Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
9 September 2021
Eagle, Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Eagle County's two problem-solving courts put treatment ahead of punishment when addressing crimes committed by people with substance abuse problems. Originally set up as one court, they now function separately to add...
8 September 2021
Malmö, Sweden
Text
800-1500 Words
Malmö's Sluta Skjut (Stop Shooting) program adopts a group violence intervention approach that has been used widely in the U.S. Gang members and others believed to be involved in street violence are summoned to "call-...
7 September 2021
Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy
Text
1500-3000 Words
Magna Graecia University partnered with prison administrators in Catanzaro, Italy, to help two incarcerated men find a form of rehabilitation by writing their own lives' stories. In a process called autoethnography, t...
7 September 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Oakland Ceasefire's "delicate architecture" balancing law enforcement and community-based responses to gun violence, which seemed to have helped lower the city's gun violence by half since 2012, came crashing down dur...
29 August 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Chicago, where the city's size and traffic would pose logistical and cost barriers to make mental health professionals first responders to mental-crisis calls, the Cook County sheriff's office has put 70 Zoom-enabl...
23 August 2021
Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Prison Arts Initiative program, jointly run by the Colorado prison system and University of Denver, puts personal expression through visual and performing arts at the heart of the prisons' mission to become less p...
18 August 2021
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Starting in 2017, California has grown more open to licensing formerly incarcerated people to work as lawyers. State licensing authorities set high barriers to entry to the legal profession in their "moral fitness" li...
Reveal
Eda Uzunlar
7 August 2021
Wyoming, United States
Illustrations
Under 800 Words
Neighboring states of Wyoming and South Dakota take starkly different approaches toward youth who get in trouble. Side-by-side comic panels follow two real cases through each system. A South Dakota teen gets help that...
4 August 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Broadcast TV Talk Show
3-5 Minutes
Eddie Bocanegra of READI Chicago describes his group's gun-violence-prevention model. Data from police and hospitals, plus community intelligence, identify those people most at risk of committing or being victimized b...
30 July 2021
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Barely half a year after creating the Partnerships for Safe Neighborhoods, the Delaware County district attorney's office and Chester police have seen a sharp drop in shootings. While multiple factors may affect the v...
29 July 2021
Rochester, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Less than a year after Rochester experienced its own version of the George Floyd case, when a clash with police led to the death of Daniel Prude, a man in a mental health crisis, Rochester diverted money from the poli...
29 July 2021
Alamosa, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Alamosa County, law enforcement officers who believe drug abuse is at the root of a person's criminal behavior can refer that person to treatment and other services, rather than arresting and jailing them. The Law ...
27 July 2021
Oregon, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Lettuce Grow teaches gardening skills to 200 incarcerated people per year in 16 Oregon prisons and juvenile detention centers. The teaching includes college-level courses and hands-on gardening on prison grounds, whic...
26 July 2021
Frisco, Colorado, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
The Summit County, Colorado, sheriff's office runs SMART (Systemwide Mental Assessment Response), which pairs armed deputies with clinicians to respond to mental health crises. In 2020, the two teams took hundreds of ...
KXAN-TV
Clare O'Connor
26 July 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Jail to Jobs pays youth while they get trained for jobs in construction, manufacturing, landscaping, and cooking. The youth come from youth detention, the streets, probation, and foster care and their trainers are for...
23 July 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A pilot project in three New York Police Department precincts of Harlem showed in its first month that it can divert some mental-health crises away from hospitalization and toward other forms of help. Teams of medics ...
22 July 2021
New York, New York, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
In its first month as a pilot project in a part of Harlem, New York's Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division (B-HEARD) handled one-quarter of 911 calls for mental health crises. Despite fears of dang...
22 July 2021
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Radio Talk Show
5-15 Minutes
The police chief in Eugene, Ore., home of the CAHOOTS program, which other communities see as the model for finding alternatives to policing, supports the program because it saves lives and saves the city money. Sendi...
The Cut
Amelia Schonbek
21 July 2021
Portland, Oregon, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Among the many restorative justice programs in the U.S., the Domestic Violence Safe Dialogue program was one of the few to arrange face-to-face dialogue between survivors and men who had violently abused women. This f...
17 July 2021
Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
"Policing the teen brain" is a training regimen devised by Strategies for Youth that teaches police officers to de-escalate conflicts with adolescents to avoid unnecessary incarceration. Youth detention has dropped si...
16 July 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Chicago's Cook County Jail enabled 2,200 incarcerated people to vote in the November 2020 election by opening the jail to voter registration drives, civic lessons, distribution of voter education materials, two weeken...
15 July 2021
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
CAHOOTS has become a national model because of its uncommon partnership with the Eugene Police Department. The police chief says CAHOOTS' unarmed first responders to mental health crises can de-escalate crises before ...
12 July 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When prosecutors in Boston and Baltimore stopped prosecuting certain non-violent, minor offenses, crime of all sorts, from minor to violent, went down. Getting prosecuted and jailed can in itself increase the probabil...
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