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The End Of A Prison Offers New Hope To Camden Area

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Jan 24, 2009 The End Of A Prison Offers New Hope To Camden Area CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) ? On the south side of the bridge, there's a spiffy red brick minor-league baseball stadium where families go for a good time; on the north side, chain link fences topped by razor wire surround a cluster of grimly functional buildings?Riverfront State Prison, where convicts go to serve time. After years of requests, the state is preparing to close the prison. Activists see that as not only an opportunity to redevelop a 17-acre tract of prime riverfront land with its view of the Philadelphia skyline, but as the catalyst for the rebirth of the original neighborhood in a city that consistently ranks as one of the nation's poorest and most crime-ridden. "The prison needs to be out of there for anything to happen on this waterfront," said Rodney Sadler, a marina owner, community activist, president of the advocacy group Save Our Waterfront and chairman of Camden's planning board...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 24, 2009 (boomark / email).