“Every society has offenders.  We just never built prisons.”

 – Stormy Ogden, American Indian Movement

Speaking in Ann Arbor, April 7, 2007

 

Community Justice

Resources and Alternatives

for

Washtenaw County, Michigan

 

PAPERS: Alternatives to Incarceration

Alternatives to Incarceration: the Next Step

Mental Health Care in Prison: Is It Enough?

 

Red Hook Community Justice Center

The Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York, takes a holistic approach to problems, first and foremost by seeing them as problems rather than as crimes. Criminal sanctions exist. Defendants who leave the justice center usually do so under order to perform some community service. More to the point, however, is the realization that outward expressions of anti-social behavior stem from inner conflict.

Center for Court Innovation

The Brooklyn District Attorney Supports Red Hook
PBS Television Documentary about Red Hook

Federal Bureau of Justice Assistance

LOCAL LINKS: County Government

County Courts Trial Courts

Community Corrections:

Drug and Alcohol Random Testing, Pre-Trial Screening, Tether, Day Reporting;

Community Programs (Dawn Farms, Outpatient, Probation Residential);

Other Services: Break the Cycle, MichiganWorks, Etc.
 

Washtenaw County Governments

Cities: Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Chelsea, Saline, Milan,

Townships: Ann Arbor, Augusta, Bridgewater, Dexter, Freedom, Lima, Lodi, Lyndon, Manchester, Northfield, Pittsfield, Salem, Saline, Scio, Sharon, Superior, Sylvan, Webster, York, Ypsilanti.

Villages: Barton Hills, Dexter, Manchester

 

Townships in underline have their own police departments. 

Add to them the five cities, the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University

as well as the Michigan State Police and of course the Washtenaw County Sheriff.