Court convenes: Healing and justice meet
"Even if you're the one charged, you will help create the answer."
And the court has now come to order.
The speaker is Colleen Sheehan, the presiding judge of the Restorative Justice Community Court, which opened last week in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale, after several years of intense planning.
This new court -- this utterly new idea about the administration, and meaning, of "justice" -- is part of the system, launched as a two-year pilot project with the help of a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. It is also, in
