In a shuttered Catholic school with bells tolling in the background, Cook County Judge Beatriz Santiago leaned over her desk and asked the defendant how his GED practice tests were going. “Sometimes I ...

A government bureaucrat boasted about implementing a program based on an "ancient indigenous practice" at the Washington, D.C. attorney general's office to allow some young criminals, who committed ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. In May 2021, the District Attorney’s Office, in collaboration with the Second District Supervisor’s Office, launched a pilot ...

Two men plead guilty in the 2012 death of Corey Stingley, entering a restorative justice-led deferred prosecution agreement.

In 2022, the Department of Student Affairs spearheaded the pilot program and received three years of funding for development and implementation. This included updating the division name from Student ...

Jonathan Sandoval had no idea what “restorative justice” meant when he received a phone call from the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office in May. The 24-year-old Sacramento State graduate with a ...

At the end of 2023, the San Francisco district attorney’s office lost out on $3 million in potential restorative justice funds from the philanthropic foundation Crankstart, according to documents ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Since 2021, the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office has been offering the Emerging Adult Program, a pre-charge restorative justice initiative. This program allows young ...

The Yolo County District Attorney’s Restorative Justice Partnership (RJP) Program is seeking community volunteers to participate in a spring community panelist training course with sessions offered ...

The Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) and the City University of New York’s Institute for State & Local Governance (CUNY ISLG) announced a $6.5 million investment in restorative justice (RJ) ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Wednesday was a step forward for several graduates of a community court program in Chicago, as they continue the process of getting their lives back on track. Xavier Smith is one of ...

In May 2021, the District Attorney’s Office, in collaboration with the Second District Supervisor’s Office, launched a pilot program for Neighborhood Restorative Justice (NRJP) in Goleta, targeting ...