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.
The Crown Heights Community Mediation Center's newest program—SOS Crown Heights—deploys four outreach workers to the streets whenever a shooting has taken place to prevent more violence.
Citing the work of the Center for Court Innovation, former New York State Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye calls for the creation of more youth courts as an early intervention strategy for at-risk teenagers.
A New York Times article about celebrities assigned to community service mentions a number of Center for Court Innovation projects, including NYC Community Cleanup and Bronx Community Solutions.
On a Saturday afternoon the NYC Community Cleanup, a city-wide program designed to engage low-level offenders in meaningful revitalization projects, comes to Java Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to pull weeds, plant trees, help paint a mural and beautify the block.
A commentator suggests that reformers in the United Kingdom establish their own "Centre" for Court Innovation "to allow experimentation, learning and scaling up of successful work."
"I got arrested! NOW WHAT?"--a poster created by the teenage participants in the Center for Court Innovation's Youth Justice Board--is featured in a front page story in the New York Law Journal. The poster will be distributed to 7- to 15-year-olds at their first post-arrest interview with New York City probation officers.
