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It’s Not Just Bond Court: How The Upcoming Supreme Court Intervention Must Coordinate Reform Across Our Criminal Justice System

On November 14 the justices of the Illinois Supreme Court are coming to Cook County and convening a meeting of the heads of agencies effecting criminal justice to discuss the reformation of our pre-trial process. In this effort our Supreme Court follows in the footsteps of other state supreme courts...

Thanks for a Great Annual Luncheon!

Thanks for making our Annual Luncheon last week successful. We're especially grateful for Greg Berman of the Center for Court Innovation for his great remarks about the relationship of crime rates, recidivism and alternatives to incarceration. We hope you all found the remarks as interesting as we...

National Snapshot of Innovation and Failure in Criminal Justice Reform

On July 10, the Center for Court Innovation in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the U.S. Department of Justice released the study, Innovation In the Criminal Justice System: A National Survey of Criminal Justice Leaders. This study is a multi-faceted inquiry into the state of cr...

Policy Brief: Community Courts in Cook County

Today we release a two-part policy brief discussing an alternative prosecution strategy called community-based justice. Part I makes the case for community-base justice by comparing Cook County’s current misdemeanor justice system--which adjudicates over 150,000 misdemeanors annually (pdf)--with com...

“A Thousand Small Sanities” and Why Judges Matter

"A Thousand Small Sanities" is worth a look for anyone interested in learning about rational, incremental criminal justice system reform. It's a succinct, straightforward history of criminal justice reform in New York City. In Small Sanities, the Center for Court Innovation Director Greg Berman writ...