70 advocates, including family members with an incarcerated loved one, formerly imprisoned people, and youthfrom across California traveled to Sacramento last week!
Watch the Video:
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Daletha Hayden of California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement explains why California needs to stop jail expansion!
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If didn’t make it to the Lobby Day contact your Legislator today and encourage them to:
- Create a moratorium on prison and jail expansion and cancel all AB 900 construction projects in the 2012 budget.
- Support SB 9 (Yee) the California Fair Sentencing for Youth act.
- Oppose SB 391 (Gaines) Inmate Parole Hearings.
- Oppose AB 281 (Gorell) Gang Injunctions.
- Stop the cuts to social services and education.
Amador * Butte * Calaveras * El Dorado * Fresno * Imperial * Kern * Kings * Los Angeles * Madera * Merced * Monterey * Napa * Orange * Placer * Riverside * Sacramento * San Bernardino * San Benito * San Diego * San Joaquin * San Luis Obispo * San Mateo * Santa Barbara * Santa Clara * Shasta * Siskiyou * Solano * Sonoma * Stanislaus * Sutter * Tulare * Tuolumne * Yolo
CURB is currently organizing in several counties across California to fight for real solutions:
to stop the Sacramento County jail expansion:
to stop the L.A. County jail expansion:
Sign the Riverside Petition
Stop the Riverside County Supervisors from expanding
jail capacity and charging prisoners:
https://secure3.convio.net/
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It is crucial that we come together to stop the waste of our limited resources on locking up our communities!
