Health care as a right, quality public education for all and opposition to state and local decisions they believe promote gun violence, limit voting rights and build and fill prisons for economic gain — these are things for which some Moral Monday activists are willing to go to jail. Moral Monday Georgia made Statesboro the eighth of 16 cities on its “Jailed for Justice” tour. In all, six people who spoke during Monday evening’s gathering on the Bulloch County Courthouse lawn had been arrested in protests during and after the 2014 Georgia General Assembly session in Atlanta.
'Going to jail for justice, we do it because we can'
Tour stops in Statesboro Monday


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