Barb Toews

The more than 2.3 million incarcerated individuals in the United States are often regarded as a throw-away population. While the criminal justice system focuses on giving offenders "what they deserve", it does little to restore the needs created by crime or to explore the factors that lead to it. Restorative justice, with its emphasis on identifying the justice needs of everyone involved in a crime, is helping to restore prisoners' sense of humanity...