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NJ: Guard union fights prison closing with scare tactics

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The guards' union should be ashamed for distributing an atrocious flier depicting murderers, rapists and gang members breaking into homes and harming children after the prison closes. Needlessly scaring people isn't the way to save union jobs. Riverfront's inmates are going to be relocated, not released on to the streets of Camden." http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinio/20090121_Editorial__Camden.html Posted on Wed, Jan. 21, 2009 Editorial: Camden Another step forward Philadelphia Inquirer Finally, some good news for Camden. Riverfront State Prison, long a demoralizing presence on the city's waterfront, is to be closed, possibly this summer. The razor-wire-enclosed compound occupies potential prime real estate just north of the Ben Franklin Bridge...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).