April 3, 2015 Editor

The Inside-Out Gospel

Rehabilitating Our Criminal Justice System

By Rev. Michael F. Blevins, J.D., M.Div., LL.M.
Executive Director of the NE Iowa Peace & Justice Center, Inc., Decorah, IA

The article is also located here.

An excerpt:

The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration with 2.3 million people currently in the nation’s prisons or jails—an astounding 500% increase over the past thirty years. These trends have resulted in inhumane prison overcrowding and state governments being overwhelmed by the crushing burden of funding an exponentially expanding penal system, despite increasing evidence that large-scale incarceration is not the most effective means of achieving public safety.

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Editor

Wayne Northey was Director of Man-to-Man/Woman-to-Woman – Restorative Christian Ministries (M2/W2) in British Columbia, Canada from 1998 to 2014, when he retired. He has been active in the criminal justice arena and a keen promoter of Restorative Justice since 1974. He has published widely on peacemaking and justice themes. You will find more about that on this website: a work in progress.

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