Jail Tax is a bad idea: Joy Gilfilen on the Joe Show/ Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Joy Gilfilen

joe show joyOctober 13, 2015  Joy Gilfilen

Just interviewed on the Joe Show about the reasons that the Jail Tax is a bad idea, and how the jail industry is like a goldmine for private contractors – and a tax hog for the working public.

This is why we need to Vote no on the Jail Tax…and instead figure out how to put people to work, rather than into jail.

Irene shares that King County Prosecutor Dan Satterburg just had an article in the Washington State Bar Association newsletter about 10 ways to reduce incarceration…and this is exactly the stuff we want to have done in Whatcom County. What have we been waiting for?

Read Joy’s post on the Whatcom Hawk Facebook page here.

Leave a Reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s