The Mural Arts: A Solution to Healing and Restoring People who go through the Criminal Justice System
Abstract
When we think of the criminal justice system, sentiments of denial, punishment, confinement, and retribution may be the first to come to mind, and perhaps rightfully so. Incarcerating individuals who have committed crimes is critically important to a society that deserves to be protected and to live free of fear. And it is important to the victims of violent crime and their grieving families, who suffer in the face of something lost that can never be regained.
The moment in which a citizen becomes an inmate and the moment that that same inmate returns to the fold of a community are two key occasions in which strong philosophical differences regarding our responsibility towards those incarcerated begin to emerge. The work that we do with and the kind of attention we give to this confined population between those two punctuated moments will effectively shape their lives long after their prison terms end and help shape the communities to which they return.
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