Restorative Justice: Towards Incarceration Zero (Part I)

Ladies and Gentlemen, we now have restorative justice.  What does that mean? Justice by individual agreements, seen from a case-to-case perspective. In practice (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/can-forgiveness-play-a-role-in-criminal-justice.html?ref=magazine&_r=0&pagewanted=all): "Campbell had charged Conor with first-degree murder. which, as most people in Florida understand it,carries a mandatory life sentence or, potentially, the death penalty. He told the Grosmaires that he wouldn't seek capital punishment, because, as he told me later, "I didn't have aggravating circumstances like prior conviction, the victim being a child or the crime being particularly heinous and the like. As he always does with victims' families, he explained to the Grosmaires the details of the criminal-justice process, including the little-advertised fact that the state attorney has broad discretion to depart from the state's mandatory sentences. As the representative of the state and the person tasked with finding justice for Ann, he could reduce charges and seek alternative sentences. Technically, he told the Grosmaires, "if I wanted to do five years for manslaughter, I can do that." We then decided that whatever we saw as evolution - jurisprudence, history of research in the area, literature surveys, etc - was not evolution: evolution was starting from zero instead, meaning that we forget all people democratically chose and negotiate penalties with the interested parties from the side of the accuser. This would be what people are calling restorative justice, if this article is to be taken seriously. Victims, such as Ann, should get a second life through accelerated cloning and transmigration of the human soul plus essence transfer (whatever can be coded by computers and is inside of the human mind) through the CIA-bug technique: in this way, the body is fully restored, together with her persona and a new chance is given to her from where crime appeared.  Perpetrators, such as McBride, should get a CIA bug, and a reformulation of the being considering restorative justice (whatever those deciding think should be changed).