24-07-2016 08:08 via feeds.socialpsychology.org

Offenders Build Empathy by Speaking to Victims

Source: USA Today - U.S. NewsEvery other Friday, Peggy Steele picks up the phone and talks to the man who murdered her son more than 20 years ago. Steele and Bryce Todd Brosier, who was convicted of killing 25-year-old Jimmy Steele in 1995, exchanged a few letters about five years after the crime. But it wasn’t until 2014 that they met face-to-face, in the Colorado prison where he is serving time, and talked about the murder.
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