The towering former Queensgate Correctional Facility was built to house more than 800 inmates. In its next chapter, it will be able to house more than 100 small business.
We Don’t Need Prisons to Make Us Safer
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To the statement that prisons provide safety, we should ask, “Safety for whom? And from what?”
The United States now has 2.3 million people behind bars of some form or another. These are not 2.3 million isolated individuals their imprisonment sends reverberations into their families and communities. On any given day, 2.7 million children have a parent in prison. Incarcerating that parent removes a source of financial and emotional support for both children and adult family members. For families who are already in economically precarious situations, removing a parent can plunge them into poverty, reduce their safety, and make them more vulnerable to arrest and incarceration.
Maslow s Army poised to open day center for people experiencing homelessness It s a miracle
The new Maslowâs Army Todd B. Portune Memorial Winter Day Center is expected to be open for business in the next day or two.
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CINCINNATI â Samuel Landis knew the vacant Queensgate Correctional Facility could be an ideal place to provide warmth this winter for people experiencing homelessness.
He knew because it saved him from the cold years ago.
Back when Landis was homeless and the temperatures dropped, there were times he went where he didnât belong, he said. When he got arrested for trespassing, Landis wound up at the old jail.