to court for one impulsive decision, Evelyn is going to college. A profile of Project Reset, our diversion program for low-level offenses expanding Manhattan-wide in partnership with the Manhattan District Attorney and the New York City Police Department.
