Research
The Economics of Healing: Cost-Effective Justice
Examining how Indigenous-led alternatives to incarceration benefit communities and taxpayers.
Incarceration is expensive, and it often fails to resolve the conditions that led to re-offending. Community-based alternatives can use resources more directly.
Housing, employment training, healing programs, and accountability circles are not soft add-ons. They are interventions aimed at reducing future harm and future system costs.
A cost-effective justice model asks what actually changes outcomes. SixMiles' answer is to invest in healing, responsibility, skills, and community connection.