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Review of the book Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm
for Our Failed Prison System

Our criminal justice system fails to promote rehabilitation, healing, and reconciliation. Does it need as radical a paradigm shift now as the one over 200 years ago that led to penitentiaries instead of gaels, public hangings, mutilations, deportations and other harsh punishments? 
 

See: Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System

by Laura Magnani & Harmon L. Wray (© 2006, AFSC)

reviewed by Carol Estes at

http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2313