Review of the book Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System

Our criminal justice system fails to promote rehabilitation, healing, and reconciliation. Does it need as radical a paradigm shift now as the one over 200 years ago that led to penitentiaries instead of gaels, public hangings, mutilations, deportations and other harsh punishments? Carol Estes reviews the book Beyond Prisons: A New Interfaith Paradigm for Our Failed Prison System (Laura Magnani & Harmon L. Wray, 2006, AFSC) at: 
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2313