When a crime occurs, it sets in motion potential tragic consequences that are often unseen by the American justice system. However, this "benign neglect" may lead to traumatic consequences for the ...

When Zackary Moffitt arrived at the hospital on July 6, 2013, he had a potentially fatal level of alcohol in his system. The 33-year-old was four years sober when he met his wife, Cassandra Higgins, ...

MPR News host Angela Davis (left) talks about restorative justice with Sharon Hendrichs, Brenda Burnside and Kara Beckman in an MPR News studio in St. Paul on Tuesday. When it comes to staying ...

LAC QUI PARLE VALLEY - Coming late to class, disrupting a class, or picking on a fellow student are the kinds of behaviors that will earn students in the Benson Schools a visit with Dean of Students ...

Amid the death, sickness, mental health challenges, and economic upheaval wrought by the pandemic, another threat to public health has reached new heights. Intimate partner violence—which can include ...

Check out our entire award-winning video series on reimagining the criminal legal system. What do successful alternatives to policing, prosecution, and prison actually look like? And how would they ...

Juvenile review boards have been operating in Connecticut for decades in an effort to keep youth out of the criminal justice system. In the last five years, the state legislature pushed the ...

One of the most proven alternative approaches to addressing crime is to create a supportive culture in educational settings. This approach—restorative justice—is already in place in Oakland. Readers ...

Wounds remain. This was a chief conclusion of an independent working group on the clerical sex abuse crisis in the U.S. Catholic Church that proposed the following measures last month: —Develop a ...

Portland Public Schools has been prioritizing restorative justice as its approach to problem behavior, under a plan rolled out just before the COVID-19 pandemic forced school buildings to close during ...