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When the court system demands vengeance in the name of healing

The victim impact statement asks me to describe how the crime affected me but I cannot explain that sending this person away for decades will not give me back what I lost.

Juana
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The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Legal ritual masquerades as therapeutic process while foreclosing actual restoration.

Ideas that help explain it
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