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Issues in Criminal Justice (JF)
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Beyond Crime and Punishment
Our prison system is broken.
 While the U.S. represents only 5 percent of the world's population, it contains 25 percent of the world's prisoners. This means that either Americans are the most evil people on the planet, or there is something terribly wrong with the way we enforce justice.
Every year, American taxpayers pay $68 billion to incarcerate 2.3 million prisoners (or one in 100 Americans adults). More than 700,000 of them return to our communities every year-some more violent than they were before; most unprepared to handle life on the outside. More than two-thirds of them will be back in prison within 3 years.
Meanwhile, we forget about the group that is most directly impacted by crime: the victims.
Justice Fellowship believes that it is time to restore justice to our prison system, make our communities safer, and reconcile victims and offenders. There is one way to do this: a biblical approach to justice that extends beyond crime and punishment.
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