Restorative Prisons

Restorative prisons can help many people beyond the perpetrator despite that fact the perpetrator is the only one being treated in these restorative prisons. According to Bazemore (1998), victims are fine with the offender being treated with restorative justice ways. This supports that the victims will not feel like the offender is getting off too easy in restorative prisons. These prisons also help the community because once the perpetrator is out of the restorative prisons they are part of the working community again. This is an outcome of the perpetrator having to help out around the prison and actually do things versus other prisons where offenders just sit in a cell all day. There was a 19 year old who was driving a car and lost control. When he lost control he killed four people and was sentenced for 47 years in jail. This perpetrator didn’t have a good example to follow …show more content…
According to van Wormer and Walker (2013), once a perpetrator arrives at one of these restorative prisons they are locked in a closed area, not a single cell. After sometime the perpetrator can move to a new area where they are not locked in. This is the stage that the perpetrators can start to leave to go to work at somewhere beyond the prison. The prisons have the right to drug test anyone in this stage and if they find drugs in their system they are required to go back to the first stage where they are not allowed to leave. The final stage involves very little supervision. In this stage the perpetrators are no longer required to sleep in the prison, but must check in once a month to ensure they are following all the requirements assigned to them. All of this explains that perpetrators are required to spend some time where they are locked up to ensure they will cooperate and follow all the