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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The nation’s first permanent memorial to survivors of sexual violence will be built in Minneapolis. The city’s park and recreation board approved a location at Boom Island Park.

For sexual assault survivor Sarah Super, the space is personal. She’s working to make the memorial a reality.

“The design of the memorial is a circle of benches with three panels of mosaic and we have two metaphors depicted in the design. The first is the use of mosaic as a statement that shattered pieces can be made whole and the second being the ripple effect. That message that by telling our stories we unconsciously give others the permission to tell theirs,” Super explained.

“It’s a good step,” said Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Commissioner Londel French.

The board voted unanimously to approve the project at Boom Island Park last year.

“To be able to advocate and do that means a lot to me a lot of healing that needs to go on in this place in this country. I think we’re going to do something good here,” French said.

VIDEO https://cbsloc.al/2rf9jQD

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/11/30/survivors-memorial-sexual-violence-healing-support-minneapolis-boom-island-park/

https://twitter.com/sarahmsuper/status/1044150616350752774

WHEN RAPE IS REPORTED

AND NOTHING HAPPENS

http://www.startribune.com/when-rape-is-reported-in-minnesota-and-nothing-happens-denied-justice-special-report-part-one/487130861/

Boom Island Light House

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Prisons in these 17 states are over capacity

September 20, 2014

The number of Americans in state and federal prisons has exploded over the last three decades, to the point that nearly one in every 200 people is behind bars. And though the rate of growth has slowed, and even declined over the last five years, the tough-on-crime policies and longer sentences that have sent prison rates skyward present a huge problem for states: Where do they put all those people?

That problem is especially acute in 17 states where the prison population is now higher than the capacity of the facilities designed to hold them. Those states, still recovering from a recession that decimated budgets, have to decide whether to build facilities with more beds, turn to private contractors, relax release policies — or simply stuff more prisoners into smaller spaces.

At the end of 2013, Illinois was housing 48,653 prisoners, according to data published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The state’s prison facilities are designed to hold just 32,075 prisoners, meaning the system is operating at 151 percent of capacity. North Dakota’s 1,571 prisoners live in space meant for 1,044 people, 150 percent of capacity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/09/20/prisons-in-these-17-states-are-filled-over-capacity/?utm_term=.30b233244afd

Generate Inmate Population Reports

2008 201,668 +1,648

2009 208,759 +7,091

2010 210,227 +1,468

2011 217,768 +7,541

2012 218,687 +919

2013 219,298 +611

2014 214,149 -5,149

2015 205,723 -8,426

2016 192,170 -13,553

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2017 185,617 -6,553

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/population_statistics.jsp

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