NJ Prison Guards Seek Ouster of Prison Chief
Posted on Tue Dec 30, 2003 at 11:04:26 PM EST
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The New Jersey prison guards union is petitioning the Governor to fire the head of the Department of Corrections for racially insensitive comments. Corrections Commissioner Devon Brown, an African-American, made these comments in a speech about the unfair treatment meted out by the criminal justice system to blacks and hispanics:
"This state and nation has lost a generation of young African-Americans and Hispanics, both male and female, to the criminal justice juggernaut."
"`There are those who with some degree of justification have proclaimed our prisons as being America's new plantations," he said, "for not since slavery has our country promoted policies which have visited such enormous economic and human calamity on the black community."
Our advice to the Governor: Keep Commissioner Brown. If the shoe fits.....
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