Meadville City PIGS is a community-based alternative to the costly and ineffective criminal justice system.
People Initiating Graceful Solutions (PIGS) is community-based, restorative justice focused means to properly ameliorate the harms caused when one community member commits an offense against another community member.
Our current criminal justice system is demonstrably harmful by nearly any measure, and it has wrought a costly and deleterious effect causing the erosion of US society. In Pennsylvania since 1980, the population of incarcerated individuals has risen by 680%. 1 in 4 persons incarcerated on Planet Earth are on US soil.