DARE RI Fitzpatrick ptC

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Providence Youth Student Movement 401-383-7450
Community Hearing, Monday October 15th


When a government is locking up your children is'nt time we protect them from the Government? Or as Howard Zinn states to disobey with civil disobedience.

As of July 1st RI began trying 17 year olds as Adults and sending them to the Adult Correctional Institution. The justification for this bold and controversial move was that it would save money!
 
In an effort to raise awareness about this policy change and its impact on young people's lives, DARE, Direct Action for Rights and Equality and The Family Life Center are holding a Community Hearing.  The Community Hearing will take place on Monday, October 15th, 6:30-8:30pm in the auditorium of Classical High School and will be an opportunity for community members and expert witnesses to present testimony to a panel of judges about the impacts and affect of this policy.
  
The judges panel will include: Councilwoman Balbina Young, South Side Rec. Center Director: Cedric Huntley, Former RI Superior Court Justice Stephen Fortunato, Angela Lovegrove of the RI Commission on Human Rights, the President of  Local 314 of AFSCME Council 94: Thomas Fitzpatrick, Oluwaseun Animashaun of Youth in Action, and Dr. Allan Jacobson will be representing the Providence Center.
 
They will be receiving testimony from the Public Defender and Dr. Fritz a professor of childhood psychiatry at Brown University, youth that have been incarcerated at the ACI under this law and their parents as well as the broader community that is concerned about this policy.
 
"Sending youth to the adult prison will only make things worse. This law sends a message to our youth that the state doesn't care about them, doesn't have their best interest in mind.  We need to change this law ASAP before more young lives are ruined." Jasmine Woodbury, youth leader at DARE.

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