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Local Justice Issues
Speaker Series
  • In Prison and You Visited Me10-2011 Material from the recent speakers series with exonerated Gloria Killian and prison activist JeannePieper.
  Full Circle Gloria's story, Full Circle: A True Story of Murder, Lies, and Vindication, is now available. See short review in the J&P Book Reviews page.

Social Justice

Human Trafficking



Restorative Justice

  • Annual Conference
    February 24, 2012 the Center for Restorative Justice will hold its second annual conference on “Another Way: Imagining the Future of a Justice that Restores” at Loyola Marymount University.

  • Home Boys Industries
    The founder of a well-known Los Angeles gang-intervention program, Fr Greg Boyle, has written his memoir, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. Awarded the Opus Prize in 2011 Loyola Marymount University did a short video on the work of Fr. Greg and Homeboys. http://vimeo.com/31467748

  • Letter to the L. A.Catholic Conference re prison overcrowding
    This letter expresses the concerns of our Council for the conditions in our prisons and the apparent lack of corrective action on the part of the Church.

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