“The system is really focused on punishing a person who did the harm, and not focused on the needs of the person who experienced it,” said Leah Nelson, research director at AlaAppleseed, a nonprofit policy group focused on poverty and criminal justice.
The cost of those prisons has gone up since then, with one prison in Elmore County now expected to cost nearly $1 billion, the report said.
The majority of survey participants, 62 percent, reported that they had seen someone stabbed, attacked or robbed. And while 70 percent said they had been convicted of crime themselves, 59 percent reported that they had been to jail or prison. More than half said a family member died in a homicide, 56 percent reported being sexually assaulted and 45 percent had been shot at.
Most of the people surveyed were women, 57 percent, and Black, 63 percent. LGBTQ+ people made up 15 percent of the survey respondents. Most were low-income with more than half earning less than $15,000 a year. Many had a history of substance use and most reported a history of childhood trauma. “If we had some type of peer specialist in place, people who understand exactly what that person is going through, and just help them connect with resources, I think that would make a big difference,” said Nelson.
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