@lukeburgis 9/ Restorative justice emerges as the root practice of geographic incarnation. Not merely 'criminal justice reform' but incarnational praxis at ground level—the alchemy by which discord is worked into depth, estrangement into belonging, fracture into the fabric of communion.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Humans of San Quentin video title overlays Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Two visible title overlays only, no video/audio transcription. Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Henok, 43 Incarcerated: 16 years Call from Henok, an inmate at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Humans of San Quentin @HumansSQ Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: top caption Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1962919042165178481 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Humans of San Quentin Hear what our inside San Quentin team member, Henok, has to share about justice. #Justice #Therapy #Prisonreform #Changingthenarative #Humansofsq #Perspective 9:12 AM · Sep 10, 2023 · 164 Views 1 1
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: end/ Simply stated Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1702014681312018459 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @HumansSQ end/ Simply stated, we can't 'go neighborly' - the fundamental turn returning ourselves and our world to sanity and health - without concurrently reasserting the means and, crucially, power of resolving conflict locally, too. Thank you, Henok. You're seen. Keep the faith.
Open original document@lukeburgis Social positioning, moral categories and virtue? Once, sharing with a homeless man, I said 'the good people'. "Oh," he replied. "The people in prison." The rationalizations and denials defining refusal of ego-death get more, not less elaborate, among the well-situated, I find.
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Go to Jail The outcast, the poor. the little ones always come before the Church and before each one of us holding a gift. It's the gift of those things we hate: insecurity. disability, a not-so-smart mind, a sexual problem or addiction. We shun anyone who isn't like us, who hasn't succeeded in our system—like people in jail. We need the corporal works of mercy. Go to jail, we are told. Why? We thought to help others or to be a “good” Christian, but those aren't the reasons. We need to go to jail to get converted ourselves. We must go to the edges and discover what the questions really are, what true success is, and we must face our own failure. I was able to live with my illusions as long as I stayed out of the jail. I mistakenly thought prisoners were the bad people. Richard Rohr