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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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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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Stuck in Pretrial Limbo

The following article originally appeared on the Pretrial Justice Institute website, and appears here with permission.

Joe has not been convicted of a crime. He’s innocent, in fact, but he’s still in jail. He’s been sitting there for over two months now, waiting to appear before a judge, waiting for the chance to prove his innocence, but his trial date is nowhere in sight, and he doesn’t have the money to post bond.

By Craig DeRoche
March 5, 2015
Craig DeRoche | Limbo | Pretrial | Pretrial Justice Institute | 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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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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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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We Like What You’re Doing There, California

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

“I agree with you; I want to do it; now make me do it.”

So President Franklin Roosevelt is believed to have replied when labor leaders asked him for executive action.

By Craig DeRoche
November 3, 2014
California | Initiative | Justice Fellowship | Proposition 47 | Restorative Justice | sentencing
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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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Congressman’s Plan to Address Poverty Emphasizes Judicial Reform

On Thursday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced the rollout of his anti-poverty proposal, “Expanding Opportunities in America.” In the proposal, Ryan highlighted the 2.2 million Americans currently incarcerated and pushed for loosening the economic burdens that these men and women face upon return to their communities.

By Prison Fellowship
July 25, 2014
Justice Reform | Paul Ryan | recidivism | sentencing | State and Local Initiatives
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Men Who Serve and Protect

The following post originally appeared as a BreakPoint radio commentary.

Now that Father’s Day is past, we can ignore dads again for another year. I’m joking, of course, but society isn’t. And that’s the problem.

We’ve discussed the cultural attacks on men many times before on BreakPoint, how pop culture is fond of portraying them as over-grown adolescents, or worse, as sadistic and violent haters of women.

By Eric Metaxas
June 20, 2014
Breakpoint | Eric Metaxas | Fatherhood | Fathers | Parenting | Wisconsin Family Council
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