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"A Message to No New Jails NYC." In September, New York city prison abolitionists organized the coalition known as No New Jails NYC. One of the group's goals is to promote a vision of a different kind of future, one where incarceration is wiped from the American landscape, according to an article written by freelance journalist Emily Nonko. The article goes on to report that No New Jails advocates admit they themselves have no plan to close New York's jails. But they see promise in alternatives to incarceration that could lead to a jail free New York. All that is well and good, but I can't help but wonder why No New Jails have made no mention of those of us still languishing behind prison walls. Prison abolitionists seem to talk a good one. They seem to spend a lot of time going to public cameras to chant "No new jails." But what about working on efforts to reduce causes of crime, like socioeeconomic inequality, and to reduce prison recidivism by supporting programs that help prisoners to truly change and bet