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 piece from Stateline on New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman's juvenile justice reform agenda highlights the alternative sentencing options for youth offered by Bronx Community Solutions.
Center for Court Innovation Director Greg Berman talks with the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice about community justice and criminal justice reform.
In the New York Law Journal, Greg Berman and Al Siegel of the Center for Court Innovation argue that "this is not the time to consider scaling back our commitment to community-based services for troubled youth."
The Crime Report covers Assistant U.S. Attorney General Laurie Robinson's remarks at Community Justice 2012, an international conference on community justice in Washington, D.C.
The New York Daily News profiles the Brownsville Youth Court, a new youth court in Brooklyn that offers offenders ages 10 to 18 an alternative to the conventional criminal justice system.
An article from the New York Daily News on Director Spike Lee's new movie set in Red Hook, Brooklyn, mentions the Red Hook Community Justice Center and quotes Judge Alex Calabrese.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports on the Kings County District Attorney's goal to clean up Brownsville by instituting re-entry programs and eventually building a community courthouse.
Julie Marthaler discusses with her local newspaper, the Marshall Independent, her participation in the Center for Court Innovation's roundtable on Native American peacemaking and her plans to create a "circle" program, based on peacemaking principles, in southwestern Minnesota.
Director of Crown Heights Community Mediation Center Amy Ellenbogen joins WNYC reporter Cindy Rodriguez in discussing violence interrupters and what they do to stop violent crime in the city.