The City of Aurora is asking community members to participate in a restorative justice survey to help create a program that will focus on rehabilitation and reconciliation for offenders and victims. via MicahSmith_TV
“A big part of our approach has been a lot of information gathering and perspective. So, we started with interviews of many key stakeholders as well as individuals in the community,” explained Beth Yohe, executive director of the Conflict Center, the nonprofit that will help create the program.
“The Conflict Center actually has a partnership with the Denver District Attorney's Office, so we have that experience to bring to it,” Yohe said. “Many people know as an alternative to the criminal legal system, right? So it's an alternative to our punitive system. That off-ramps people out of the criminal legal system and gives an opportunity to truly repair harm and take accountability.
“The offender really has to take responsibility and take accountability and engage in repairing harm, which we know in the traditional legal system is often a fine or prison time, but doesn't really repair the harm that happened from the incident,” Yohe said. “I did go through the Restorative Denver Program with a young man who, you know, made a mistake. And we won't get too far into what happened, but we went through the program, and we were able to meet, talk. And he's doing well now,” McBride said.
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