"Whether You Like It Or Not"
These are chilling words from California Governor Gavin Newsom coming back to haunt the poor and disenfranchised homeless of Redding and the rest of the state of California.
Now Governor Newsom says changes are coming for the state's prison and jail system, and it looks like he has been working on it for quite some time.
"I have spent the last six or so months, not a gross exaggeration, assembled a team of experts to look at re-imagining a 21st century criminal justice system."
"So we're looking at step down facilities."
So one might ask is the recent firestorm of controversy directed at Redding Mayor Julie Winter and the idea of forced incarceration of homeless and conservatorship of their finances part of a much larger plan to have facilities placed up and down
the state of California with Redding the far northern planned facility?
Is this a result of Trump looking at crackdown on homelessness as aides visited California?
Something tantamount to a middle ages debtors prison to go with the medieval plagues that are surfacing as well Redding Mayor Winter?
"And as California goes so goes the rest of the nation"....
“We’ll hide the costs of that in our jail budget, in our police budget, in our courts budget and, you know, we’ll make it disappear for today…” This is the criminalization of #homelessness—hiding costs and punting on problems. People are hurting now. https://t.co/kjTsg6Cv0q— NLCHP (@NLCHPhomeless) December 5, 2019
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OVER MY DEAD BODY!
For years Redding and Shasta County officials had no interest in our homeless population except to criminalize and take their possessions. Now that money is available and apparently quite a bit interest has suddenly intensified as I believe city and law enforcement officials look to take a majority of the financial pie to police the homeless into forced programing "camps" that violate any shred of dignity left and strip them of compassion.
It appears the charade of Redding's Good News Rescue Mission handling all of the homeless population of Redding and Shasta County California has finally come to a long overdue end, and facts on homelessness seem to now be hitting major news reports.
Redding has been suffering a homeless crisis and desperately needs a new low barrier homeless shelter.
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