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May 12 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Plans about to be revealed for yet another new jail for women & 'gender-expansive people' in NYC. As with all improved cages, these will be 'different', 'humane', 'feminist', 'gender-responsive.' Contrary to advance propaganda, there is nothing new about such 'reformed' cages. 1/
As as been the case with most 'gender-responsive' caging projects, they've given it a warm & fuzzy & neutral name: "The Women's Center for Justice." In CA 15 years ago, they were called Female Rehabilitative Community Corrections Centers. 2/
In CA, we defeated the plan. Here's a report we issued as part of that campaign: 'How "Gender Responsive Prisons" Harm Women, Children, and Families." 3/
curbprisonspending.org/wp-content/upl…
The co-conspirators behind this plan include The Prison & Jail Innovation Lab at UT Austin, the Justice Lab & Center for Justice at Columbia, & the real estate firm HR&A Advisors.
A particular irony that building a jail might 'unlock value' in urban real estate. 4/ #NoNewJails
Public meeting to present the plan Tuesday May 17, 1:00, Riverside Church. Registration might be required:
Columbia Justice Lab changed its mind about an in-person discussion of their plans for a new jail. Looks like they're not ready to face you directly, yet and want a rollout they can control more carefully.
Maybe they're remembering how well the public comment meetings for the 4 new jails went ::

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Jan 10
This NYTimes story about a planned prison closure is the latest public relations success of prison guards, the real estate business, & the Chamber of Commerce to convince us that we should keep people in cages to maintain jobs & real estate values & commerce. 1/
The LATimes ran basically the same story last year: 2/
‘…many people in Susanville, which cherishes its small-town way of life — “we’re not rural, we’re frontier,” said one resident — relied on jobs at the nearby sawmills and on cattle ranches.’ AND many relied on jobs with the state or Fed govts in Forestry or Fish & Wildlife. 3/
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Sep 21, 2019
No surprise that Darren Walker & the Ford Foundation support building 8-12 new jails in NYC. Walker was a member of the commission that drafted the plan. His new In Defense of Nuance is a not very nuanced attack on #NoNewJails organizers opposing NYC’s jail construction plans 1/
Walker laments extremism, enemy of nuance & complexity. Rather than building consensus “based on mutual understanding or shared respect”, extremists, he argues, vilify those not in alignment with their ideologically pure position. The “perfect” becomes the “enemy of progress.” 2/
Is Walker modeling or mocking how to build “bridges and relationships based on mutual understanding or shared respect” by comparing #NoNewJails organizers to the climate change denial movement? 3/
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Sep 13, 2019
Yesterday, the California legislature passed #AB32, banning (in the near future) the operation of for-profit prisons, jails, & detention centers in the state and of sending state prisoners out of state to for-profit prisons. 1/
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/s…
California has phased out the use of out-of-state private prisons over the last few years, finally bringing the last few dozen back a couple of months ago: 2/ sacbee.com/news/politics-…
There's a not too modest loophole that allows the state to "renew or extend a contract with a private, for-profit prison facility" ... "in order to comply with the requirements of any court-ordered population cap." 3/
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Aug 9, 2018
I've had enough of reading basically the same story year after year exposing the 'truth' about private prisons in the US. That the stories are sooo repetitive is annoying. That they repeat misleading or unfounded claims deceives & weakens the movement against prisons. 1/9
What are those deceptive tales? A) That donations from private prison corporations drive penal policy. Do they donate? Yes. Do they donate as much as unions of public sector prison workers or police? NO. Or have as much power to shape legislation as sheriffs or DAs? NO. 2/9
B) That because they are private, they are not transparent or lack oversight/accountability. I know people who've brought stories out of public prisons for decades. The violence routinely inflicted on incarcerated people is massively well documented. 3/9
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