I Heart East New York

Urban Investigations

I Heart East New York

Fast-Tracked

Urban Investigations

Fast-Tracked

Keep Your Family's Home

Public Access Design

Keep Your Family's Home

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Landlord Using Construction to Harass You?

What the Cell?

Urban Investigations

What the Cell?

Blunt Conversations

Urban Investigations

Blunt Conversations

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.

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Urban Investigations

Are You Ready for a Ruckus?

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

Technical Assistance

Education Rights for Families

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

Technical Assistance

Is Your Neighborhood Getting Too Expensive?

A Fair Chance

Making Policy Public

A Fair Chance

Figuring Out Health Insurance

Making Policy Public

Figuring Out Health Insurance

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

Museumopolis

Urban Investigations

Museumopolis