Residents protest 20-year prison contract plan
Source: By Jeremy Walsh, Times Ledger (NY), 10/25/2007
Neighbors of a U.S. Marshals prisoner holding facility in Springfield Gardens marched again last weekend, this time in protest against a rumored 20-year contract in the works.
A group of about 20 residents marched the two blocks from Springfield Park to the nondescript, unmarked building in the warehouse district, chanting "G-E-O must go" and expressing their dissatisfaction with having a prison site so close to their homes.
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