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Justice Matters KS

@JusticeForKS

An interfaith coalition of congregations coming together to actualize their vision of a more just and fair Douglas County.

 Lawrence, KS
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Joined March 2017
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Vote YES on Proposition 1 this November to invest in much-needed behavioral health services in Douglas County. Funding mental health is now listed independently on the ballot, so you can vote YES without having to also invest in a jail expansion! www2.ljworld.com/news/county…

Absence of jail funding makes one-time opponents now support Proposition 1

Douglas County Commissioner Michelle Derusseau has taken a different approach to Proposition 1 than she did for a similar ballot question last spring. Derusseau has not scheduled informational...

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Why would they reject a free study? Could they be afraid of the truth: jail expansions are failed experiments of a bygone era.
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A shocking number of people in jails are there simply because they are poor. Do we really want to build more cells just to punish the poor? Reform, not expansion
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Hidden motives? 😡
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Douglas County failed to get voters' approval on a jail expansion in May 2018. Now they're saying they don't need voters' approval. What?!
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A powerful conclusion from a recent report by @daniellerudes.
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If you build it, you will fill it. And what you see is what you'll get. Do we really want add jail cells without first understanding why we have so many people of color locked up?
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Period.
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The Sheriff's office stopped releasing annual reports re: the jail when officials began pushing for expansion. Check it out. Every year, a full report like clockwork dating back to '11. Then 2016 rolls around and reports come to an end. home.dgso.org/corrections-di…
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We need to talk about how COVID19 is exposing the lies that contributed to mass incarceration in Douglas County, KS and across our country.
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We're an Interfaith group using democracy to block the expansion of a jail we don’t need.
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Now that the pandemic has proven that safe reforms are possible and officials have misled us, it’s up to citizens to exercise their democratic rights to reverse the course of mass incarceration.
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The "overcrowding" of the Douglas County jail costs us about $1M / yr to house inmates in other counties’ jails...a fraction of the $7M / yr this expansion will cost us. And with recent emergency reforms, it seems like we’re not overcrowded anymore? Something doesn’t add up...
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Brent Hoffman@Brent_Hoffman1 May 2020
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As of 4/30/2020 there were 137 people held in the Douglas County jail. There are 186 total beds. Safe operating capacity is 167 beds. Not overcrowded. #itTookAVirus
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