Criminal justice reform increases public safety through moral rehabilitation

Getting ready for Outrageous Justice that I'm hosting at my work's BRN SALT network. Taking the challenge to become a Justice Reform Advocate. 

Criminal justice reform increases public safety through moral rehabilitation. Local government hears our voice when regular citizens embrace a restorative, values-based framework. Join me in learning more and find out specific steps you can take at prisonfellowship.org. Help us transform the criminal justice process into one that restores. A criminal justice process that gives genuine opportunities to make amends and pursue moral rehabilitation.

From What the spike in murder rates means for criminal justice reform by Craig DeRoche  | May 20, 2016 12:04 AM

Without investment in education or moral rehabilitation, "correctional facilities" often don't correct or restore those who serve time. For too long, taxpayers have shouldered the cost of the fastest-growing area of government and greatest increase of centralized state power in America's history outside of healthcare. 

• Offenders return to the same behaviors or worse
• System underperformance; Law enforcement in the era of over-criminalization and over-incarceration has left them over-extended and under-resourced.
• Inefficient, costly system that fails to serve the public interest.
• Law enforcement officers can be freed up to solve serious crimes and take dangerous people off the streets.

What's needed now is not a return to the past, but a fresh vision for criminal justice. A restorative, values-based framework, advocated for by Prison Fellowship and many of its peers, is gaining consensus at the state and national levels.

• A restorative approach to justice reform is based on the inherent value and dignity of each person impacted by crime and incarceration. 

The goal of criminal justice reform is to increase public safety. 

• We become safer when correctional facilities are environments where those who regret their crimes have genuine opportunities to make amends and pursue moral rehabilitation.