criminal justice reform
What should law look like in 2050?: Restorative justice
The grandmother in the gallery In 1989, Judge Mick Brown watched a fifteen-year-old Maori boy stand before him for the third time. Same charge, same process, same result.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Restorative justice
Ninety minutes in Oakland In 2016, inside a juvenile facility in Oakland, a fifteen-year-old sat in a circle with the woman whose purse he snatched outside a BART station. He had run. She had fallen. Her wrist broke. The facilitator did not speak for eleven minutes.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Reformers
The seminary on the tier Warden Burl Cain arrived at Angola — 18,000 acres of former plantation land, the highest inmate-on-inmate violence rate in the country — in 1995. By 2005, violent incidents had dropped seventy-three percent. He did not hire more guards.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Prison abolitionists
The function was the violence In 1971, Attica’s prisoners took control of D Yard and issued demands: adequate food, one shower a week not ice-cold. Governor Rockefeller sent state police. Thirty-three prisoners and ten hostages died. Every hostage was killed by state gunfire.... What is justice for?: Restorative justice
The question nobody asks The first mediation I ever facilitated, the victim — a woman whose house had been broken into — looked at the nineteen-year-old kid across the table and said, "I just want to know why my house." He stared at the table for a long time....