Prison Reform Rally 1/20/18: Askari Danso Statement on Mass Incarceration
Our goal for the rally today is to communicate to Law Makers, right here where you are standing, to "Reform" the Virginia prison system. This means that we have to explore the question of what exactly do we want Reformed? Do we want the state to stop using a Billion Dollars of taxpayer money to Mass incarcerate people? Does it mean we want the state to End Racial Disparity in Conviction, Sentencing, and length of stay in prison? Does it mean we want to end Truth in Sentencing
Prison Reform Rally 1/20/18 Jerry Mendoza-Villata statement on Incarceration & Immigrants
"Hola Hermanos y Hermanas de la comunidad Hispana de parte de los prisioneros de Augusta Correctional Center en el Estado de Virginia! Sabemos que hemos cometido errores en el pasado para llegar a estos extremos. Hemos pasado mucho tiempo arrepentidos de nuestras malas decisiones y estamos pagando por esos errores. Sin embargo, seguimos siendo humanos y merecemos ser tratados como seres humanos con oportunidades, igualdad y derechos. Algo que por tiempo no ha estado pasando p
DR. KING THE ANTI-IMPERIAL ACTIVIST WOULD CONDEMN MASS INCARCERATION
Martin Luther Kings Birthday is celebrated on the 3rd Monday of January every year. His Birthday has come to mean many different things to many different people. Conservatives tend to use King as a symbol of individualism whose message and mission was to have people judged meritoriously not based on their race or any other superficial group designation. Liberals use King as a symbol of Anti Racist equality, Colorblindness, and of opportunity. For them King becomes an integrat
Environmental Justice & Mass Incarceration
Since October of 2017, Augusta Correctional Center has been on a water restriction whereas prisoners are only allowed to take showers from 8:30am to 10:30am, and 6:30pm to 10:30pm. Recently, on or about January 9, 2018 Augusta went on a two flush toilet restriction where prisoners are only allowed to flush twice in five minutes, and if you flush any more than that, the toilet will lock for an hour, before it can be used again. This is not only inconvenient but it is unsanitar
Resisting Mass Incarceration
-What affects one directly, affects all indirectly-Martin Luther king Jr.
in our cities,out of control incarceration has infected poorer neighborhoods like a plague. there are more than 1.7million children in the united states with one parent- usually thier father-locked up.single parent households put severe economic strain on the remaining parent,who must support her children financially & be their homemaker at the same time.They also make it more likely that children com
