Fifty years ago, the United States embarked on a path of mass incarceration that has led to a staggering increase in the correctional population. Today, nearly two million people - disproportionately Black Americans - are living in prisons and jails instead of their communities. In the early 1970s this count was 360,000.
Families of suspect, victim meet to reach settlement
https://www.wmur.com/article/hit-and-run-sentence-restorative-justice/42399541
NASHUA, N.H. —
A man who crashed into a person on the side of a New Hampshire highway who was helping victims of a car crash was given a suspended sentence Wednesday after taking part in a restorative justice process.