Red sand filled the cracks at Madera's courthouse, here's why

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Remnants of reddish soil inactive capable the crevices of the crushed surrounding Courthouse Park successful Madera aft deputies participated successful a tribute astatine the extremity of January.

The sheriff's bureau says their staff, assemblage members and region officials gathered astatine Courthouse Park past week to enactment successful the the Red Sand Project and memorialize the extremity of Human Trafficking and Awareness Month.

Deputies accidental the reddish soil is meant to symbolize "the humor of the radical who died portion falling done the cracks of society."

Officials accidental the Red Sand Project was created successful 2014 arsenic a mode to grant the lives mislaid arsenic a effect of quality trafficking.

According to the project's website, the participatory artwork creates opportunities for radical to "question, connect, and instrumentality enactment against vulnerabilities that tin pb to quality trafficking, modern slavery, and exploitation."