Press Release, Nashville/Antioch, TN - Residents of Southeast Nashville and Antioch
declare our opposition to the proposed relocation site and call on our Mayor,
elected Metro City Council Representatives, and all related Metro Nashville
government agencies to:
1.
Begin an ongoing
dialogue with the residents of Southeast Nashville about the relocation; and,
2.
Explore other
relocation sites and options; and,3. Keep the Criminal Justice Center at its current downtown location throughout this process.
Relocating the Criminal
Justice Center to Southeast Nashville will:
1.
Permanently
stigmatize the Antioch area as the area for incarceration; and,2. Establish the Antioch area as the only area of Nashville with the responsibility for housing prisoners; and,
3. Hinder economic development of the area because desirable businesses will not want to locate in close proximity of the jail; and,
4. Attract undesirable businesses, like bail bonding and cash advance businesses; and,
5. Encourage the release of prisoners directly into our neighborhoods close to the Criminal Justice Center as a result of families of prisoners patronizing those bail bonding and cash advance businesses.
A COMMUNITY
MEETING HAS BEEN SCHEDULED
Invited: Mayor Karl Dean, Sherriff Daron Hall, Metro
Council Members, State Senators Yarbro, Harper and Dickerson, State Representatives
Jones, Powell, Stewart, Capital Project Solutions President Jim Pustejovsky,
Capital Project Solutions Principal Dick Darr, Mayoral Candidates Barry, Bone,
Eskind-Rebrovick, Fox, Freeman, Gentry, Kane, Metro Govt Finance Department
Representatives, Mayor’s Office of Neighborhoods Director Courtney Wheeler.
WHAT: Community
Meeting Regarding the Proposed Consolidation of All Nashville Jails to
Southeast NashvilleDATE: Tuesday, May 26, 2015
WHERE: Global Mall at the Crossings Event Center, 5252 Hickory Hollow Parkway, Suite 292
TIME: 6:30 pm
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