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No, we don't really need a new jail

By eridani
Fri Apr 03, 2009 at 10:08:02 AM PST
Section: Diary Topic: Law Enforcement

Not in Highland Park, and not anywhere else either.

City Council member Nick Licata explains why Seattle doesn't need to build a new jail. Of all the places where we could be saving money right now, this is one of the most obvious. A Citizen's Initiative has already been launched to find alternatives to building a new jail.

Back in January, Real Change hosted an event to air opposition to the plan. The video below contains some very insightful comments from Seattle middle school teacher Jesse Hagopian about how much we value prisons vs. schools:

The issue of our ever-expanding prison population is finally coming to the fore, thanks to courageous politicians like Jim Webb, who recognize that it's nothing short of a tragic failure that America has the world's largest prison population by far. The fact that even here in "progressive" King County we're looking at fixing a potential shortage of jail beds by trying to spend money on a new jail - rather than re-evaluating why we're trying to arrest so many people for minor non-violent offenses in the first place - gives us a good idea of how entrenched in our political system this failure has become.

(more at the link)
http://horsesass.org/?p=14655

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Here's the link to the petition
that would require a vote of the people for this new jail:

Initiative 100 -- pdf.

They need something like 20,000 more signatures by May.

by noemie maxwell on Sat Apr 04, 2009 at 07:27:16 AM PST

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