STATEMENT ON FREEHOLDER VOTE TO EXPORT CORRECTIONS TO ATLANTIC, BURLINGTON

(VINELAND, NJ) – PBA Local #231 President Victor Bermudez released the following statement this evening regarding the Cumberland County Board of Freeholders’ vote on two resolutions to export corrections services to Atlantic and Burlington counties:

“Not a single public hearing was held, not a single meeting with PBA leadership to discuss the process, employee displacement, and transition.

“These same freeholders spent more than a year and $160,000 to study building a jail, and yet spent less than six months and no money to deliberate on closing the county jail.  The process has been a sham. Honestly, these aren’t even real people voting; they’re bots, doing what they’re programmed to do. Bots! 

“Freeholders Musso and Castellini, listen to these words: democracy is incredibly empowering. We’re not going anywhere.  There are 25 days until Election Day and PBA Local 231 is going to make each and every one of them count.”