Announcements

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.

Rowman & Littlefield has released a new edition of Trial & Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure, featuring an introduction by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.

2016 is off to a busy start here at the Center for Court Innovation. Here are a few highlights.

A new edition of Good Courts featuring an introduction by former New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman is now available from Quid Pro Books.

In case you missed it, New York Magazine highlighted our work with young people in Brownsville, Brooklyn as one of their 59 "Reasons to Love New York."

The Center for Court Innovation seeks to advance the idea of procedural justice—encouraging justice agencies to treat individual arrestees, victims, defendants, and litigants with dignity and respect.

The Red Hook Community Justice Center celebrated 15 years of justice reform this week with a party at the Brooklyn Museum.

The Center for Court Innovation is pleased to announce the release of new training resources on the National Drug Court Online Learning System.