Restoring Hope

I’m in an arena where people have high emotions, they get stressed and pressured. I’m reasonably confident that I can avoid situations where I’ll be unsafe. I don’t have any death wish — I’ve got a game of golf tomorrow.

– Mike Hinton, on the dangers of the job

In its simplest form, restorative justice is a conversation between the victim of a crime and the offender.

– Mike Hinton

... taking responsibility for hurt, harm and making amends.

– Mike Hinton on what restorative justice means

If jail was the university of life, then what are you going to create? If you put a young man — malleable, fit — seeking knowledge into a room full of hardened criminals — career criminals — what is he going to learn? So what choice does he have?

– Mike Hinton

When footage is this compelling, the show-not-tell approach is the right one. The end result is a lesson in the power and value of restorative justice that strips away preconceptions.

– Sarah Lang, reviewing Restoring Hope in the Herald on Sunday, 14 April 2014