Matthew Lee looked into the tearful eyes of the son of a man he had murdered. It was Nov. 19, 2019, in a conference room at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Family Justice Center, a year-and-a-half after Mother’s Day, 2018, when the 50-year-old Lee had followed a beloved 87-year-old Lehman College political philosophy professor, Young …
The internet was built on the idea of free-flowing information and open discourse. In reality, though, online tools are used as weapons to harass, hurt, and demean others, stifling voices and viewpoints. Assistant Professor Niloufar Salehi has an idea that might help address online harm: she’d like to see if the restorative justice process can …
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By Andrea Cipriano | July 1, 2020 Why hasn’t restorative justice caught on in prosecutor’s offices around the country? While a small but influential group of big-city “progressive” prosecutors are actively using the concept, which offers rehabilitation and “healing” to offenders as an alternative to punishment, mainstream DAs remain skeptical or, in some cases, hostile. Many are dissuaded …
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By Lauren Sonnenberg | November 13, 2019 — When Botham Jean’s convicted killer was sentenced to 10 years in prison last month, the victim’s brother, Brandt Jean, offered his forgiveness in an emotional moment in the courtroom. In one of last year’s most widely reported cases of police shootings of unarmed civilians, a white off-duty Dallas police officer named Amber …
Manitoba RCMP‘s new commanding officer has only been in the job for a week and a half, but she’s already enjoying her time in the province and has big plans for the future. READ MORE: Manitoba communities near the top of ‘dangerous cities’ report Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy is the first woman to command Manitoba’s Mounties in the …
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