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Baltimore youth say no to $104 million youth prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Baltimore youth say no to $104 million youth prison by: Jordan Farrar November 3 2010 People's World http://peoplesworld.org/baltimore-youth-say-no-to-104-million-youth-prison/ "Break that lock, break that lock!" cried hundreds of protesters at a Halloween rally on Monument Street in Baltimore, Md., as protestors broke through the gate of an empty lot. The crowd was frustrated with the new $104 million dollar youth prison that is going to be built there. The protesters assembled in a football field near the proposed youth detention center. At the rally, representatives from all over Baltimore spoke, sang, rapped and read poetry. The event was opened with joint Christian and Muslim prayers, showing the diversity of Baltimore and its youth. When asked for comment, a young protester who did not want to be identified said, "I'm educated by Baltimore City Public Schools and if we put more money into our education system we wouldn't have to be building this prison!" One of the speakers also made the point that this center had been planned for years and that "when they were planning to build it, the people who would occupy it hadn't even been born...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 04, 2010 (boomark / email).