Rikers Island and Mental Health: Pathways Toward Community-Based Diversion and Jail Population Reduction
November 2025
Diversion
DCJ conducts research on reforms with a focus on diversion strategies that reduce jail populations in ways that are smart, safe, and humane. Our work emphasizes evidence-based approaches that prioritize public safety, promote equity, and expand access to community-based alternatives to incarceration.
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Protected: Court-Ordered Treatment Across New York State: Before and After Rockefeller Reform
January 2026
The Indispensable Role of Judges in Curtailing Excessive Pretrial Detention and Closing Rikers Island
May 2025
Lower-Level Enforcement, Racial Disparities, and Alternatives to Arrest: A Review of Research and Practice from 1970 to 2021
February 2023
PATH TO UNDER 100 | Strategies to Safely Lower the Number of Women and Gender-Expansive People in New York City Jails
June 2022