A grassroots initiative seeking to humanize the incarcerated through advocacy, community engagement, and rehabilitation.
A grassroots initiative seeking to humanize the incarcerated through advocacy, community engagement, and rehabilitation.
South Carolina for restorative justice was born in the throes of the 2020 wherein many negligences and systemic failures of correctional facilities nationwide were laid bare to the public's dismay. Thousands of incarcerated individuals' sufferring was compounded
due to the overcrowded, unsanitary and deplorable conditions of state and federal prisons. For the last 15 years South Carolina Dept. of Corrections as been overcrowded, understaffed and unsafe. Many people loss their lives for poor medical care and nonsupervision of the most at-risk and hopeless inmates. In June, 2020 oved ones of those incarcerated called for a rally to draw attention to the harsh conditions of S.C. prison system and the need for change.
Addressing the causes of crime with a holistic approach.
Moving from criminalization of people incarcerated to humanization.
Validation of victims' traumatic experience and loss.
Healing through human connection and conversation.
Understanding through truth and reconciliation.
Embracing empathy, compassion, grace and forgivenes
Sign up to join our efforts in advocating for justice impacted people throughout South Carolina.
Write letters, send emails, speak to legislators, community organizing and coalition building on behalf of justice impacted people .
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