The Rikers Debate Project teaches competitive debate skills — including communication, conflict resolution, and public citizenship—to students held in Rikers Island jails...

The Committee on Capital Punishment of the New York City Bar Association unanimously voted to award Columbia Law School Professor Bernard E. Harcourt the Norman Redlich...

The Beyond the Bars Fellowship offers students and community members an interdisciplinary leadership development program to develop and deepen their identity, analysis,...

Columbia University’s Department of Art History & Archaeology and its Justice-in-Education Initiative will fund new a new arts program, “Art from Within,” for...

Do you provide direct services to other people involved in the criminal justice system — or want to start working in this field? Were you involved in the criminal justice...

The event marked the culmination of an eight week course hosted by Columbia University’s Center for Justice in which youth, aged 16-24, worked alongside city officials to...

The latest Columbia Newsletter focuses on criminal justice initiatives happening on campus.

The Center for Justice at Columbia University and The Confined Arts present “From the Inside Out: The Power of Language to Incarcerate,” a one-day justice conference in...

“What do you want to say to the outside world?”

Two new reports were released on the Vera Institute for Justice's project: Unlocking Potential: Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education.