Task force busy on bigger jail issues

Diverting from incarceration is the goal of 20-member group By Calvin Bratt [email protected]   BELLINGHAM ­— On Nov. 2, the 20-member Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force sat for its two-hour details-loaded survey of many aspects of Whatcom County’s criminal justice system. Nary a word was spoken of a measure on the ballot the next day….