Community in Unity’s Two-Year in the Making Victory to stop Jails Expansion

Submitted by mayfirst on March 11, 2008 - 5:40pm.

Start: Mar 12 2008 - 5:30pm

End: Mar 12 2008 - 7:30pm

Join Community in Unity for a Press Conference and Victory March

Community in Unity, a coalition comprised of community members and organizations opposed to Commissioner Martin F. Horn’s proposed city-wide jail expansion plan, will hold a press conference on Wednesday, March 12th at 5:30PM at the Hunts Point train station located on Hunts Point Ave. and East 163rd St. followed by a victory march. The City of New York has finally withdrawn its plan to build a 2,040-bed $375 million Hunts Point jail.

Department of Corrections Commissioner Martin F. Horn continues the search for a different Bronx location to house a smaller facility, in order “to make it easier for family members to visit inmates and for prisoners to make court appearances.”

New prisons will NOT make it significantly easier to visit loved ones because most problems with visiting are caused by security check-point procedures and transportation systems, The continued human rights violations suffered by those housed in NYC jail and prison systems are due to the environmental and physical conditions of those facilities, which have a detrimental impact on the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical health of community members and their families. We want healthy jobs with living wages and alternatives to incarceration for all residents citywide.

Carlos Sabater a member of Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities, a former prisoner who spent 19 years in prison 9 of which were spent in solitary confinement says,” there are more and more people coming out of prison with psychiatric disabilities, when all they needed in the first place was an alternative to incarceration program, millions should be going to those programs.”

Community in Unity is a coalition of concerned residents and the following organizations:

Abraham House, Asociacion Pro-Derechos Del Confinado, The Bronx Defenders, Bronx Pryde Center for Constitutional Rights, Critical Resistance, Elton Avenue Homeowners’ Association, For A Better Bronx, Mothers on the Move, NY Civic Participation Project, The Point CDC, Prison Moratorium Project, Queers for Economic Justice, Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities, Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project, We Stay/Nos Quedamos, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, Justice Works Community, FIERCE, Sylvia Rivera Law Project

To join Community in Unity @ 5:30PM at the Hunts Point Train Station located on Hunts Point Ave. and East 163rd St.

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