“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.
The Brooklyn District Attorney Supports Red Hook
PBS Television Documentary about Red Hook
Federal Bureau of Justice Assistance
LOCAL LINKS:
County Government
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.