Community Justice Resources

“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

Red Hook Community Justice Center

The Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York, is a successful model for community corrections.

Red Hook takes a holistic approach to problems, first and foremost by seeing them as problems rather than as crimes.

They can and do impose criminal sanctions on offenders under the theory that there is no such thing as a victimless crime.

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.

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

(Sooner or later, they all come back, often to within 100 yards of where they were picked up.

MPRI's goal is to "achieve successful long-term reintegration of the returning prisoner back into his or her community.")

RESEARCH PAPERS:

Alternatives to Incarceration