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Despite incarceration, Branch #4003 deserves NAACP's attention---Prisoners and NAACP officials meet for a first ever seminar in a prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

For the first time ever, a delegation from the NAACP National Convention held a day long seminar organized by the prison branch of the NAACP at Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron, MO. Branch #4003 has written and had accepted more resolutions than any other NAACP chapter in the U.S. This organizing feat happened because of the leadership and persistence of the prisoners and supporters on the outside who worked to make this happen. Thank you all! "Their discussions will be among the most important and challenging of the five-day convention. Yes, more significant than Michelle Obama?s address today. Her message on childhood obesity is necessary and her stature and grace as first lady are laudable. COMMENTARY Despite incarceration, Branch #4003 deserves NAACP's attention By MARY SANCHEZ CAMERON, Mo...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).