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Update on Jail Playgound---Column by Errol Louis in Daily News--jail repainted

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Brooklyn playground designed as prison: Just when will we stop setting up kids to fail? By Errol Louis Daily News Thursday, March 25th 2010, 4:00 AM A NYCHA employee repaints the controversial Brooklyn playground on Wednesday. Hats off to a group of alert Brooklyn activists for exposing the shocking scene at the Tompkins Houses: a junglegym for toddlers - with a fake prison door, marked JAIL in bright colors. "I literally stumbled on it," says Monifa Bandele, national coordinator of the Malcolm X Grassroots Committee. Bandele, a mother of two, took some pics and sent them to Sharon Toomer, who slammed them on Facebook and her blog, http://blackandbrownnews.com. Toomer also asked pointed questions of the New York City Housing Authority and City Hall...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).