Justice
A Court That's More About Problem-Solving Than Punishment
New York City's Midtown Community Court is a national model for a different approach to dispensing justice.
The courtroom at the Midtown Community Court, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is not a grand, oak-paneled hall of justice. It's crammed into the ground floor of a building on a nondescript Manhattan side street. Attorneys, defendants, and court officers squeeze past each other in the aisles.
Another words, it doesn’t look like anything special. But this public-private partnership is actually a national model for a different approach to dispensing justice.