ATLANTA — Women on the Rise, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), Communities Over Cages, and Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) held a press conference in Buckhead on Fri., April 16, to demand that Atlanta City Council vote no on a resolution to create a task force to work on using the cages in Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC) to lock up more humans on behalf of the Fulton County Sheriff\’s Office.
Activist Bridgette Simpson of Women on the Rise speaks with Mainline reporter and filmmaker Nolan Huber-Rhoades about their personal experience in the incarceration system and activism in Atlanta.
To learn more about what\’s happening with ACDC, decarceration, and the prison industrial complex, read our latest in-depth feature on the issue by founding editor Aja Arnold.
