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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Decarcerate PA Protest Hits Snag at Graterford; Carries On Anyway

Despite being prevented by police from protesting in front of the prison, the movement voiced their concerns regarding Governor Corbett’s priorities.

Decarcerate Pennsylvania protested the Graterford Prison expansion on Tuesday, though it was semi-thwarted when members of the Pennsylvania State Police prevented them from walking onto the Graterford complex. The group had initially planned to meet at Perkiomen Valley High School and walk to the prison entrance, but state police prevented them from making the trek citing safety concerns. “We prevented them from obstructing the highway – we did it for their safety,” said a Pennsylvania State Police Trooper. “People are going to start looking at them, and not pay attention to the way they are driving, so it is an issue of safety.” Despite the concerns from police, Decarcerate Pennsylvania member Hakim Ali believes that the police were not …

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Protest of Graterford Prison Expansion Scheduled for Tuesday, Police Reports: Week of July 13, and Perkiomen Valley High School

WILLIAM WEBER

9:01 am on Friday, July 20, 2012

SHERIFF JOE FOR WARDEN OF GRATERFORD PRISON. I LIKE HIS WAY OF THINKING!!!!   more ›

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Protest of Graterford Prison Expansion Scheduled for Tuesday

The protest seeks to raise awareness of the $400 million Graterford Prison expansion at a time when the state is cutting budgets elsewhere.

Members of the Decarcerate Pennsylvania movement will once again take aim at Governor Corbett on Tuesday afternoon, as a planned protest seeks to raise awareness to the $400 million Graterford Prison expansion at a time when state funding for education and health services is on the decline. "Governor Corbett just began construction of two new prisons on the grounds of SCI Graterford in Montgomery County," reads a recent posting on the DecarceratePA Web site. "Meanwhile, Corbett has slashed hundreds of millions of dollars from education, environmental protection, homeowners assistance, and healthcare and mental health services." As previously reported by Patch, the construction project at Graterford will establish two new prison facilities …

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SCI Graterford, MontCo Grappling With Corbett's Cuts, and Skippack Residents Discuss Details—and Detail Concerns—at Meeting about SCI Phoenix Plans

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Sergei MacCarron

9:00 pm on Friday, July 20, 2012

However, most people in our prisons, including Graterford, aren't there for child molestation, or rape, or murder, so your point is both a strawman argument, and totally irrelevant to the discussion. When people say we have to reanalyze our criminal justice system and recognize tough on crime doesn't work, they're not saying "let rapists get off scot free", they're saying lets analyze what we're …   more ›

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