Sunday, April 2, 2006
On the Chicopee Jail and Disability Rights
According to reporter Pamela H. Metaxas’s Springfield Republican article of September 20, 2005, the Chicopee women’s jail will cost $27 million to construct. Despite the myriad of problems associated with spending so much money on a facility designed to incarcerate women who are mostly convicted of non-violent, drug-related offenses including the fact that as our other speakers have mentioned these funds could be better spent on childcare, job training, post secondary education, housing, social...
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