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 used the Sheriff out west […]
Money: What are the True Costs of Incarceration? Read More »
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 and written by Joy Gilfilen, […]
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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 industry business speculation that crime […]
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Implement Local Justice Reform Now It’s a better solution for taxpayers – Find Out Why! After 8 years of research, our Coalition finally realized that the private prison industrial complex has filtered down to dominate the business of local jails as well. We figured out that if we want to reverse mass incarceration nationally, the […]
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Our Coalition produced this visionary report for the people after many people participated in a 10 year projects of looking at how to reverse the jail industry’s plan to build bigger jails in Whatcom County. We wanted to instead show that there are many other ways to do economic development that would keep people out […]
Stop Punishing Taxpayers – Start Rebuilding Community Report Read More »
