Everyone agrees that individuals who cause harm to others should make amends for what they’ve done. Victims of crime deserve to feel justice has been served in their cases. Judges and prosecutors work ...

Middle school eighth graders from Rumney Marsh Academy’s Restorative Justice Ambassadors program earned praise from the Revere School Committee after delivering a confident, thoughtful presentation on ...

In a circle of chairs filled with young people, many who have had contact with the justice system, two men whose lives were intertwined at the worst moment sit and tell their story. Jason Kasperek is ...

The Catholic Church in California has vibrant restorative justice ministries as a more positive approach to crime and punishment. Restorative justice seeks to bring about reconciliation between ...

When the Oakland Unified school district’s restorative justice coordinator, David Yusem, walks into one of the district’s schools, he wants to know how it feels: Does it feel caring? Is there beauty ...

West Virginia communities including Wheeling, Kermit, Lewisburg, Berkeley Springs, Shepherdstown, Elkins and Fairmont have ...

There are currently a number of public and political discussions across the country regarding community safety and how the criminal justice system through its bail and sentencing processes addresses ...

Kendall Hughes was stabbed 12 times in the head, neck and back by a prisoner in a chapel while working as a Colorado prison system chaplain in 2002. A trauma surgeon told him the man had just missed ...

Howard Zehr on his role in restorative justice movements and the philosophies’ indigenous roots. Howard Zehr, often called the “grandfather” of restorative justice, speaks about his role in the ...