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Reject more jail expansion and invest in prevention, re-entry [Sacbee.com]

 

Recently, when Gov. Jerry Brown warned of impending deficits and the perils of committing to new spending in his revised budget proposal, he failed to mention the one area in which he has been consistently profligate: his aggressive expansion of the state’s already vast system of imprisonment.

The governor is proposing $250 million for county jail construction, on top of the $2.2 billion he has already poured into expanding county jails since 2008. More than 40 counties are already building new jails, adding 14,000 new beds.

Last Wednesday, the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Public Safety voted to reject this harmful and irresponsible expenditure of tax dollars, and to redirect the funds to prevention, diversion and re-entry. The Assembly subcommittee, which could vote as early as Monday, should follow suit.

More jail construction would not only divest from low-income communities of color, but would ultimately drive them deeper into traumatization, destabilization and cycles of imprisonment.

[For more of this story, written by Lizzie Buchen, go to http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/...article79227927.html]

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Like California Governor Jerry Brown, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan rejected $11M for schools the same week he approved $30M for a youth prison.

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The 2008 Pennsylvania "Kids for Cash" scheme involved 2 judges sentencing all juveniles to a private youth prison in return for kickbacks.

Nationwide the dysfunction, corrupt, adversarial, for profit family courts inflict ACEs on family after family leading to one parent in jail for onerous un-payable child support and the children in incredibly high ACEs scores who then also risk jail time for resulting behaviors.

US is already leading the world in incarcerating its own people. We are now on a constant ever growing morbid spiral to creating and feeding this ever growing demand for more jail space.

Parents and children subject to this extreme attachment based complex trauma are rendered zombies, the difference between Hitler's death camps is that here the survivors are physically alive but otherwise dead. The resulting aftermath drives multiple generations of these broken families ("cannon fodder") into poverty where the police state eagerly awaits to profit a few.

The ACE trauma informed need to spread the word among each and every able citizen. We then need to rise united using the full power of the democratic process and rescue our country, families, children, and individuals from this "insanity".

 

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