Rally to End Mass Incarceration and Fund Job Creation Saturday, April 26th, 1:00 - 4:00 pm Boston Common Bandstand

Rally to End Mass Incarceration 

and Fund Job Creation

Saturday, April 26th, 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Boston Common Bandstand

If we do not take dramatic

action, Massachusetts will build 10,000 new prison units by 2020, at a cost to taxpayers of $2 billion and a much deeper and more tragic cost in human life.  Our prison/jail system has expanded 300% since 1980, with conditions including solitary confinement, almost no rehabilitative programs, and barbaric practices such as shackling mothers during childbirth.

Meanwhile, poverty, addiction, and mental illness go largely unaddressed.  For every job opening, there are 5 people looking for work, and many more who have given up.  We need to re-direct our public resources.

The CAMPAIGN FOR JOBS NOT JAILS is engaging tens of thousands of Massachusetts voters, to show we've had enough of mass incarceration, and that we want our state's resources to go into achieving a full-employment, living-wage economy instead. Most of our elected representatives truly do care about these issues, and want to work on them. We need to show that we will lift them up and support them for doing so.

Please click here to RSVP for the rally, and for one of many buses coming from around the state.

Please click here to SIGN THE PETITION ON-LINE (and don't be alarmed by low numbers: we have over 20,000 hand-written signatures already!)

Click here for more information about the campaign: 

www.JobsNotJails.org or call (508) 410-7676.