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Good news and all the more credible given John is a straight shooter who has previously reported when programs didn’t work. E.g. x.com/johnarnoldfndt
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John Arnold
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We @Arnold_Ventures funded a pilot to bring a Nordic-style restorative justice model to a prison in PA and assess its impact. The question was whether it could work within a vastly different criminal justice system. Initial results are so promising that PA is expanding the
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David Watson 🥑
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This is a good kind of restorative justice, keep the incapacitation effect of imprisonment while hopefully easing recidivism after they're out by decreasing chances to form criminal connections and prison gangs. Wish leftist reformers focused on this instead of zero prison time.
Good sign, though a little light on details in the articles. I hope later reports contain what concrete things worked, rather than a general notion of Scandinavian-izing prisons.