Felicia Alongi Cowden shared Beyond Barss photo. Please testify against expanding Hawaiis relationship with the criminal injustice industry. We need health care options not incarceration. It is cheaper to assist people out of poverty than to lock them up. Poverty, humiliation and depression fills our prisons. My testimony on Hawaiis SCR120 expanding the relationship with Correctional Corporations of America and private prisons: I oppose working with private correctional companies. It amplifies our prison population and takes inmates away from their families. Wide-spread abuse with guaranteed occupancies are a national problem. We are effecting genocide with our Native Hawaiian population over-represented in our prison systems. I have been an advocate for prisoners I have known since toddler-age. As a former remedial reading teacher, I am of the opinion we incarcerate the poor and the poor readers. Partnerships with companies like Correctional Corporations of America are a tragedy. They build nice comfortable, humane facilities, so that is a positive, but they basically turn our strong-willed boys into a commodity. 40 years ago, there was not a holding facility on Kauai for overnight arrests. Now, we have a steady stream into the penal system. If you build it, they will come has become a life sentence for a whole demographic here. JUST SAY NO to prison time. We need health program not a prison program.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:19:04 +0000
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