'No ICE, No Prisons, No More Cages' banner unfurled over Fenway Park Green Monster

A banner with the words "No ICE, no prisons, no more cages" was unfurled over part of the 37.2-foot-tall Fenway Park Green Monster during Thursday night's game against the Tampa Bay Rays.The large black banner appeared to have been rolled down the Green Monster by fans sitting in the outfield seats. "The fans involved were in violation of the club’s signage policy and escorted out of the ballpark," a spokesperson for the Red Sox said. Activists with two groups called "Deeper Than Water" and "Black and Pink" said the message was targeting the American Correctional Association, an organization holding an annual event in Boston. The group, which was founded in 1870 and describes itself as "championing the cause of corrections and correctional effectiveness" is holding its 149th Congress of Correction in Boston through August 6. Fenway Park's code of conduct allows signs and banners inside the historic ballpark, but bans any signs from being hung over the Green Monster. "Management reserves the right to remove any signs or banners at any time," Fenway Park's code of conduct says. "Each banner and sign must comply with our code of conduct.""Signs and banners may be admitted as long as they do not; obstruct the sight lines of other fans, cover up existing signage, exhibit messages commercial in nature, contain obscene or offensive language, are not paraded around the park; affixed to any permanent structures, hung over fascia boards or the Green Monster," the policy says.

A banner with the words "No ICE, no prisons, no more cages" was unfurled over part of the 37.2-foot-tall Fenway Park Green Monster during Thursday night's game against the Tampa Bay Rays.



The large black banner appeared to have been rolled down the Green Monster by fans sitting in the outfield seats.


"The fans involved were in violation of the club’s signage policy and escorted out of the ballpark," a spokesperson for the Red Sox said.

Activists with two groups called "Deeper Than Water" and "Black and Pink" said the message was targeting the American Correctional Association, an organization holding an annual event in Boston.

The group, which was founded in 1870 and describes itself as "championing the cause of corrections and correctional effectiveness" is holding its 149th Congress of Correction in Boston through August 6.

Fenway Park's code of conduct allows signs and banners inside the historic ballpark, but bans any signs from being hung over the Green Monster.

"Management reserves the right to remove any signs or banners at any time," Fenway Park's code of conduct says. "Each banner and sign must comply with our code of conduct."

"Signs and banners may be admitted as long as they do not; obstruct the sight lines of other fans, cover up existing signage, exhibit messages commercial in nature, contain obscene or offensive language, are not paraded around the park; affixed to any permanent structures, hung over fascia boards or the Green Monster," the policy says.