Over the past few days all, or nearly all, of the detainees held at Passaic County Jail

have been transferred to other NJ jails. We have not been able to get an official reason

for this, nor have we learned whether new detainees have been, or will be brought to

Passaic County Jail.  Hemneauth and Nigel have both been moved to Hudson County Detention

Center. Anyone who has more info, please post it to this list.

 

Clearly this is in direct response to our organizing. But we don't know yet if this is

the Freeholder's and the Sheriff's way of yielding to our demands that they get out of

the detention business, or just a move to get rid of"trouble makers".

 

In any case, until and unless we get official word from the Freeholders or the Sheriff

that they will stop holding detainees, we must keep the pressure up! I've attached a

flyer for the October 14 Freeholder meeting.  Let's start organizing for this now, so

that in three weeks we will have 30 or 40 people there demanding a final end to

detentions at Passaic County.

 

Also, it would be great if we could have a real presence at the New York City End the

Occupations march this Sunday.  This will be a good place to reach out to new NJ people

and to circulate our ideas to New York people as well. I intend to be there, passing out

our flyers. Will other people be going? Please contact me so we can meet up and

distribute literature together.

 

In solidarity, Eric Lerner

609-406-7857

NJ Civil Rights Defense Cttee