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SpokaneFAVS wrapped up 2013 with a Coffee Talk discussion on crime and punishment. Related posts are below.
“Crimes, society and restorative justice”
Crimes are society’s way of defining unacceptable behavior.
“Who’s responsible for crime, punishment and the death penalty?“
Imagine a concrete box called home for years, 23 hours a day, shuffling in chains when you do get out for that 60 minutes per day.
“The best way to make a nonviolent offender violent, is to put him in prison”
In the health field, it is critical to identify the cause of a problem so that it can be removed or corrected.
“How a padded room opened me up to a new view of crime and punishment”
I remember viewing my first “holding room” in a local youth detention facility.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
