Beyond Exonerating the Innocent: Using Storytelling to Humanize Youth Sentenced to Die in Prison from Truthout emphasizes the importance of humanizing people who committed violent crimes in their youth and the role of storytelling in making that humanization possible. Storytelling can be a powerful way to create opportunities for empathy and understanding and is an essential piece of restorative justice practice. “If we want to transform the criminal justice system, we have to humanize everyone who’s involved,” Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, previously an analyst with the Innocence Project, explains in the article. “The United States is the only country that sentences children to die in prison. There should be a different way to approach harm caused by young people.”