The National Network's approach has attracted significant media attention over twenty years. This page features the most recent coverage of our work and a searchable archive of media about the National Network's projects around the nation and abroad.
The National Network convenes regular conferences, working sessions and webinars to discuss and promote developments in its core areas of operation, showcase innovations, and set research and development priorities.
"The Data-Driven Justice Initiative announced Thursday aims to equip local and state governments to divert low-level offenders with mental illness out of the criminal justice system, and keep low-risk offenders from staying in jail simply because they can’t afford a bond."
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
"In many jurisdictions, prosecutors are elected officials, and municipal courts operate with relative transparency, yet voters are ignorant of deep injustices that go on every day."
"The National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC) at John Jay College of Criminal Justice announced the launch of the National Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Initiative(NIPVII) with a $1.6 million grant from the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women(OVW)."
"The U.S. Justice Department announced on Monday that more than 33,000 federal agents and prosecutors will receive training aimed at preventing unconscious bias from influencing their law enforcement decisions."
"The case for an outcomes-based approach to criminal-justice reform."
The Milwaukee Drug Treatment Court founded in part by District Attorney John Chisholm, has an 80% success rate. 
Finding steady work can be one of the greatest challenges to re-entry.
District Attorney Jackie Lacey's Conviction Integrity Unit is producing results.
The NNSC's Group Violence Intervention is listed as one possible solution to gun violence.
"At the Orange County Community Court, social services are combined with criminal justice."
The Atlantic
Los Angeles City Attorneys are implementing a Neighborhood Justice Program (NJP) "aimed at those who have committed a non-violent first offense." This "is not dealing with a habitual criminal, but an individual who made a bad choice and is able to move forward to rehabilitation."
NOLA for Life continues to lead to reductions in violence. "After the first three years of the program, the homicide rate fell 18 percent. Deaths ticked up in 2015, but as of mid-June, the rate appears poised to fall again this year."
"The last of a series of neighborhood meetings about implicit bias was held last[week] at Albany’s Jewish Community Center."
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) has "entered into a partnership with the National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC) at John Jay College of Criminal Justice to launch the new $1.6 million National Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Initiative (NIPVII)."
"The United States Department of Justice will be keeping an eye on the Albany Police Department. Albany’s force is being held up as a positive example."
"Philadelphia district attorney, Seth Williams, announced last week that his office would seek new sentences for all of the 300 or so prisoners who have been serving sentences of mandatory life without parole for homicides they committed as juveniles."
New York Times
Philadelphia DA and IIP board member Seth Williams is leading the way in juvenile sentencing reform.
Grieving mothers are organizing events to help cope with trauma and provide support to those who have lost loved ones in Savannah.
The Manhattan DA's Office, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution co-hosted "a two-day event to provide prosecutors and members of law enforcement from jurisdictions across the U.S. with the opportunity to learn more about the innovative public safety initiatives developed by the District Attorney’s Office and specialized units created by District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr."
Paterson's Safe City Initiative began working with the NNSC in 2015 to reduce group violence.
"When states are judged solely on their incarceration rates, we are ignoring the leading type of correctional control: probation. In fact, some of the states that appear to be least punitive are the most likely to put their residents under some other form of correctional control."
"A few police agencies in the U.S. have begun rewarding officers for showing restraint in the line of duty, putting the tactic on par with bravery."
Mayor Mitch Landrieu penned an op-ed outlining the importance of reducing incarceration in New Orleans.
"Most shootings with four deaths or injuries are invisible outside their communities. And most of the lives they scar are black."
Liz Dufour/Cincinnati.com
David Kennedy makes the case that Chicago is home to important national work and innovations in criminal justice.
