Company Profile
CASES
Company Overview
CASES keeps people out of jail and prison by engaging them in effective services that help them achieve success in the community. We specialize in serving youth and young adults and people with behavioral health needs. CASES is a leading New York City provider of alternatives to incarceration, a key solution for a fairer criminal justice system. This is an important time at CASES. New York City is on track to create a smaller, safer, and fairer criminal justice system. Working at CASES is more than a job. It is an opportunity to promote justice for New Yorkers with access to high-quality and evidence-based court services.
Company History
The Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES) was formed in 1989 through the merger of two long-established programs operated by the Vera Institute of Justice: 1) the Court Employment Project, initiated in 1967 to provide meaningful alternatives for judges when sentencing youth and young people facing felony convictions in New York City, and 2) the Community Service Sentencing Project, initiated in 1979 as one of the first programs in the nation to use community service as a sanction for low-level crime. Since the establishment of CASES more than 30 years ago, the organization has evolved from a focus on providing alternatives to incarceration at the point of sentencing to offering interventions across the spectrum of potential involvement in the criminal justice system.