Daily Archives: February 28, 2022

Does Arkansas need more prison beds?Join us in demanding NO NEW PRISONSPlease sign this petition to Governor Hutchinson!https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=15723   Governor Hutchinson announced an expansion of 498 beds to the Calico Rock North Central unit as a response to the backup of state sentenced Arkansans being housed in county jails across the state. The project is slated to cost between $60 and $100 million and is made possible by the state’s billion-dollar surplus pending approval from the legislature   There’s more at the link. Here’s a hint of what could happen instead of more prisoners: Arkansas’ punitive approach ignores data-backed solutions that […]

this photo is from some other war on Ukraine. Not this one. It illustrates something that world leaders forget. And we all forget in the safety of our relatively calm neighborhoods. Look at the young boy’s face as he watches the digging. This was a father an uncle a brother a friend that has gone from his life now but who was part of him. Who has now returned to the Earth in some very sad way. I wonder if the boy watched them die? Every death is very personal. Every death means something terrible for a family someplace.Light a […]