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 ...

Apr. 22—A youth program — the only one of its kind in Montana — that gives Flathead Valley students facing school-based offenses an alternative to the juvenile justice system is getting national ...

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 ...

Key points Restorative justice programs often fail due to a lack of consistent personnel in the schools. A controversial issue, restorative justice programs are liable to lose grant funding, depending ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Wednesday, some Virginia delegates advocated for legislation that would promote what's known as restorative justice programs in Virginia schools as an alternative to suspensions or ...

A small group of advocates for improving communities by making criminal offenders accountable were introduced Wednesday afternoon to the Missouri Restorative Justice Coalition. Restorative justice is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everyone agrees that individuals who cause harm to others should make amends for what they’ve done. Victims of crime deserve to feel justice has been served in their cases. Judges and prosecutors work ...