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Many of us know that something is wrong with the criminal justice system, but we don’t know what to do about it or where to start. Our coalition has done a deep dive into the roots of the school-to-prison pipeline to diagram the systemic problems we face. Our coalition provides roadmaps and a wealth of information for people interested in big-system shifts for the incarceration and criminal justice systems.

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[st_row][st_column span=”span12″][st_heading ]Our September Newsletter is all about local events of immediate interest:[/st_heading][st_image image_file=”https://therestorativecommunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-09-16_1633.png” image_size_wrapper=”” image_size=”full” link_type=”large_image” image_image_size_wrapper=”” image_image_size=”” ][/st_image][st_text ] ReClaiming Lives: Sept. 2018 September’s news includes information on the Prosecutor’s Debate – September 19, 2018 at the First Congregational Church, at 2401 Cornwall in Bellingham. You can come […]

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Prosecutor's Debate

This was the first debate held about the Prosecutor’s position in decades! The incumbent prosecutor retired and had held the position virtually without competition for 44 years! As a result, this was a powerful educational opportunity for the public to learn how two different professionals would approach the position and

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Systemic Patterns of Poverty

MISMANAGEMENT = SYSTEMIC PATTERNS OF POVERTY After analyzing data about Whatcom County’s Justice system for the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force, dated November 2017, the Vera Institute of Justice published a report that identified “the following factors contributing to jail overuse in Whatcom County: Most admissions (62%) into the

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True Costs of Incarceration

What are the “true costs” of incarceration? It’s complicated. It’s ultimately a contrarian lose/lose/lose game. People try to simplify the question of the growth of mass incarceration as a Good Guy vs. Bad Guy problem.  Or as a good vs. evil problem.  Or as a safety problem, like how we

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Vera Institute of Justice on Prison Strike

NEW YORK, NY – Today, incarcerated men and women in prisons across 17 states began a  19 day strike to draw attention to the poor conditions they face and to demand change for all those who live and work in prisons across the country. Nicholas Turner, President of the Vera Institute of

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This Noble Cause Corruption report is large – 196 pages. It is loaded here in three different PDF files since the files were cumbersome to email and download.  There are many items of evidence and graphics inside the three Red, White and Yellow flaggeds Addendums 1-2-3. This report was compiled

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  Guest Opinion – Lynden Tribune, January 25th, 2012 An inmate History has a way of repeating itself.  We can learn a lot from it.  At the end of World War I, Germany surrendered unconditionally.  Along with that came economic sanctions and reparations so outlandish in nature that Germany couldn’t possibly survive.  John Maynard Keynes,

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Appreciating Society Model

In 2010, our Coalition hosted the Visionary Community Opportunities Conference to discover what the problems were that our community was facing with incarceration: “What were the problems the taxpayers had (since the County had produced their vision to build a huge 2450 jail.  Their plan was based on the jail

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Speaking generally, prisons take and hold inmates while jails—if run properly—take and release them. A jail is a county or city facility to house—on a short-term basis—misdemeanant offenders, felony offenders serving short terms, felony offenders awaiting transfer to a state prison for long-term sentences and indigent pretrial defendants who are

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[st_row][st_column][st_image image_file=”https://therestorativecommunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IPRTF_REport_III.png” image_size_wrapper=”” image_size=”full” ][/st_image][/st_column][st_column span=”span6″][st_text ] IPR PTF Phase III Interim Report        [/st_text][/st_column][/st_row][st_text ] IPR PTF Phase III Interim Report        [/st_text]

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