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Did you know that the MA Parole Board denied TEN women parole in 2020? 10 women who should be home right now. How many women were denied parole in 2019? How many in 2021? This year?

@KarenSpilka we must focus on releasing women, not reconstructing Framingham. #NoNewWomensPrison
Some women in Framingham are ONLY there for technical violations of parole not new transgressions. 1 of our members just came home after doing a DECADE on a technical violation. H1798 would change this

@KarenSpilka we need policy changes not prison renovations #NoNewWomensPrison
The goal of a real Moratorium on Jail/Prison Construction is to change course in MA from an “incarceration first” approach to plan & implement what else is possible.

Why do we have women doing decades on technical violations of parole? Why do we have 70 year old women in prison?
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MORATORIUM UPDATE:

The Senate included language in the Infrastructure Bond Bill that WILL NOT STOP the planned women's prison project.

The exceptions in the rule GIVE PERMISSION for DOC to EXPAND.

This language does NOT get us to what different looks like!

#NoNewWomensPrison
The $50 million women's prison project has always been billed as "renovation" of Bay State or SMCC prisons. It's also been sold as "trauma informed."

This language obscures the truth: it's construction to keep women incarcerated for another 100 years.

#NoNewWomensPrison
We'll be breaking down the Senate language today and how you can support the ongoing movement for a REAL 5 year Moratorium that DOESN'T let the DOC build MORE cells so we can

RELEASE Women

RESOURCE and REIMAGINE Communities!

Follow the #NoNewWomensPrison hashtag!
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