As a community project built around a framework of social and ecological reconciliation and transformative justice, Reconciliación en el Río strongly opposes any expansion of the Pima County Jail.
It is also directly adjacent to the outflow of the Santa Cruz river heritage project, that has been healing and currently supports endangered Gila top minnows, Long-fin Dace, and Sonoran, mud turtles in addition to numerous other members in the ecosystem.
Pima County Jail is currently under investigation for multiple deaths of incarcerated individuals. The Jail is currently listed as one of the jails with the highest deaths per capita in the nation. A nation with more prisons than anywhere else on the planet.
A healing and healthy Santa Cruz floodplain cannot exist in the same space as development for the sake of punitive carceral systems. The young cottonwoods and Tucsonans growing up along the river deserve more than a jail along the horizon.
Pima County Adult Detention Center is seeking public input about the County jail in an online survey that opened Dec. 26, 2024.
Pima County is collecting responses through Jan. 13, 2024.
Please leave a comment stating that you do not support any taxation being used for the Pima County and that you do NOT support any new construction or improvements to the existing detention center.
We cannot hold aspirational visions of the healing of the Santa Cruz River, while actively witnessing more unnecessary development and destruction of the floodplain.
tierra y alma 