The summer after my junior year, I served Judge Pamela K. Chen as an intern of the Sonia and Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program. Through this internship, I learned the process of restorative justice. Judges often wanted the best for convicted defendants in the granting of parole, supervised release, access to education, and visitation. During my time as an intern, I discovered that the justice system can be used to better the lives of those convicted. Unlike retributive justice, restorative justice sees the humanity in the offenders instead of only the offenses committed. In seeing the humanity, it supplies those who have harmed with the right tools to better themselves and reintegrate into society.
From my understanding of restorative
From my understanding of restorative