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Organizers Camp Out to Demonstrate Opposition to Youth Jail Endures

by Marcus Harrison Green (photos by Alex Garland)

Dozens of tents lined the sidewalk of 12th Avenue and Spruce Street on Sunday afternoon, and more than 200 community organizers, activists, and religious leaders withstood intermittent rain showers to gather for a five hour-long camp out just outside the King County Juvenile Detention Center, in protest of a new center scheduled as its replacement. Continue reading Organizers Camp Out to Demonstrate Opposition to Youth Jail Endures