{"id":611,"date":"2019-02-02T04:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T04:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joythecosmicsheriff.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2021-10-13T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T03:21:31","slug":"blindspots-unexpected-findings-of-jail-trauma-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joygilfilen.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"BLINDSPOTS: UNEXPECTED FINDINGS OF JAIL TRAUMA RESEARCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  id=\"cbb-row-no-1\" class=\"jsn-bootstrap3 cbb-row-wrapper st-row-width-boxed\">\n<div  style=\"background: none;\" id=\"row_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\" class=\"row\">\n<div  class=\"clearfix row-inner\">\n<div  style=\"background: none;\" id=\"column_ad071ca019dd9c95bd5ff1d85000171d\" class=\"col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\">\n<div  class=\"col-inner\">\n<div  id='heading_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a' class='jsn-bootstrap3 st-element-container clearfix st-element-heading' ><h2 class='' style=''>Whatcom County Jail Trauma Research Study<\/h2><\/div><style id=\"style-heading_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\">#heading_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a  { margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;}<\/style><div  id='image_d60efb873636097092907885a41edc22' class='jsn-bootstrap3 st-element-container clearfix st-element-image' ><div class='st-img-container no-styling-container' style=''><img width='300' height='199' src='https:\/\/joygilfilen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Whatcom_County_Jail_Trauma_Chart-300x199.png' \/><\/div><\/div><style id=\"style-image_d60efb873636097092907885a41edc22\">#image_d60efb873636097092907885a41edc22 .st-img-container { text-align: center;}<\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><style id=\"style-column_ad071ca019dd9c95bd5ff1d85000171d\">#column_ad071ca019dd9c95bd5ff1d85000171d  { border-radius: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 15px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 15px;}#column_ad071ca019dd9c95bd5ff1d85000171d > .cbb-bg-overlay { border-radius: 0px;}<\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><style id=\"style-row_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\">#row_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a > .row-inner { border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;border-style: solid;}<\/style><div  id=\"cbb-row-no-2\" class=\"jsn-bootstrap3 cbb-row-wrapper st-row-width-boxed\">\n<div  style=\"background: none;\" id=\"row_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\" class=\"row\">\n<div  class=\"clearfix row-inner\">\n<div  style=\"background: none;\" id=\"column_ad071ca019dd9c95bd5ff1d85000171d\" class=\"col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\">\n<div  class=\"col-inner\">\n<div  id='text_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a' class='jsn-bootstrap3 st-element-container clearfix st-element-text' ><div class=\"st_text\" id=\"qbXIth\"><p>After doing deep research into the issue, I have found that \u201can arrest creates a traumatic experience for people \u2013 and it is traumatic enough to cause mental illness symptoms \u2013 even if people do walk away and say, \u201cI\u2019m o.k.\u201d\u00a0 Most people do that because it is so shocking to realize what happens inside the arrest and jail process that people can\u2019t even talk about it.\u00a0 It is like they have a split reality experience, and they cannot comprehend what just happened.\u00a0 So they avoid talking about it.\u00a0 It is like a psychic shock that is so mind-bending that people want to pretend it didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 But they can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I did 79 in-depth interviews with 79 people who have been impacted by an arrest in Whatcom County.\u00a0 Of the 79, fifty-three (53) were arrested and went through the jail, court and justice system process directly.\u00a0 Twenty-six (26) were family, friends or colleagues who were trying to help them through the situation.\u00a0 After listening to all their stories, and mapping them out, looking for common denominators, tracking the biggest issues\u2026here is my summation.\u00a0 I did two different charts each showing different impacts, and each showing how the other side is impacted.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style id=\"style-text_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\">#text_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a  { margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;}<\/style><div  id='heading_ed6f3b10cd16e692b1a896f892669e8d' class='jsn-bootstrap3 st-element-container clearfix st-element-heading' ><h4 class='' style=''>STEP1:  WHATCOM COUNTY JAIL TRAUMA CHART \u2013 THIS WAS WHAT I LEARNED FROM THE 53 PEOPLE WHO WENT THROUGH THE JAILING PROCESS THEMSELVES.<\/h4><\/div><style id=\"style-heading_ed6f3b10cd16e692b1a896f892669e8d\">#heading_ed6f3b10cd16e692b1a896f892669e8d h1, #heading_ed6f3b10cd16e692b1a896f892669e8d h2, #heading_ed6f3b10cd16e692b1a896f892669e8d h3, #heading_ed6f3b10cd16e692b1a896f892669e8d h4, #heading_ed6f3b10cd16e692b1a896f892669e8d h5, #heading_ed6f3b10cd16e692b1a896f892669e8d h6 { text-align: left;}#heading_ed6f3b10cd16e692b1a896f892669e8d  { margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;}<\/style><div  id='text_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a' class='jsn-bootstrap3 st-element-container clearfix st-element-text' ><div class=\"st_text\" id=\"ibGn8B\"><p>I talked with the person who got arrested and went through the jailing and justice system and all they way through arrest and the aftershocks on them and their families.\u00a0 I tracked it out and then diagrammed it into this early process, for it is here where I found the most shocking and hidden impacts \u2013 that are not typically talked about in the discussion about jail or justice system reform.\u00a0 It is at the beginning of a 911 call, through the incident, the arresting, the booking, then the jailing prior to 1st Appearance in Court where the shock causes seismic damage to the body, the mind, and the spirit of the person \u2013 from constant trauma.\u00a0 I have graphed it out in two phases to show the emotional impacts and symptoms that people experience.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div  id='text_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a' class='jsn-bootstrap3 st-element-container clearfix st-element-text' ><div class=\"st_text\" id=\"wCPsMG\"><ul>\n<li><strong>Radicalized Acute Distress Under Duress (RADD)<\/strong>\u00a0is what happens at the original shock point \u2013 at the incident, the pre-arrest period before they are handcuffed, then taken and jailed.\u00a0 They have a real tough time talking about all this, for the trauma is so severe they seem to try to bury it.\u00a0 To talk about it is in itself re-traumatizing to them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Repetitive Accelerating Trauma (RAT)<\/strong>\u00a0impacts accumulated after booking, jailing and before they go into the court for 1st appearance (When they find out what the Prosecutor is charging them with, and when they get assigned a Public Defender in the courtroom, and have to make their first plea.\u00a0 This is sometimes hours, but more normally happens in a 24-72 hour window when they are held in captivity before they get anyone to talk to about their defense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div  id=\"cbb-row-no-3\" class=\"jsn-bootstrap3 cbb-row-wrapper st-row-width-boxed\">\n<div  style=\"background: none;\" id=\"row_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\" class=\"row\">\n<div  class=\"clearfix row-inner\">\n<div  style=\"background: none;\" id=\"column_ad071ca019dd9c95bd5ff1d85000171d\" class=\"col col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\">\n<div  class=\"col-inner\">\n<div  id='image_d8a0917562c9cd3bb1164c6481a5a527' class='jsn-bootstrap3 st-element-container clearfix st-element-image' ><div class='st-img-container no-styling-container' style=''><img width='300' height='196' src='https:\/\/joygilfilen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Blindspots_-_Jail_Trauma_Chart-768x502-1-300x196.png' \/><\/div><\/div><style id=\"style-image_d8a0917562c9cd3bb1164c6481a5a527\">#image_d8a0917562c9cd3bb1164c6481a5a527 .st-img-container { text-align: center;}<\/style><div  id='text_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a' class='jsn-bootstrap3 st-element-container clearfix st-element-text' ><div class=\"st_text\" id=\"ZQWwWp\"><h3><strong>STEP 2:\u00a0 BLINDSPOTS: UNEXPECTED FINDINGS FROM JAIL TRAUMA RESEARCH<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As these intense interviews started building up, I started interviewing the family, friends, employers, police, emergency responders \u2013 even hospital staff and public defenders and justice system employees about what they observed, experienced and felt from helping the persons, or their families deal with the aftershocks.\u00a0 The interviews yielded a whole other level of awareness and insights that typically have not been talked about in most writings about reform.\u00a0 And the pre-assumption by those people who work in the system in court, in the administration, or in behavioral health or recovery is that they just\u00a0 assume that everyone who gets arrested is already emotionally messed up, mentally ill, or addicted \u2013 or \u201cmust have done something wrong, or you wouldn\u2019t have been arrested in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is a automatic presumption of guilt and fault by the system against the person arrested that leaves no room for the possibility that the person is innocent, that the person may not have been mentally ill in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>It was unexpected to realize that no-one, including me, the researcher that the stress of the arrest distresses the mental health and stability of everyone who goes through the system&#8230;and it was likely that the impacts of the loss of freedom, the acute shock of being arrested, were the cause of the mental distress symptoms seen in people even at 1st arraignment and certainly post court.\u00a0 Our rise in mental illness issues can most likely be traced back to a traumatizing situation that happened with a crisis, an arrest and the impacts on the psyche.<\/p>\n<p>I was taken aback to truly realize that most people arrested had no criminal intent that sparked the arrest.\u00a0 It was the circumstances areound a crisis that led to an incident, that sparked an arrest and accusation that the person broke a law, and that starts the sequence of distress that compounds.\u00a0 Many of those arrested did not seem to have had\u00a0 mental illness symptoms pre-incident.\u00a0 This was shocking and it led me to do another level of questioning for both those arrested and for all their support team members.\u00a0 Here is another chart summarizing what I found.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div  id='text_40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a' class='jsn-bootstrap3 st-element-container clearfix st-element-text' ><div class=\"st_text\" id=\"FiRy22\"><h3>STEP 3:\u00a0 INTEGRATED ANALYSIS AND CHARTING FOR PUBLICATION.<\/h3>\n<p>After doing all this research and comparing information gleaned, I went online to find out if there were any diagnoses of mental health symptoms that matched my findings.\u00a0 I found the Complex Post Traumatic Distress symptoms listed in the World Health Organizations list the most comparable.\u00a0 I found symptoms from severe head trauma caused by split brians or broken brains to be similar as well. \u00a0 Nothing else fit the broad range of symptoms described and the depth of impact.\u00a0 The only ones that seemed to fit the plethora of symptoms were those that were exhibited by people who had experienced deep and sudden shock and\u00a0<em><strong>betrayal by a protector<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0or who been\u00a0<em><strong>held hostage or captive by a \u201cfriendly\u201d<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 People who were taken prisoner in a friendly land, or were held hostage by a cult, or a person taken captive and held as prey to their protector.<\/p>\n<p>My bottomline conclusion:\u00a0 Just a call to 911 can trigger an arrest and jailing because of the way that the system of technology, protectionism and fear of liability works today.\u00a0 The presumption of innocence is lost and superceded by the likelihood that a law was broken, and inevitably this leads to an arrest \u2013 whether or not anyone intended to commit any crime of violate any law.\u00a0 The pre-assumption of guilt is made at the 911 call \u2013 and once that call is made, it triggers the system to step in and protect the government and all the people who run the legal system.<\/p>\n<p>What is not shown on this chart, is the high costs that any family incurs from the point of the arrest ($10,000 to $30,000 is fairly standard) or it can escalate rapidly, throwing the family into immediate poverty as well as into RADD-RAT escalating conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatcom County Jail Trauma Research Study After doing deep research into the issue, I have found that \u201can arrest creates a 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