This article has been adapted from the book Locked Down, Locked Out by Maya Schenwar. As a rising call to close prisons and reduce prison population takes hold, skeptics continually ask what will ...

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The main purpose of a retributive justice system is to restore the injured party back to before the injustice occurred. If that is not possible, the purpose is to ensure that the offending party is ...

As schools face rising behavioral challenges, debates rage on about restorative justice, which rejects traditional, punitive discipline in favor of relationship-based work to address underlying causes ...

EdSource · From a juvenile facility to a college dorm room A change has come to my classroom, and I didn’t even know it. While I’ve been busy teaching, California passed Senate Bill 274 expanding the ...

As data about the ineffectiveness of suspensions and other punitive school disciplinary methods have accumulated and concerns about the school to prison pipeline and mass incarceration have gotten ...