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Acknowledging Harm Done to Victims

April 19-25 is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), and Justice Fellowship, the public policy arm of Prison Fellowship, is examining the six values in its restorative justice framework that pertain to victims of crime.

Today, we highlight the restorative justice value of validation.

By Elisabeth Boehm
April 24, 2015
Justice Fellowship | National Crime Victim's Rights Week | validation
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Positive Payback for Victims

April 19-25 is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), and Justice Fellowship, the public policy arm of Prison Fellowship, is examining the six values in its restorative justice framework that pertain to victims of crime.

Today, we highlight the restorative justice value of restitution.

By Elisabeth Boehm
April 23, 2015
Justice Fellowship | National Crime Victim's Rights Week | restitution
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Victims Need to Know

April 19-25 is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), and Justice Fellowship, the public policy arm of Prison Fellowship, is examining the six values in its restorative justice framework that pertain to victims of crime.

Today, we highlight the restorative justice value of information.

By Elisabeth Boehm
April 22, 2015
information | Justice Fellowship | National Crime Victim's Rights Week
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Re-Victimization Is Not OK

April 19-25 is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), and Justice Fellowship, the public policy arm of Prison Fellowship, is examining the six values in its restorative justice framework that pertain to victims of crime.

Today, we highlight the restorative justice value of protection.

By Elisabeth Boehm
April 21, 2015
Justice Fellowship | National Crime Victim's Rights Week | Protection
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Let’s Stop the Sidelining

April 19-25 is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), and Justice Fellowship, the public policy arm of Prison Fellowship, is examining the six values in its restorative justice framework that pertain to victims of crime.

Today, we highlight the restorative justice value of participation.

By Elisabeth Boehm
April 20, 2015
participation | Restorative Justice | Victims
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Remembering the Rights of Victims

Every person who breaks the law is different. Every person who is convicted of a crime is different. Every crime and the situation surrounding it is different. And every person who is harmed by a criminal act is also different.

We understand that all of these variables make it impossible to accurately quantify the harm crime causes.

By Elisabeth Boehm
April 16, 2015
Empowerment | Justice Felllowship | National Crime Victim's Rights Week | Victims
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Building a Constructive Prison Culture

A version of this article originally appeared on the Justice Fellowship website.

Prisoners participating in an InnerChange Freedom Initiative class.

It’s “boring” to work in prison units where faith-based programs thrive.

According to Justice Fellowship Policy Analyst Jesse Wiese, who served a sentence in an Iowa prison, corrections officers often complained that it was boring to be in a prison unit filled with men and women who were involved in religious programs that taught morality—because there wasn’t much discipline to enforce.

By Elisabeth Boehm
April 8, 2015
Chuck Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections | InnerChange Freedom Initiative | Jesse Wiese | Restorative Justice
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Restorative Justice Works (No Matter What You Believe)

The following article originally appeared on the Justice Fellowship website.

Restorative justice works. Its principles are effective in facilitating individual change and impeding the cycle of crime whenever they are applied. However, it is helpful to understand what root issue restorative justice really helps to treat and why it’s a better response to harm in our society.

By Elisabeth Boehm
March 20, 2015
Chicago | Huffington Post | Illinois | Nancy Michaels | Peace Circles | Restorative Justice
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Working Toward a Perfect Imperfect World

The following post originally appeared on the Justice Fellowship blog.

In a perfect world, people wouldn’t commit crimes. They wouldn’t hurt one another or themselves.

In a perfect imperfect world, people who committed crimes would receive a just punishment, one that was proportionate to the harm they had caused.

By Elisabeth Boehm
February 27, 2015
Dick Durbin | Justice Fellowship | Mike Lee | Smarter Sentencing Act
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A Victory for the Religious Liberty of Prisoners

A version of the following post originally appeared on the Justice Fellowship weblog

Justice Fellowship applauds today’s unanimous Supreme Court’s decision in Holt v. Hobbs, which upheld the right of a Muslim prisoner to grow a ½ inch beard in accordance with his religious beliefs.

By Elisabeth Boehm
January 22, 2015
holt v. hobbs | Jesse Wiese | Justice Fellowship | Religious Liberty | RLUIPA | supreme court
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Why We Should Put Probation on Trial

“An ineffective probation system can result in further criminal acts and the imprisonment of those same offenders before they complete their terms.”

Justice Fellowship’s latest report, Incentives in State Probation Systems: Relation to Structure and Practices, reveals why it’s a good idea to examine our probation systems.

By Elisabeth Boehm
January 6, 2015
Justice Fellowship | Probation | recidivism | Success Rates
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The Gift of Hope

A version of the following post originally appeared on the Justice Fellowship blog.

“Until now, we’ve been in maximum security prisons with 200 to 500 men.”

Last week’s season premiere of NBC’s The Sing-Off featured one a cappella group whose typical audience is anything but.

By Elisabeth Boehm
December 23, 2014
NBC | The Sing Off | Timothy's Gift
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Way Past Nickel-and-diming: How Prisons Are Unnecessarily Burdening Families

A mom finds out that her son hasn’t been brushing his teeth at camp because he can’t find the toothpaste he packed. The mom runs to the store, buys the toothpaste, and tosses it in the mail. Problem solved. The cost of making sure her son keeps his pearly-whites clean?

By Elisabeth Boehm
November 4, 2014
Elisabeth Boehm | Florida | JPay | Third party Banking | Toothpaste | Virginia
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My Little Second Chance Lesson

The following post originally appeared on the Justice Fellowship blog.

There’s no way anyone is going to do this.

That depressing whisper of doubt and futility kept up its nagging as I set up the email that would go out to our national list of supporters.

By Elisabeth Boehm
September 17, 2014
congress | Judiciary Committee | Second Chance Act
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It’s Time: Chrisitians Need to Champion Criminal Justice Reform

The following post originally appeared on the Justice Fellowship website.  To learn more about Justice Fellowship and its efforts to reform the criminal justice system, visit www.justicefellowship.org.

If movie stars and rappers can put together a loud call for just laws and smart sentencing practices, why can’t Christians get more mobilized?

By Elisabeth Boehm
April 12, 2013
Justice Reform | Sentencing Reform
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