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O f f i ce o f C o u n c i l P r e s i d e n t M i l d r e d C. C r u m p
For Immediate Release Friday, December 7, 2007
Contact: Owen Petrie — 973-930-1207
to Protest Transfer of Women to
Men’s Maximum Security Prison
NEWARK— Municipal Council President is calling “foul” on the New Jersey Department of Corrections. The NJDOC has transferred at least 40 women from the Edna Mahon Correctional Facility to the maximum-security male prison in Trenton, NJ. The reason for the coed confinement is ostensibly given as “overcrowding” by the NJDOC.
However, the very nature of the transfer tramples the rights of women in question. They are segregated from the rest of the population, they have limited access to facilities and opportunities to better themselves and contribute to their rehabilitation. Newark Municipal Council President, Mildred Crump feels that the decision to transfer those female prisoners to the men’s facility is a travesty of common sense. “Those women are repaying their debt to society but that doesn’t mean that they forfeit all their rights as American citizens or human beings. By placing them in this situation, the NJ Department of Correction’s disregard for these women is an affront to citizens of New Jersey and women everywhere,” Mrs. Crump said.
“While we must be diligent in remembering and protecting the victims of crime, it is also incumbent upon us, as a compassionate society, to acknowledge that many of the women locked up for those crimes were, themselves, victims of abuse and neglect. There are no throwaway people in the society in which I want to live. The NJDOC is victimizing these women all over again, and that doesn’t bode well for them or the community at large,” Crump explained.
Mrs. Crump will be joining the ACLU among others in a protest at the Department of Corrections headquarters in Trenton, on Wednesday, December 12 at 12:30pm.
