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Veterans of Hope: Ruby Sales
by Ruby Salesposted Oct 27, 2000
- In this Veterans of Hope interview, Ruby Sales tells of her release from prison in Haneyville, Alabama, where she and Jonathan Daniels, a white seminarian, had been registering people to vote.
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Peacemaking: a family affair
by James W. Zionposted Sep 30, 2000 - Peacemakers in the Navajo Nation can quickly get to the bottom of a situation that resulted in a crime.
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Navajo Justice
by The Honorable Robert Yazzie Chief Justice of the Navajo Nationposted Sep 30, 2000
- Navajo Nation revises criminal code, reduces sentences, and requires peacemaking.
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Seeds of Change: A Prison Garden Program
by Cathrine Sneedposted Sep 30, 2000
- Cathrine Sneed describes the development of the Horticulture Program for Inmates and the Garden Project employing former inmates.
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Cry Out: Women Behind Bars
by Christine Schoeferposted Sep 30, 2000 - Women inmates describe prison life and the impact of a support group that provides an emotional and creative outlet.
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Learning To Choose
by Raymond Royposted Sep 30, 2000
- Roy describes the development of a victim empathy class for prisoners in Oregon and it's impact on inmates.
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Resource Guide: Reconciliation
posted Sep 30, 2000
- Resources around restorative justice and reconciliation.
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Reader Stories And Letters
posted Sep 30, 2000
- Reader Stories and Letters in response the "Is It Time to Close the Prisons" Issue.
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Prisons That Work
posted Sep 30, 2000
- Survey of prison reform. Prisons that Work. Adapted from "A Model Prison," by Robert Worth, from Atlantic Monthly November 1995; "Prison without Walls," by Jim Merkel, from In Context, Spring 1994; and "Politically Correct Punishment" by Jeffrey Banner, Mother Jones' MoJo Wire, March 2000.
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Choose Life: End the Death Penalty
by Sister Helen Prejeanposted Sep 30, 2000 - Sister Helen's work with Patrick Sonnier and her campaign against the death penalty.
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The Hard Road of Forgiveness
by Mary Sue Pennposted Sep 30, 2000
- Bill Pelke forgives his grandmother's killer and works with Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation to oppose the death penalty.
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The Prison Industry Goes Global
by Stephen Nathanposted Sep 30, 2000
- Corporations promote prision privatization around the world and may use the World Trade Organization to open new markets.
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American Gulag
by Jerome G. Millerposted Sep 30, 2000
- Why does the "home of the free" lock up 2 million men, women, boys, and girls-most of them people of color?
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On the Day the Children Marched
by Reginald Sinclair Lewisposted Sep 30, 2000 - Children protest the scheduled execution of Reggie Lewis and march against capital punishment. Poetry.
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Street Ministers
by Michael Jonasposted Sep 30, 2000
- In 1990 Boston had 152 killings; in 1999, the number had fallen to 30, not one of them a juvenile. Boston's nationally acclaimed approach to stemming gang violence and youth crime is examined.
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