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PACEs in the Criminal Justice System

Discussion and sharing of resources in working with clients involved in the criminal justice system and how screening for and treating ACEs will lead to successful re-entry of prisoners into the community and reduced recidivism for former offenders.

Designing a Way out of Mass Incarceration [CityLab.com]

 

As it stands today, criminal justice in the U.S. exists inside an architecture of isolation: those within the system are shuffled between courthouses and prisons, which are separated from society by thick walls and high fences.

“Our dominant justice system is framed around three questions: What law was broken, who did it, and what do they deserve—with the deserving part being about punishment,” says Barbara Toews, an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Washington Tacoma. And punishment, in the context of this system, equates to removal from society. “We rush to incarceration, as opposed to thinking about other ways of doing justice,” Toews says.

[For more of this story, written by Ellie Anzilotti, go to http://www.citylab.com/design/...ncarceration/510479/]

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