After two decades of courtroom innovation, Judge Alex M. Calabrese retires from Red Hook Community Justice Center via brooklynpaper
The shocking death moved then-Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye and Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes to open a different kind of court, one inspired by the Midtown Community Court in Manhattan. The Red Hook Community Justice Center, the first of its kind in Brooklyn, would oversee low-level offenses as well as family and housing cases.
Though he didn’t know it, as he sent perpetrators to take part in programs that would really help them out of the cycle of arrest, arraignment, and jail, Calabrese was already embodying the approach of the Red Hook Community Justice Center. He took the job and spearheaded the development of a revolutionary way of seeing justice.When Pauline Nevins appeared in front of Calabrese, she was “deep into the world of addiction,” she said at the ceremony.
Eventually, she went back to school, and now works in addiction counseling. Years ago, she spoke about her experiences at a Center for Court Innovations anniversary event at the Brooklyn Museum. During the ceremony honoring Calabrese, Nevins said if she could tell herself ten years ago that she’d be speaking at a retirement ceremony for a judge, she would have laughed at herself.
Pauline Nevins presented Judge Alex M. Calabrese with a plaque that will hang in the hallway at the Red Hook Community Justice Center after his retirement.The humble Red Hook Community Justice Center has been held up as a model for court innovation throughout the U.S. and internationally in New Zealand, England, Ireland, and elsewhere.
“These were the years in New York City when every drug gang owned a street corner and territorial disputes were resolved by gunfire,” he said during his speech on Wednesday. “New York City would not have recovered from those drug gang years without a judge willing to hear those cases, and most judges were not. Judge Snyder did justice while under daily threat to herself and her family, she is a true American hero.
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