This year’s annual report captures the accomplishments of our more than 500 staff through numbers and stories. Taken together, they paint a picture of positive change: for government systems that have become more responsive to community concerns, for neighborhoods that are moving themselves toward safety and well-being, and for the thousands of people we work with who found healing and an opportunity to build lives outside of the justice system.

We all want safe neighborhoods, argues our Greg Berman in Governing, but the way we treat many people arrested for low-level offenses does more harm than good. Berman offers New York City as a potential model for other jurisdictions looking to reform low-level justice.

The Red Hook Community Justice Center occupies "a unique space as both a community center and a court.” From youth court to peacemaking, BKLYNER profiles our Brooklyn community court and its work reducing both incarceration and crime.

A new study shows judges in New York City have drastically reduced their use of bail and jail, and that's without any changes to the law. The Marshall Project highlights the importance of shifts in culture and practice and the availability of bail alternatives like supervised release.