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Staying the course to continue providing restorative justice

May 9, 2009

During my two-day visit with Tudor in England, we toured a prison,
met with incarcerated people whom she had trained, and with staff who
she also trained in restorative justice.

Her kindness and compassion for people radiates.  She stops to
help anyone on the street who looks like they need it.  Her
compassion for imprisoned people is over whelming.  “I hope he
gets things squared away,” she says hours after bumping into an
imprisoned man, she didn’t know, but who needed some assistance that we
met in prison.

One of the best lessons I take away as I sit here in Heathrow
airport mulling over my last week in the UK, is the gratefulness of a
new determination to see Hawai’i implement restorative programs for
imprisoned people despite some current state prison administrators and
Governor Linda Lingle’s administrative staff who balk at it.

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