Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
30 November 2021
Rio Arriba, New Mexico, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Since 2018, Judge Jason Lidyard of Rio Arriba County, N.M., has forged a new model for a drug court. Instead of demanding abstinence from drugs as the price to stay out of jail, Lidyard uses respect and personal relat...
29 November 2021
Akron, Ohio, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Summit County, Ohio's juvenile court's Multidisciplinary Team Representation assigns a parent advocate and social worker to child-custody cases to help parents reunite with their children much more quickly than the sy...
26 November 2021
Cottonwood, Idaho, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Idaho's nine prisons have more than 30 postsecondary educational programs geared to helping incarcerated people get hired in career-track, technical jobs after their release from prison. The prisons focus on jobs in d...
18 November 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
A New Way of Life gives formerly incarcerated women something that most did not get from prison: treatment for the trauma that so many incarcerated women suffered from domestic violence. As an antidote to a system gea...
Reasons to be Cheerful
Ryan M. Moser
18 November 2021
Miami, Florida, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
At Florida's Everglades Correctional Institution, incarcerated men teach a course offered through a college correspondence school that can lead to certification to work as a wastewater treatment plant operator, a well...
12 November 2021
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Albuquerque established a new city department, Albuquerque Community Safety, that handles some of the 200,000 calls to 911 every year for a range of low-level, non-violent problems that don't require a police response...
11 November 2021
Arlington, Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Arlington police and its entertainment-district bars and restaurants addressed rising violence and other crime by collaborating to prevent crime rather than banking on police alone to solve it through more arrests. Wh...
10 November 2021
Richmond, California, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Richmond's Operation Peacemaker Fellowship pair mentors with young people at risk of violence, paying the youth a stipend if they meet particular goals toward a more stable and safe life. The mentors are former gang m...
9 November 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Programs like UCAN Chicago use "violence interrupters" to mediate disputes before they turn violent and to connect people at risk of violence to the services that will give them a chance at a more stable, peaceful lif...
8 November 2021
North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Community health workers with North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition Program (NC FIT) counsel people recently released from jails and prisons to help them get the care they need for mental and physical health...
5 November 2021
Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Outagamie County Youth and Family Services agency makes restorative justice dialogue available to the victims of crimes committed by juveniles. After preparation with a trained mediator, the two parties meet to di...
Wired
Maytal Eyal
4 November 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Philly Truce is a mobile app that lets people in crisis ask for help from volunteer conflict mediators without involving the police. The app connects people to social services and to volunteers who can help ensure tha...
1 November 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Until Oakland joins the list of cities sending counselors and social workers on emergency calls concerning mental health crises, a grassroots program called Mental Health First is diverting a small number of emergenci...
1 November 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Chicago is home to multiple street-outreach programs that target the people most likely to be shot or to shoot others, and that provide them with social services that keep them and others in their network safe. Progra...
1 November 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
DontCallThePolice.com went online at the height of the 2020 social justice protests to give people a list of resources when they need help and might otherwise default to calling the police. The site is a directory of ...
27 October 2021
Fresno, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Advance Peace Fresno tries to turn youth away from violence through mentoring, job training, and by paying them a monthly stipend of up to $1,000 if they hit certain benchmarks in their rehabilitation. The program has...
27 October 2021
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Since the early 2000s, when its overcrowded jail led to a decision to jail fewer people instead of adding more cells, Bexar County, Texas, has provided comprehensive help to people likely to end up jailed if social an...
23 October 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence is a city-funded crew of "violence interrupters," former gang members or the formerly incarcerated who have enough street credibility to de-escalate disputes in ways the police often c...
21 October 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Home Free is a small, transitional-housing program for women who served long prison sentences for crimes against or on behalf of their abusers. A population long neglected, the women are part of a community recovering...
16 October 2021
Sabaneta, Venezuela
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Rather than fleeing or fighting the twin threats to its business from criminal gangs and an aggressively anti-business government, the managers of Venezuelan rum-maker Ron Santa Teresa chose to make peace with both th...
Next City
Juan Moreno Haines
15 October 2021
San Quentin, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
To combat opioid overdose deaths among incarcerated people, the California prison system in January 2020 launched a treatment program that combines medication-assisted treatment with professional and peer counseling. ...
14 October 2021
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
When California adopted a new law in 2020 allowing formerly incarcerated firefighters to petition to have their criminal records expunged and parole waived, the law excluded people with the most serious, violent offen...
6 October 2021
Dallas, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Dallas' Rapid Integrated Group Healthcare Team dispatches clinicians and social workers with police to 911 calls for mental health crises. Within two days, the team follows up to make sure people received the services...
5 October 2021
Mesa, Arizona, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 2019, Mesa police began diverting calls about suicide threats to a crisis line, where trained mental health professionals could provide counseling or dispatch a mobile crisis unit. Then they placed mental health pr...
4 October 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Since Denver voters approved the decriminalization of the natural psychedelic drug psilocybin, the small number of arrests grew even smaller and one supporter of the policy sees growing interest in the therapeutic use...
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