Above: Frank James, coordinator of
Racine’s Re-entry program, gives remarks during yesterday noon hour on the
courthouse steps calling for a reduction in the states prison population to 10, 000 by the year 2015.
James, who is a local pastor, joined other ministers from various congregations
throughout the city.
Right: Cora William, who son is an inmate in Racine County
jail, hold up a sign with a picture of her granddaughter that read, “I love my
daddy.”
The 11 X 15 project as it is
called, goal is to cut the state’s prison population, which the RIC and partner
churches estimate to be about 22,000, in half by 2015.
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