New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation
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New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation
New Thinking is a podcast about justice—and injustice—in America. It’s about the people working to fix a justice system that falls so short of our ideals, and the people organizing to build something new in its place. It’s hosted by Matt Watkins and produced by the Center for Justice Innovation (for...
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Punch: The Real-Life Restorative Justice Story Behind the Broadway Show
This is a story, not so much of forgiveness, but of something richer, more complicated, and even more deeply human.
A story about movin...
Trauma 360
Vicarious trauma is the trauma you absorb working with traumatized people, especially when you're both inside of already traumatizing systems. Treatme...
Drug Testing and the Ordeal of Probation
Think of probation as an enormous testing period: will you be able to adhere to the thicket of conditions governing your daily life? Fail at any of th...
Inside Literary Prize: And the Winner Is…
A brief, moving excerpt from the recent award ceremony at the New York Public Library announcing the inaugural winner of the Inside Literary Prize, th...
Inside Literary Prize: Shakopee Women’s Prison
"They actually care. They want to hear about what we think, the ones that they have shut away."
The Inside Literary Prize is the first...
Mental Health and Anti-Blackness
What would it mean to decriminalize mental health—to stop criminalizing the symptoms of what is very often untreated mental illness? And what would it...
Recriminalization in Oregon
Three years ago, Oregon broke with the War on Drugs, decriminalizing the possession of most illicit drugs. The measure promised instead a "health-base...
Gideon at 60: Deconstructing Mass Supervision
Vincent Schiraldi used to run probation in New York City; now he’s asking whether probation should even exist. Schiraldi says some of the roots of mas...
Gideon at 60: Uncivil Justice
A profile of the fight to secure lawyers for people facing eviction and the radical impact that is having in Housing Court. With its 1963 Gideon decis...
Gideon at 60: The Unfunded Mandate
As the legal scholar Paul Butler wrote ten years ago, "On every anniversary of Gideon, liberals bemoan the state of indigent defense." On this 60th an...
When Young People Go to Prison for Life
April Barber Scales was a pregnant 15-year-old when she received two life sentences; Anthony Willis was 16 when he was sent away for life. After more...
Emphasizing the Harms
A recent two-day training for Manhattan prosecutors was a drumbeat on the harms of incarceration; hardly the typical message prosecutors receive. The...
Evicting Evictions
Housing is a human right. What if we designed our systems—beginning with Housing Court—to embody that? Given the current eviction crisis, it's a far-o...
Reform and Its Discontents
Nominated for a Media for a Just Society award, revisit New Thinking's conversation with activists Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar. In their book, Pris...
Why Data Doesn’t Stick
Efforts to reform the justice system often tout they're "evidence-based" or "data-driven." But at a moment when a national increase in crime, likely t...
Can We Close Rikers?
New York City has committed to closing its notorious Rikers Island jail facility by 2027. That could dramatically reorient the city's approach to inca...
The Question of Dirty Work
Eyal Press contends there are entire areas of life we've delegated to "dirty workers"—functions we've declared necessary, but that we strive to keep h...
Taking Reform Out of Its Comfort Zone
Justice reforms often exclude people with charges involving violence, even though these are the same people most likely to be incarcerated and to be i...
The Crisis on Rikers Island
An audio snapshot from an emergency rally demanding immediate measures to release people from New York City's Rikers Island jail. Eleven people have d...
Cages Don’t Help Us Heal
Hurt people hurt people. That's not an excuse for harm, but it fuels much of the criminal legal system. At 19, Marlon Peterson was the unarmed lookout...
One of These Days We Might Find Us Some Free: Reginald Dwayne Betts
In 1996, 16-year-old Reginald Dwayne Betts was sentenced to nine years in prison for a carjacking. He spent much of that time reading, and eventually...
The Cycle: Police Violence, Black Rebellion
In her new book, historian Elizabeth Hinton highlights a "crucible period" of often violent rebellions in the name of the Black freedom struggle begin...
Policing, Race, and a Crisis in Mental Health
One of every four people killed by police is experiencing a mental health emergency. Changing how we respond to crisis in the moment, and to widesprea...
Does the Criminal Justice System Cause Crime?
What's the most effective way to reduce the chance of an arrest in the future? A new study suggests it's shrinking the size of the justice system in t...
How Will the Death Penalty End?
Journalist Maurice Chammah says the federal execution spree during the final weeks of the Trump presidency is evidence of the death penalty's continue...
COVID-19 Behind Bars: A Pandemic of Neglect
Homer Venters has been inspecting prisons, jails, and ICE detention centers for COVID-compliance almost since the start of the pandemic. The former ch...
Heal and Punish? Treatment and Trauma Inside a Coercive System
How effective is therapy or treatment when it's used instead of incarceration, and what are the challenges to conducting it inside the coercive contex...
Josie Duffy Rice: Fighting a Big Fight
Josie Duffy Rice says remaking the justice system is a generational struggle, but it's one progressives are winning. The well-known criminal justice c...
Guns, Young People, Hidden Networks
Why do some young people carry guns? It's a difficult question to answer. People in heavily-policed neighborhoods with high rates of violence aren't g...
Reform and Its Discontents
In their book, Prison By Any Other Name, activists Victoria Law and Maya Schenwar contend that much of what is packaged today as "reforms" to the crim...
What We All Get Wrong About Gun Violence
While crime of nearly every kind has been declining amid COVID-19, in cities across the country, gun violence and homicides have been the exceptions....
Misdemeanors, Race, and a History of Injustice
The alleged use of a $20 counterfeit bill, selling loose cigarettes on a street corner, a broken brake light—think how many police encounters that end...
Restorative Justice is Racial Justice
Restorative justice is about repairing harm. But for Black Americans, what is there to be restored to? This episode features a roundtable with eight m...
Justice and the Virus: Racial Patterns
The death of George Floyd after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for close to nine minutes has triggered a wave of...
Justice and the Virus: Rachel Barkow
With justice systems across the country scrambling to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot of talk about what justice is going to look lik...
Getting People Off Rikers Island in a Pandemic
The infection rate from COVID-19 in New York City's Rikers Island jails is currently almost 30 times the rate for the U.S. as a whole. As the city str...
The Inequities of COVID-19: A Focus on Public Housing
In cities across the United States, the effects of the coronavirus are not being experienced equally. Whether it’s infection rates, deaths, or job los...
Criminal Justice as Social Justice: Bruce Western
Bruce Western's book, Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison, is, as its title suggests, about the challenges confronting people re-entering society...
“One of These Days We Might Find Us Some Free”: Reginald Dwayne Betts
In 1996, 16-year-old Reginald Dwayne Betts was sentenced to nine years in prison for a carjacking. He spent much of that time reading, and eventually...
Introducing ‘In Practice’
In Practice is a new podcast from the Center for Court Innovation focusing on practitioners—people working on the ground to make things better for tho...