CfJ's Project Restore Featured in CBS New York Segment

January 04, 2026

Project Restore Bed-Stuy (PRB) was a 12-month community-based gang violence intervention program developed on the premise that violence prevention is best achieved through addressing barriers to personal growth, including economic insecurity, disconnection from education and employment, untethered social isolation, and unhealed trauma. 

CBS New York Project Restore

This weekend our Project Restore Bed-Stuy program was featured in CBS News New York to showcase how alternatives to incarceration and punishment can have an impact on reducing crime and violence. 

Implemented by a team that included formerly incarcerated and gang-involved individuals, in collaboration with University and District Attorney’s office stakeholders, Project Restore Bed-stuy (PRB) was intended to serve as a pilot program for violence interruption in New York City, with scalable potential. PRB supported 30 young men connected to rival street crews (locally affiliated gangs) in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Police Precincts 79 and 81), who were trapped in a cycle of retaliatory gun violence.

Program evaluation of PRB showed an increase in community safety, prevention of incarceration and retaliatory shootings, and more.

Watch the interview