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Restorative Justice
Let’s Build Up Communities Instead of Pouring Funds Into Police Oversight
Policing is an inherently violent and coercive tool that no amount of oversight and training can fix.
To Reduce Prison Population, We Must Confront Violence in Radically New Ways
Author Danielle Sered argues reformers must reckon with violent crime and come up with radically new ways to address it.
“Punitive Discipline Policies Have Proven to Be Destructive to Children”
We need to think about “safety” in a holistic way.
Students Push for Restorative Approaches to Campus Sexual Assault
Survivor-led student groups are expanding restorative justice processes at universities across the US.
Beyond Exonerating the Innocent: Using Storytelling to Humanize Youth Sentenced to Die in Prison
Storytelling is central to restorative justice.
Let’s Harness the Power of the Women’s Marches to Build a Sustained Mass Resistance
This year feels like resistance.
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On Leaving Prison: A Reflection on Entering and Exiting Communities
Formerly incarcerated people suffer from losing their community twice — first while entering prison and again while leaving it.
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Facing Up to Our Shadow Side With Compassion
Restorative justice makes real the fact that conflict, pain, suffering and crime are part of all our lives.
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NYPD Officers Threaten High School Students With Taser
A recent video captured two NYPD officers using a Taser to push youth of color off a public sidewalk.
The GOP Plan to Prevent a Repeat of Obama’s Climate Action
Congress is moving to get rid of a legal precedent that allowed the EPA to tackle climate change under President Obama.