Resources

GENERAL RESOURCES:

• 2017 Vera Report, Whatcom County Jail Investigation
• 2023 County Report, “Whatcom County Justice Project Needs Assessment,” (pg 45).
• 2018 ACLU Civil Rights Lawsuit
• Andrew Reding in Cascadia Daily, “Take a Broader Look at the Need for a Bigger Jail.”
• Whatcom Civil Rights Project, “Community Members of Color File Complaints Against Whatcom County Leaders for Misuse of Public Office and Funds in Jail Sales Tax Mailer this Election Season”
• Information about Covid Outbreaks in the Jail: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3.
• Bellingham Herald, “Inmate dies by suicide in Whatcom County Jail.”
• KIRO 7 News, “Whatcom County Jail Corrections Deputies thwart suicide attempt, fentanyl overdose in same night.”
• Last Real Indians, “Shannon Jefferson’s Family Settles Jail Death Suit Against Whatcom County.”
• The Lancet, “Association between county jail incarceration and cause-specific county mortality in the USA.”
• Yale Environmental Review, “Reframing environmental racism as a form of criminalization: Actualizing Critical Environmental Justice.”
• NIH National Library of Medicine, “The effect of stigma on criminal offenders’ functioning a longitudinal mediational model.”
• NIH National Institute of Drug Abuse, “Criminal Justice DrugFacts.”

10 REASONS TO OPPOSE:

• The Lancet, “Association between county jail incarceration and cause-specific county mortality in the USA”
• Whatcom Civil Rights Project, “Community Members of Color File Complaints Against Whatcom County Leaders for Misuse of Public Office and Funds in Jail Sales Tax Mailer this Election Season”
• Cascadia Daily News, “Take a broader look at the need for a bigger jail”
• Yale Environmental Review, “Reframing environmental racism as a form of criminalization: Actualizing Critical Environmental Justice”
• NIH National Library of Medicine, “The effect of stigma on criminal offenders’ functioning a longitudinal mediational model”
• NIH National Institute of Drug Abuse, “Criminal Justice DrugFacts”