Solitary By Many Other Names: A Report on the Persistent and Pervasive Use of Solitary Confinement in New York City Jails
This report reveals how New York City jails continue to inflict solitary confinement on people in its custody, in violation of state law and local regulations, with devastating and deadly consequences. Read more here
New York's New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post Execution Era Report
New York's New Death Penalty compiles and analyzes data on in-custody deaths in New York State between 1976 and 2020 and offers policy recommendations for curtailing the number of deaths behind bars. Read more here.
Social Network Access and Growth: Building Relational Resilience for Street Crew-Involved Men Through a Community-Based Intervention
Project Restore (PR), a 12-month CVI serving 30 men from two rival street crews, achieved notable success with all participants completing the program without new arrests for violent acts and the community experiencing a 28% greater than expected reduction in shooting incidents. This study examines how PR influenced participants’ social networks to better understand potential mechanisms underlying these violence reduction outcomes.
Unlocking Billions: A Fiscal Analysis of Pending Justice Reforms in New York State
A fiscal analysis of pending justice reforms in 2021 in New York State finds that implementing them would collectively save and/or generate an estimated $1.52 billion for the state annually. Read more here.
Beyond Punishment: A Critical and Interpretive Phenomenology of Accountability
State responses to interpersonal violence in the US have long been focused on punishment and prison. While opposition to punitive responses to interpersonal violence has been marginal, there are small but growing efforts to challenge the primacy of punishment and incarceration. In its place, different non-punitive approaches to justice have been practiced and promoted including restorative justice and transformative justice, which see accountability, not punishment, as a primary goal.
Concentrated Incarceration and the Public-Housing-to-Prison Pipeline in New York City Neighborhoods
The National Executive Council at the Center for Justice partnered with The CUNY Graduate Center to highlight structural incarceration and found that incarceration rates in New York City census tracts with public housing developments outstrip the incarceration rates in census tracts without public housing, even though crime rates are equivalent.
Aging in Prison: Reducing Elder Incarceration and Promoting Public Safety
Columbia University’s Center for Justice, with Release Aging People in Prison/ RAPP, the Correctional Association of New York, the Osborne Association, the Be the Evidence Project/Fordham University, and the Florence V. Burden Foundation, coordinated a symposium in Spring of 2014 to discuss the rapidly growing population of elderly and aging people in prison. A series of papers emerged from the symposium. Together, they provide a rich overview and analysis of aging people in prison from some of the best thinkers in this field.