Quakers back restorative justice programmes

Friends work for more harmonious communities

by Joe Mugford 12th November 2009

Restorative Justice (RJ) has worked with young offenders in Northern Ireland and the Prison Reform Trust has statistics to prove it. Its report Making Amends: Restorative Youth Justice in Northern Ireland, launched last week, showed that only forty per cent of young offenders between the ages of ten and seventeen on RJ programmes committed further crimes within a year compared to seventy-one per cent of those sent to prison.