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Many Reasons for Social Justice, No Reasons for New Prisons

Communities of Resistance (CoRe) invites you to join our campaign against prison expansion.

The “Many Reasons for Social Justice, No Reasons for New Prisons” Campaign aims to gather a critical mass of community organizations, individuals and groups who oppose prison expansion in Britain. The campaign aims to both resist current prison building plans in Britain and support practical alternatives that work towards building safe and just communities.

Read on to find out how to get involved....

Last Updated on Thursday, 06 May 2010 08:29

We Don’t Need More Prisons in Britain!

We are living in a time of global mass incarceration. Prisons are overflowing, imprisonment rates are skyrocketing and prison costs are spiraling out of control.

Despite these trends, prisons have failed to make our communities safer. Prisons have failed to protect our neighbourhoods and have failed to stop violence against women, migrants, people of colour, poor communities, queer and trans people, children, youth and people with disabilities and mental health issues. Prisons have instead fostered more violence and oppression. With the government currently embarking on a massive prison building spree, which will see the creation of 20,000 new prison spaces by 2014 (at a cost of £3.2-4.6 billion!) the failure of imprisonment is only going to get worse. The time to act is now.

We are calling on everyone with an interest in stopping violence and building towards social, economic and racial justice to join in the movement to stop prison expansion in Britain.

Come to our next meeting:

Bent Bars Project Letter Writing Night - third Thursday of each month

CoRe Meeting Saturday November 14, 2009

10 Reasons to Stop Prison Expansion in Britain

On December 5, 2007, the British Ministry of Justice announced a massive prison expansion program to create 10,500 new prison spaces by 2014. This is in addition to the 9,500 spaces previously announced. The government originally planed to build three massive new US-style “Titan” prisons, which will hold up to 2,500 prisoners each, but because of widespread opposition, the government changed its plan and now intends to build 5 “mini-Titan” prisons instead (to hold 1,500 each). Proposed locations for the first two mini-Titans include Beam Park West (East London) and Runwell, Chelmsford (Essex). We don’t need more prisons – here’s why:

1. More prisons won’t reduce crime and may increase re-offence rates.
Criminologists warn that building more prisons is likely to increase rather than decrease re-offence rates. A study by former senior Home Office researcher Carole Hederman, for example, found that re-offence rates are increasing in tandem with prison population growth. Since 1993

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 September 2009 19:28