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Obama’s Inspiration for Imprisoned People

We are providing a restorative justice facilitation skills and solution-focused problem solving training for a group of 20 incarcerated men at Waiawa Correctional Facility on O‘ahu.  A paper on this training program that we have now provided to five groups of incarcerated people, is available on my website under the Articles page and is titled A Gift of Listening for Hawai‘i Inmates. Tonight we are going to share the following photo and last few paragraphs…

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New Restorative Prison in Canberra, Australia

A new prison has been constructed in Canberra, Australia that is built upon the principals of restorative justice.  The Alexander Maconochie Centre is an attempt to truly rehabiliate incarcerated people. Radio Netherlands Worldwide has produced an insightful story about the new prison, which Austrailian corrections Minister John Hargreaves says was designed in a restorative manner because:  “We want people to realise that the facility is here to help them change their behaviour, to change their…

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Dreams from the Monster Factory by Sunny Schwartz

A new book Dreams from the Monster Factory by lawyer Sunny Schwartz with David Boodell has just been published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.  It is a short memoir of Ms. Schwartz’ life and her experience working at the San Francisco jail. Under the leadership of San Francisco sheriff Michael Hennessey, jail’s director Michael Marcum, Lieutenant Becky Benoit, and Ms. Schwartz, who is the jail’s program director, restorative justice becomes part of the rehabilitation program…

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Restorative Justice and Domestic Violence

Our local newspaper the Honolulu Advertiser, which has gotten so ridiculously thin and short of substance it should be really should be called the Honolulu Newsletter, did a week long series, Crossing the Line, on intimate violence.  The series featured the insightful journal writings of a young woman who was murdered by her former boyfriend.  I wrote the letter copied below to the editor that was published January 3, 2009 about using restorative justice for…

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