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Maybe they'd accomplish more by fighting for restorative justice measures (e.g. pretrial diversion programs, counseling, mediation) to reduce the need for incarceration instead of trying to stop the county from building a new and presumably better facility. The effect of "no new prisons" is more commonly that prisoners are kept in decrepit and overcrowded facilities, not that they are granted clemency.
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@1- Or, in this case, teenagers in need of temporary incarceration for their safety or the safety of others (which is a necessity at times, as much as all of would like to avoid it) will be intermixed with adult criminals at King County Jail. Which is helpful for no one.

I've never seen another noble cause so needlessly undermined by shortsighted zealots.
3
"Critics say we should be more progressive by abolishing jails altogether. But (a) that's fucking ludicrous, and (b) our juvenile justice system is a nationwide model that diverts youth offenders into treatment programs, so this jail will have dozens fewer beds than the old jail. Approve this motherfucker already." From 8/7/12 Cheat Sheet issue.
If this is the same levy the Stranger's election board told us to approve, then JAIL really was the right word to use.
4
So I guess this 16 year old that shot a guy in the head and then a few days later posed with a gun on Facebook shouldn't be in jail and instead should be out on the street where she can rob and kill more people, right?

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news…
5
So we have $210M for this, and schools are underfunded.

This city fucking sucks.
6
The entire suit rests on the premise that we were too dumb to know we were voting for a jail?

OK, give us our money back (no, it can't be repurposed into some fund for uncaged youth) minus all the contractor and consultant work we've already committed to and put the thing on the ballot with "jail" in the description. While we're at it, build it in Kent and sell the land in the CD to developers.
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What @5 said.
9
Glad to see we have pro bono lawyers who can give us a fuller view of what goes on behind the curtain. If only we had a legion of pro bono lawyers.
10
If youths just stop breaking the law. There wouldn't be a need to lock them up.

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