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A graffiti People's National Party (PNP) sign decorates a wall above a hand cart in the Matthews lane neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica. Kingston is made up of a patchwork of politically allied neighborhoods, known as "garrisons" in which simple signs such as this serve as warnings to outsiders of the neighborhoods political allegiance.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 3806x2537 / 3.9MB; Jamaica Jamaican gangs violence murder homicide rates capita crime justice society poverty community garrison gangsters guns weapons youth culture Caribbean tropics West Indies ghetto inner-city inner city epidemic graffiti Peoples National Party PNP politics political signs gang warning urban decay Kingston South Side Matthews Lane harbor Jamaica Kingston garrison garrisons gangs ghetto poverty violence gangsters crime culture violence tragic crisis island Jamaican armed gang life killing homicide rate political violence PNP JLP neighborhood members guns weapons criminal projects
Contained in galleries: Jamaican Violence Project

A graffiti People's National Party (PNP) sign decorates a wall above a hand cart in the Matthews lane neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica. Kingston is made up of a patchwork of politically allied neighborhoods, known as "garrisons" in which simple signs such as this serve as warnings to outsiders of the neighborhoods political allegiance.