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The Untapped Potential of 7,500 Local Courts: Municipal Courts in the Spotlight

The Untapped Potential of 7,500 Local Courts: Municipal Courts in the Spotlight

Discover insights from our 'Municipal Courts and the Promise of Community Justice' Convening at Rutgers University in New Jersey! At this convening, we elevated municipal courts within the national reform...

The Justice System Shouldn’t Be a Revolving Door. Here’s How to Prevent That.

The Justice System Shouldn’t Be a Revolving Door. Here’s How to Prevent That.

These resources give practitioners and reformers new strategies to break cycles of rearrest and create a justice system that leaves people better off.

Adam Durrett

Adam Durrett

To Achieve Public Safety, Invest in Strong Communities

To Achieve Public Safety, Invest in Strong Communities

Strong communities are safe communities. What would change if all of our policies—inside and outside of the legal system—reflected that basic truth?

Counsel at First Appearance: An Object Lesson in Policy Implementation

Counsel at First Appearance: An Object Lesson in Policy Implementation

This policy brief approaches the ongoing efforts to secure early counsel as a challenge of implementation and offers practical advice on ensuring the push is transformed into change on the...

‘Try to Bring People Together’: Rockaway Adults Talk about Safety, Justice, and Programming

‘Try to Bring People Together’: Rockaway Adults Talk about Safety, Justice, and Programming

In this report from a series of focus groups, Queens Community Justice Center in the Rockaways identified several critical issues in the area, including racial and economic barriers to essential...

What Do Restorative Responses to Domestic Violence Look Like?

What Do Restorative Responses to Domestic Violence Look Like?

A practitioner shares his experience with Healing Connections, a restorative accountability group for people who have caused harm in their relationships.

Thanksgiving Turkey Giveaway

Thanksgiving Turkey Giveaway

Queens Community Justice Center sites will be having their Thanksgiving Giveaways, sponsored by the Mets Foundation, on November 20th. Each site will have 250 turkeys to give away—first come, first...

Community Rally Against Domestic Violence

Community Rally Against Domestic Violence

Our RISE Project is bringing the Brooklyn community together to stand with survivors against domestic violence. Alongside Council Member Chi Ossé, Assembly Member Stefani Zinerman, the Mayor’s Office to End...

A Guide for Building Data Capacity in Rural Defense Systems

A Guide for Building Data Capacity in Rural Defense Systems

Drawing on expert assistance projects in three rural jurisdictions seeking to expand their data capacity and interviews with eight organizations that have successfully built data systems, this guide offers recommendations...

Voices of Justice: Professor Alexandra Natapoff on the Promise of Municipal Courts

Voices of Justice: Professor Alexandra Natapoff on the Promise of Municipal Courts

“A lot of our criminal system takes place off the radar, in places we don’t pay enough attention to.”

Mobile overdose response and outreach van launches

Mobile overdose response and outreach van launches

Stocked with overdose prevention kits and staffed by peers with lived experience, our Bronx HOPE’s new mobile outreach van brings support directly to people at risk of overdose. The van...