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AZ: Community activists, immigrant-rights advocates, tribal critics and local elected officials don't want to see a federal detention center

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Tucson Region Prison plan opposition grows County's help sought to fight US facility slated for O'odham land near Sahuarita By Erica Meltzer Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.18.2009 Community activists, immigrant-rights advocates, tribal critics and local elected officials don't want to see a federal detention center built near Pima Mine Road on the San Xavier District of the Tohono O'odham Nation. Opponents, including residents of Rancho Sahuarita and the Rev. Robin Hoover of Humane Borders, asked the Pima County Board of Supervisors last week for the county's help in stopping the prison's construction. The county's power lies only in raising questions and asking the federal government to require more study of the impact before signing off on the project...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).