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Mirian Assumpcao e Lima

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Oct 2002
Brazil

Mírian Assumpção e Lima is teaching police officers and community members to work together to reduce violent crime and improve public safety in Brazilian cities.

Roberto da Silva

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História do Presente Org Paulista para Ações Cidadania
Dec 2000
Brazil

Building on his personal, educational, and professional experience with the Brazilian penitentiary system, Roberto da Silva is implementing a comprehensive system for community co-management of prisons that provides citizen institutions with the technical training and partnerships necessary to turn...

Sylvio José de Oliveira

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Project Tereza
Sep 1992
Brazil

Sylvio Jose de Oliveira has created an independent, voluntary program in the Rio de Janeiro state prison system designed to prevent AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases from spreading among and through the inmates. The focus of this program is to provide health and hygiene information, and...

Ronaldo Lima de Oliveira

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Feb 1995
Brazil

Ronaldo Lima de Oliveira is working both to prevent the destruction of the rain forest and to guarantee the survival of forest communities by creating a model for sustainable agro-economical activities in Brazil's recently-created "extractive reserves." The strategies that he is developing will...

Raul Belens Jungmann Pinto

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IDEC - Instituto de Defesa da Cidadania
Nov 1990
Brazil

Planning consultant Raul Jungmann is tackling nothing less than the entire justice and security system in Brazil, working to reform its archaic institutions through popular participation.

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Making Amends: A Restorative Justice Program Seeks to End America’s Epidemic of Violence

Danielle Sered
Society wants safety. We know that meaningful accountability—not punishment—creates safety. Good solutions to violence will always be survivor-centered. If you actually ask survivors of crime what they want, they almost always prefer to see the person who hurt them take responsibility and change...
Prison reform has become a priority in America’s movements for social and racial justice. Is reform also the key to reducing violence in society? Danielle Sered started and leads Common Justice, America’s only “alternative to prison” program for people charged in the adult criminal courts with...
Making Amends:

A Restorative Justice Program Seeks to End America’s Epidemic of Violence

Danielle Sered
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Inside Ashoka: A New Kind of Prosecutor, with Adam Foss

Inside Ashoka: A New Kind of Prosecutor
Prosecutors wield incredible power — and discretion — when it comes to charging people with crimes and ultimately sending them to prison. Decades of a “tough on crime” culture within prosecutor offices have fed mass incarceration and its devastating consequences. But what if we could change that...