• A community court with support services in an isolated, low-income area of Brooklyn;
• A set of community outreach programs including a neighborhood “ safety corps” (AmeriCorps), youth court, school, and others;
• Adaptive re-use of an abandoned parochial school building with historical significance and character;
Selected Project Goals
• To improve an isolated, troubled neighborhood using the court system as the means of intervention;
• To address fundamental questions about the fairness and accountability of the justice system;
• To allow the court to address the issues that bring people before it (on mostly relatively minor offences) through rehabilitation and a resulting reduction of recidivism;
• To be a laboratory for new ideas and to apply those that work to the New York court system and beyond.
