The Department of Corrections in Washington state will implement an “anti-racism” strategic plan for 2023, aided by its new equity, diversity, inclusion, and respect director, Yen Hunyh.
Corrections staff should focus on the actual rehabilitation and punishment of criminals in a way that is informed by statistics and best practices. But the planning document indicates that “equity,” “anti-racism,” and “lived experience” will be prioritized instead.
“We often talk about being inclusive from a majority culture perspective, meaning our conversations tend to invite marginalized groups to join the majority,” Strange said. Instead, staff should “seek to be included by marginalized groups in this work.”Now that the inmates are in charge, it is no wonder that punishments will be reduced.
What does this mean? When racial minorities are treated leniently for violence or other misbehavior, they will likely commit it more often, and those actions will be targeted, many times, against other minorities. This will be solved using “anti-racist and decolonized data.” But the document already said not writing up racial minorities could make the prisons less safe for others, admitting that minorities can be a higher risk than white prisoners.Some of the “root causes of disparities” identified included a failure to use a “race-equity lens to inform policy through data” and “evaluating people entering the correctional system by their crime and not who they are as a person.
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