Kathryn Z. Davies has served as an Onondaga County Support Magistrate in the Fifth Judicial District of the New York State Unified Court System for the past 25 years.
This paper--a joint project of Policy Exchange and the Centre for Justice Innovation--summarizes the experiences of 10 innovative criminal justice projects across the United Kingdom and the United States.
Written for the UK think tank NESTA, this essay outlines how the Center for Court Innovation incorporates research and evidence into its day-to-day operations.
Anton Shelupanov of the Centre for Justice Innovation speaks with Jamie Bennett, a veteran prison administrator, about how to encourage more positive relationships between prison staff and inmates. At the time of the interview, Bennett was the Governor of a prison, Morton Hall, where 70 percent of inmates were foreign nationals and which created a unique set of challenges.
Anton Shelupanov of the Centre for Justice Innovation talks to Nat de Friend, the Head of Effective Practice at the Youth Justice Board. The Youth Justice Board was established in England and Wales in 1998 with a national mandate to oversee the youth justice system. At the time of the interview, the Youth Justice Board was expected to be abolished by the new government, but that decision was reversed at the last minute. In the interview, de Friend talks about how a national organization like the Youth Justice Board has approached the challenge of encouraging innovation at the local level.
In this interview, Anton Shelupanov of the Centre for Justice Innovation speaks with Grant Sugden, the Operational Manager of the Charity Organization Circle, about working with women offenders in the criminal justice system. Circle has been based at the Scottish women’s prison Cornton Vale in 2007, and recently expanded to HMP Addiewell to work with prisoners who are fathers.
Anton Shelupanov of the Centre for Justice Innovation talks to London Probation Trust Chief Executive Heather Munro about the challenges of motivating her staff to take risks and try new things, her commitment to greater offender engagement in the design of services, and her ideas for improving the criminal justice system more generally.
This article was released by the UK charity the Young Foundation in 2008 and called for the creation of a Centre for Justice Innovation in England and Wales.