America’s execution chambers must close, say New Orleans pop-rockers the Revivalists, in a new social covenant embracing all folks as worthy of life, betterment, and safety.
“The justice system is based on retribution and punishment, rather than enabling people and actually doing things that improve society and make us safer,” says Rob Ingraham, saxophonist.
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SPIN IMPACT held a discussion of criminal justice reform with the Revivalists, during which Ingraham says that redirecting the correctional system from vengeance to rehabilitation is the big challenge.
“How do we get towards a justice system that’s more about restoration and more about finding the truth, rather than finding somebody who you can throw away and put in a prison cell, put on death row, put to work, and turn them into a criminal for the rest of their lives?”…
