Announcements

On Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio committed to a long-term plan for closing the jails on Rikers Island. The mayor's historic announcement coincided with the release of the final report of the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform.

Yesterday, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio announced that the City's jail population has fallen by 18 percent over the last three years. The Center for Court Innovation has produced a pair of in-depth analyses of New York City’s criminal justice system.

We created the Alfred Siegel Scholarship Fund as a way to pay homage to the late Alfred Siegel’s contribution to reforming the criminal justice system in New York.

The Brooklyn Community Foundation recently selected the Red Hook Community Justice Center as one of 20 finalists for its inaugural Spark Prize for outstanding non-profits in Brooklyn.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Center for Court Innovation. There are many different ways to measure our progress since 1996...

Young adults ages 24 and under pose a unique challenge to the justice system. Research suggests that the areas of the brain that regulate impulse control and reasoning don’t fully develop until people reach their mid-twenties.

Tribal Access to Justice Innovation is a new website highlighting innovative tribal justice programs from around the country. 

Almost every week brings more grim news about the state of criminal justice in the United States: Unwarranted uses of force, fees and fines being used to balance municipal budgets, dire statistics about mass incarceration, protests in the streets… the list goes on and on.

Last week, the Center for Court Innovation and the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance convened Community Justice 2016, an international summit dedicated to improving safety, reducing the use of jail, and promoting trust in justice.

Since 2014, the Center for Court Innovation has worked with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to help plan and launch the Safety + Justice Challenge, a national initiative to reduce the use of jail across the United States.