During 2016-2017, UW faculty, students, and alumni worked with community members and Insight Prison Project to begin facilitating restorative justice circles at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, WA. Many people have become aware of the challenges posed by mass incarceration. Many now know, for example, that the U.S. has the world’s largest prison population,

In recent years, scholars and social movements have brought the issue of mass incarceration into public consciousness in the United States. Many now know that the U.S. has the world’s largest prison population, or have heard alarming figures, like an incarceration rate for Black men that is 6 times that for white men. At the