While Premier Doug Ford and his team make deep cuts to education and social services, the provincial government announced it's moving forward with a new and bigger jail in Thunder Bay, which Infrastructure Ontario estimates will cost hundreds of millions of dollars just to design, build, finance and maintain through a 30-year public-private-partnership.
We need to be ready to respond quickly if Premier Ford and his team also move forward with a new and bigger jail in Ottawa that was previously announced by the Liberals under the leadership of then Premier Kathleen Wynne. In a terrible trade-off, the new Ottawa jail is projected to cost up to $500 million to $1 billion, all while the Progressive Conservatives are cutting $1 billion in social services across the province.
Please join the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project's #NOPE / No Ottawa Prison Expansion readiness team to resist Premier Ford's push to build jails, while making brutal cuts to care and services that actually enhance community well-being and safety. Roles range in commitment from sharing our announcements with your contacts for those who cannot devote significant time to high-level planning for those who wish to be more involved.
Email your name, email address and/or phone number to cpep.action@gmail.com to be added to our #NOPE readiness team. Upon receiving your email, we will be get in touch with you within a week with next steps.
To learn more about the #NOPE campaign click on the links below:
Also check-out our op-eds explaining why building a new and bigger jail in Ottawa is a missed opportunity to enhance community well-being and safety in Eastern Ontario:
"Here's how to really address problems at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre"
"Divest from jails, reinvest in community supports"
"The new Ottawa jail will just become another hellhole"
"Why a new Ottawa jail won't necessarily make things better"
"'There is no neutral ground':
Carceral expansion and organizations that serve the criminalized in Canada"
Carceral expansion and organizations that serve the criminalized in Canada"
"Here's why we should stop planning for a new jail"
"Ottawa jail project needs more transparency"
"There are many alternatives to a bigger jail"
"Premier's support for new Ottawa jail costly, ineffective"
"Ontario's kids need more education today, not more cages tomorrow"
(Rabble, 4 April 2019)
#got99solutions - bigger jails ain't one
With #our1billion #BuildCommunitiesNotCages
#NOPE / No Ontario Prison Expansion
#YESS / Yes to Education and Social Services
#got99solutions - bigger jails ain't one
With #our1billion #BuildCommunitiesNotCages
#NOPE / No Ontario Prison Expansion
#YESS / Yes to Education and Social Services
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