New York City
Martha Plotkin—media contact (240) 482-8579
The center promotes effective data-driven practices—particularly in areas in which the criminal justice system intersects with other disciplines, such as public health—to affect a particular public safety problem. The center has focused on prisoner re-entry and “justice reinvestment”—“increasing public safety, reducing spending on corrections, and improving conditions in the neighborhoods to which most people released from prison return,” among many other issues.