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with security, safety, and humane confinement.
Prisoners should be given a significant degree of
freedom and the held to account for their actions.

RESTITUTION – the term applied to the offender
who makes amends to his victim in the criminal
offenses by paying a sum of money or by service.

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE – refers to a principle which
requires a process of resolving conflicts with the
maximum involvement of the victim, the offenders,
and the community. It seeks to obtain reparation
for the victim; reconciliation of the offender, the
offended and the community; and reassurance to
the offender that he/she can be reintegrated into
society.

RESTRICTED MATTERS – these are information and
material, which requires special protection other
than that determined to be top secret, secret, or
confidential.

RETALIATION – the earliest remedy for a wrong act
to anyone (in the primitive society). The concept of
personal revenge by the victim’s family or tribe
against the family or tribe of the offender, hence
“blood feuds” was accepted in the early primitive
societies.

RETRIBUTION – the punishment should be provided
by the state whose sanction is violated, to afford
the society or the individual the opportunity of
imposing upon the offender suitable punishment as
might be enforced. Offenders should be punished
because they deserve it.

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