A quiet transformation is awakening criminal justice in the U.S. and U.K., where the focus is shifting from sentencing to rehabilitation—mirroring a safe place found in Numbers 35, a time when God established cities of refuge and appointed the Levites to guard the law of refuge. They were to offer a safe path toward restoration and freedom in the same way modern systems of law do. Though complex and rigid, they are designed to offer a path to renewal.