| The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign offers media tools and resources to support informed discussion, decision making, and action about solution-based reentry programs that foster public safety and support healthy communities. We encourage you to review the diverse materials and consider how you may be able to use them effectively. |
| The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign acts as a catalyst to encourage solution-based reentry activities. Review this chronicle of public television and community events/actions to gain ideas on what may work in your arena. |
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Red Hook Justice RED HOOK JUSTICE aired May 24, 2005 on PBS’s Independent Lens series.In 2000, an experimental court opened its doors in Red Hook, Brooklyn—a neighborhood plagued by a cycle of unemployment, poverty and crime. The Red Hook court is at the center of a legal revolution—the community justice movement. Instead of jail time, offenders are sentenced to job training, drug counseling, community service. But it’s no easy way out. If they fail, they face longer jail time. RED HOOK JUSTICE's film crew was allowed exclusive access at the court for nearly two years, capturing vérité scenes of intake interviews in the Center's holding cells, court proceedings, community meetings, and other day-to-day workings of the Justice Center. Individuals profiled in the film include: Anthony and Michael, orphaned teen brothers who fight to resist the pull of the streets; Letitia, a heroin addict who struggles to kick the habit when she gets pregnant; Leroy, a court officer who grew up in the Red Hook housing projects; Brett, a dedicated Legal Aid attorney who wonders if the new court helps or hurts his clients; and Judge Calabrese, who takes a hands-on approach with defendants. The story of RED HOOK JUSTICE resonates far beyond Brooklyn. When the Red Hook court opened, it was the first and most ambitious of its kind—today there are nearly three dozen courts like it opening around the United States. |
