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Brookyn NY: "Jail Playground" !

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

http://blackandbrownnews.com/front/568028906_story.php To see the Jail Playground...go to the URL above. Original Story (3.21.10) There is no kind, gentle, diplomatic way to describe the offense against a community by this ?Jail Playground? on a New York City Housing Authority property, located at Tompkins Houses (Park Avenue between Tompkins and Throop) in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where Black and Latino children live and play. (Disproportionately, Black and Latinos enter the criminal justice system. Encouraging young Black and Latino children to first play in Jail until they may actually get to jail or prison is playing loosey-goosey with their young, impressionable psyche and something no community should stand for or be subjected to)...continue to full post

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