"Drivers have become so familiar with the Midtown court system that many of them know the presiding judge by name. The legal drivers, she said, are paying the price for the regulatory vacuum." Danielle Mindess, our Midtown Project Director, spoke to @gothamist.com about our recent report. ⤵️

NEW: New York City has a pedicab problem. In collaboration with Council Member Gale Brewer, Times Square Alliance, and Central Park Conservancy, we're proposing a roadmap to reform. 🚲

Today, we’re at John Jay for a “Harm Reduction After the War on Drugs: Reimagining New York’s Treatment System” event cohosted by the National Black Harm Reduction Network (NBHRN), Data Collaborative for Justice (DCJ), From Punishment to Public Health (P2PH), and Center for Justice Innovation.

Amid soaring rents and weakening protections for tenants, state and local governments have a critical role to play in preventing evictions. @shelterforce.bsky.social explores local initiatives working to keep families safely housed, including our housing resource centers in Red Hook and Harlem.

What if art could transform the justice system? Check out our conversation with Shamilia Tocruray, Director of Education at @brooklynmuseum.org, on how the arts can serve as a vehicle for reflection and social change.

Manhattan's Felony Alternative-to-Incarceration Court reimagines what accountability looks like in felony cases. ⚖️ In UC Law Journal, Grace Y. Li offers an in-depth analysis of the program and explores new possibilities for responding to crime: https://www.uclawjournal.org/in-place-of-prison/

What if the key to safety is the environment around us? 💡 Better lighting 🛝 New parks and playgrounds 🛠️ Long-overdue repairs That's the basis our Neighborhood Safety Initiatives team operates on, elevating voices of NYCHA residents themselves to work toward their own community safety solutions. ⤵️

“Knowing that you’re not alone in the process makes a difference, and it gives you that additional confidence,” said Kerry, a Brooklyn resident who remains safely housed after working with our Eviction Diversion Initiative to resolve her case. ⤵️ www.amny.com/law/advocate...

📆 EVENT: Join us May 4 to reimagine substance use treatment in NY. ⤵️ datacollaborativeforjustice.org/event/harm-r...

"Everyone here, every single day, is trying their best to help their neighbors in a direct and perhaps even life-changing way." – Judge Devin Robinson, Red Hook Community Justice Center Listen as Judge Robinson sits down with Law360 to discuss the innovative model. ⤵️ www.law360.com/articles/246...

“We help them in what is, for a lot of people, a crisis — a moment of vulnerability,” Viviana Gordon, who's leading our Eviction Diversion Initiative, told Central Current. Learn more about what the expansion of the Initiative will look like in Syracuse: centralcurrent.org/courts-advoc...

NEW: NY has dramatically shifted away from punitive drug enforcement—but major gaps remain in treatment access and racial equity. 🧵 📊 Read the report: datacollaborativeforjustice.org/work/diversi...

The Eviction Diversion Initiative, which supports tenants at risk of losing their homes, is expanding to more housing courts across the city and state. What began as a small pilot program to prevent evictions in Brooklyn and Long Island will now reach tenants across New York City and Upstate. ⤵️

How can we break cycles of rearrest and create a justice system that leaves people better off? ⤵️

Revisit this special episode of #NewThinking, where we discuss why navigating vicarious trauma effectively is a crucial part of building community justice together. ⤵️

How Project Reset puts people on track for a brighter future. ⤵️ www.innovatingjustice.org/updates/a-cr...

New data from 10 years of tracking people released pretrial across 12+ #SafetyandJusticeChallenge cities & counties: the majority of people released pretrial were not rebooked for any crime. Locally responsive reforms work. More on our blog, in collaboration with @innovatingjustice.bsky.social.

🎉 Announcing the Inside Literary Prize 2026 Shortlist! 🎉 Congratulations to the incredible authors shortlisted for the third annual #InsideLiteraryPrize, the first-ever US literary prize awarded exclusively by currently incarcerated people. Learn more about the Prize today. ⤵️

Does your organization support tenants living in market-rate apartments?⤵️ 🎉 We're excited to present: Good Cause NYC, a guide for tenants living in market-rate housing that explains a New York State law called Good Cause Eviction. Learn more here: welcometocup.org/projects/goo...

Roy Austin, Jr., who runs @howardlawai.bsky.social, is trying to ensure #AI is used safely and responsibly in the criminal justice system. On our latest episode of #NewThinking, Austin argues that AI isn’t so much a story about technology as it is about people. Listen today. ⤵️

What if the key to safety is the environment around us? 💡 Better lighting 🛝 New parks and playgrounds 🛠️ Long-overdue repairs That's the basis our Neighborhood Safety Initiatives team operates on, elevating voices of NYCHA residents themselves to work toward their own community safety solutions. ⤵️

AI is already shaping the justice system, but how do we ensure it's used responsibly? Learn about how lessons learned from the use of risk assessments can inform adoption of AI in the justice space. ⤵️

How do we ensure #AI helps, rather than sets back, the cause of fairness and justice? Roy Austin Jr., director at Howard Law Artificial Intelligence Initiative, explores this question on our latest episode of #NewThinking. Listen now. 🎙️

In the midst of an acute housing crisis, outreach teams with our Community Ambassadors program in Syracuse are supporting their neighbors in a unique way. ⤵️ Learn more today: https://www.innovatingjustice.org/updates/syracuse-community-ambassadors-help-their-neighbors-affordable-housing-crisis/

NEW: A reform that helped hundreds of New Yorkers get out of life-threatening conditions in jail serves as a valuable model for safe and effective alternatives to incarceration, according to our new analysis. 📊

Restorative justice circles address harm and conflict by inviting everyone involved to really listen to each other. But what do these circles actually look like in practice? ⤵️

Reducing the use of incarceration and implementing new approaches can *strengthen* public safety, our new report finds. ⤵️

Happy publication day to @galvinalmanza.bsky.social! Check out our recent podcast episode where we discuss her new book "The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender’s Search for Justice in America." Out today at your local bookstore! 📚

When Twyla Carter started working as a public defender, her mission was simple—to be an advocate for people whose voices had been taken away. Today, she leads @legalaidnyc.bsky.social, the largest and oldest nonprofit law firm in the country. Yet her fundamental mission hasn’t changed. ⤵️

In 2025, as communities across the country faced unprecedented challenges, we continued to build bridges between systems, community members, and the people most impacted.  Check out our impact report today. ⤵️

The Society for Professional Journalists and Prison Journalism Project are accepting submissions for the third annual Stillwater Awards. The deadline: Feb. 16. Nominate your favorite incarcerated writer!

WATCH NOW: Our Strong Starts program spotlighted at the New York State Unified Court System 2026 State of the Judiciary, presented by Chief Judge Rowan D. Wilson. ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTRS...

With their decades of experience, two new appointments are well positioned to protect the safety and well-being of those on Rikers Island. Yet the only way to ensure dignity and safety for all New Yorkers is to close Rikers for good. The path toward that goal is complex, but clear. ⬇️

How can we help people flourish within systems that are often associated with punishment? Our Red Hook Community Justice Center is a longstanding example of what that can look like, building pathways to support both for people charged with crimes and others seeking services in the community. ⤵️

Gun violence interrupters, like those at our Save Our Streets programs in Brooklyn and the Bronx, have been making NYC safer for decades. Now, they might see their work go even further under @mayor.nyc.gov's proposed changes to how the city tackles public safety issues. ⤵️ @nyamnews.bsky.social.

The Manhattan Felony Alternative-to-Incarceration Court is one of the first in the country to offer community-based treatment rather than prison in a wide range of cases. In UC Law Journal, Grace Y. Li analyses the program and explores how it opens new possibilities for responding to crime. ⤵️

Treatment courts offer people struggling with substance use a chance to find services and care instead of incarceration. Yet research hasn’t always kept pace with how these programs have evolved in recent years. Our new research aims aims to address that gap.⤵️

This is the thing that drives me nuts - governments and experts who insist that the problems of our criminal court system are unfixably complex, when in fact many of the best solutions are staring us right in the face.

“The data on our criminal court system reflects a very intuitive reality: when you’re using violence, lack of opportunity, trauma, to try to get people to thrive, it’s not happening!” - @galvinalmanza.bsky.social Listen to the full conversation today. ⤵️

Explore how justice practitioners can improve everyday interactions to build trust and ensure accountability. ⤵️ criminaljustice.cityofnewyork.us/reports/roun...

Happening this Thursday, 1/22! ➡️ Register here: jjay-cuny.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Revisit our policy brief from last year, which makes the case for drawing a firm line when it comes to using #AI in decisions that could impact people’s liberty or cause serious harm. https://www.innovatingjustice.org/updates/dos-and-donts-ai-criminal-justice-system/

"This was an essential puzzle piece that was missing from the bigger picture of what the young people needed," Project Director of our Bronx Community Justice Center Deymis Baquero said. @abc7ny.bsky.social: abc7ny.com/post/loyalty...

For 25 years, our Harlem Community Justice Center has helped people access justice and secure a better future. Today, it served as the backdrop for @mayor.nyc.gov's appointment of Afua Atta-Mensah as the new Chief Equity Officer and Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice.

📣 *Happening now* 📣 in Harlem’s historic courthouse, and the home of our Harlem Community Justice Center, Mayor Zohran Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov making major personnel announcement: youtu.be/fNVDPV_a39s

As a founding partner of the newly launched AI and Justice Consortium, we are proud to work as bridge builders between tech companies and the justice system to make sure we get #AI right in the justice space. Join the Consortium for their first panel in collaboration with @johnjayrec.bsky.social. ⤵️

We've been serving Harlemites for more than two decades at our Harlem Community Justice Center. Later today, watch as @mayor.nyc.gov Zohran Mamdani makes a major personnel announcement from the historic Harlem Community Justice Center courtroom.⤵️ 📍 Find the stream here: www.nyc.gov/main?utm_med...

It's me! And yes I have some ideas. Take your mind off ~everything else~ and come think about something constructive <3

🚨 Our new report in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC) answers a central question in today’s public safety debate: We don’t need to choose between keeping communities safe and building a more fair and just system. ⬇️ for takeaways and recommendations.

With a 60% recidivism rate, it’s clear the criminal justice system isn’t working. ⬇️ Listen as @galvinalmanza.bsky.social explores what her long career as a public defender and being co-founder and executive director of @partnersforjustice.bsky.social taught her about how we solve the crisis.