While the rest of the city is booming in development and will soon be made greener with environment-friendly programs, many South Bronx residents claim that they are being dumped on again.

Last week, members of the organization Mothers on the Move staged a press conference in front of City Hall, protesting the proposal of a new jail for the community. Activists claimed that the new jail would not only erode any progress in the redevelopment of the area but would also send the wrong message to the youth living there.

The South Bronx already has two detention centers. Tanya Fields, of Mothers on the Move (MOM), reiterated that having so many detention facilities within these neighborhoods sends a bad message to the youth living there.

“Young men and women are being taught that it’s okay to be in some sort of facility,” Fields said. “The message equates us with criminals in training.”

She claims that building a jail is counter-productive to the progress that has been made in the South Bronx over the past decade.

Members of the MOM Environmental Justice Committee highlighted their concerns about the nauseating odors emanating from the New York Organic Fertilizer Company (NYOFCO) and the Hunts Point Water Pollution Control Plant in light of Mayor Bloomberg’s “Greater, Greener New York” plan.

South Bronx residents in Hunts Point and Longwood have complained for years about the sickening odors from the waste plants.

“There are times that my house smells like an outhouse. If you smell stench then you know it’s not good for you,” explained MOM member Wilfredo Febre.