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How AI Highlights the Need for Better Mental Health Care

Our new brief outlines how concerns about AI and mental health treatment shed light on the need for accessible, high-quality care.

Voices of Justice: Aisha Greene on the Collective Work of Jail Reform

A conversation with Aisha S. Greene on community safety, reducing incarceration, and how to get the research in justice reform to stick.

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Designing Safe Summers

New community-led murals for Gun Violence Awareness Month showcase how art can cultivate safety and connection.

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4 Ways to Reimagine Justice in Local Courts

Our new report outlines key recommendations to help municipal courts deliver justice in more meaningful ways.

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Changing the Default Setting on the Justice System

A note from our CEO Courtney Bryan on the launch of Community Justice Solutions, our new venture to bring evidence-based innovations to courts and communities across the country.

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Communities fight COVID-19: 160,000 masks and supplies delivered

You have long witnessed the stark and systemic inequalities that left communities of color more vulnerable to COVID-19.

Supervised Release is Keeping Thousands off Rikers Island

In an effort to combat the spread of COVID-19, New York City has begun releasing people from its jails.

Investing in Community Justice

Community justice addresses a wide variety of problems, including over-incarceration and racial disparities.

Closing Rikers Island: A Landmark Vote in NYC

The New York City Council took a major step toward closing the notorious Rikers Island jail complex.

How We Change Justice

We've worked alongside communities in 42 states over the past year to change culture and practice in the justice system.

The Fall Season of the New Thinking Podcast

Each episode of New Thinking takes on pressing issues on justice system reform, talking to the people documenting the problems and those working to solve them. The fall season includes Bruce Western, Kim Foxx, and more.

Start Here on NPR

NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross looks at our efforts to reduce the use of unnecessary incarceration.

2018 Community Courts and Public Safety Conference

National training on community courts – May 7-9, 2018 in Birmingham, Alabama

Please join us in Birmingham, Alabama, May 7-9, to discuss and learn more about how local justice systems can work with communities to increase public safety.

Just Released! Start Here: A Road Map To Reducing Mass Incarceration

What can be done right now to reduce the number of people sent to jail and prison?

Downtown Library Welcomes Spokane Community Court with Open Arms

The community court in downtown Spokane represents a marriage of two venerable pillars of democracy: the courthouse and the library.

Justice Innovation in Times of Change: New Challenges, New Opportunities

The Center for Court Innovation, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Quinnipiac University School of Law, hosted Justice Innovation in Times of Change: New Challenges, New Opportunities, a one-day conference in September 2016, providing an opportunity for practitioners from both inside and outside the justice system to learn about a range of topics related to chronic lower-level offending.