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CO: Monuments to Ignorance: It's time for Colorado to try social justice for a change

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Monuments to Ignorance: It's time for Colorado to try social justice for a change By A.D. Rudder InsideWire MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 CANON CITY, Colo, Man builds monuments to the things he worships; in Colorado that's police stations, courts, and prisons. In the last six months from Denver to Pueblo the state has experienced major investment in the criminal justice economic complex. Monuments to justice with a capital "J" and " $." These grand new monuments of man's power over man often have benign, self-righteous names like, ''Justice Center" or "Complex." The new Municipal Justice Center dedicated in Pueblo last Friday even rendered a quote about justice from Martin Luther King Jr. I doubt the clients of the new center have the same definition of justice as the people who occupy the desks in the $25 million facility...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).