Hawai‘i Friends of Restorative Justice

Hawai‘i Friends of Restorative Justice (HFRJ) develops, pilots, and evaluates strategies designed to increase healing for those harmed by injustice, increase criminal desistance for those who have caused harm, and to strengthen the criminal legal system. Its work includes reentry planning and resource coordination for incarcerated individuals; and education and training initiatives. HFRJ has designed and measured evidence-informed strategies including a variety of group processes, hiring incarcerated peer educator tutors, funding higher education after incarceration, and developing a structured reentry planning process that has been replicated nationally and internationally. HFRJ provides a practical reentry guide for individuals returning home to Hawai‘i. Some resources available in Japanese. Serves individuals in Hawai'i only.