PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Who would want to live in a prison town? Our community is just over 9,000 people. Bringing in a prison is going to bring in 1/6 of our population in prisoners. It will be a good job opportunity at the beginning but will slowly take away companies and other peoples jobs.
The average number of prisoners to guards are 3:1
In 2001 a prison was set to open in Missouri, six years after the announcement the city was in debt
For the elderly homeowners, the rise and fall in prices during the period of speculative development could ultimately devalued their home
Prisons are so massive and costly they replace giant retailers such as McDonalds, and Wal-mart
Half U.S. Prisoners are African American, and one sixth Latino urban communities of these colors have sustained years of economic and social crisis
In the United States today there are more prisoners than farmers
Prison officials go to great pains and often great expense to convince rural communities of the economic benefits of prisons
In northern New York I community applied for a $600,000 federal grant to rebuild their water supply system to increase chances of getting a prison, they didn't even know if it would succeed or fail
There are very many more reasons why not to build a prison in Charlotte and the one question you should ask yourself is do you really want to live in a prison town.
