[One-Pager] Restorative Approaches in a Time of Racial Reckoning

Catholic Mobilizing Network’s advocacy toward ending the death penalty and advancing justice and healing reveals the institutionalized racism and discrimination rampant in the U.S. criminal legal system, which results in the over-incarceration of Black and Brown people.

Misuse and abuse of power perpetuate racial injustice and deny human beings of their God-given dignity. As a community of believers, we are called to engage in racial justice work with a spirit of truth-telling and a commitment to right relationship.

Learn how restorative justice principles and practices can offer healing ways of addressing the deep harms of racial oppression and transforming the broken systems which give them rise.

You can also download the companion resource: “Racism and the Death Penalty: Compounding Systems of Dehumanization“.