“Recommended this week” features highlights from the past week in news about the death penalty, crime survivors, and trauma-informed responses to crime. Retain a Just Nebraska – Kirk Bloodsworth, Innocence The campaign to keep the death penalty out of Nebraska released its first TV spot this month, featuring the first man to be exonerated from death row…
Laura Coel’s former stepfather sexually abused her for a decade. Now, she is sharing the experience of a restorative justice dialogue process in which she met to meet face-to-face with him. Hat tip to our friends at the Restorative Justice Initiative for pointing us to this compelling story.
Last month, we introduced you to the expansion of our work to build a better justice system, including two new staff. I had the opportunity to sit down with one of them, Fatimah Loren Muhammad, and learn about her first few weeks, what a “trauma-informed” justice system means, and her vision for this first year….