Offender Paula Cooper Commits Suicide After Prison: Bill Pelke’s story
RJI reports this story with great sadness. We have told the story often of Bill Pelke whose grandmother Ruth Pelke was fatally and viciously stabbed to death in Indiana in 1985 by four teenaged girls including Paula Cooper. Cooper was
Sharletta Evans: Colorado victim of violent crime chooses restorative justice
Read the story of Sharletta Evans and her eldest son, Calvin Hurd. They chose to meet one juvenile responsible for the drive-by killing of 3-year old Casson, Sharletta's son and brother of Calvin. Both chose to participate in a victim offender dialogue in a Colorado prison where Raymond