Restorative Justice Lab at UNA
The Restorative Justice Lab is a collaborative and interdisciplinary hub for rethinking justice through community-building, mutual aid, and restorative practices that prevent, reduce, and transform harm. Our work is generated from and around prisons in Alabama.
We currently offer a number of programs in Alabama prison facilities, including the following:
Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
This program offers students in a variety of fields the opportunity to attend classes with our students at Limestone CF. If you interested in participating in an Inside-Out class, our application can be found here: .
Restorative Justice Program
This interdisciplinary undergraduate program is delivered through the model at Limestone CF and is credit-bearing for all students. Coursework includes six classes that span criminal justice, English, psychology, and sociology. The curriculum is designed to prepare students to contribute to conflict resolution, community-building, and transformative justice movements. Outside students are able to complete a minor in Restorative Justice. You can find the curriculum for the minor . Inside students at Limestone CF complete a certificate in Restorative Justice. You can find the curriculum for the certificate .
Check out our Restorative Justice newsletter, composed and formatted by Inside students at Limestone CF, to follow our work!
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Foundations of Reading and Writing Correspondence Course
This zero-credit college preparatory class introduces students to the fundamentals of critical reading, thinking, and writing through a series of guided readings, prompts, and exercises over 12 packets. It is designed for a range of learners and includes expository, narrative, and creative writing prompts that can be completed individually or in group settings with guided questions. Each participant also receives a dictionary to support their exploratory, vocabulary-building work in the packets.
You can access, download, use, and adapt the correspondence packets through this .
The Restorative Justice Lab also supports a number of related projects:
Alabama Death Row Archive (Collier Library, Special Collections, UNA)
This contains artifacts– documents, manuscripts, moratorium efforts, photographs, and audio files– related to the policy and practice of capital punishment in Alabama, centering the experiences and voices of people on death row.
Southern Higher Education in Prison Collective
The Restorative Justice Lab is a proud member of the , a network of organizations dedicated to the post-secondary educational aspirations of incarcerated individuals in the U.S. South.
Donate to Inside-Out
You can make a tax-deductible donation to the Inside-Out program here:
Contact RJL@UNA
If you are interested in becoming involved with any of these projects, please contact Katie Owens-Murphy at kowensmurphy@una.edu.