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 a rainy Friday afternoon in the Red Hook district of Brooklyn, New York, Judge Alex M. Calabrese presides over the only courtroom in a community justice center located a block from the Red Hook Houses, one of the largest housing projects in Brooklyn. He sits there surrounded by lawyers and clerks, defendants and court officers—all the ingredients of a cinematic court scene. However, the plots and climaxes that take place in this courtroom are not typical of any television program.
So far, the precinct that covers Red Hook, Brooklyn, and surrounding neighborhoods has seen zero murders in 2006, and police are sharing credit with the Red Hook Community Justice Center.
American-style community justice centres in which the public has a say in penalties imposed for crime and anti-social behaviour are to be set up in England and Wales, the Lord Chancellor announced.
Judge Matthew Jude D'Emic of the Brooklyn Mental Health Court summoned Kalvin Berry to the bench to find out why he had been arguing with his court-appointed therapists.
So, what does Tony Blair mean by rebalancing criminal justice? Some of the blueprint for reform was outlined in a low-key consultation paper issued by the lord chancellor in April.
The perception that downtown Minneapolis has a crime problem threatens the district's future. Lessons that could help are available in another city: New York.
The Brooklyn Mental Health Court was recently featured on New York City's NY news channel. See the story to read a transcript or access a video of the first segment of this multi-part story.
The court that tries to keep people out of prison is on the side of the justice system we rarely get to see. In the first of a three part series, NY1's Solana Pyne looks at Brooklyn's Mental Health court where the judge offers treatment instead of jail time.
