[For Immediate Release: Action 7/20@4:14pm] EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACTION - NO NEW KID PRISON IN LAKEVIEW

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For Immediate Release

Protest Action 7/20/19 at 4:15pm

Press Contacts: Rozalinda 813-789-0123

Catholic Archdiocese Caging Immigrant Children

EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACTION - NO NEW KID PRISON IN LAKEVIEW

 

WHEN: SATURDAY, JULY 20, 4:15PM

WHERE: ST ALPHONSUS CHURCH, 1429 W. WELLINGTON AVE

WHAT: Protest the new construction of a child prison for immigrant children. 

The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has already been operating child prisons in Chicago, and they have plans to open a new detention site at their St Alphonsus location in Lakeview.

They say: it's ok for us to imprison kids, as long as we offer them some services inside the lock-ups and brand the prisons as "shelters". 

They say: our "shelters" are a better alternative to the concentration camps. 

But children should be with their parents, families and communities, not in a prison, no matter how much "better" it claims to be. What's more, the Archdiocese is cynically using the crisis of children being killed in US Government custody as an excuse to expand their profitable child prison business. Under the guise of "helping" children, The Catholic Church is profiting from the multi-billion dollar child detention industry.

  

DEMANDS: 

NO New Kid Prison

Shut Down St Alphonsus and STOP them from opening a new migrant detention center for young girls ages 12-14! 

No more detention, and NO to the so-called humanitarian forms of captivity!

Decriminalize ! Decarcerate! 
Abolish ICE and the Prison Industrial Complex

 

ORGANIZED BY: Little Village Solidarity Network/ Red de Solidaridad de la Villita ww.Fb.com/LaVillitaSolidaridad       lavillitas...@gmail.com

BACKGROUND: 

Children are being displaced from their homelands. They are fleeing violence, hunger and the effects of climate change – all the results of US intervention and policy. Instead of finding safety, children by the thousands are being re-routed into a network of over 100 child detention centers in the United States that specialize in migrant children. These detention sites advertise themselves as "shelters" and as a "better alternative" to the large-scale detention camps on the border – but they are in fact the centerpiece of the US government's detention apparatus and a growing sector of the Prison Industrial Complex. For over 25 years, these "nicer" child prisons have been able to operate with very little public opposition. Our silence has enabled the US government to normalize the incarceration of children as a matter of policy. In other words, migrant children are slated for captivity, the only debate seems to be under what conditions. This is what has lead us to the current crisis facing immigrant children and families.