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Word From The President

by Melanie Younger | Sep 21, 2017 | CCJC News and Events, Miscellaneous | 0 comments

Word From The President was last modified: January 11th, 2018 by Melanie Younger

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"Government agencies don’t make profits; instead, they need revenue. State agencies must compete for this revenue, Gilmore explained. Under austerity, the social-welfare function shrinks; the agencies that receive the money are the police, firefighters and corrections. So other agencies start to copy what the police do: The education department, for instance, learns that it can receive money for metal detectors much more easily than it can for other kinds of facility upgrades. And prisons can access funds that traditionally went elsewhere — for example, money goes to county jails and state prisons for “mental health services” rather than into public health generally. 'If you follow the money, you don’t have to find the company that’s profiting,' Gilmore explained to me later. 'You can find all the people who are dependent on wages paid out by the Department of Corrections.'" ... See MoreSee Less

Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind

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In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

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