ENACT A CALIFORNIA PRISON AND JAIL MORATORIUM:
Stop the Cages, Stop the Cuts
On December 12th we are going to Sacramento to demand an immediate moratorium on all prison and jail expansion. To join us, email Emily Harris.
Next year’s trigger cuts will steal $608 million away from the
programs that sustain our communities just weeks after 25 counties were
invited to apply for over $600 million to build more jail cells in
response to Gov. Brown’s Public Safety Realignment and the humanitarian
crisis that is inside of California’s overcrowded prisons and jails. As
the last 30 years of similar priorities have shown, poor communities and
communities of color will be hit hardest by both the cuts and the
cages.
A moratorium will force politicians at the county and state level to
reduce sentences, decrease policing, invest in our communities and bring
our people home.
Whether or not you can make it, please call your local legislators
and ask them to stand strong for California communities by calling for a
moratorium on all prison and jail construction, and encouraging
counties to build alternatives to imprisonment, not more jail cells.
To get involved in the campaign, contact CURB at info@curbprisonspending.org.
More information at http://curbprisonspending.org
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