Excellent article, Joe.  Restorative justice vs. what the aloha state does now:  Send prisoners to the mainland and give the keys to private systems that make money off of our pain, and enslaving the state in its own bad decision-making and the prisoners as its captured audience.  When systems (our state) are "hamajang" it is very difficult for the offenders or aggressors to set it right (pono).  Change comes in time with mindfulness of our own actions/inactions.