Tuesday, September 04, 2007

What Else Can We Criminalize?


Join us on Thursday, September 13th at 12:30 pm. as we "celebrate" the opening of the Western Mass Women's Correctional Center, 701 Center St., Chicopee.

Free housing!
Free health care!
Educational opportunities!
(No child care, sorry.)

We want a jail in OUR neighborhood, too!
What a benefit to our local economy!
Chicopee gets $10,000 a bed ("read "woman") for the 200 prisoners.

The majority of women who will be prisoners in this new facility will be committed for drug and prostitution offenses.

What else can we criminalize?

Seriously, the U.S. currently has the largest documented prison population in the world, both in absolute and proportional terms. A record 7 million people -- one in every 32 U.S. adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of 2005.

For more information on the "celebration," how to participate and directions, call Holly at 348-8234 or Liz at 364-4834.

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