Each year on Good Friday we listen to the account of the events surrounding Jesus’ death: the trial, the boisterous crowd, the journey to Golgotha. The...
Restorative justice
Read about restorative justice from a Catholic perspective, emphasizing forgiveness, community healing, and ethical approaches to conflict and harm.
One woman’s experience of incarceration exposed her to many of the issues emblematic of our country’s problems with prisons. Jenny Wagner is a former heroin...
Kids often face the stiffest sentence when their mother is behind bars. But support networks are helping to rehabilitate family relationships that have fallen...
The war on drugs isn’t working. In fact, it is making the problem even worse. In May President Barack Obama signaled the beginning of the end of the war on...
Luisa Borrego didn’t know much about the prison system before her son, at only 14 years old, was arrested after being in the back seat of a car during a drive...
Since it was first pioneered in the mid-1970s, restorative justice has been used in criminal justice cases throughout the world. But nowhere has the practice...
With U.S. incarceration rates at an unsustainable high, crime victims are taking the lead in an effort to rehabilitate offenders. Lonnie Jones was just 16...
“Peace be with you.” The hand extended at the sign of peace, the hand I grasp, may have also killed. Masses celebrated with men from Kentucky’s death row are...
With a common commitment, Catholics could make the death penalty a thing of the past. The first time I felt certain of my opposition to the death penalty was...
"Honorable people have disagreed about the justice of executing the guilty," Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J. writes in her new book The Death of...
