Ciera Payton
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Help STOP Prison Expansion in California
You can help bring awareness to Los Angeles County Board officials to stop this proposed prison expansion. They need recommendations, but more importantly YOUR voice needs to be heard! Below is a brief description from the CURB organization. They have met this week with Board members, but more needs to be done! Attached are letters … Read more
For Immediate Release—January 23, 2012 Hundreds Rally Against $1.4 Billion LA Jail Expansion
Press Contact: Isaac Ontiveros Californians United for a Responsible Budget Ph. 510. 517.6612 What: Press Conference, Rally When: Tuesday January 24, 10am Where: 500 West Temple St., Kenneth Hall Main entrance Los Angeles—Hundreds of LA residents will be converging on Tuesday’s LA County Board of Supervisors meeting to protest Sheriff Lee Baca’s proposal … Read more
Please help to pass SB9
Bill SB9 is a bill would help make California’s laws more fair, and give a chance to young people to turn their lives around. Authored by Senator Yee, with Principal Coauthors Senators Steinberg and Vargas, and Coauthors Assembly Members Fuentes and Lowenthal, the bill has a growing list of supporters from all walks of life in … Read more
Letter from my father…
Today as I was on my way to rehearse my 15 presentation of “Michael’s Daughter” for The Festival of All Skid Row Artist (next Friday at 1pm *hint *hint *hint), I just had to stop and check my mail. Well to my surprise a lovely residual check came in along with a letter from my … Read more
Absentee Voting Information: This affects a lot of Artists!
Dear Artists Friends (and others that relocate a lot) This is an pivotal year for you to exercise your right to vote! Many states are changing their voting laws that have a huge affect on minorities. And also performing artists. I wonder why…….. If you are like me (splitting times between different coasts) you … Read more
OCT 4 Get Ready Not To Vote: Why 2012 Just Got More Interesting
JIM CROW CAN BE FOR ALL OF US /// The Brennan report, which points to more than 5 million eligible voters will find it more difficult to vote in 2012, should unite people on the right and left who realize that they’re getting played by the true centers of power in this country — that … Read more
FEMA to Katrina Victims: Give the Money Back
Last week, more than six years after Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency began mailing out notices to victims of the storm that ripped through the Gulf region. The message: Give us our money back. FEMA is asking more than 83,000 recipients of aid to reimburse the government an average of $4,622 each, BlackAmericaWeb … Read more
Report: Jail expansion needed in Santa Clara County despite 1,000 empty beds
By Tracey Kaplan tkaplan@mercurynews.com Posted: 01/09/2012 03:38:46 PM PST Updated: 01/09/2012 10:16:43 PM PST Click photo to enlarge A sparsely-populated barracks at the Elmwood Mens Correctional Facility in… ( Patrick Tehan ) Even though more than 1,000 jail beds sit empty in Santa Clara County, a new report is calling for a $104 million jail … Read more
Orleans Parish jail contractor sues sheriff’s office
Orleans Parish jail contractor sues sheriff’s office. New Orleans — One Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office lucrative detail, being worked by deputies on the department’s own property, is now the focus of a civil lawsuit filed by a local construction company. Woodward Construction alleges it has drastically overpaid for onsite security and wants the sheriff’s office … Read more
In 2007 there were 1.7 mi…
In 2007 there were 1.7 million children in America with a parent in prison, more than 70% of whom were children of color.
From The Sentencing Project: Research and Advocacy For Reform
“Incarcerated Parents and Their Chidren” Trends 1991-2007
February 2009
