“You’re not walking this alone,” Magaly Melendez, senior program manager of our Bronx HOPE, said. “This is for the community.”

Learn more about the new mobile outreach van that's bringing harm reduction to people in the Bronx: www.bxtimes.com/new-bronx-co...

“Restorative justice is fundamentally about communication, enabling people who have been harmed by a crime to articulate its effects to the person who committed it, and to ask questions that perhaps only that person can answer.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/t...

We’re proud to work alongside Artistic Noise, bringing artistic expression to our Project Reset participants in New York City. 🎨

Learn more about their work here. ⤵️

“We criminalize low-level, often harmless, conduct, sweeping in millions of people in ways that have flown beneath the radar.”

Revisit our New Thinking #podcast episode featuring Alexandra Natapoff, professor at Harvard Law School, on the realities of misdemeanors in the US criminal justice system.

Expanding access to treatment and reducing incarceration makes our communities safer.

Read about the push to expand mental health courts in @nysfocus.bsky.social: nysfocus.com/2025/10/17/m...

Municipal courts can leave people with overwhelming fines and even jail time for low-level offenses. But they also have the potential to deliver justice in innovative ways.

We discussed the challenges and opportunities of these courts with Professor Alexandra Natapoff of Harvard Law School:

@news12bx.bsky.social hopped on board our Bronx HOPE van to learn more about the latest initiative to bring healing and recovery to the Bronx community.

Watch today: bronx.news12.com/mobile-overd...

Watch as Former AG Loretta Lynch and the First Lady of Oklahoma Sarah Stitt discuss the Women's Justice Commission's findings and recommendations on @msnbc.com

The report aims to discover the unique factors that drive women into the justice system and how we can address these factors. ⤵️

The play, based on a remarkable true story of redemption after a one-punch manslaughter, illustrates how restorative justice can help people move forward after serious harm.

“Of all the things that “Punch” is about, perhaps the most elemental is — to borrow James Graham’s phrasing — “how you create empathy in a cruel society.””

Read about the real-life people behind the new Broadway hit “Punch”, which brings the heart of a restorative justice process to NYC audiences.

"We had a lot of questions about that night, and the justice system couldn’t answer them."

Hear the incredible true story of restorative justice behind the Broadway show "Punch."

Join us on October 16 at 12PM ET for a virtual webinar where members of the Women’s Justice Commission, including our CEO Courtney Bryan, will discuss their findings and recommendations.

➡️ Register for the webinar here: bit.ly/3KH6qEi

By better tailoring the justice system’s responses for justice-involved women, states, local jurisdictions, and community organizations can prevent crime, strengthen families, improve health, reduce costs, and break cycles of victimization and incarceration.

reports.counciloncj.org/wjc-report/

Did you know 80% of first-time justice system encounters are for minor offenses?

Municipal courts have the power to connect these people with community-based care instead of fines.

Discover how innovation in these courts is making a difference: www.innovatingjustice.org/updates/muni...

“We try to show that we’re here to help—whatever needs you have, we’re here to cater to.” — Elvin Severe, Community Navigator

Read more: www.innovatingjustice.org/updates/pret...

Join us tonight for a @92ndstreety.bsky.social conversation on the power of storytelling and how crafting narratives can bring us closer to a more just criminal legal system.

📅 Tune in at 7PM here: www.92ny.org/event/punch-...

"We had a lot of questions about that night, and the justice system couldn’t answer them."

Hear the incredible true story of restorative justice behind the Broadway show "Punch."

A new pilot program brings people in Bensonhurst and surrounding neighborhoods of Brooklyn together to learn how to use restorative justice in their own lives and strengthen their communities. Read more at BKReader ➡️

www.bkreader.com/non-profit-c...

“That's one way of describing restorative justice—it's about helping people become unstuck.”

On a special episode of New Thinking, hear from the real people whose story of courage, compassion, and redemption formed the basis for the new Broadway show “Punch”.

Join us for a @92ndstreety.bsky.social conversation on the power of storytelling and how crafting narratives can bring us closer to—and, in some cases, further from—a more just criminal legal system.

📅 Tune in on 10/6 for the full conversation: www.92ny.org/event/punch-...

“Of all the things that “Punch” is about, perhaps the most elemental is — to borrow James Graham’s phrasing — “how you create empathy in a cruel society.””

Read about the real-life people behind the new Broadway hit “Punch”, which brings the heart of a restorative justice process to NYC audiences.

Restorative Justice has usually been used for minor charges, often excluding violent crime. But what if this approach means we miss out on the full potential of the approach, both as a means of addressing serious harm and of reducing rates of incarceration?

Join us for a @92ndstreety.bsky.social conversation on the power of storytelling and how crafting narratives can bring us closer to—and, in some cases, further from—a more just criminal legal system.

📅 Tune in on 10/6 for the full conversation: www.92ny.org/event/punch-...

Restorative justice offers a powerful alternative to traditional responses to crime, centering victims and the community. But the approach isn’t always widely understood.

Here are four myths about restorative justice and what they get wrong. ⤵️