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EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing A change has come to my classroom, and I didn’t even know it. While I’ve been busy teaching, California passed Senate Bill ...

Late last year, restorative justice organization Let’s Circle Up gathered community members in West Philadelphia for a two-day workshop to explore alternative approaches to punitive models of criminal ...

There are now 21 organizations in 11 communities across the province that administer restorative justice to youth and adults.

The traditional juvenile justice system wasn’t working, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and others declared back in 2019.

I appreciate your coverage of criminal case dismissals due to the lack of defense lawyers, (“Multnomah County dismisses more ...

Justice systems exist to respond to rule violations, yet violence does far more than break rules. It disrupts meaning, fractures identity, and weakens the sense of safety that allows individuals and ...

A government bureaucrat boasted about implementing a program based on an "ancient indigenous practice" at the Washington, D.C. attorney general's office to allow some young criminals, who committed ...

Maisha T. Winn is the daughter of African American studies scholar James Fisher, who taught at UC Davis from 1969 to 1974. With a father working at a university, she fondly remembers trips she and her ...

Ramsey County’s new approach of offering alternatives to youth entering the criminal justice system is reducing repeat offenses and leading to better long-term outcomes, according to a newly released ...

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