Jailbrake weekend
March 21, 2010
MyPA An automated reminder service using text messages to help young people keep track of order restrictions, meetings, appointments and other commitments. MyPA would help a young person manage their time with YOTs or other people supporting them and could offer tailored ‘nudges’...
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Domestic Violence Surrogate Dialogue
March 21, 2010
Referrals Each participant: Must be embedded in counseling and have a scheduled plan to continue their counseling after the program; Must be referred to the program by their counselor; and Has the choice of either their counselor or a different approved support person attend each session with...
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DNA testing works, but not if we fail to utilize it
March 17, 2010
….It is cases like Skinner’s that ended my lifelong support for the death penalty. Any system driven by the decisions of human beings will produce mistakes. This is true even when everyone — judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys — is acting in good faith and...
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Smyth victim in Brady resign call
March 17, 2010
Samantha was abused by Fr Smyth, while she was at boarding school from 1974 to 1979. “I just feel such sadness and such loss and there is just no need for it, if people had done what they are supposed to do and as adults, forget about the fact that they were priests,” she said....
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Coffee shop is site of healing
March 14, 2010
Poisson and his father, Gary, had driven up the day before from their home outside Atlanta, where Poisson has found work at a burger chain. On Friday afternoon, they stepped from their truck into the Starbucks parking lot. Before they could reach the door, a brother of Kreutz’s stopped...
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Courage to repair
March 14, 2010
On Friday, the students apologized for their misconduct. They acknowledged in a statement issued through their lawyers that they had exercised “inexcusable judgment.” They claimed what happened was “totally out of character” and expressed hope “for the opportunity...
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President Sirleaf not bound by timeline on TRC Report, says Minister
March 14, 2010
“All we are saying is that the TRC has submitted her report and let’s forget about timeline. Those recommendations that are implementable will be implemented; those of course that have constitutional implications, definitely the courts or whatever institutions available will be...
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End cycle of violence
March 14, 2010
Research and community wisdom support the fact that violence is preventable. Changing the underlying conditions that contribute to violence — in homes, schools, and neighborhoods — prevents it from occurring in the first place. Had we invested in extensive primary violence...
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From schools to prisons: Disciplinary policy brings incarceration
March 14, 2010
School disciplinary policies and practices can serve to push our children further away — away from school on brief suspensions, then permanently to alternative schools, then out of school altogether, then into juvenile detention, and eventually out of the community and into distant...
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East Lansing advocate: Jury award should impact bullying
March 14, 2010
Dane Patterson, now 19, sued Hudson Area Schools in 2005 because of repeated bullying that started with name-calling in middle school. The situation escalated over years. His locker and notebook were defaced and he endured sexual insults. In 10th grade, he was taunted in a locker room by a...
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Calling a circle….
March 14, 2010
A small group of folks are visiting Sioux Falls from Brookings over their Spring Break. They have visited the prisons, the food ministries and shelters and many other ministries of social justice. Some of us from Restore talked with them at lunch today about restorative justice and...
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Offenders and their children
March 9, 2010
First, such a system would reserve incarceration for those offenders who pose a threat to the community. However, where incarceration is used, restorative values can influence the environment in a way that promotes healing and rehabilitation (see this programme from Brazil). Such an...
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The Sanctuary Model: A restorative approach for human services organizations.
March 8, 2010
Bloom is founder and “guiding light†of the Sanctuary Institute at Andrus Children’s Center, in Yonkers, New York, USA, associate professor of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health and codirector of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, at...
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New payback justice: Both sides of the fence
March 7, 2010
Ruth said: “The cost of the damage was about £700 – money we had raised through Christmas fairs and other events. “The police caught one of those responsible and called me to ask if I wanted to take part in the programme. “We met up with the boy at the Scout hut. He...
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Death row lets victims’ families down
March 7, 2010
For some, such as the members of Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights, opposition to capital punishment is first and foremost ideological: in their mind, the response to one human rights violation should not be another one. Others, such as Vicki Schieber, resent the attention that...
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