Don't Bank On It

Making Policy Public

Don't Bank On It

Shelter Skelter

Urban Investigations

Shelter Skelter

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

TGNC-NYC

Public Access Design

TGNC-NYC

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Making Policy Public

Shine a Light on Your Utility Rights

Food Stamped

City Studies

Food Stamped

Print Who Makes Bail?

In 2015, roughly 45,000 New Yorkers were jailed because they couldn’t pay their court-assigned bail. Today in New York City, only one in ten people who are arrested are able to pay bail when they’re first brought before a judge. What’s bail? Who does it affect? And how?

In the fall and winter of 2017, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Caits Meissner and public high school students from the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice (LGJ) to investigate these questions.

Students surveyed members of the school community, interviewed key stakeholders working on the issue, and sat in on public arraignments in Bronx Criminal Court. This booklet is a guide to what the students learned about NYC’s bail system, how it works, and how it could work differently.

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Store Stories

City Studies

Store Stories

Record It. Report It!

Public Access Design

Record It. Report It!

Child Support?!

Making Policy Public

Child Support?!

What You Need To Know About ACS

Making Policy Public

What You Need To Know About ACS

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

Vendor Power!

Making Policy Public

Vendor Power!

Test Ride

City Studies

Test Ride