The criminal justice system is broken. Restorative justice can help fill the gap. Inside a movement that aims to bring accountability and healing to the justice system.

As we contemplate the next 50 years, our collective goal should be transforming our punitive criminal legal system. ... our commitment to reshaping the landscape of criminal justice is unwavering.

The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state and local ...

Advocates for a more punitive system focus on strengthening the ... The bureaucratic agencies that make up the U.S. criminal-justice system went from relative political insignificance to a ...

Glenn E. Martin is the founder and president of JustLeadershipUSA. He is on Twitter. Updated February 25, 2015, 4:19 PM In 2004, President George W. Bush warned America about our oversized prison ...

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King’s words evoke a powerful image, but also leave much to the imagination. What should justice look like ...

As the IGNITE program's website notes, the "punitive nature of criminal justice system takes the focus off of rehabilitation but rehabilitation is what is needed to reduce repeat offenders." ...

It's a shame that on an issue like paring back the needlessly punitive aspects of the criminal justice system—on which Republicans and Democrats broadly agreed with one another very recently ...

For example, in our justice system, this means ensuring equal justice – the assurance that what you look like, the accent you have, how much money you make, etc. should not affect how you’re ...

Criminal justice advocates want nearly 500 Texas inmates certified in a class action lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, alleging the state’s prison system is assigning ...

Connecticut seems to swing its criminal justice pendulum from punitive to rehabilitative creating a cycle that only causes confusion, pain, and trauma to everyone.