Community members can share input on Union County Jail sale during May 15 meeting

Community members can attend Union County Board of Commissioners’ May 15 meeting to share input on the sale of its vacant county jail. In April, the board voted to sell the site amid concerns from meeting attendees who fear it will become an immigrant detention center. Meeting attendees, including groups like Make the Road NJ and NJ Alliance for Immigrant Justice, proposed different ways to repurpose the jail to meet community needs: a homeless shelter, mental health office, workforce development site, or educational programming space. Indivisible NJ, a grassroots movement organization, will attend the May meeting, scheduled to start at 6 p.m. at 10 Elizabethtown Plaza in Elizabeth.

From Indivisible.