Project NIA
Project NIA's mission is to dramatically reduce the reliance on arrest, detention, and incarceration for addressing youth crime and to instead promote the use of restorative and transformative practices, a concept that relies on community-based alternatives.
Restorative Justice- School's new 'justice' system is reaping rewards June 18, 2013PUPIL behaviour has improved dramatically at a city primary school in after a "restorative justice" approach was introduced to disciplinary problems.
- The Bristol Post published School's new 'justice' system is reaping rewards June 18, 2013PUPIL behaviour has improved dramatically at a city primary school in after a "restorative justice" approach was introduced to disciplinary problems.The number of behaviour referrals – where pupils are sent to speak to the deputy head teacher for misbehaving – has dropped sharply at Shirehampton Primary School since the scheme began last September. […]
- Restorative Justice: Some SECC offenders making items to assist classroom teachers June 17, 2013CHARLESTON -- Nearly 150 offenders at the prison in Charleston are helping to make a difference in the lives of St. Louis-area children.
- Restorative justice more effective for serious crime May 20, 2013"The evidence does not support the view of Sensible Sentencing Trust spokeswoman Ruth Money, that restorative justice is only appropriate for low level offending" says Kim Workman, of Rethinking Crime and Punishment. "Much of the evidence points in the opposite direction."
- Restorative justice at Brunswick inn May 30, 2013BRUNSWICK — The Restorative Justice Institute of Maine is hosting a firstever “Think Tank” with stakeholders from criminal justice, correctional, educational, social service and legislative arenas. “Realizing our Vision of a Restorative State,” will be held 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday, June 4 at the Inn at Brunswick Station. read more
- Justice program sets Philadelphia mural tour June 6, 2013Tour of Phila. murals July 23The Center for Community Peacemaking, a Restorative Justice Program of Lancaster County, is sponsoring a bus trip July 23 to Philadelphia to see the Philadelphia Restorative Justice Mural Arts Program, which is the largest in the country.Since 1984, Mural Arts has create...
- DA’s office calling for restorative justice volunteers June 7, 2013The Weld District Attorney’s Office is calling for volunteers to help with a program designed to give juvenile offenders a chance to reintegrate back into their communities.
- Conference to explore making peace June 17, 2013The internationally recognized symbol for peace is simple: a circle with three lines. Every point along the closed curve is equidistant from the center, where imaginary lines that exude from those points meet. The three lines enclosed by the circle intersect at the center too.
- A People-Focused Solution May 22, 2013Restorative justice programs may offer the best new hope for reducing violence in Oakland schools and the city overall, but their future funding is uncertain. by Jean Tepperman Students at Montera Middle School in Oakland said the school's eighth-grade class was full of "drama" earlier this year. There had been a fight between two girls, and t […]
- A SEARCH FOR ‘RESTORATIVE JUSTICE’ June 6, 2013BY JUDY HARRISON Bangor Daily News BRUNSWICK Maine is on the edge of a major reform to its criminal justice system that would replace the current punitive culture with “restorative justice” principles, an organizer of a daylong conference told participants Tuesday. read more
- School's new 'justice' system is reaping rewards June 18, 2013
