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SF: Poverty Court Opens

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NEWSOM IGNORES VOTERS: $2.7 MILLION POVERTY COURT OPENS IN SAN FRANCISCO BRINGING THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU! Notwithstanding a blistering defeat at the polls and strong opposition by the SF Board of Supervisors Newsom's Community Justice Center (CJC) defers several million dollars to incarcerate poor people for the sole act of being poor. The Poverty Court (CJC) with a price tag of 2.7 million dollars serving the Tenderloin, South of Market, Civic Center, and Union Square neighborhoods was soundly defeated by voters ( Proposition L), with strong opposition from the Board of Supervisors as well. Mayor Newsom vetoed the loss, and the Center opened for business on March 4th, 2009. "The Poverty Court (CJC) model formerly merges the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) with the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (NPIC) to become "the Complex"- a new form of criminalized service provision brought to a neighborhood near you," said Lisa Gray-Garcia, executive director of POOR Magazine and author of Criminal of Poverty; Growing Up Homeless in America...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 07, 2009 (boomark / email).