Resources + Media

Check out these resources for more information on the campaign, the proposed jail complex, and what can be built in its place.

Videos

Detroit Justice Center’s restorative justice youth design summit: Detroit’s youth have innovative visions for what we could build instead of new jails.

Detroiters share their visions for how money should be spent instead of building a new jail. (Video produced by Complex Movements)

Reports & Articles

• Live Free Detroit: Combating the Forced Criminalization of a City, Community Survey Report by FORCE Detroit (October 2018)
• Detroit teens reimagine criminal justice with alternative to new jail, Metro Times (October 5, 2018)
• Calls intensify to eliminate bail in Wayne County and country, Model D (October 2, 2018)
• What Can We Build Instead of Jails?, by Amanda Alexander, Riverwise Magazine (Spring/Summer 2018)
• The New Jail: Profit and Social Control, by Matthew Irwin, Riverwise Magazine (Spring/Summer 2018)
• New Wayne County Jail: A Tool for Black Oppression, by Yusef Shakur, Riverwise Magazine (Spring/Summer 2018)
• Federal judge rejects motion to stop Wayne Co. from issuing jail bonds, Detroit News (July 25, 2018)
• Legal hurdle stalls Wayne County jail deal, The Bond Buyer (July 24, 2018)
• Lawsuit: Wayne County didn’t give voters fair notice of jail bond issuance, Detroit News (July 19, 2018)
• Why I couldn’t vote to sell school land to build a jail, Misha Stallworth, Detroit Free Press (March 16, 2018)