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.
On paper, the Crown attorney’s office is supposed to push domestic violence offences through more quickly than others, but overcrowded courts can make that impossible.
The Red Hook Justice Center is much more than a courthouse, said Brooklyn Justice Alex Calabrese, who joined a panel discussion on Innovations in Design: Collaboration and the Problem-Solving Courthouse. The Red Hook courthouse also functions as a community resource center where court officers give after-school tutoring sessions and the Friends of Coffey Park, a volunteer group, meets to organize clean-up projects.
More than 500 judges from across the United States and Canada gathered in Vancouver for a joint conference of the Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges and the American Judges Association.
If it is the goal and the desire of San Franciscans to reform and humanize the criminal courts, then the Community Justice Center plan is a reasonable, and perhaps positive, step.
Before a standing room only crowd gathered in the stately law library of New York Family Court in Manhattan last Thursday afternoon, a group of teenagers reported that youth in foster care would be better served if they were more involved in the process aimed at finding them a permanent home.
Mr. Fagan is a 38-year-old case manager for Bronx Community Solutions, a nonprofit group that looks for alternatives to jail time for people convicted of low-level crime. He hatched the idea for a basketball league facing ex-offenders against police officers in the tense aftermath of the police shooting of Sean Bell.
He jokingly refers to himself as Manhattan's King of Prostitution. Might as well be the King of Illegal Street Vending, Public Urination, Graffiti, Disorderly Conduct, Subway Fare-Beating and Aggressive Panhandling, too. These are the cases New York Supreme Court Judge Richard Weinberg presides over every weekday at the Midtown Community Court.
