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Penal Mediation Piloted in Argentina

Parker, Lynette
June 4, 2015

Source: (2001) Restorative Justice Online. October 2001 Edition.

In the 1990s, Argentina began a series of reform efforts to alleviate corruption, overcrowding of jails and prisons, backlogs stalling the court system, and a lack of faith in the justice system. Among those reforms was the Proyecto RAC (Alternative Conflict Resolution Project), a pilot project in penal mediation.

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