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With six months to go before the Red Hook Ikea is slated to open, the home furnishing giant has been quietly providing area residents with free job and computer-training classes.

The City pledge of swifter justice for quality of life victims and mandaged help for offenders moved to brick and mortor Thursday with announcement of Community Justice Center (CJC) location set to open in July.

Newark officials will ask residents what services they would like to see as they launch an effort to make social services more available to defendants in municipal court. Instead of just holding trials and sentencing defendants for their crimes, the court will make an effort to address the underlying problems.

Youth courts are expanding across New York City and state, according to educators and officials who met today at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn.

Youth courts are expanding across New York City and state.

Scotland's first community court, based on a radical U.S. model that works by giving offenders education, drug programmes and reparation orders rather than prison, is being planned for Glasgow's east end.

On paper, the Crown attorney’s office is supposed to push domestic violence offences through more quickly than others, but overcrowded courts can make that impossible.

The Red Hook Justice Center is much more than a courthouse, said Brooklyn Justice Alex Calabrese, who joined a panel discussion on Innovations in Design: Collaboration and the Problem-Solving Courthouse. The Red Hook courthouse also functions as a community resource center where court officers give after-school tutoring sessions and the Friends of Coffey Park, a volunteer group, meets to organize clean-up projects.

More than 500 judges from across the United States and Canada gathered in Vancouver for a joint conference of the Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges and the American Judges Association.