The #InsideLiteraryPrize, a collaboration between Freedom Reads, Center for Justice Innovation, and the National Book Foundation, Presenter of the National Book Awards, will be awarded next week by a jury of over 200 incarcerated people at multiple prisons across the nation. Bringing incarcerated people to the forefront of cultural conversations, the power of books will be used to celebrate our shared humanity. 📚 Follow us this week to see more from our judges and prize organizers ahead of the award announcement. ⤴️
Center for Justice Innovation
Non-profit Organizations
New York, New York 37,887 followers
Working with communities and systems to cultivate lasting forms of safety. (Formerly the Center for Court Innovation)
About us
The Center for Justice Innovation (formerly the Center for Court Innovation) is a non-profit organization that works with communities and justice systems to advance equity, increase safety, and help individuals and communities thrive. The Center's goal is to identify and resolve as early as possible the challenges that bring people into the criminal and civil legal systems. It does this in a number of ways—by developing and running programs that reduce the need for incarceration and enhance economic opportunity, conducting original research to identify what works, and sharing what we learn from our programming and research with those seeking to transform the justice system around the world.
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http://www.innovatingjustice.org
External link for Center for Justice Innovation
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, New York
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1996
- Specialties
- Community Courts, Problem-Solving Justice, Justice Reform, Demonstration Projects, Public Policy, Research, Treatment Courts, Alternatives to Incarceration, Juvenile Justice, Violence Reduction, Diversion, Restorative Justice, Bail Reform, Youth Programming, Human Trafficking, Justice-Involved Women, Addressing Trauma, Risk Assessment, Access to Justice, Procedural Justice, Tribal Justice, Addressing Racial Disparities in Justice, Reentry, Housing Insecurity, and Justice-involved Families
Locations
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520 Eighth Avenue
New York, New York 10018, US
Employees at Center for Justice Innovation
Updates
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The Women’s Justice Commission, chaired by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, is a new national initiative from the Council on Criminal Justice that aims to bring awareness to the unique issues women face in the criminal justice system. To mark the Commission’s launch, its 15 members—including our Executive Director Courtney Bryan—paid a visit to the Brownsville Community Justice Center and heard from young women and girls in our programs who are serving as leaders in their communities. The visit set the stage for the important work that lies ahead for the Commission in ensuring that all women and girls are supported and treated with dignity, both inside and outside of the justice system. Read more about the visit here: https://lnkd.in/e8NvBsvq
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How can we best serve those who have served us and are coming through our court system? To answer that question, we hosted a two-day Veterans Treatment Court Summit at the National Veterans Resource Center in Syracuse, New York. The summit brought together more than 100 practitioners from across the country—including judges, attorneys, mentors, and more—to connect, collaborate, and learn from each other's experiences bringing support to veterans in the criminal justice system. Attendees shared their perspectives on everything from diversity, equity, and inclusion in veterans treatment courts to the need for responses that are sensitive to challenges like PTSD, moral injury, and acquired brain injury. See highlights from the summit here: https://lnkd.in/g69DNFta
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We’re proud to announce that Midtown Community Justice Center (MCJC) is among 16 community organizations in #NewYorkCity to receive a historic $6.5M investment for community-based restorative justice programming. This investment will support MCJC’s newest venture, Youth PACT (Positively Advancing in Community Together), a 90-day diversion program for 14-17 year-olds arrested for weapons possession. The program provides an early off-ramp from the traditional Family Court process and builds supportive connections for participants. Through support circles, the restorative justice process looks beyond the arrest, building on young people's strengths, engaging important people in their lives, and providing a forum for meaningfully addressing harm. Thank you to the NYC Office of the Mayor and CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance for their commitment to maintaining our city as a safe, livable community where all New Yorkers have the opportunity to thrive. https://lnkd.in/eG7tUKGQ
Mayor’s Office And CUNY Invest $6.5M In Restorative Justice For 16 NYC Organizations
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Mass incarceration too often alienates those of us on the outside from the humanity of those who have been incarcerated. The #InsideLiteraryPrize challenges that alienation at its core. The inaugural prize, the first of its kind in the US, tears down walls in our cultural discourse by bringing people who are incarcerated into a national conversation about literature and the human condition. And it gives our neighbors in prisons and jails an outlet to exercise the voices and inherent dignity they have had all along. Read more about the prize and what it’s meant to the judges: https://lnkd.in/et-7vHBq Freedom Reads National Book Foundation, Presenter of the National Book Awards
The Book Prize Building Bridges for Incarcerated People
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Our team joined Office of The Richmond County District Attorney Michael E. McMahon and other leaders of the Staten Island community for a tour of the future site of Staten Island Community Justice Center, which our Executive Director Courtney Bryan envisions "will be a truly community-centered space." Read more about the recent $5M investment in transformative plans for the borough's first Community Justice Center here: https://lnkd.in/e9FpMZxW
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Frenchy, one of our Inside Literary Prize judges currently incarcerated at Minnesota Correctional Facility – Shakopee, was only 17 years old at the time of her arrest. That means she’s never been able to vote in any elections, but this year she was able to cast her vote to help decide who will be the winner of the inaugural #InsideLiteraryPrize. Follow us this week to read more from our judges ahead of the award announcement, hosted in collaboration with Freedom Reads and National Book Foundation, Presenter of the National Book Awards on August 1st.
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Our new illustrated guide walks New Yorkers living in public housing through what they need to stay safely, affordably housed. The guide—available in Spanish, English, and Chinese, with accompanying posters—covers everything from accurately reporting income to keeping track of expenses that might warrant a rent reduction. ➡️ Find out more today: https://lnkd.in/eC4D7hYi #HousingJustice #HousingIsAHumanRight
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“What type of services are you giving to people with specific racialized experiences and racial trauma?” Anti-Blackness prevents many people in our existing health models from getting help—we must reimagine how our language and approaches can reach those left on the fringes of the system Dr. Ruth Shim and mental health counselor Nijah Afflic discuss the lack of treatment options for Black people in the criminal justice and psychiatric systems in this episode of New Thinking. Listen for more insights here: https://lnkd.in/g3BA6wRM #BIPOCMentalHealthAwareness
Mental Health and Anti-Blackness
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Our new tenant guides empower residents with the information they need to feel confident navigating the NYCHA lease process on their own. With the help of NYCHA residents, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), illustrator Mark Nerys, and designer Bo-Won Keum, we created guides that explain which documents are needed for each step of the process, what counts as deductions from the cost of rent, and the steps to submit a renewal. With help from NYCHA, these guides will be shared out widely among tenants and community advocates to make sure as many people as possible have the education they need to maintain stable, affordable housing for themselves and their families. ➡️ Learn more and access the tenant guides here: https://lnkd.in/eC4D7hYi #HousingJustice