Press Advisory: For Immediate Release For media queries, please contact the Schools Not Jails Media Team: (410) 849-9626 | schoolsnotjails@gmail.com JANUARY 17: SCHOOLS NOT JAILS ORGANIZERS WILL RETURN TO SITE, DESPITE ARRESTS Organizers of today’s Schools Not Jails Occupation kickoff rally and action say that they have no plans to cancel the program of...
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Occupy Baltimore Joins Three Year Long Campaign To Halt Construction of Youth Jail in East Baltimore
Kwanzaa Reflections 2011: Today’s Principle is Kujichagulia – Self-Determination
Habari Gani? Kujichagulia! which means Self Determination – To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves. Self-Determination is such a beautiful principle which speaks to the freedom that all individuals and people-groups should be able to rightly exercise. Though not always using the term, I have been writing about “kujichagulia”...
Day of Protest in Baltimore: March Against Youth Jail & #OccupyBaltimore Set To Begin Today
If all goes as planned. Today – October, 4, 2011 – will be a day that is remembered and perhaps even recorded in the “People’s History of Baltimore City.” For the past couple of years a committed group of activists have been challenging Maryland state plans to build a multi-million dollar youth jail in...
Delegate Melvin Stukes: “Where are the people who oppose the youth jail?”
This past Friday I was blessed with the opportunity to testify in Annapolis before the Baltimore City Delegation of state representatives. I was there voicing my support and urging the support of City Delegates for House Bill 1140, a bill sponsored by Delegate Jill Carter that would prohibit the planning and construction of yet...
College Students Must Embrace Responsibility Beyond Campus
Over the past few months, I’ve been working very closely with college students from a variety of universities in the Baltimore Metro area. Mainly, we’ve been working together to challenge the State of Maryland as it plans to build a $104 Million Dollar Youth Jail in an East Baltimore community that is already saturated...
YOUTH JUSTICE SUNDAY IS COMING! (Oct. 31, 2010 4PM)
After weeks and weeks of planning, protesting, and organizing, Youth Justice Sunday is almost here. On Sunday, October 31, 2010 4PM at 1010 East Monument Street, 21201 (Dunbar High School’s Football Field); thousands of Baltimoreans are coming together to protest Governor Martin O’Malley’s plans to build a $104 Million Dollar Youth Jail in East...
Who Profits From The Incarceration Of Black Youth In Baltimore?
I’ve been involved with youth mentoring for more than a decade in the Baltimore City area and I’ve long concluded that I receive much more than I can ever give the young people that I’ve been blessed to connect with. This is particularly true of youth that I’ve mentored who are incarcerated. There’s a...
These Three People Will Decide If Baltimore City Gets Yet Another Youth Jail
The Maryland State Board of Public Works is the legislative body which will ultimately decide either to sign or dismiss contracts to continue with planning and construction of another youth jail in East Baltimore. The Board is made up of State Treasurer, Nancy Kopp, State Comptroller, Peter Franchot, and of course Governor Martin O’Malley....
O’Malley’s Youth Jail Is Not A Guarantee, Baltimore’s Black Community Can Stop It If We Want To!
View Larger Map This is the site where Governor Martin O’Malley plans to build another youth prison in Baltimore City, Maryland. In addition to the youth prison, O’Malley wishes to build a prison for women as well in the same area. If the entire project goes to completion, Baltimore will have the Supermax for...
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