The #SanDiego Sheriff is asking for $3 billion to upgrade our jails because she wants to provide “better care”

Imagine if that $$$ was instead used to provide care thru hospitals, mental health centers, rehab facilities, schools, food banks - even housing!

Link to eComments for the Board of Supervisors agenda in the next post - let your elected officials know you want #CareNotCages

Possible paywall:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/07/sheriff-expected-to-seek-billions-for-new-upgraded-jails-from-san-diego-county-supervisors/

No paywall:
https://archive.ph/U4gmp

Dane County is considering sending jail mail to Florida to be scanned in an extractive contract with a horrible corporation. they say it's about contraband and safety, but it's all about surveillance and punishment.

in our deep dive, learn about all that PLUS a fun new meaning for "Smart watch": https://tonemadison.com/articles/dane-county-jail-scrambles-to-back-up-its-case-for-eliminating-paper-mail/

#MadisonWI #capitalism #abolition #citizenjournalism #carenotcages #copaganda

Our taxes, and the ways they are spent, should reflect our values as a nation. We all deserve the right to a society that provides safety, stability, and the opportunity to thrive. Support health, education and justice for all. End the carceral state and stop deportation. Protect our wellbeing!
📚 Fund health, education, and dignity for all
❌ End the carceral state & the deportation machine
✊🏽 Protect our collective right to live and thrive

#CareNotCages #FundOurFuture #StopTheDeportationMachine

John Calvin, early Calvinistic theologian, on Isaiah 58. God chooses a devotion that involves bewailing the distresses of others. If you sear your heart against caring, your devotion is but to yourself. There is no love of God in you.

In modern religiosity, aren’t we trained to find excuses as to why any humanitarian abuse is just desserts for the sufferers?

How can you consider the poverty of others as if you yourself endured it?

#christian #carenotcages #biblicalwisdom #sdg2 #childofgod

Today our county celebrated and broke ground on the biggest public works project in county history. A $209M jail, a monument to our addiction to punishment and incarceration. Shameful stuff.

https://www.wortfm.org/officials-hold-chaotic-groundbreaking-ceremony-for-new-dane-county-jail/

#CareNotCages #abolition

I don't know why it continues to bother me so much, but the "nice liberals" who listen to the carceral punishers when they want to build more tools of oppression that make us less safe... Those people bug me.

How can you see that queer people are humans, and women should have control over their bodies, and so on... and then just be like "welp we should just keep shoveling money at this massively racist carceral system, also fuck the poors"

IT BUGS ME A LOT. #DerailTheJail #CareNotCages

https://bsquarebulletin.com/2023/01/10/advisory-committee-on-county-jail-hits-rough-road-trying-to-find-common-ground/

#Jail #MonroeCounty #Indiana #CareNotCages #CJRC #CommunityJusticeReformCommittee #CountyGovernment #StayInYourLane