Streetwise and Safe Against Criminalized Possesion of Condoms

Join streetwise and safe’s fight to stop the criminalization of condom possession. The justice system uses condom possession to argue that they are engaged in prostitution related offenses. Click here to read more and sign the petition.

Spacial Information Design Lab

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation has released a publication outlining locations where the criminal justice system has spent millions of dollars incarcerating residents of single city blocks.

“The maps suggest that the criminal justice system has become the predominant government institution in these communities and that public investment in this system has resulted in significant costs to other elements of our civic infrastructure — education, housing, health, and family. Prisons and jails form the distant exostructure of many American cities today. ”

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