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Collected Item: “What Restorative Justice Can Teach Us About COVID-19 – And Ourselves.”

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What Restorative Justice Can Teach Us About COVID-19 – And Ourselves.

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article

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This article is authored by a woman whose sister was murdered. She now works with a nonprofit called Restore Justice, based in California, whose goal is to positively effect change to all who are touched by violent crime. She reminds the reader that people can change and discusses how the large prison population can effect the population at large and those inside.

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incarceration, prison, justice, covid, mask, murder

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https://restorecal.org/what-restorative-justice-can-teach-us-about-covid-19-and-ourselves/

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Rebecca Weiker

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2020-04-01
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