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Georgia Greens Demand Real Reductions in Incarceration’s Costs

Via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:

Greens Demand Real Reductions in Incarceration Costs
Reject Deal Reforms which Fail to Challenge Racist Impact

After last week praising Governor Deal’s expressed concern for the wasted lives, drained treasury and depleted workforce left in the wake of the nation’s war on drugs, Georgia Green Party leaders today rejected Deal’s specific proposals.…

Georgia Greens welcome Governor’s Acknowledgement of Mass Incarceration’s Costs, offer to work to reverse state’s tragic course

From the Green Party of Georgia, via the Green Party of the United States:
“I am so encouraged to hear Governor Deal acknowledge both the stark statistics and something of the devastation which mass incarceration wreaks on Georgia communities,” said Denice Traina, past cochair of the Georgia Green Party, mother, grandmother and Augusta based physical therapist.…

Coalition Claims Retaliatory Violence by Georgia Prison Staff

On The Wilder Side:



Distributed by the Green Party of the United States. Press release by Georgia Green Party http://www.georgiagreenparty.org.

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

For further information, contact:
Bruce Dixon / bdixon AT GeorgiaGreenParty DOT org
Press Secretary, Georgia Green Party

Coalition Claims Retaliatory Violence by Georgia Prison Staff,
Seeks Continued Access to Prisons to Investigate Conditions
• Video of press conference: http://www.georgiagreenparty.org/ChallengingMassIncarceration/Concerned_Coalition_Demands_Investigation_of_Inmate_Beatings_By_Guards