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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of The California Report Magazine’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/resilience\">series about resilient Californians\u003c/a>, and what lessons they may have for the rest of us.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanice Robinson grew up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/richmond\">Richmond\u003c/a>, where she first met her future husband, Joe “Fatter” Blacknell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even like my husband growing up,” she recalled. “I thought that he was just like a very obnoxious, flamboyant person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Years later, while Blacknell was incarcerated and serving multiple life sentences, their lives converged again — this time bound by the shared grief over losing loved ones. 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Shanice Robinson, who is a visiting assistant professor at San Francisco State University, a teacher for incarcerated people and an author of “Gangster’s Scholar: Love Behind Bars”, works to advocate for those affected by the prison system. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, as Senior Director of Culture and Social Justice at SF State, she teaches in university classrooms and inside correctional facilities. Her work focuses on dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline and amplifying the voices of Black students and incarcerated people — a mission shaped as much by her scholarship as by the life she leads at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/californiareportmagazine\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/vrancano\">Vanessa Rancaño\u003c/a> as part of our series on resilience. 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Once I saw it, I instantly called my mom, and then I reached out to him, and I said, “Hey, I heard about your dad — just want to offer my condolences.[aside postID=news_12049545 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-1290177307-2000x1280.jpg']I was able to go visit him, and we just stayed connected. I feel like we were bonded through grief because I also was going through losing my grandmother the year before. And I feel grief is what kind of brought us back together full circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went to private school, but Joe didn’t have that opportunity. And because there was a lack of intervention from the school side, not only did he have diagnosed learning disabilities, but he had undiagnosed mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison or jail, in general, doesn’t help people. I think that we need some trauma-informed, restorative approaches to support people who are struggling with PTSD, struggling with abandonment issues, trust issues, child neglect. That’s where I utilize my resilience to help him. It’s almost like having to re-raise a child because I’m teaching him things that I feel like he should have learned from his family, and that’s what sometimes makes the relationship hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On maintaining love while apart\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Because we were friends first, it’s easy for him and I to adapt to our circumstances. If I’m on my way to work, we use that as an opportunity to talk, to joke, he’s able to video call me, and I’m able to see him three days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think what keeps us really close is we treat our marriage like any other marriage. 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I’m an individual, but now that I’m married to him, I feel like I live in the shadow of his headline — I live the shadow of his life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I feel it’s unfair to me to not be able to be who I truly am as a full person. And that’s part of who I am, being married to this man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard to try to be there and support him while I feel my character is being assassinated just for loving this person.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On resilience as part of the Black experience\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a Black person, we are born with a bull’s-eye on our back. We often have to code-switch and shift our identities just to coexist and adapt to what the mainstream society says we have to be.[aside postID=news_12040453 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250509-JOHN-POWELL-MD-02-KQED-3-1020x680.jpg']I would say resilience to me is not about the absence of struggle, it’s having the audacity to dream beyond it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding hope in the most unlikely of places, I think that that’s super important. To be able to teach within the carceral system, I utilize my lived experience that’s rooted in love, rooted in loss, but also rooted in resilience to empower other people looking for that sense of hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I actually got the idea to do that through my husband. 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The environment itself speaks to we don’t trust you,” said Garrett Jacobs, director of research and evaluation for Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, the architecture firm that designed the new home for Community Works, a nonprofit that provides alternatives to the traditional criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This space, which officially opened Tuesday in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood, is bright and airy, with walls covered in wood paneling, soothing colors, and art, and yes, the furniture is movable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It immediately has undertones of trust and empowerment,” Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrienne Hogg, co-executive director of Community Works, said after nearly 30 years of working almost exclusively out of county jail facilities, the organization secured a 10-year lease on the 6,000-square-foot site, where it plans to house programs, including support for survivors of domestic violence, diversion programs for youth and young adults, and reentry programs for people exiting incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a mezzanine level in the new space, past colorfully decorated kites, a group of teenagers took a break, playing a round of guess-the-celebrity. 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A 2022 study found that a program run by Community Works and another restorative justice nonprofit for youth ages 13 to 17 facing serious felony charges resulted in a 44% reduction in recidivism — compared to a control group who were prosecuted in the traditional juvenile justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It’s not kumbaya, it’s not ‘Let’s hold hands and hand you a get out of jail free card.’ It’s really difficult work that most people spend their whole lives trying to avoid having to do,” said Lara Bazelon, a professor of law at the University of San Francisco and director of its racial justice clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the nonprofit is excited about the potential of its new brick-and-mortar, Hogg acknowledges that it faces political headwinds at the local and federal levels. 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"content": "\u003cp>When a sexual assault survivor walks into Alexandra Fulcher’s office at Occidental College, it’s the first step in a process fraught with consequences for both the survivor and the accused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Fulcher, the school’s Title IX director, launches an official investigation, the survivor could be asked to recount their trauma and cross-examined about it in a live hearing. Their alleged assaulter could be expelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the past year, survivors at Occidental have had another option. They can participate in a restorative justice conference with the person who harmed them, in which that person hears about the impact of their actions, takes responsibility and commits to a plan to help repair the harm — and prevent it from happening again.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alexandra Fulcher, Title IX director, Occidental College\"]‘This age group, at least at Oxy, is less interested in punitive options.’[/pullquote]The conferences draw on a long tradition of restorative justice, a philosophy that eschews punishment in favor of coming up with collective solutions to address violence and harm within a community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of California colleges have recently begun using restorative justice in cases of sexual assault and harassment, or are seriously considering it. And Fulcher said it’s a path that an increasing number of survivors at Occidental are choosing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This age group, at least at Oxy, is less interested in punitive options,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One argument for making restorative justice available is that it may encourage more survivors to come forward. An overwhelming majority of survivors of campus sexual violence never file a report, and of those that do, few choose to pursue disciplinary action, said David Karp, director of the Center for Restorative Justice at the University of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Title IX rules passed under the Trump administration made the formal complaint process less attractive for sexual assault survivors by requiring that they be cross-examined in live hearings, while at the same time giving schools more flexibility to pursue informal resolutions, Karp said. (The Biden administration has proposed new rules that would give colleges flexibility in whether to require cross-examination.)[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11935859,news_11921799,news_11911375\"]Both of those changes helped spur interest in restorative justice, he said — including at his own campus, which is currently in its first year of offering restorative justice for Title IX cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems pretty clear that there’s student demand and that Title IX administrators are really dissatisfied with the current options and would like to see the options expand,” he said. “There’s some legitimate worry about bad implementation or retraumatization and reasons why we should be careful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2022/04/california-state-university-sexual-harassment/\">sexual harassment scandal\u003c/a> at California State University this year that led to the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/02/cal-state-chancellor-resigns/\">resignation of the university’s chancellor\u003c/a> and numerous reports of campus administrators \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-12-15/sexual-violence-harassment-racism-and-transphobia-csus-maritime-academy-essential-california\">mishandling Title IX cases\u003c/a> has focused attention on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2022/09/sexual-assault-support-advocates/\">how California colleges resolve such cases\u003c/a>. The federal civil rights law, which turned 50 this year, protects students from sex-based discrimination in schools, including sexual violence. Meanwhile, an influential committee of lawmakers and judges earlier this month recommended that the state give all \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/12/northern-california-earthquake-safety-debate/\">crime victims the right to participate in restorative justice programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preparing a successful restorative justice conference — also known as a restorative justice circle — can take months, said René Rivera, a facilitator for the Ahimsa Collective, a nonprofit that conducts them for Occidental students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, both parties must agree to participate. The facilitators meet separately with both parties, making sure they have support systems in place — therapists, friends, family. The survivor decides what they want the outcome of the circle to be, and the person who acknowledges causing harm starts to face up to what they’ve done. The accused is often asked to write a letter to the survivor, which may never be read to them, but can help the accused sort out their own feelings and take accountability before addressing the survivor face-to-face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can take a long time to get to a place where everyone feels ready to meet each other and listen to each other,” said Rivera. “We as facilitators need to feel confident that there will not be more harm in bringing these two people together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The circle, which usually lasts several hours, is not over until the accused has made an apology and the survivor is able to ask any questions of the accused. The person who’s caused the harm then takes the steps the survivor has requested, which could include things like getting therapy, or quitting an extracurricular activity so the survivor doesn’t have to run into them on campus.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gabi Jeakle, student, Loyola Marymount University\"]‘What makes restorative justice work is that it’s addressing a deep systemic and historical prejudice that a lot of wrongdoings happen because of systemic oppression.’[/pullquote]Nationally, Rutgers University in New Jersey has been using restorative justice since 2016 — first to treat less-serious incidents such as alcohol violations and later in Title IX cases. Amy Miele, the university’s associate director of student affairs, compliance and Title IX, vividly remembers the first restorative justice conference she organized in a sexual assault case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student who had been assaulted chose restorative justice because “she did not want another man of color with a disciplinary record,” Miele said. “She said, ‘I want healing and justice and to be able to move on from this, I have a lot of questions I want answered, and I don’t feel comfortable going up to him on my own.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties met in a conference room, Miele said, sitting around a table stocked with water bottles, tissues, drawing paper, pens and snacks. But within a couple minutes, both students erupted with rage as the accused person grappled with the reality of what he had done, and the harmed person confronted her assaulter for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miele and her team took a pause, allowing both students to calm down and giving them stress balls and water bottles to hold for the rest of the conference. Returning to the circle relaxed and prepared, the accused did something no one was expecting — he said, “I’m signing,” apologized and accepted full responsibility for his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that moment when he looked them in the eyes and said, ‘I’m sorry,’ it was as if we could all breathe again, like the fog lifted,” Miele said. The survivor told Miele the process had restored her faith in humanity, Miele said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evidence of success\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there’s little data available about the effectiveness of restorative justice in preventing future sexual assaults, some studies of youth convicted of other crimes have shown that \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/impacts-of-make-it-right-program-on-recidivism/\">those who participate in restorative justice conferences are less likely to be rearrested\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a survey gauging Rutgers’ students’ satisfaction with the restorative justice process, one student accused of assault said, “The explorations of mine and (survivor’s) perspectives was done very well. I was shocked at times to hear things I had never even thought of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference “showed me a game plan that I could follow to alleviate the harm done to (Complainant) and to better myself,” another wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides having the potential to increase reporting of sexual assaults, restorative justice is also a rejection of a racist criminal justice system in favor of something more equitable, said Domale Dube Keys, a former lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles who wrote a paper recommending that colleges offer restorative justice in Title IX cases.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alexandra Fulcher, Title IX director, Occidental College\"]‘In terms of the parties’ satisfaction with the (restorative justice) process, it is leaps and bounds more than our typical investigation and hearing process.’[/pullquote]“A restorative justice approach really is a way of recognizing that if we keep on this track of, ‘We need to police, we need to do this law-and-order approach to sexual violence,’ it’s people of color and gender non-conforming people that are going to suffer,” said Keys. “They are going to have less resources to go the legal route, less public support when it comes to believing their stories. It’s a way of recognizing that our system is flawed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Indigenous tribes have been practicing forms of restorative justice for generations. So when professors on Cal Poly Humboldt’s sexual assault prevention committee were considering using restorative justice for sexual misconduct, they took inspiration from the local Yurok tribe, whose members had experience using the practice to heal after domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our community, the connections between us are so thick, when something bad happens to one of us, we all experience it in some way,” Blythe George, a Yurok tribal member and sociology professor at UC Merced, said in a presentation at Cal Poly Humboldt in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a tribal member is banished, she said, “their songs go with them, the teachings that their parents and grandparents took the time to teach them … and that’s why it’s so important for us to have this restorative justice component, because we are actively reclaiming our people from a system that has done nothing but try to take us or kill us for the better part of centuries now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fair to survivors?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But critics of using restorative justice for campus sexual assault cases say that the power dynamics are different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What makes restorative justice work is that it’s addressing a deep systemic and historical prejudice that a lot of wrongdoings happen because of systemic oppression,” said Gabi Jeakle, a student at Loyola Marymount University who has worked to improve the university’s Title IX resources and is herself a survivor. But statistically speaking, she said, much sexual assault happens at the hands of historically privileged people. “It’s oftentimes white men in fraternities harming women. It’s important to look at that context and say that’s not the same argument as someone who has been a victim of the school-to-prison pipeline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeakle acknowledged that for the colleges that are trying this, survivors get to choose whether to pursue restorative justice or a traditional investigation. But when you’ve recently undergone trauma, she said, “it can be difficult to know what you need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936490\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young white woman with brown braided hair wearing a sweater looks at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loyola Marymount University student Gabi Jeakle poses for a portrait at her home in Seattle, Washington on Dec. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(David Ryder/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal law bars restorative justice in cases where a professor has assaulted or harassed a student. And potential power differentials between survivor and accused have also surfaced as an issue at Cal Poly Humboldt, where Maxwell Schnurer, a communications professor who chairs the university’s sexual assault prevention committee, said he’s concerned that restorative justice could lead to a “survivor being asked to take care of someone who had harmed them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Committee members have received training in restorative justice but said they haven’t yet decided whether it could work on their campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Berkeley, restorative justice advocates were developing a separate pathway for handling cases outside the university’s Title IX office, said Julie Shackford-Bradley, director of the university’s Restorative Justice Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they soon ran into a pitfall: A key tenet of restorative justice conferences is confidentiality. But most university employees — including those who would be running the conferences — are mandatory reporters, meaning that by law, they must tell the Title IX coordinator if they hear of any sexual harassment or assault happening on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center ended up scrapping the plan, Shackford-Bradley said, at least until the legal issues can be resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory reporting has not been an issue at Occidental, said Fulcher, since any cases that are referred to the Ahimsa Collective have already been reported to the university’s Title IX office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of the parties’ satisfaction with the (restorative justice) process, it is leaps and bounds more than our typical investigation and hearing process,” Fulcher said — in part because restorative justice gives both survivor and respondent more control over the outcome.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Amy Miele, associate director of student affairs, Occidental College\"]‘In that moment when he looked them in the eyes and said, ‘I’m sorry,’ it was as if we could all breathe again, like the fog lifted.’[/pullquote]Rivera, the facilitator, said that Occidental’s experiment with restorative justice shows that “there’s an alternative (to punishment) and the alternative is to have a conversation that is actually as healing [as] possible for both parties, and where the person who has caused the harm is gonna be treated as a full human being in that process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that personally gives me a lot of hope. If we can do that on college campuses, it feels so much more possible to start to have those kinds of alternatives in other areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at California campuses where restorative justice conferences aren’t taking place, advocates for survivors are going beyond traditional Title IX investigations, finding ways to redress harm, involve the community and prevent future assaults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley offers survivor circles, in which students can share their stories and build community with other sexual assault survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at Loyola Marymount, Jeakle is getting fraternities to contribute to a fund that supports survivors of sexual assault who need help with travel and medical expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want to forgive the entire institution because one individual apologizes,” she said. “Asking people to be part of a cultural shift is more important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nationally, Rutgers University in New Jersey has been using restorative justice since 2016 — first to treat less-serious incidents such as alcohol violations and later in Title IX cases. Amy Miele, the university’s associate director of student affairs, compliance and Title IX, vividly remembers the first restorative justice conference she organized in a sexual assault case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The student who had been assaulted chose restorative justice because “she did not want another man of color with a disciplinary record,” Miele said. “She said, ‘I want healing and justice and to be able to move on from this, I have a lot of questions I want answered, and I don’t feel comfortable going up to him on my own.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties met in a conference room, Miele said, sitting around a table stocked with water bottles, tissues, drawing paper, pens and snacks. But within a couple minutes, both students erupted with rage as the accused person grappled with the reality of what he had done, and the harmed person confronted her assaulter for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miele and her team took a pause, allowing both students to calm down and giving them stress balls and water bottles to hold for the rest of the conference. Returning to the circle relaxed and prepared, the accused did something no one was expecting — he said, “I’m signing,” apologized and accepted full responsibility for his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that moment when he looked them in the eyes and said, ‘I’m sorry,’ it was as if we could all breathe again, like the fog lifted,” Miele said. The survivor told Miele the process had restored her faith in humanity, Miele said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evidence of success\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there’s little data available about the effectiveness of restorative justice in preventing future sexual assaults, some studies of youth convicted of other crimes have shown that \u003ca href=\"https://www.capolicylab.org/impacts-of-make-it-right-program-on-recidivism/\">those who participate in restorative justice conferences are less likely to be rearrested\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a survey gauging Rutgers’ students’ satisfaction with the restorative justice process, one student accused of assault said, “The explorations of mine and (survivor’s) perspectives was done very well. I was shocked at times to hear things I had never even thought of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference “showed me a game plan that I could follow to alleviate the harm done to (Complainant) and to better myself,” another wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides having the potential to increase reporting of sexual assaults, restorative justice is also a rejection of a racist criminal justice system in favor of something more equitable, said Domale Dube Keys, a former lecturer at the University of California Los Angeles who wrote a paper recommending that colleges offer restorative justice in Title IX cases.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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So when professors on Cal Poly Humboldt’s sexual assault prevention committee were considering using restorative justice for sexual misconduct, they took inspiration from the local Yurok tribe, whose members had experience using the practice to heal after domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our community, the connections between us are so thick, when something bad happens to one of us, we all experience it in some way,” Blythe George, a Yurok tribal member and sociology professor at UC Merced, said in a presentation at Cal Poly Humboldt in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a tribal member is banished, she said, “their songs go with them, the teachings that their parents and grandparents took the time to teach them … and that’s why it’s so important for us to have this restorative justice component, because we are actively reclaiming our people from a system that has done nothing but try to take us or kill us for the better part of centuries now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fair to survivors?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But critics of using restorative justice for campus sexual assault cases say that the power dynamics are different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What makes restorative justice work is that it’s addressing a deep systemic and historical prejudice that a lot of wrongdoings happen because of systemic oppression,” said Gabi Jeakle, a student at Loyola Marymount University who has worked to improve the university’s Title IX resources and is herself a survivor. But statistically speaking, she said, much sexual assault happens at the hands of historically privileged people. “It’s oftentimes white men in fraternities harming women. It’s important to look at that context and say that’s not the same argument as someone who has been a victim of the school-to-prison pipeline.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeakle acknowledged that for the colleges that are trying this, survivors get to choose whether to pursue restorative justice or a traditional investigation. But when you’ve recently undergone trauma, she said, “it can be difficult to know what you need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936490\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young white woman with brown braided hair wearing a sweater looks at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/122322-gina-jeakle-2-DR-CM-copy.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loyola Marymount University student Gabi Jeakle poses for a portrait at her home in Seattle, Washington on Dec. 23, 2022. \u003ccite>(David Ryder/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal law bars restorative justice in cases where a professor has assaulted or harassed a student. And potential power differentials between survivor and accused have also surfaced as an issue at Cal Poly Humboldt, where Maxwell Schnurer, a communications professor who chairs the university’s sexual assault prevention committee, said he’s concerned that restorative justice could lead to a “survivor being asked to take care of someone who had harmed them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Committee members have received training in restorative justice but said they haven’t yet decided whether it could work on their campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Berkeley, restorative justice advocates were developing a separate pathway for handling cases outside the university’s Title IX office, said Julie Shackford-Bradley, director of the university’s Restorative Justice Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they soon ran into a pitfall: A key tenet of restorative justice conferences is confidentiality. But most university employees — including those who would be running the conferences — are mandatory reporters, meaning that by law, they must tell the Title IX coordinator if they hear of any sexual harassment or assault happening on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center ended up scrapping the plan, Shackford-Bradley said, at least until the legal issues can be resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandatory reporting has not been an issue at Occidental, said Fulcher, since any cases that are referred to the Ahimsa Collective have already been reported to the university’s Title IX office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of the parties’ satisfaction with the (restorative justice) process, it is leaps and bounds more than our typical investigation and hearing process,” Fulcher said — in part because restorative justice gives both survivor and respondent more control over the outcome.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The case has sparked intense criticism of Boudin, including a recall effort for his choice not to prosecute McAlister’s multiple recent arrests leading up to the deadly incident, instead referring the arrests to state parole officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversy caps the former public defender’s challenging first year in office and spotlights his contentious relationship with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin, the son of former radical leftist activists, won the race for district attorney in 2019 as part of a politically progressive wave of prosecutors in cities across the country committed to restorative justice over mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Boudin continues to face tremendous challenges — made all the more formidable by the COVID-19 pandemic — including a mountain of some 6,000 open cases and staunch opposition from the city’s police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Boudin spoke to Michael Krasny on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101881460/san-francisco-district-attorney-chesa-boudins-first-year-in-office-ends-in-controversy\">KQED Forum\u003c/a> and took questions from listeners about his progressive agenda for criminal justice in San Francisco and his office’s track record over the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following includes highlights from the interview and has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you start by addressing the New Year’s Eve tragedy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a terrible and devastating tragedy. I met yesterday for well over an hour with Mrs. Abe, the mother of one of the two victims, and it was unbelievably difficult. I meet with victims of crime as a regular part of my job, and the meetings are never easy. But I have to tell you, yesterday’s meeting was unusually challenging for many reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin\"]‘The reality is, in any homicide, we cannot undo the harm that was caused. And that’s the weight that I carry as the district attorney every single day, in every single decision that I make, in every single case.’[/pullquote]The reality is, in any homicide, we cannot undo the harm that was caused. And that’s the weight that I carry as the district attorney every single day, in every single decision that I make, in every single case. It is devastating. And I know that only the families of these two women truly appreciate the depths of pain and loss and suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what we’re focused on is three things going forward. First of all, supporting the families through the grief. Second of all, holding Mr. McAlister, the man we believe caused this harm, accountable for what he did. And third, bringing together all the different law enforcement agencies who were involved in supervising or policing or holding Mr. McAlister accountable and looking at what we did, what we could have done, what we should have done in ensuring that going forward, we don’t have agencies operating in silos, but that we have better communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There are many people, specifically Tony Montoya, head of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, who are saying you’re responsible. That you didn’t prosecute and should have.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s be clear about Tony Montoya and the POA. The leadership of the POA have been a really toxic part of San Francisco politics since way before I ever even ran for office. And they’ve been accusing me of horrific things and lies and spreading dishonesty. Not just about me, but about virtually everybody in public life in San Francisco progressive politics for years. It’s nothing new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And much of the misinformation about this case is being spread intentionally by Tony Montoya and by the POA. Now, they can point fingers and they can try to get me to point fingers back. But as San Francisco Police Chief [Bill] Scott said, every law enforcement agency has to take responsibility for what they did or didn’t do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my case, of course, there are things in hindsight that we could have done differently. That’s true in every single case where someone who’s had prior law enforcement contact is involved in a serious crime. We don’t have a crystal ball. And the district attorney’s office in San Francisco handles thousands and thousands of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When someone is on probation or on parole, we often rely on those agencies. It’s a question of efficiency, it’s a question of resources, and it’s a question of prioritizing violent crimes. When Mr. McAlister was arrested earlier this year, his arrests were nonviolent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given those circumstances, it was standard practice in my office way before I was sworn in — this is true across the state — to defer to the primary supervising agency. In this instance, it was parole, and parole has tools and resources and options available to them, far more nuanced and individualized than simply filing a new criminal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we need to be honest about what filing a new criminal case in those first contacts he had this year after his parole would have done. Charging someone with a new nonviolent offense rarely results in ongoing incarceration absent a parole revocation. We trust parole and we continue to trust parole because they know the individuals they supervise and they have the tools and the expertise to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some have the perception that you are more of an advocate for people who break the law than the general citizenry of San Francisco. How do you counter that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"chesa-boudin\"]I’m really sorry to hear that that’s the perception some people have. I know that the POA has contributed to it. They tried to make that the perception even before I was elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m running my office as well as I can, and I’m working as hard as I can under historically difficult circumstances. Nobody predicted or anticipated the kinds of challenges that 2020 would bring us. And yet, we managed to transition my staff to electronic procedures, electronic case filing and discovery and court appearances. We managed to file 4,300 new criminal cases, and I personally took a murder case that had been languishing for years to a grand jury and secured an indictment to move that case one step closer to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m rolling up my sleeves and I’m personally doing the work to keep our cases moving forward and to help make San Francisco safer for all of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What role should the DA have in investigating ongoing scandals at City Hall?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we talk about crime and we talk about accountability, the system does a really bad job remembering the victims. In every single case, there’s someone who’s harmed. And when you talk about corruption, all of us in San Francisco are victims of corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen this year a really staggering proportion of scandals in City Hall. And it’s something that everyone in law enforcement, I think, needs to step up and do more on. I have a very small team working on those kinds of cases. Our primary focus is more traditional criminal cases brought to us by the San Francisco Police Department: burglaries, robberies, drug sales. Those are the cases that take up most of our resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do have a small, dedicated team investigating public integrity issues. And I can tell you that they are in many ways outmanned and outgunned by the U.S. attorney that has been working on this case evidently for a number of years with resources far beyond anything that the city allows us to spend on these kinds of cases. We would certainly like to do more. And it takes resources, it takes investigators, it takes wiretaps, it takes cooperating witnesses. And those are some of the things that we need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many SF residents feel under siege by break-ins and vandalism, and don’t think your office is willing to prosecute those crimes. What’s your response?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important that people be safe and it’s important that people feel safe. Both things are important. The reality is that San Francisco has probably never been safer than it is right now. But I also know that people don’t feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]‘It’s important that people be safe and it’s important that people feel safe. … The reality is that San Francisco has probably never been safer than it is right now. But I also know that people don’t feel safe.’[/pullquote]If you look at the data, it shows that in 2020, crime overall decreased in San Francisco by a historic 24.5%. That includes massive drops in auto burglaries, in petty theft, in assaults, in robberies — assaults and robberies, being the two most common violent crimes in San Francisco. Historic double-digit drops in those categories of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, I want to be clear. I am not taking credit for those drops. We all know that the COVID-19 pandemic and the drastic reshaping of daily life in our city is what primarily accounts for those drops. And by the same token, we know that certain categories of crime have increased, things like burglary, residential and commercial, things like motor vehicle theft went up and things like discharge of firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, those categories of crime went up in big cities all across the country without regard to who the police chief is, without regard to the local politics of the district attorney or the police union. These are national trends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was on the campaign trail last year, one of the issues that was front and center for most San Francisco voters was auto burglaries. Auto burglaries dropped by about 40% last year. Now, some of the people who in 2019 committed those auto burglaries earn their living off property crime. And with fewer opportunities to break into tourist cars, with fewer opportunities to walk into stores and businesses and shoplift, some of those people resorted to going inside, the same way that all of us have gone inside during the pandemic. And so, yes, we did see an increase in other kinds of burglaries. We saw an increase of about 2,000 more burglaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residential burglaries are a serious crime. It’s a crime that I take very seriously. It’s a case that carries a maximum punishment of up to six years in state prison. If we are given evidence from police sufficient to prove a case to a jury, we will file it and we will prosecute it. Having video evidence in a year where every single person is wearing a mask may not be adequate to prove who committed the burglary. Police may believe they know who did it, but it’s up to my lawyers to prove to a jury of all of you listening, beyond any reasonable doubt, who did what and what their intent was when they broke in and stole something. That’s the burden we have and we meet it in cases all the time and we prosecute those cases all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How would you describe your relationship with the police?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was elected on a very transparent and clear platform to enforce the law equally and to fight for racial justice and equity in our criminal justice system. To focus resources on root causes of crime so that we can break the revolving door that has come to so epitomize the failed American approach to criminal justice from coast to coast. And I have followed through on my commitments, despite the obstacles and despite the real challenges that both 2020 and the entrenched bureaucracy in the criminal justice system and the attacks from people like [SFPOA leader] Tony Montoya have put in our path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]‘When individual police officers tell lies, like we don’t prosecute, that does damage to our ability to keep San Franciscans safe and it makes people feel unsafe.’[/pullquote]I think the district attorney’s office has a tremendous amount to be proud of this year. We responded aggressively and with leadership in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and a social justice and racial justice movement unlike any this country has ever seen. And we’ve played a leadership role in reimagining how we can promote public safety and support victims of crime while also decreasing our reliance on racist policies that have destroyed families and communities and bankrupted local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when individual police officers tell lies, like we don’t prosecute, that does damage to our ability to keep San Franciscans safe and it makes people feel unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the numbers: In 2020, we filed over 72% of the residential burglary charges the police brought us. But here’s the problem: They only presented us with 285 possible cases to charge out of the 7,391 burglaries reported to the police. So if 90% of people who commit that crime aren’t arrested, then people don’t feel like there’s a deterrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to support the police in doing a more effective job on the front end. And instead of having individual officers point the finger at me or my office, I’d love to work collaboratively with them. Chief Scott and I have a great relationship. We have regular meetings. If we could have that same level of collaboration and cooperation and collective responsibility all the way up and down the line, I think San Franciscans would not only feel safer, but they’d be safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are you doing to hold police officers accountable who use excessive force?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a huge challenge. We filed what I believe to be the first ever homicide charges against a San Francisco Police Department officer while they were on duty for a killing. In this instance, it was an unarmed black man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I want to be really clear, I don’t celebrate filing those criminal charges. Filing homicide charges is a very serious decision, whether it’s a police officer or whether it’s somebody else. And we make that decision after a careful and exhaustive review of all of the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11848521 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/RS40220__M6A1817-qut-1020x680.jpg']But we have to have equal enforcement of the law. We have to have a system in which no one is above the law, regardless of their race or their wealth or the uniform they wear to work. And the reason that the POA has been attacking me since even before I was elected, the reason the kinds of lies were being told to residents and to crime victims even before I took office, is because of that fear of equal enforcement of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leadership in the POA is used to impunity. They want impunity, and they don’t want transparency or sunshine on the small minority of officers who engage in excessive force or explicitly racist and discriminatory conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal justice system and public safety depend on having trust between the communities and the law enforcement agencies that have sworn to serve and protect then. And we will never have that trust until everyone knows that if you commit a crime, you will be treated equally regardless of your job title.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[POA leaders] are trying to exploit tragedy and fear, to roll back the reforms that are wildly popular across the state and here in San Francisco, reforms that are long overdue in terms of racial justice and racial equity and reforms that empirically have been shown to promote public safety. They are relying on fear mongering. They are relying on dishonesty and manipulation in order to go backwards in time to an era where state and local budgets were dominated by expenditures for prisons, for jails, for militarized police, instead of investments in public health, in drug treatment and safe consumption sites, in the kinds of things that San Francisco and good science and data tell us we need to promote public safety. And that’s simply not good policy. But it’s effective fear mongering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can San Francisco do to improve conditions in beleaguered neighborhoods like the Tenderloin?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin is the neighborhood that’s the most diverse in all of San Francisco. It’s also the neighborhood with the highest concentration of school-age children. And to see the state of affairs in the Tenderloin is really devastating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need a more effective approach and we cannot continue to recycle the same failed policies from the war on drugs. Now, to be clear, I have filed felony criminal charges in about 78% of the drug sales or possession for sales cases police have brought me this year. We are continuing to file those charges, even though we know they haven’t worked in the past and we don’t expect them to solve the problems today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]‘Right now in San Francisco, it is easier to get high than it is to get help. And it doesn’t matter how many felony criminal charges we file, as long as that continues to be true, the Tenderloin is not going to change.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we need to be effective in communities like the Tenderloin: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, safe consumption sites to prevent the horrific number of overdoses from drugs like Fentanyl. Second, treatment on demand so that when people who are struggling with and battling addiction are trying to get sober or trying to get clean and turn their lives around and get off the street and on their feet, they have somewhere to go to get help. Right now in San Francisco, it is easier to get high than it is to get help. And it doesn’t matter how many felony criminal charges we file, as long as that continues to be true, the Tenderloin is not going to change. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have filed charges. We’ve seen the U.S. attorney deport people involved in low-level drug sales, and none of it has changed the situation on the streets. What will change it is housing, treatment and safe consumption sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about the cash bail issue?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a key issue for me for many years, as you know. Cash bail is a system really unique to the United States and the Philippines, where we have a for-profit private industry that basically buys people out of jail for a 10% nonrefundable fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have the money, you’re out immediately. If you don’t have the money, you languish behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s two fundamental problems with the cash bail system. First, it undermines public safety by allowing people, even people who are dangerous, to buy their way out and potentially go on to commit more crimes or harass victims. Second, it undermines the promise of equal protection under law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve got people charged, sometimes incorrectly, with things like shoplifting or drug sales. And when you’re charged with a nonviolent crime and you have a presumption of innocence and you don’t present a demonstrated public safety risk, the fact that you’re poor cannot, in a system governed by equal protection, mean you languish behind bars while you await trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when we ended money bail, we decided to replace a wealth-based system with a risk-based system. When my team of attorneys look at a case and look at an individual person accused of a crime’s history and circumstances and believe there are no conditions that can protect the public with that person on the streets, we ask the court to detain them. It doesn’t matter how wealthy they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if we look at someone and believe that it’s consistent with public safety, for them to be released, consistent with the constitutional protections and due process to which we’re all entitled, then we ask the court to release them on appropriate conditions, conditions that we believe are adequate to keep the public safe and ensure that the person obeys the law while the case is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]‘When you’re charged with a nonviolent crime and you have a presumption of innocence and you don’t present a demonstrated public safety risk, the fact that you’re poor cannot, in a system governed by equal protection, mean you languish behind bars while you await trial.’[/pullquote]It’s a system that in some ways the entire state had to put into effect in response to COVID-19. We saw an order come out of the Judicial Council back in April, basically setting all nonviolent offenses at zero bail, meaning people would get released no matter how wealthy are poo they were. And what we saw, as in San Francisco, is that most categories of crime, crime overall, went down. And people continued to show up to court and people continued to do what they were told by the judges, for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are you most proud of in your first year?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m proud of the work that we’ve done to support crime victims, particularly domestic violence victims, to provide them with housing. I’m proud of the fact that we’ve avoided an outbreak of COVID-19 in the jails, which we’ve seen happen all across the country. 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Yazmin not only had to admit she took the backpack, but she also had to repeat out loud the other girl’s version of the story. That’s a key part of the process, to make sure the victim is heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also had to do 30 hours of community service. Her job? Volunteering at a local thrift store run by the Mennonites. It wasn’t a random assignment. The whole restorative justice program started in the Fresno County town because of a global relief organization there, the \u003ca href=\"http://mcc.org/learn/where/us/west-coast\">West Coast Mennonite Central Committee\u003c/a> (MCC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10984933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"General Grant Middle School in Reedley also uses restorative justice. 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Seven years, ago, when Reedley saw a spike in the homicide rate and more kids joining gangs, the West Coast MCC introduced the idea of restorative justice to the police department and the school district. School and police officials were so worried about skyrocketing expulsion and suspension rates and kids getting into trouble that they decided to give it a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its more formal name is the \u003ca href=\"http://rpbi-reedley.org/\">Reedley Peace Building Initiative\u003c/a>. It’s specifically for kids who have committed minor crimes, misdemeanors like vandalism, fighting or stealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not trying to create a whole new justice system. This is just in support of what we have,” says John Swenning, a former cop. He works for the West Coast MCC and he’s the town’s go-to guy for restorative justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trained volunteers from the community mediate the cases. There are more than 70 volunteers who have signed up. Some of the most engaged volunteers come from Reedley’s First Mennonite Church and the Reedley Peace Center, which has its meetings on church grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Steve Penner says the idea of restorative justice is embedded in the church’s theology. “And we’re sort of naturally critics of the criminal justice system as it is and its retributive measures,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process keeps kids out of that system, says Penner. It means no court dates, no criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This whole restorative justice thing in Reedley has been good for us as peace people and police to find some common ground to work together because none of us want bad things to happen to youth and others in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that common ground that makes Reedley’s program successful, says Lt. 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It’s our own subsystem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Ann Carousso, administrator of student services for the Kings Canyon Unified School District, originally thought the idea was nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I thought, ‘Are you crazy?’ This is a massive undertaking,” she says. “I couldn’t fathom how we were going to be able to rely on volunteers. Modern life is busy and fast-paced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The self-described “queen of discipline” also wondered whether restorative justice would be too soft on crime. But now she thinks the opposite. “You’re getting a lot more discipline with restorative justice: mediation, community service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And kids like Yazmin still get suspended, despite the fact that critics of the program say schools aren’t disciplining kids enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be consistent,” Swenning says. “We’ve found that it really helps the whole process that the rules of the school are still followed. It’s just after this suspension, we’re giving them the opportunity to make this right, to do something that’s right, to make changes in their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And suspensions have gone way down. Swenning is convinced it’s because kids are learning. About 260 kids have gone through Reedley’s program. Only about 9 percent have committed another crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yazmin Ortiz would agree with Carousso and Swenning. She says the hardest part of the whole restorative justice process was writing a letter of apology. In fact, her first effort failed miserably. She accused the girl of having a nasty attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t really nice in that letter because I was really angry,” Ortiz says. “It was a bad letter. I explained to her that it was her fault I took her bag!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she rewrote the letter. She knows she caught a break; she could have been arrested or ended up with a criminal record. The blame ultimately falls on her, she says, and she won’t steal again, even if there is a temptation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these kids don’t know what accountability is, being responsible for their actions,” says Swenning. “There have been many cases where the student has never told the parents exactly what’s going on until they get into mediation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985464\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-800x675.jpg\" alt=\"Mennonites first came to Reedley in the early 1900s. The First Mennonite Church of Reedley was their first meeting house. \" width=\"800\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-800x675.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-400x338.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-1180x996.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-960x810.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mennonites first came to Reedley in the early 1900s. The First Mennonite Church of Reedley was their first meeting house.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Reedley Peace Building Initiative isn’t just about the offenders. Victims are expected to learn something, too. And it can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Guillermo Cruz. Last fall, a kid at school jumped him, beat him up. Cruz had never even met him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he was trying to like impress his friends or something,” says Cruz. “After he like punched me, I was mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His gut feeling was to retaliate, but then Swenning suggested mediation. So he took a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, it didn’t go well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillermo didn’t think the other kid was being honest. But Guillermo, Swenning and the parents of both boys called him on it. Eventually, the kid relented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like we both talked with each other. He even like gave me a letter to apologize,” he says. It was a weird experience, he adds, because he’d never gotten an apology from someone after a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other boy declined being interviewed for this story. He was expelled. But because of restorative justice, he had the chance to come back to Reedley High. Guillermo says things aren’t perfect between them, but at least they’re OK. They haven’t gotten into a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Guillermo knows it could have escalated into something really violent. He’s grown up around a gang in his neighborhood. Some of his friends have been shot or are in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he says, he really doesn’t want his life to go that way, and restorative justice has given him a different perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be in prison for like the rest of my life,” Guillermo says. “I’d rather be like good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the temptations are still there. A couple weeks ago, Guillermo got caught up in a group fight at a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, John Swenning and others say they’ll be watching out for him, pushing him to go to community college in the fall. Adults involved in the program also have to be accountable, says Swenning. Guillermo’s a good kid, he says. He just needs some added support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that kind of commitment that has put Reedley’s program on the map -- so much so that other cities, big and small, are now trying to emulate it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I couldn’t even look them in the eye because I felt really ashamed of what I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accountability is a key part of restorative justice, a process where the offender apologizes to the victim through mediation. Yazmin not only had to admit she took the backpack, but she also had to repeat out loud the other girl’s version of the story. That’s a key part of the process, to make sure the victim is heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also had to do 30 hours of community service. Her job? Volunteering at a local thrift store run by the Mennonites. It wasn’t a random assignment. The whole restorative justice program started in the Fresno County town because of a global relief organization there, the \u003ca href=\"http://mcc.org/learn/where/us/west-coast\">West Coast Mennonite Central Committee\u003c/a> (MCC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10984933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"General Grant Middle School in Reedley also uses restorative justice. A mediator talks with kids and parents about a vandalism case. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10984933\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">General Grant Middle School in Reedley also uses restorative justice. A mediator talks with kids and parents about a vandalism case. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The MCC is known for its restorative justice work in other countries. Seven years, ago, when Reedley saw a spike in the homicide rate and more kids joining gangs, the West Coast MCC introduced the idea of restorative justice to the police department and the school district. School and police officials were so worried about skyrocketing expulsion and suspension rates and kids getting into trouble that they decided to give it a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its more formal name is the \u003ca href=\"http://rpbi-reedley.org/\">Reedley Peace Building Initiative\u003c/a>. It’s specifically for kids who have committed minor crimes, misdemeanors like vandalism, fighting or stealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not trying to create a whole new justice system. This is just in support of what we have,” says John Swenning, a former cop. He works for the West Coast MCC and he’s the town’s go-to guy for restorative justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trained volunteers from the community mediate the cases. There are more than 70 volunteers who have signed up. Some of the most engaged volunteers come from Reedley’s First Mennonite Church and the Reedley Peace Center, which has its meetings on church grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Steve Penner says the idea of restorative justice is embedded in the church’s theology. “And we’re sort of naturally critics of the criminal justice system as it is and its retributive measures,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process keeps kids out of that system, says Penner. It means no court dates, no criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This whole restorative justice thing in Reedley has been good for us as peace people and police to find some common ground to work together because none of us want bad things to happen to youth and others in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that common ground that makes Reedley’s program successful, says Lt. Marc Ediger of the Reedley Police Department. “This is the perfect opportunity, I think, for the community to get involved and actually sit across the table from offenders and victims of crime so it’s not just the police department,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first heard about the program, he was worried it could be soft on crime. “But it’s not,” he says. “It’s taking ownership of what you’ve done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike criminal court cases that must be tried in Fresno, restorative justice cases never leave Reedley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we get a case, our goal is to have it in a mediator’s hands in 10 to 15 days,” says Ediger. “That’s the only system it visits at that point. That’s what’s really unique about it. It’s our own subsystem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Ann Carousso, administrator of student services for the Kings Canyon Unified School District, originally thought the idea was nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I thought, ‘Are you crazy?’ This is a massive undertaking,” she says. “I couldn’t fathom how we were going to be able to rely on volunteers. Modern life is busy and fast-paced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The self-described “queen of discipline” also wondered whether restorative justice would be too soft on crime. But now she thinks the opposite. “You’re getting a lot more discipline with restorative justice: mediation, community service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And kids like Yazmin still get suspended, despite the fact that critics of the program say schools aren’t disciplining kids enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be consistent,” Swenning says. “We’ve found that it really helps the whole process that the rules of the school are still followed. It’s just after this suspension, we’re giving them the opportunity to make this right, to do something that’s right, to make changes in their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And suspensions have gone way down. Swenning is convinced it’s because kids are learning. About 260 kids have gone through Reedley’s program. Only about 9 percent have committed another crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yazmin Ortiz would agree with Carousso and Swenning. She says the hardest part of the whole restorative justice process was writing a letter of apology. In fact, her first effort failed miserably. She accused the girl of having a nasty attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t really nice in that letter because I was really angry,” Ortiz says. “It was a bad letter. I explained to her that it was her fault I took her bag!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she rewrote the letter. She knows she caught a break; she could have been arrested or ended up with a criminal record. The blame ultimately falls on her, she says, and she won’t steal again, even if there is a temptation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these kids don’t know what accountability is, being responsible for their actions,” says Swenning. “There have been many cases where the student has never told the parents exactly what’s going on until they get into mediation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985464\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-800x675.jpg\" alt=\"Mennonites first came to Reedley in the early 1900s. 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And it can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Guillermo Cruz. Last fall, a kid at school jumped him, beat him up. Cruz had never even met him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he was trying to like impress his friends or something,” says Cruz. “After he like punched me, I was mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His gut feeling was to retaliate, but then Swenning suggested mediation. So he took a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, it didn’t go well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillermo didn’t think the other kid was being honest. But Guillermo, Swenning and the parents of both boys called him on it. Eventually, the kid relented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like we both talked with each other. He even like gave me a letter to apologize,” he says. It was a weird experience, he adds, because he’d never gotten an apology from someone after a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other boy declined being interviewed for this story. He was expelled. But because of restorative justice, he had the chance to come back to Reedley High. Guillermo says things aren’t perfect between them, but at least they’re OK. They haven’t gotten into a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Guillermo knows it could have escalated into something really violent. He’s grown up around a gang in his neighborhood. Some of his friends have been shot or are in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he says, he really doesn’t want his life to go that way, and restorative justice has given him a different perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be in prison for like the rest of my life,” Guillermo says. “I’d rather be like good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the temptations are still there. A couple weeks ago, Guillermo got caught up in a group fight at a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, John Swenning and others say they’ll be watching out for him, pushing him to go to community college in the fall. Adults involved in the program also have to be accountable, says Swenning. Guillermo’s a good kid, he says. He just needs some added support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For 18 years, the San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno has run a program aimed at keeping inmates from committing more crimes. It invites victims to meet with perpetrators, with the idea that hearing the voices of victims will force perpetrators to face their own actions. The meetings can be hard, but healing -- especially when they're between father and son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delia Ginorio runs the \u003ca href=\"http://fivekeyscharter.org/about/board\">Resolve To Stop Violence Program\u003c/a> (RSVP). In a room just off the jail hallway, Ginorio talks with the day’s speakers, outlining the work they do here. In addition to survivors' talks, they also run an on-site charter school, substance abuse recovery program, creative writing classes, yoga classes and meditation. It’s not a quick fix nor a guaranteed one, but Ginorio says that in the 18 years since they started, it’s proven incredibly effective at interrupting cycles of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/261603413\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a believer that no program works, but it’s our job to provide really good tools and information, and if our clients choose to use those, it will work for them,” she says. “We have good stats and information that the longer men are in our program, the higher the chance of them changing their behavior, but I can’t give false hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today Ginorio says the program will be “a little bit different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different because of who the speakers are. This isn’t the first time Joe Loya Jr., a convicted bank robber who has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Outgrew-Prison-Cell/dp/0060508930\" target=\"_blank\">telling his story\u003c/a> publicly for years, has spoken here. But this time he is joined by his father, and he’s feeling the nerves. It's only the second time they've told the story publicly together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginorio asks him why he's feeling shaky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ’Cause of my dad. Now I’m here with my dad, I’m telling the story differently. Now it’s a different story,” he says. He describes it as a dance with his father, a story told by two narrators. “We’re barely starting this dance, and now it’s a love story. And when you're in a love story, you collaborate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is a love story that took a long and violent detour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fathers and Sons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginorio leads the group down the hallway and into a room lined with jail cells. Chairs are arranged auditorium-style in the center. Forty-five men, all dressed in bright orange jumpsuits, are already in their seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginorio introduces herself and then poses some questions to the men in the room. How many are fathers, she asks. About a third of the men’s hands go up. Then she asks how many people have had challenges with their own fathers -- more than half of the men raise their hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many of you in here right now, your children, have issues with you?” Ginorio asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It taught him a lesson. ... A lesson that tied his own self-worth to violence, to the ability to fight back.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This time only a couple of hands shoot up. Ginorio shakes her head, “I just want to say if we had your children in here, I think they’d tell a different story. Just by being in jail you’re impacting your kids. We got to get honest about that, OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then she introduces Joe Loya Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe is a big guy, with a big laugh and a big voice, a natural-born storyteller. He talks about how he started robbing banks in the late '80s, a spree in which he robbed “about 18 banks in ’88 and ’89 in 14 months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I may not look like it, but when I was a youngster I was a pretty crazy guy. I copped to three banks and I did about seven years in the feds, spent about two years in solitary confinement,” he tells the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story Joe Jr. is here to share isn’t really about robbing banks, or even his time in prison. It’s about the moments that led up to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10943979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10943979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoeJr-800x874.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Loya Jr. tells the story of his journey from robbing banks and solitary confinement to being a successful writer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoeJr.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoeJr-400x437.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Loya Jr. tells the story of his journey from robbing banks and solitary confinement to being a successful writer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joe Loya Jr.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joe Jr. was born to 16-year-old parents in East Los Angeles. His parents were good parents, he says, and it was a loving home. But then when he was around 7 years old, his mom got sick with liver disease. She died two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That loss unleashed his father's rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are three moments from Joe Jr.’s childhood that he says were pivotal, that changed something in him. “These are the moments that my dad acted against his conscience in a way,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first one was after he got beaten up by some bullies, and came home with his sweater torn and glasses broken. His father put him in the car, and drove him around to find the guys that beat him up -- telling his son that he had to fight them. They found the guys, but Joe Jr. lied and told his dad it wasn’t them. “I’m in ninth grade, and my dad knows he has a sissy for a son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It taught him a lesson, he says, a lesson that tied his own self-worth to violence, to the ability to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second story is spotty in Joe Jr.’s mind because he had a concussion from football practice. But he remembers his father hitting him so hard he toppled over. This was a lesson in the inevitability of violence. It had become a language -- a shorthand between father and son that registered as a fist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These moments, Joe Jr. says, formed a “troika, the trinity of violent moments in my memory that I remember, and I held onto for many years in my prison cell.” Not just in his prison cell. Joe Jr. says that before he would go rob banks, he would think of these moments, turning them over in his mind whenever he wanted to conjure up rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is the third memory, the final one in the trinity, of one night when Joe Jr. was 16 that would turn both his and his father’s worlds upside down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Night Joe Jr. Stabbed His Father\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad comes home, we have a tough day, something kicks off -- and there happens to be a very, very bad beating that I’m subjected to, my brother and I. And it might not even have been the worst one of all. It just happens to be a bad day, and it happens to be that I’m very scared, and it happens to be that I reached my limit,” Joe Jr. says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the beating, Joe Loya Sr. left the house. Joe Jr. remembers locking his brother in a bathroom and going to the kitchen and grabbing a steak knife. He describes going to his bedroom, hiding the knife underneath his pillow and then waiting for his father to come home. It was as if he took the lessons of violence he learned and put them to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He comes to the bedroom door and it’s round two, I think. And I stand up and I pull out the knife. He tells me to put the knife down. One thing leads to another, we wrestle in the middle of the room, and I end up getting the better of him,” Joe Jr. says. He had stabbed his father in the neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers twisting the blade, trying to break it off. He remembers his father falling on the ground, yelling out, “You killed me, you killed me!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So up until now, I’ve been a victim. And now like, whoa, that felt interesting. Everything comes out. And as soon as it hit, I felt power. And I liked that feeling,” Joe Jr. says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Jr. was not charged with anything, and after the stabbing he and his brother were sent to foster care for a little bit. He ended up back in his father’s house, but not for long. Soon he was out on his own, and he turned to crime, making victims as a way to never be one again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail room is quiet. Some men stare at their feet, others watch Joe Jr. intensely. And then he does something I don’t think the men were expecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He invites his father to speak. “This is Joe Loya Sr.,” he tells them. “I love him very much -- show him respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10943956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TheLoyas-800x766.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Loya Sr. (L) and Joe Loya Jr. come together to celebrate after overcoming a rocky past.\" width=\"800\" height=\"766\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10943956\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TheLoyas-800x766.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TheLoyas-400x383.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TheLoyas.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TheLoyas-1180x1130.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TheLoyas-960x920.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/TheLoyas-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Loya Sr. (L) and Joe Loya Jr. come together to celebrate after overcoming a rocky past. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joe Loya Jr.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where Joe Jr., is big and brash, Joe Sr. is shorter, a slender man with an elegant figure. It doesn't seem possible that this is the same man who was as violent as Joe Jr. described.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Joe Sr. admits to what he did, everything. It wasn’t easy, and it didn’t happen overnight, but it was his idea to accompany his son on jail visits like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did beat him up, and I did punch him,” Joe Sr. says. “I never should have, that was way over the line. I was angry, I don’t want to go into details why, because it’s just an excuse, it’s just another excuse why I was angry. I hit him, and I remember very clearly that when he stabbed me, I was in shock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Sr. touches the wound that his son left in the back of his neck. He says that every now and then he touches it, feels the scar, and it all comes flooding back -- the fight, that night, all of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it happened I was completely in shock. But when he turned the knife, I said, ‘What an asshole.’ That’s how I felt. He didn’t have to turn the knife -- he already had it in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Sr. says what he remembered then was a “moment of enormous clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembered when he was a young parent, not much older than 16, coming home from work, and little Joe Jr. was banging on his high chair, so thrilled to see his father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, 'We’ve gone from that to this. Who's responsible?' ” Joe Sr. pounds his chest for emphasis. “I was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a beautiful little guy that loved me, that when he saw me would run to me -- Daddy, Daddy -- and now he’s put a knife in my neck. There is no book that’s given to a child, ‘Here’s how you can dust your dad.’ Nobody gets that book. We make that book in the heart of a child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rewriting the Book in the Heart\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they are working to rewrite the ending as a love story. Joe Jr. says this rewriting is possible in part because he recognized that his father’s pain was so similar to his own, that they were both shaped by the loss of his mother. It’s possible in part because Joe had a daughter, and they made a decision -- that it ends here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they had to start sharing their stories in words -- rather than blows -- in order to make that shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man in the back of the room stands up. “I grew up in a home with no father, I only met my father twice in my life. Both times he said he would be back and he never came back. But I also grew up in a very violent home, so I knew violence, it was really prevalent in my home. I was a victim of it and then I continued the cycle as I got older.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more practical questions from inmates as well. A man asks Joe Jr. how, after he was released from jail, he beat the temptation to go out and start robbing banks again. “I’m sure you liked what you were doing -- you liked the rush,” the man asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"LxIzsPOgkx5gpWOL47uN5GiJxIutdCvS\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Jr. nods and thinks for a second. He tells the man that robbing banks was always, at heart, a response driven by his own anger. “I really learned to see anger as a symptom of a wound.” Now, he keeps track of the warning signs, the body's physical manifestation of anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What do you guys feel when you get angry?” The men call out responses -- their teeth grind, their stomachs churn, their hearts pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I tell myself -- 'Oh no, my body’s feeling angry' -- immediately my mind now says, 'OK, where’s the wound?' Immediately. My brain turns instantly into, 'Oh if I’m feeling angry, get the anger out of the way, I’m wounded somewhere,' ” Joe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where’s the wound? It’s a fascinating question. And Joe Jr. puts it in a really powerful way -- that anger is a wound without a story. That when we don’t have a narrative for our pain, our wound's only outlet is rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the RSVP program is an idea about the power of storytelling. In hearing the stories of victims, and listening to the stories of our own wounds, we can change the narrative of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the end of each of these sessions, one of the men gets up to retell the story they have heard, to pull out the lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One clutches a pad of paper, and slowly reads the words he has written there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many of us didn’t want to be that little boy, didn’t want to be picked on? So I’m going to create this image, I’m going to create this monster, this person that victimizes, that hurts people,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ 'Cause you can’t hurt this monster, you can hurt that little boy, but you can’t hurt this monster. How many of us our fake, though, 'cause we think our violence means we are in control? But if someone calls us a bitch, we become a puppet to other people, other people can control us. And how many of us are doing what it takes to quiet that monster, doing work?” he asks. “ ’Cause I know I have still have that monster in me.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And when you're in a love story, you collaborate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is a love story that took a long and violent detour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fathers and Sons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginorio leads the group down the hallway and into a room lined with jail cells. Chairs are arranged auditorium-style in the center. Forty-five men, all dressed in bright orange jumpsuits, are already in their seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginorio introduces herself and then poses some questions to the men in the room. How many are fathers, she asks. About a third of the men’s hands go up. Then she asks how many people have had challenges with their own fathers -- more than half of the men raise their hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many of you in here right now, your children, have issues with you?” Ginorio asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It taught him a lesson. ... A lesson that tied his own self-worth to violence, to the ability to fight back.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This time only a couple of hands shoot up. Ginorio shakes her head, “I just want to say if we had your children in here, I think they’d tell a different story. Just by being in jail you’re impacting your kids. We got to get honest about that, OK?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then she introduces Joe Loya Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe is a big guy, with a big laugh and a big voice, a natural-born storyteller. He talks about how he started robbing banks in the late '80s, a spree in which he robbed “about 18 banks in ’88 and ’89 in 14 months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I may not look like it, but when I was a youngster I was a pretty crazy guy. I copped to three banks and I did about seven years in the feds, spent about two years in solitary confinement,” he tells the men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story Joe Jr. is here to share isn’t really about robbing banks, or even his time in prison. It’s about the moments that led up to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10943979\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10943979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoeJr-800x874.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Loya Jr. tells the story of his journey from robbing banks and solitary confinement to being a successful writer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoeJr.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoeJr-400x437.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Loya Jr. tells the story of his journey from robbing banks and solitary confinement to being a successful writer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joe Loya Jr.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joe Jr. was born to 16-year-old parents in East Los Angeles. His parents were good parents, he says, and it was a loving home. But then when he was around 7 years old, his mom got sick with liver disease. She died two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That loss unleashed his father's rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are three moments from Joe Jr.’s childhood that he says were pivotal, that changed something in him. “These are the moments that my dad acted against his conscience in a way,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first one was after he got beaten up by some bullies, and came home with his sweater torn and glasses broken. His father put him in the car, and drove him around to find the guys that beat him up -- telling his son that he had to fight them. They found the guys, but Joe Jr. lied and told his dad it wasn’t them. “I’m in ninth grade, and my dad knows he has a sissy for a son.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It taught him a lesson, he says, a lesson that tied his own self-worth to violence, to the ability to fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second story is spotty in Joe Jr.’s mind because he had a concussion from football practice. But he remembers his father hitting him so hard he toppled over. This was a lesson in the inevitability of violence. It had become a language -- a shorthand between father and son that registered as a fist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These moments, Joe Jr. says, formed a “troika, the trinity of violent moments in my memory that I remember, and I held onto for many years in my prison cell.” Not just in his prison cell. Joe Jr. says that before he would go rob banks, he would think of these moments, turning them over in his mind whenever he wanted to conjure up rage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is the third memory, the final one in the trinity, of one night when Joe Jr. was 16 that would turn both his and his father’s worlds upside down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Night Joe Jr. Stabbed His Father\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad comes home, we have a tough day, something kicks off -- and there happens to be a very, very bad beating that I’m subjected to, my brother and I. And it might not even have been the worst one of all. It just happens to be a bad day, and it happens to be that I’m very scared, and it happens to be that I reached my limit,” Joe Jr. says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the beating, Joe Loya Sr. left the house. Joe Jr. remembers locking his brother in a bathroom and going to the kitchen and grabbing a steak knife. He describes going to his bedroom, hiding the knife underneath his pillow and then waiting for his father to come home. It was as if he took the lessons of violence he learned and put them to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He comes to the bedroom door and it’s round two, I think. And I stand up and I pull out the knife. He tells me to put the knife down. One thing leads to another, we wrestle in the middle of the room, and I end up getting the better of him,” Joe Jr. says. He had stabbed his father in the neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers twisting the blade, trying to break it off. He remembers his father falling on the ground, yelling out, “You killed me, you killed me!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So up until now, I’ve been a victim. And now like, whoa, that felt interesting. Everything comes out. And as soon as it hit, I felt power. And I liked that feeling,” Joe Jr. says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Jr. was not charged with anything, and after the stabbing he and his brother were sent to foster care for a little bit. He ended up back in his father’s house, but not for long. Soon he was out on his own, and he turned to crime, making victims as a way to never be one again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail room is quiet. Some men stare at their feet, others watch Joe Jr. intensely. 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