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Outcomes, discoveries, and analysis from our breadth of good governance initiatives.
Sustainable Services, Economic Growth, Living Wages
This ROI analysis assesses the impact of raising wages for the lowest paid human services workers on local economies, on the stability and well-being of individuals and their communities, and what it would mean for the sustainability and service provision of human services as a sector.
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[From Our Partners] Gatekeeping Justice: the Role of Communications Personnel in Shaping Public Safety
To learn more about decision-making processes among public safety communications professionals and influences on responding law enforcement officers, CUNY ISLG funded Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) through the Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC) to conduct a mixed methods study.
Web Report: The Changing Use of Jails in Safety and Justice Challenge Counties
Cities and counties in the Safety and Justice Challenge have engaged in multi-agency efforts to safely shrink their local jail populations by nearly 18,000 people. Importantly, people released pretrial were no more likely to return to jail than before the SJC, including for violent crime. In this report, CUNY ISLG analyzed individual-level jail data from 5 participating counties to explore trends.
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[From Our Partners] New York City Health Justice Network Recidivism Evaluation Study
Through CJII funding, NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center (PRC) conducted an outcome evaluation of the NYC Health Justice Network program. The final report findings offer preliminary evidence of NYC HJN’s ability to reduce future criminal legal system involvement among participants.
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[From Our Partners] The Impacts of College-in-Prison Participation on Safety and Employment in New York State
This study on the College-in-Prison Reentry Initiative (CIP), a program to expand access to college education in prison throughout New York State. This study improves on and updates existing literature by measuring recidivism and examines the impacts of education on several outcomes, including in-facility behavior and post-release income.
The Community-Based Restorative Justice Program: 2024-2025 Grantee Yearbook
This Yearbook was created to acknowledge a year’s worth of incredible work from the 16 Community-Based Restorative Justice program grantees during the End-of-Year Community Forum, a two-day gathering of grantees, philanthropy partners, and restorative justice practitioners on June 16th and June 17th, 2025.
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[From Our Partners] Changing the Initial Appearance Process in Three Sites
CUNY ISLG funded Justice System Partners (JSP) to conduct mixed-methods studies in Cook (IL), Lucas (OH), and Multnomah (OR) counties, where local defense agencies had led programs to systematically enhance due process for individuals at initial appearance.
A Blueprint for Social Service Navigation in NYC and Beyond
Drawing from a wealth of experience developing service navigation programs as well as research on data-informed, community-responsive approaches, this brief provides a guide to developing navigation programs that can help government and public institutions connect communities with care, creating safety and opportunity for all.
An Examination of NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Practices
The CUNY ISLG study examined police encounters recorded by BWCs over a two-month period in 2022 to assess how frequently stops were constitutional. The study also assessed whether police were appropriately documenting stops.
Web Report: Critical Services, High Growth, Low Wages
Despite the importance of these services, wages in the human services sector lag behind the cost of living in New York, straining the pipeline of people entering and staying in these careers, and forcing many workers to experience the same financial and wellbeing strains as the people they serve.
The Criminal Justice Investment Initiative: Synthesizing a Decade of Innovation
Reflecting on the past decade of work, this series of briefs take stock of CJII’s goals in key areas, dives into case studies of the real-life impact community organizations achieved, and provides a blueprint for practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and funders to shape the future of public safety partnerships.
The Prosecutorial Data Collaborative
Bringing together a team of data scientists, researchers, and practitioners, the Collaborative supports state and local prosecutors in building the infrastructure and culture necessary to not only effectively use data in their offices, courtrooms, and communities to support decision-making and policy, but to enable compliance with broader statutory requirements.
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[From Our Partners] A Community-Focused Approach to Addressing Trauma: Lessons Learned from the Center for Trauma Innovation
This brief showcases how learning communities can be used to support innovation, growth, and collaboration among organizations working toward shared outcomes. The Center for Trauma Innovation, a CJII-funded project, is used as a case study.
Safety and Justice Challenge 2024 Research Year-in-Review
This edition of the Review summarizes research activities that took place throughout 2024, including new Research Consortium memberships, updates on newly funded work, and recently published research products, with a spotlight on women and survivors of violence in the criminal legal system.
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[From Our Partners] Evaluation of Emergency COVID-19 Jail Reduction Strategies in Multnomah County, Oregon
To learn more about the impact of emergency COVID-19 measures on jail reduction efforts, and think about emergency measures that could continue in the post-pandemic era, CUNY ISLG funded JSP through the SJC to conduct a mixed-methods case study on the emergency jail population reduction strategies implemented in Multnomah County, Oregon.
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[From Our Partners] Evaluation of the West Harlem Community Reentry and Restoration Project
Through credible messengers, restorative justice, and a capacity-building incubator, WHCRRP provided direct services to those in Manhattanville and the Grant Houses and surrounding area in the West Harlem community.
Supporting Survivors of Gender-Based Violence Impacted by the Legal System
The project will gather insights through interviews with survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) who have also had contact with the criminal legal system. The goal is to understand the challenges survivors face when accessing services in New York City and provide recommendations for improved practices to government agencies and service providers.
Building Better Public Sector Data
This brief details how CUNY ISLG staff work with governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other partners to effectively collect, maintain, and use data, especially in the face of time and resource constraints.
Building Strong Communities through Strategic Investments
Reflecting on the past decade of work, this model brief takes stock of these four CJII goals; discusses how DANY, CUNY ISLG, and other partners achieved them; and provides a blueprint for practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and funders.
From Research to Action to Successful Outcomes
The Reducing Revocations Challenge aimed to fill the void of information on drivers of revocation through in-depth, mixed-method research in 10 jurisdictions (Phase I) and use what was learned to identify and put into action innovative strategies to improve probation outcomes and equity in those outcomes in a subset of those sites.