New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation Center for Justice Innovation

Sixty years on from a landmark Supreme Court decision, how can public defenders organize for genuine change?

Rather than arrests and incarceration, what do young people who commit harm actually need?

A recent training for Manhattan prosecutors was a drumbeat on the harms of incarceration; hardly the typical message prosecutors receive. It was part of a wider effort by D.A. Alvin Bragg to expand the use of alternatives such as treatment and restorative justice. But in a newly-cramped climate for criminal justice reform, can that effort become a reality?

Housing is a human right. What if we designed our systems—beginning with Housing Court—to embody that?

What if much of what is packaged today as "reforms" to the criminal legal system are extending, not countering, that system's harmful effects?

Data makes a powerful case against the criminal justice status quo, but who's listening?