Transformative justice means centering people who are harmed

As discussions of police abolition and how other models of justice could work move forward and gain a mainstream audience, it is important to reiterate that "transformative justice" does not mean centering the harm-doer and their process of redemption. It means centering the harmed and looking at the whole system that allowed the harm to happen— and transforming the things that enabled the harm. Transformative justice absolutely can and often must draw hard boundaries against people who do harm. It is very frequently the failure to draw such boundaries that allows harm to continue.