Judge Jorge Simón served as the presiding judge at the Hartford Community Court in Hartford, Connecticut, from January 2003 unitl 2006. Judge Simón spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about the community court and how it works.
In 2009, Jonathan Lippman was named Chief Judge of New York State courts by Gov. David Paterson. Prior to being named chief judge, he served as the chief administrative judge to Judith S. Kaye and as the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for the First Judicial Department. Judge Lippman has long been an advocate of problem-solving judicial reform (see, for example this op-ed).
Judge Judy Harris Kluger, New York’s deputy chief administrative judge for court operations and planning, is responsible for overseeing problem-solving courts in New York. She spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon.
Judge Amy Karan has served as the administrative judge of the Domestic Violence Court in Miami, Florida, since 1997. She spoke with the Center for Court Innovation’s Carolyn Turgeon about her experiences.
Good Courts is the first book to describe the problem-solving court movement and features in-depth looks at Center for Court Innovation projects like the Midtown Community Court and Red Hook Community Justice Center, as well as other projects around the country, like Oregon’s Portland Community Court. By the Center for Court Innovation's founding director John Feinblatt and current director Greg Berman, Good Courts reviews the growing body of evidence that the problem-solving approach to justice is indeed producing positive results.
A summary of focus groups of judges in New York and California examining which practices of problem-solving courts can be integrated into conventional court operations.
The results of focus groups conducted among the participants and court staff in three New York State drug courts. The research sought to answer the question: do drug court participants and court staff see eye to eye?
The executive summary of one of the first multi-year evaluations in the country to demonstrate consistent and meaningful recidivism impacts across a large number of drug court sites.
