[Peace-discuss] Can AWARE add themselves in?

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Tamms is in an economically depressed area with little industry other 
than agriculture
and agriculture employs very few people.

Illinois does not provide an environment
conducive to industrial employment and business development, so it is 
quite unlikely
that any new employer will come into the area.  The general policy and 
theme for the past 20 years has been
that "you won't make Widgets in southern Illinois".

So if you close Tamms prison you will put people out of work, and you 
will put them out of work rather permanently,
which will raise significant opposition against your principled cry 
against incarceration, torture,
the Police state, and the legal-law enforcement-penal industrial complex 
of authoritarian worms.

You may be doing the right thing in one sense, but you will be creating 
another
problem in damaging the commensal/co-parasitic relationship between Big 
Brother
and the impoverished Tamms area.

You can de-worm the horse and kill all the worms almost instantly.  But the
if the infestation is heavy, the gut will look like hamburger after the 
worms detach and
the sudden removal of the worms may likely
result in the sudden demise of the parasite's host.

Likewise, closure of Tamms will decimate the local economy.  We can agree
that the idea of prisons sucked from the beginning.  But the inmates are 
not the
only ones in prison.


On 5/14/2012 6:36 AM, Stuart Levy wrote:
> Yes!  AWARE just voted that we would be happy to be on the list of 
> groups that support closure of TAMMS.
>
> On 5/13/12 2:09 PM, Barbara kessel wrote:
>> Here is the list I asked you to add AWARE on to at your meeting 
>> tonight. the list will go to Governor Q on Tuesday morning.
>> Thanks, Barbara
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Barbara kessel* <barkes at gmail.com <mailto:barkes at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:13 AM
>> Subject: Could we agree by e-mail to add the Interfaith Alliance?
>> To: Conrad Wetzel <wetzelmc at hotmail.com 
>> <mailto:wetzelmc at hotmail.com>>, Nancy Stagg <nsstagg at sbcglobal.net 
>> <mailto:nsstagg at sbcglobal.net>>, "Rev. Vanessa Buchanan" 
>> <Rev.v.Buchanan at gmail.com <mailto:Rev.v.Buchanan at gmail.com>>, Eric 
>> Jakobsson <jake at ncsa.illinois.edu <mailto:jake at ncsa.illinois.edu>>, 
>> "Rev. Underwood" <kingjames5804 at att.net 
>> <mailto:kingjames5804 at att.net>>, Patsy Howell <ummtamala at yahoo.com 
>> <mailto:ummtamala at yahoo.com>>
>> Cc: Laurie Jo Reynolds <lauriejoreynolds at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:lauriejoreynolds at gmail.com>>
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *LJ Reynolds* <lauriejoreynolds at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:lauriejoreynolds at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:16 AM
>> Subject: Fwd: list of organizations that support closure
>> To: barbara kessel <barkes at gmail.com <mailto:barkes at gmail.com>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Barbara,
>> We are in Springfield now.  We are going to give legislators and the 
>> governor a list of organizations that support the closure of Tamms. 
>> Maybe not today, but soon. I'm adding some organizations to the fact 
>> sheet.
>>
>> What organizations that you are part of may we add to the list?
>> Or maybe you know of others?
>>
>> I will send the revised fact sheet soon.
>>
>>
>> LJR
>> 773-505-3896 <tel:773-505-3896>
>>
>>
>>
>> Organizations that support Tamms closure
>>
>> ACLU of Illinois
>> ACLU Prison Project
>> Amnesty International
>> Amnesty International Midwest Regional Office
>> Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law
>> Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
>> Human Rights Watch
>> Illinois Coalition Against Torture
>> John Howard Association of Illinois
>> Mental Health America of Illinois
>> Mental Health Summit
>> Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
>> National Lawyers Guild of Chicago
>> National Religious Campaign Against Torture
>> Uptown People's Law Center
>> Tamms Year Ten
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