Sentence examples for community courts from inspiring English sources

(The Harlem and Midtown community courts are in buildings that once housed local courts).

In the best of circumstances, these community courts are forums for resolving local disputes by consensus using age-old customs.

Since then, community courts have been introduced in Harlem and Red Hook, Brooklyn, with even more expansive missions.

I spent eleven years in prison, then I confessed everything in gacaca" — a system of outdoor community courts, convened for genocide cases.

Judge Acosta is the lone presiding judge at the Harlem Community Justice Center, the latest addition to the city's ongoing experiment with community courts.

Red Hook has become a model for three dozen community courts in cities such as San Francisco and Newark.About 95% of inmates in state prisons are going to return to their communities.

Portland, Oregon, has started a community court based on the Midtown prototype; others are planned in Minneapolis and Baltimore.

He added that New York's community court system "is in the lead in steps that connect courts to the community".

The other is the Red Hook Community Justice Center, a community court and social service center opened a year ago by the New York State court system.

The Midtown community court was founded in 1993, during the start of efforts to "clean up" Times Square.

The first such community court in the US was set up in Manhattan's midtown area in 1993.