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NY: Drop the Rock group also wants to drop some prisons and focus on sustainable economic development in NY State

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Caitlin Dunklee, coordinator of the Drop the Rock campaign, said, "New York can no longer use prisons as an economic stimulus plan. Warehousing low-income people of color to create jobs in upstate communities is unconscionable. State leaders must develop alternative and sustainable economic development in communities which have grown dependent on incarceration." "Now, using correctional facilities as an economic engine around the state was always bad policy, right?" he asked. "So we also have to fight to make more real economic development throughout the entire state. It's good for New York state, and it'll be a way to show that building and filling prisons is not sustainable economic development." (Senate Health Committee Chairman Thomas Duane, D-Manhattan) Drop the Rock group also wants to drop some prisons By Faith Burkins-Gimzek March 22, 2010 Criminal justice crusaders from the "Drop the Rock" campaign preached reform of the state prison system from the pulpit of a church near the Capitol during an annual advocacy day event March 16...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).