Offenders Want to Make Right the Harm

5/23/2014

Each week that I go into prison to facilitate a "Dialog Circles Class" I hear the following, "Miss Judy, I can't believe that you and these volunteers care enough about us to keep coming back. Why do you keep coming?" I don't really have an answer. I find it easy to care about these individuals who want so much to make things right. All of us have made bad choices resulting in harm to someone else. But we got a second chance. Many of the inmates that I know committed their felonies when they were quite young. They are completely different people today. Do they deserve a second chance? What do you think?

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Daniel Foxvog

Daniel Foxvog, MA, VCRJ Executive Director, completed
his Bachelor’s degree in Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies at Goshen College and earned an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University.

He has worked as a conflict transformation trainer in Virginia, Illinois, and California, training students, teachers, pastors, police officers, and community volunteers. He previously served as a case manager for a restorative justice program in Fresno, CA, where he worked with hundreds of juvenile offenders and their families, trained and supervised volunteer mediators, and facilitated meetings between victims and offenders.

He has also worked as a church consultant, a case manager for youth with mental illness, and a group dialogue facilitator

Offenders Want to Make Right the Harm

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