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Buffalo NY: Let?s all work to end Holding Center abuse

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Let?s all work to end Holding Center abuse By Karima Amin, a retired Buffalo teacher, is founder of Prisoners Are People Too and co-chair of the Erie County Prisoners? Rights Coalition. October 16, 2010 On Aug. 5, 2009, we stood on the corner of Delaware Avenue and Church Street, in front of the Erie County Holding Center, in protest for the first time. Calling ourselves the Buffalo Prison Abuse Project, about a dozen of us carried signs protesting the jail management?s desire to keep Department of Justice investigators out of the Holding Center. We stood on that corner, determined to be a voice for the voiceless, chanting: ?Prisoners are people, too; it could be me or you!? and ?No excuse for prisoner abuse!? Men?s voices from inside thanked us and chanted with us...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 16, 2010 (boomark / email).