Jun 6, 2023 | Blog Posts, Reports and Reflections
On Wednesday, May 24th, RJI’s Senior Coordinator of Training and Youth Programming, Anooj Bhandari, testified at a New York City Council budget hearing. The hearing (held via videoconference) began at 10:00AM and public testimony stretched late into the night. Anooj described the night as “stressful” and repetitive testimony about police abuse as “heartbreaking.” Some of the young people said that they had to miss their final exams in order to testify.
Mar 31, 2022 | Blog Posts, From Our Director, Opinion
The interplay between restorative justice advocacy and implementation in schools continues to shift. Schools are spending more energy navigating the changing COVID protocols and the immediate, often pressing, needs of students, parents, and educators which has made the day-to-day practice of restorative justice harder to implement. Even with a new administration in City Hall, there hasn’t been much change in the aspects of the city budget that impact the criminalization of youth in schools.
Mar 17, 2021 | Blog Posts, Reports and Reflections
A year after New York’s lockdown began in March 2020, we are reflecting on 12 months of restorative justice work within the context of the global pandemic.
