Posts tagged ‘carceral system’

Recent Updates

• Kent County unanimously passed the FY2027 budget, with the largest portion going to the prison industrial complex
• Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce is now using Mayor LaGrand’s talking points about Cosecha and GR Rapid Response to ICE demands
• GRPD once again coordinates with ICE by preventing resisters from stopping transport van with abducted immigrants in Grand Rapids
• The GR Chamber of Commerce equates people who challenge policing as anti-public safety activists
• Kent County Sheriff’s Office and the GRPD have created so-called transparency portals to appease the public even though many have been calling for Flock cameras to be banned