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10-50: Addiction And Confinement In Whatcom County, Kaitlyn Davidson
10-50: Addiction And Confinement In Whatcom County, Kaitlyn Davidson
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Researching the failures and successes of the criminal justice system leads to numbers, not lives.
What drove me to this research was my internship with the Whatcom County Public Defender’s Office, where I interacted with detainees on a daily basis. The narrative power of their stories was enough to make me question the role that jails should play in our community’s response to substance abuse. None of those stories have been included.
It is easy to paint horrifying portraits of inmates rotting in prisons, brutalized by a system designed to torment them. But this is not reality. It is comfortable …