Tell Healey:
No New Women's Prison
Despite years of community organizing by directly impacted women, Maura Healey has continued to support the creation of a new women's prison project in Massachusetts. When we should be investing in harm reduction, rehabilitation, and transformative justice, Healey is doubling down on incarceration.
The new women’s prison project was originally proposed by former Governor Baker for $50 million. Under Governor Healey, the project has grown to $360 million with no public explanation or justification.
Organizers refiled the Jail and Prison Construction Moratorium this session, and the bill was recently passed favorably out of the State Administration and Regulatory Oversight committee. It is now in the Ways and Means Committee. A Moratorium means a five-year pause on prison design, planning, and construction.
Instead of extending the prison-industrial complex for generations to come, we raise the alternative: a fundamental overhaul of our criminal law system, a full embrace of restorative and transformative justice over punishment and abuse.