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And I Am Not Lying, For Real: November 2004

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Tuesday, November 30, 2004. Guts, Heads, Tails, and Paws Are Not Usable Meat. Originally uploaded by chinese fashion. You've got to shoot kangaroos right through the head. If you want to make any money at it. Nothing ruins perfectly good meat like dragging a bit of lead right through it. Said once in a shared didactic moment as we both urinated in the dust, staring up at the Milky Way. From a safe distance. I actually had to step up and do what I'd been flapping my gums about. Those of you that know ...

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Small Sanities: Delayed Gratification

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Random notes from the desk of Greg Berman. Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Made to my life was talking me down from the (metaphorical) ledge when I wanted to pull the plug on the planning of the Red Hook Community Justice Center. Back in the mid-1990s when we couldn't seem to attract any money or political attention to the project. For more information and to order tickets.). For a little more detail on what we are up to with the criminal court assessment tool, check out this New Thinking podcast. Red Hook Comm...

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Small Sanities: June 2015

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Random notes from the desk of Greg Berman. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. This week we said a reluctant farewell to Lucille Jackson, the project director of the Brooklyn Mental Health Court. Who is retiring after more than a decade of service. Building on a foundation put in place by Carol Fisler. The project's lead planner and initial director, Lucille has helped the Brooklyn Mental Health Court achieve some remarkable results. Posted by Center for Court Innovation. Labels: Mental Health Court. I'm spending to...

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Small Sanities: April 2015

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Random notes from the desk of Greg Berman. Thursday, April 23, 2015. Another day, another great Center for Court Innovation event, this time in upper Manhattan as the Harlem Community Justice Center celebrated the latest cohort of graduates from its reentry court. More than 41 parolees were honored for having completed the nine month program. I'm afraid I have written about these events on quite a few occasions. Despite the diverse personalities of the individual parolees, their remarks tend to cluster a...

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Small Sanities: A Revolutionary Idea

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Random notes from the desk of Greg Berman. Saturday, July 11, 2015. She works in a building called "the green monster.". She's been called "a warrior of procedural justice.". Now I think you just have to call her a star. It has been a big couple of weeks for Judge Victoria Pratt of Newark Community Solutions. A couple of weeks ago, she was profiled in a great long read in the Guardian under the headline: "The simple idea that could transform US criminal justice.". Posted by Center for Court Innovation.

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Small Sanities: July 2015

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Random notes from the desk of Greg Berman. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Design Like You Give A Damn. Design Like You Give A Damn. Is the name of a book that came out a few years ago that featured, among other innovative public projects, the Red Hook Community Justice Center. Design Like You Give A Damn" would also have been a good title for the conversation I participated in earlier today with a group of architects interested in rethinking how the justice system approaches design. They essentially were encou...

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Small Sanities: 601 Tully

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Random notes from the desk of Greg Berman. Saturday, May 16, 2015. I made a quick trip to Syracuse earlier this week for the opening of the Near Westside Peacemaking Project. Building on the model of a similar program that we created in Red Hook. Speaking of links, it has been awhile since I unburdened myself of my opinions on a range of cultural topics. Here are some quick takes:. While I didn't love HBO's overstuffed Kurt Cobain documentary, it did encourage me to play my Nirvana CDs for the first time...

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Small Sanities: A Warrior of Procedural Justice

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Random notes from the desk of Greg Berman. Friday, September 12, 2014. A Warrior of Procedural Justice. Tonight Victoria Pratt was sworn in as the chief judge of the Newark Municipal Court before several hundred people in downtown Newark. I've admired Judge Pratt from the first time I saw her in action. As part of our Newark Community Solutions project. It always nice to see good people and hard work rewarded. Congrats to Judge Pratt and the rest of the Newark Community Solutions team. Wesleyan center fo...

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Small Sanities: "This Is Not Okay"

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Random notes from the desk of Greg Berman. Monday, June 22, 2015. This Is Not Okay". I'm spending today and tomorrow at the National Network for Safe Communities. That are an adaptation of the group violence intervention.). I wish that everyone who is worried about the current state of criminal justice in this country could have been at this morning's session at the conference. They would have seen dozens of police chiefs, prosecutors, community leaders and academics grappling earnestly with both the...

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Small Sanities: Snapshots of Brownsville

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Random notes from the desk of Greg Berman. Saturday, June 13, 2015. As important as I think it is to use data to examine the impact of our work, numbers inevitably fail to communicate much of what we do. Take the Brownsville Community Justice Center. Even as I type this (partial) list of our activities, I know that I am failing to capture the feeling and texture of the work in Brownsville. In the face of significant challenges, our team is helping to transform the lives of hundreds of people each yea...