The New Mayor's Workhouse Campaign Is an Abolitionist Campaign

Within months of the new mayor's inauguration, the workhouses budget was zeroed out and all remaining detain es were transferred elsewhere. The jones administration also cut nearly 100 vacant police positions and put that four million dollars toward social services. Activists like inez are hopeful about what mayor jones can achieve, but they are also straightforward about the role they think reforms can play in fundamentally changing the system.