Background

The Green Party of the US resolution to endorse #NoNewJail Campaigns

The NoNewJails campaign started in 2018 in NYC to shut down Rikers prison, and is part of a growing prison abolition movement around the country, with the hashtag #NoNewJails cropping up in California, Michigan, Louisiana, Massachusetts and New Jersey.

Proposal

The Green Party’s platform position under Criminal Justice states that our priorities must encourage and support positive approaches to punishment that build hope, responsibility and a sense of belonging. The No New Jails campaign(s) believe money spent on incarcerating people should be reinvested in black and brown communities that have historically been disproportionately incarcerated and affected by over-policing.

This resolution states full endorsement of the NoNewJails Campaign to ensure our fight to end the carceral state that has given the US the highest incarceration rate in the world.

References

No New Jails Releases Abolition Plan
https://medium.com/@nonewjails.ny/no-new-jails-releases-abolition-plan-2af6966ca0fd
 
Protestor at DC Jail #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay
https://twitter.com/ChuckModi1/status/1388721750503038977

https://www.gp.org/social_justice/#sjCriminalJustice
Social Justice - H. Criminal Justice

ACLU NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT
https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-national-prison-project

Top 10 Major Upcoming Courthouse and Jail and Prison Construction Projects - U.S. - May 2020
https://www.constructconnect.com/blog/top-10-major-upcoming-courthouse-and-jail-and-prison-construction-projects-u.s.-may-2020

Private Prisons in the United States
https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-prisons-united-states/

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html

Broken Ground: Why America Keeps Building More Jails and What It Can Do Instead
https://www.vera.org/downloads/publications/broken-ground-jail-construction.pdf

Following the Money of Mass Incarceration
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/money.html

Passed on May 23, 2021
https://secure.gpus.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=1055