Abstract
This editorial is about how a paralegal program can multiply the effectiveness of restorative justice and reduce the imprisonment rate. That program is in Bangladesh, but it helps answer a question relevant for every country.The paralegals are the equivalent of the old “barefoot doctors” idea, translated into the justice field. They are not law graduates. So this is not a foreign aid program that worsens the problems of a system with insufficient lawyers by foreign donors diverting that key human resource scarcity from the domestic system. Instead, new human resource capabilities are developed by training college graduates (mostly under 25 years of age) as paralegals for weeks rather than years. They are trained to chase the paper trail of an incarcerated person awaiting trial to ascertain the bottleneck in getting their case moved and ultimately resolved.
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