Restorative justice partnerships: Group of around 20 smiling people all wearing lime green t-shirts stand and sit in 3-4 rows on an artificial green turf field surrounded by tall city buildings

Justice organization announces new youth restorative justice partners

Equal Justice USA (EJUSA) announced October 8 that it will partner with four new communities to build new restorative youth justice diversion programs. Restorative justice includes an accountability process that identifies root causes of youth criminal actions, while providing an opportunity for healing both for the person harmed and the person who has caused harm.

Restorative justice group: Very large circle of people hold hands indoors

New book by an author who journeyed from incarcerated juvenile to college professor teaching restorative justice

Felix Rosado recently joined the Chestnut Hill College community as an inspiring and unconventional adjunct professor. Just two years ago he was serving a sentence of death by incarceration -- more commonly known as life without parole. He was freed via governor clemency after 27 years. Students say the class takeaways are improvements in their personal and professional lives -- worth the class time.