[Peace-discuss] Can AWARE add themselves in?

[Carl G. Estabrook]

So what should be done? What should Illinois citizens be pushing for?


On May 13, 2012, at 6:35 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:

> 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>
>>> 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>, Nancy Stagg <nsstagg at sbcglobal.net 
>>> >, "Rev. Vanessa Buchanan" <Rev.v.Buchanan at gmail.com>, Eric  
>>> Jakobsson <jake at ncsa.illinois.edu>, "Rev. Underwood" <kingjames5804 at att.net 
>>> >, Patsy Howell <ummtamala at yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: Laurie Jo Reynolds <lauriejoreynolds at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: LJ Reynolds <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>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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