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The Department of Justice (DOJ) awarded over $100 million in grants to promote restorative justice and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) measures over the course of the Biden administration ...
Decarceration includes overlapping reformist and abolitionist strategies, from "front door" options such as sentencing reform, decriminalization, diversion and mental health treatment to "back door" approaches, exemplified by parole reform and early release into re-entry programs, [5] amnesty for inmates convicted of non-violent offenses and imposition of prison capacity limits. [6]
Cook County will expand its restorative justice court program to the suburbs for the first time with a new court planned for the south suburban Sauk Village, Chief Judge Tim Evans announced Thursday.
Restorative justice is an approach to justice that aims to repair the harm done to victims. [1] [2] In doing so, practitioners work to ensure that offenders take responsibility for their actions, to understand the harm they have caused, to give them an opportunity to redeem themselves, and to discourage them from causing further harm.
Restorative justice in the forms of boot camps and military programs adopted into public education options is starting to be considered. A variety of programs for anger management , self-esteem , etc. have been developed and those working with academics are called upon to develop such alternatives.
Shortly after arriving in California, she went to a convenience store and heard a man preaching in the parking lot. The second time she saw him, the pair exchanged numbers and quickly started dating.
The CoSA model of reintegration began in Canada in 1994. [4] According to Susan Love, the Ottawa Program Director for Circles of Support and Accountability, CoSA was started by the Mennonite pastor Harry Nigh, who befriended a mentally delayed, repeat sex offender—a man who had been in and out of institutions his entire life.
Santiago presides over the county’s Restorative Justice Community Court in Avondale, held in a building at St. Hyacinth, a church and former school on the city’s Northwest Side.