#NoKidsinAngola
USE YOUR VOICE: Our Kids Don’t Belong in The Most Violent and Deadly Prison in the Country
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards is Planning To Send Our Kids to Louisiana’s Deadliest, Most Violent Maximum-Security Prison
In response to a history of failing to invest in young people and their communities, and seeing incarceration as a proper response to delinquency rather than community-based treatment, the Louisiana Governor has proposed a radical solution for his state’s broken juvenile legal system: moving teens to the infamous Angola prison for adults.
A former forced labor camp before the Civil War, Angola has gained notoriety as one of the most dangerous prisons in the world due its lengthy history of abuse, institutional violence, and death. No one should be forced to endure Angola, much less children. The Governor’s plan literally calls for imprisoning youth on what was, until 2011, Louisiana’s death row. The Governor’s plan will unquestionably further traumatize young people already hurt by Louisiana’s failure to create a juvenile legal system based on research and science, not mass incarceration.
What You Can Do:
Step 2) Contact the Governor’s Office
Please call: (225)342-7015 or (866)366-1121
The text to use for e-mail form is below:
“Dear Governor John Bel Edwards,
Please withdraw your plan to send children to the Angola penitentiary. Louisiana’s failure to invest in kids, their families, and communities should not exact more harm on children in the juvenile justice system. If you believe children can be rehabilitated, you will not subject them to Louisiana’s former Death Row. Decades of research shows the incarcerating young people leads to more trauma, and worse outcomes. Invest in community-based programs and interventions that protect youth, provide them the skills they need to succeed, and break Louisiana’s addiction to incarceration.”
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