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The Veteran's Restorative Justice Act focuses on helping who are found to have committed a criminal offense as a result of a service-connected condition. For as long as Veterans have returned from war, most have come back stronger and wiser from their experience – immediate assets to their communities. Some, though, have always brought their war home with them, bearing invisible wounds that, today, we call post-traumatic stress. Untreated, these echoes of war – manifesting in self-destructive, reckless and violent behavior – reverberate through society, destroying not only the lives of these heroes, but victimizing their families and the communities they fought to protect. In this way, large numbers of Veterans in past generations have fallen into and been left behind in the criminal justice system upon their return home. The Veteran's Restorative Justice Act works to combat this with a new generation of veterans returning home from recent conflicts. Please contact Derek Kilgore (derekmkilgore@arizona.edu) for more information.