Clark County’s Community Court ‘way different from regular court’, sees success in helping the homeless
It’s been one year since the launch of Clark County Community Court to connect homeless people with resources rather than punish them for living outside. The joint effort between Clark County District Court and the city of Vancouver has received Clark County mental health sales tax funds, as well as state dollars. Community Court sessions occur in a space that looks more like a classroom than a courtroom. The judge, prosecutor, defense attorney and defendant sit together at a paint-stained table in a small room at Recovery Café, a nonprofit on Fourth Plain Boulevard that helps people recover from addiction. Continue reading at The Columbian. (Taylor Balkom)
‘Unprecedented’: WA transfers 43 men in juvenile detention to adult prison
Forty-three men over the age of 21 were transferred Friday to adult prisons from the juvenile detention center they were sentenced to due to safety concerns from a “rapidly growing population,” according to the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families. All of those transferred have sentences that extend past their 25th birthdays and would have eventually transferred to DOC to serve the remainder of their sentences, according to a DCYF news release. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Mike Siegel)
Selling Washington’s food and farm products to the world
Washington is the apple growing capital of the nation. It’s home to Walla Walla onions, Penn Cove mussels, Rainier cherries and Yakima Valley hops. While the state’s residents know these agriculture and aquaculture stars well, the rest of the country and world do not. To change that, the state Department of Agriculture is assembling a program to help promote products grown, raised, caught, baked and brewed in Washington. Continue reading at The WA State Standard. (WA Dept. of Agriculture)
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