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Philadelphia: Go Directly to Jail. Alternatives to prison are badly needed in Philly. But neighbors are trying to block the first one.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

?Go Directly to Jail Alternatives to prison are badly needed in Philly. But neighbors are trying to block the first one. by Holly Otterbein City Paper Published: Feb 16, 2011 The building that could house the city's first day reporting center is old, empty and industrial, and at its home on 52nd Street and Grays Avenue in Southwest Philly, it's got friends that look the same. Walk northeast of the site for three entire blocks and you'll be hard-pressed to find another human; but overgrown weeds, hulking brick buildings and dumped tires are everywhere. This is where Ronald and David Watts, a pair of father-and-son developers, want to put a day reporting center, a with job training, mental health care and sometimes housing, instead of sending them to jail...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).