1/ It’s time for some truth telling. In the state of CT, rather than promoting reentry and rehabilitation, we have statutes intended to make the community afraid & deputize neighbors against neighbors.
2/ When a person is released after serving their court-ordered sentence for a specific category of crimes that have very low re-offense rates, CT offers communities the option of holding a COMMUNITY meeting to discuss that person’s crime & their conditions of supervision
3/ The intent is to have the community on the look out for technical violations so they know where to report them if they are is standing in the wrong spot or consuming the wrong beverage on their porch. This is what we are telling ourselves is “public safety.”
4/ The agencies & nonprofits that financially benefit from the management & treatment of these released individuals, are then tasked with developing the educational materials stating that people need them to “protect themselves”
5/ There is in fact, a threat to these communities. However this education programming conflates a person’s appearance on a public shaming registry with dangerousness. Meanwhile the science tells us that the threat comes from those closest to the people they are trying to protect
6/ NOT people on registries. This statute, system & education program focuses on the wrong thing, diverts funding from prevention programs that are based on the facts. It feeds mass supervision, fear, forced treatment & “victim advocacy” that focuses on offenders, not victims.
7/ None of this promotes repair, healing or wholeness. None of this benefits victims of crime. It is a very expensive misinformation campaign. If you find my opinion unpopular... I am unapologetic. It’s a travesty that our $ is spent here rather than on REAL prevention efforts.
8/ This Trifecta of harm, involving community supervision actors, large powerful nonprofits that provide “treatment” & organizations that pick & choose who gets to identify as a “victim”, are consuming state & federal money reserved for crime survivors. It disgusts me. /END
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