WHO ARE WE?
Decarcerate Tompkins County Coalition is a group of community members that believe in shrinking incarceration locally. We believe a bigger jail would only expand an unjust mass incarceration system that runs on jailing poor people and people of color. A bigger jail would only deepen social problems that are rooted in poverty and systemic racism. Instead, we believe that the jail population should be reduced through community-based alternatives to incarceration.
Decarcerate Tompkins County Coalition is a group of community members that believe in shrinking incarceration locally. We believe a bigger jail would only expand an unjust mass incarceration system that runs on jailing poor people and people of color. A bigger jail would only deepen social problems that are rooted in poverty and systemic racism. Instead, we believe that the jail population should be reduced through community-based alternatives to incarceration.
