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    Beyond Bail Reform: Pretrial Assessment and Supportive Services at Newark Community Solutions

    by Kelly Mulligan, Jeffrey Sharlein, and Colleen Smith

    After sweeping reforms to New Jersey’s criminal justice system, Newark Community Solutions joined local criminal justice practitioners and launched a pilot program in Essex County to bring supportive services to people with mental health needs awaiting trial in the community. This report gathers lessons and recommendations gleaned from Newark Community Solutions’ experience providing assessment and case management services within this pilot program.

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    Community Justice Today: Values, Guiding Principles, and Models

    The idea of community justice encompasses a diverse and growing range of evidence-based initiatives which seek to reduce crime by strengthening communities and redressing longstanding inequities. In recognition of the ways in which the approach has evolved over the years, this publication presents a new set of guiding principles of community justice and offers inventive models for putting them into practice, both inside and outside of the courtroom.

    Community Justice
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    Fact Sheet: Newark Community Solutions

    This fact sheet summarizes the mission of Newark Community Solutions, an initiative of the Center for Court Innovation that seeks to re-engineer how low-level cases are handled at the Newark Municipal Court in Newark, New Jersey.

    Problem-Solving Justice, Procedural Justice, Community Justice
  • Video

    Health, Housing, and Justice Alliance: COVID Response

    As the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations and institutions to shift to operating remotely, disparities driven by the digital divide became a shared problem across major cross-sector systems important to a community’s well-being. The Health, Housing, and Justice Alliance sought to eliminate inequities of fully virtual legal, healthcare, and social services through the creation of pop-up navigation centers and court hubs throughout Newark, New Jersey.

    Access to Justice, Community Justice, Problem-Solving Justice
  • Publication

    Health, Housing, and Justice Alliance

    by Caitlin Flood, Alyssa Goodpaster, Masha Miura, Kelly Mulligan, and Colleen Smith

    As the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations and institutions to shift to operating remotely, disparities driven by the digital divide became a shared problem across major cross-sector systems important to a community’s well-being. The Health, Housing, and Justice Alliance sought to eliminate inequities of fully virtual legal, healthcare, and social services through the creation of pop-up navigation centers and court hubs throughout Newark, New Jersey.

    Access to Justice, Community Justice, Problem-Solving Justice
  • Publication

    Fact Sheet: The Health Housing and Justice Alliance

    With support from the Clinical Scholars Program, a national health leadership initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Newark Community Solutions convened a group of cross-sector service organizations and community members as part of the Health, Housing, and Justice Access (HHJ) project.  The goal was to increase equity and accessibility for virtual health, social service, and court proceedings during the pandemic.

    Placemaking
  • Video

    Welcome to the Newark Youth Court

    by Robert V. Wolf, William Harkins, and Jasmine Harden

    Meet the teenagers of the Newark Youth Court. These young people fill the roles of judge, bailiff, advocates, and jurors, hearing low-level cases involving their peers. The sentences are always restorative, meant to provide a positive experience for the respondent and avoid a criminal record.

    Youth Initiatives
  • Video

    The Short Answer: What Alternative Sentencing Options are Available Through Newark Community Solutions?

    Victoria Pratt, chief judge of the Newark Municipal Court, provides a short answer to the question: What kinds of alternative sentencing options are available to you through Newark Community Solutions?

    Problem-Solving Justice, Community Justice, Procedural Justice, Diversion
  • Video

    Meet the Judge Who Assigns Essays in Court

    Newark Municipal Court Chief Judge Victoria Pratt discusses procedural justice and her work with Newark Community Solutions on MSNBC with Melissa Harris-Perry.

    Problem-Solving Justice, Procedural Justice, Community Justice
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    Community Perceptions of Newark: Neighborhood Quality of Life, Safety, and the Justice System

    by Josephine Hahn

    This report provides results of a 2013 community survey in Newark, New Jersey. Working alongside local residents and Newark-based nonprofits, researchers sought to learn community perceptions of the justice system, public safety, and community life in Newark.

    Problem-Solving Justice, Community Justice

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