Irene then turned to helping others break free of our dysfunctional justice system, founding the Restorative Community Coalition in 2006. She [...]

11 x 17" LARGE POSTER FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION - TWO SIDED

Side One- BLINDSPOTS:UNEXPECTED FINDINGS FROM JAIL TRAUMA RESEARCH
Side Two - [...]

What happens to people when they get arrested? Most people don't know because no-one really wants to talk about it.

Why not? Joy Gilfilen, [...]

Blindspots 1.2:  Whatcom County Jail Trauma Research Study Episode 2
It's about discovering the false pre-assumptions that people make about an [...]

Repetitive Acute Trauma (RAT) follows the initial shock of being that accused person who was in a crisis that led to an accusation, arrest, and [...]

JoyTalks Episode 3 details what people reported happened to them emotionally when they are arrested.   This part of the study is not about guilt [...]

MISMANAGEMENT = SYSTEMIC PATTERNS OF POVERTY

 After analyzing data about Whatcom County's Justice system for the Incarceration Prevention and [...]

What are the "true costs" of incarceration? It's complicated.
It's ultimately a contrarian lose/lose/lose game.
People try to simplify the [...]

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 [...]

In 2010, our Coalition hosted the Visionary Community Opportunities Conference to discover what the problems were that our community was facing [...]

IPR PTF Phase III Interim Report