07-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com

Restorative justice in Alberta 'far tougher than spending time in jail'

It’s hard to imagine a more senseless act.
On June 1, 2002, 75-year-old Robert Stanley was killed when a basketball-sized boulder crashed through the windshield of the charter bus he was driving. The rock had been dumped over the side of a Whitemud Drive pedestrian bridge as a prank by two teenagers. It would be years before police tracked them down and charged them with manslaughter.
When Caroline Gosling sat in on a community conference that was sentencing one of the teens, somethin
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