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Rowman & Littlefield has released a new edition of Trial & Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure, featuring an introduction by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.

2016 is off to a busy start here at the Center for Court Innovation. Here are a few highlights.

Ensuring meaningful access to justice for Limited English Proficient (LEP) litigants is an essential responsibility of the justice system. To gauge the status of language access services for litigants in domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking cases, the Center for Court Innovation and the National Center for State Courts conducted a needs assessment of courts, government agencies, and community-based organizations in the fall of 2013. This report outlines the findings and makes recommendations for strengthening language access.

The Kings County Parent Support Program celebrated its 10th graduation ceremony at the Kings County Family Court in Downtown Brooklyn.  

A new edition of Good Courts featuring an introduction by former New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman is now available from Quid Pro Books.

In case you missed it, New York Magazine highlighted our work with young people in Brownsville, Brooklyn as one of their 59 "Reasons to Love New York."

In Anaheim, New Approaches to Justice Reform.

The Center for Court Innovation seeks to advance the idea of procedural justice—encouraging justice agencies to treat individual arrestees, victims, defendants, and litigants with dignity and respect.

Procedural justice, and its intersections with race, policing, and justice system legitimacy, was a major theme of our summit on criminal justice challenges and innovative reform efforts.

The Red Hook Community Justice Center celebrated 15 years of justice reform this week with a party at the Brooklyn Museum.

The Center for Court Innovation is pleased to announce the release of new training resources on the National Drug Court Online Learning System.

According to a newly-released randomized controlled trial, the Harlem Parole Reentry Court has reduced re-offending and improved employment outcomes for parolees returning to Harlem from prison.