Restorative justice is about repairing harm. But for Black Americans, what is there to be restored to? This episode features a roundtable with eight members of the Center for Court Innovations Restor

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 long-held anger and revulsion across the country.

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 like when the virus ends. But what has the response actually consisted of—especially from prisons and jai...

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 struggled to get people out from behind barscriticiz

In cities across the United States, the effects of the coronavirus are not being experienced equally. Whether its infection rates, deaths, or job losses, people of low income and people of color are

Bruce Western's book, Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison, is, as its title suggests, about the challenges confronting people re-entering society after a period behind bars. But it's also inevitab

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 writing. After prison, he went to Yale Law School and published a memoir and three books of poems.

In Practice is a new podcast from the Center for Court Innovation focusing on practitionerspeople working on the ground to make things better for those touched by the justice system. On the first epi

At 24, Jarrell Daniels was released from prison after six years behind bars. It was a Thursday. The following Tuesday, he came back to the same facility in street clothes to attend the college class he’d started on the inside.

With Kim Foxx running for re-election as State's Attorney in Cook County (Chicago), it's an excellent moment to revisit one of the best conversations we've had on the podcast. Foxx, the first African-