Bob Darby and Elizabeth Gaskins: Mentally Ill Homeless

Our special guests for March 28, 2014, on "Human Rights Demand" Blogtalkradio show are Bob Darby, an advocate for the homeless mentally ill, and Elizabeth L Gaskins, an elder in the Cherokee Nation.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/03/28/bob-darby-advocate-for-the-homeless-mentally-ill

Call-in number (347) 857-3293 to speak on the show. Listen live at 3pm Eastern Time by phone or computer, or hear the show on the archived tape at the link above.

Bob Darby has a B.A. in psychology from Emory University and has attended graduate schools in psychology and theology. He is a former employee of Georgia Regional Hospital, Boston State Hospital, and New Hampshire's Hanover-Darthmouth Hospital. In 1994, he founded Atlanta Food Not Bombs and has been an advocate for the homeless mentally ill for more than twenty years.

Elizabeth Gaskins is a human rights advocate who hosts a weekly radio show on Human Rights Demand called "Native American Affairs - Freemen." Her show airs Wednesdays at 3pm. Listen to her debut broadcast, taped at this link
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/03/19/native-american-affairs--freemen

Elizabeth Gaskins will discuss how mentally ill people are subject to wrongful arrests rather than receiving proper care and treatment. We will discuss Jerome Murdough, a homeless Marine Corps veteran who suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder who was arrested in Riker's Island jail and died there of overheating in a solitary jail cell in February 2014. Murdough essentially baked. Bob Darby will discuss how deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill during President Regan's term and simultaneous removal (through lack of funding) for the "safety net" of detoxification centers, group homes and outpatient treatment programs contributed to Murdough's avoidable death and the negligence of America's most vulnerable population. Jails and prisons have replaced hospitals for Americans with acute mental illness.

Dr. Mustafa Ansari, an international human rights attorney and Dean of the American Institute for Human Rights, spoke about Jerome Murdough's death on Riker's Island during his radio show on March 26. Murdough is the homeless, mentally ill veteran who was baked in a solitary confinement cell in February.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/03/25/dr-ansaris-human-rights-updates

The National Alliance on Mental Illness says that if they get the chance, eighty percent of bipolars and sixty percent of schizophrenics could be successfully treated to fully participate in mainstream society. But such treatment and medications are not currently available to many of them, because the new "atypical anti-psychotics" and other new drugs are expensive and must be professionally administered under in-patient supervision.

First paragraph repeated: Our special guests for March 28, 2014, on "Human Rights Demand" Blogtalkradio show are Bob Darby, an advocate for the homeless mentally ill, and Elizabeth L Gaskins, an elder in the Cherokee Nation.
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Jerome Murdough Radio Interviews: Homeless Vet Baked at Riker's Island

Jerome Murdough, 56, was a homeless Marine Corps veteran who was roasted to death at Riker's Island Jail in February 2014. No New York official or prison officials notified Murdough's family when he expired in a solitary confinement cell where the temperature was over 100 degrees. Murdough was in a section of the prison where inmates should be checked by the correctional officers every 15 minutes, but this was not done.

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) will sponsor radio shows about Murdough's life and death and discuss how similarly situated Americans might be saved from what Murdough endured: numerous arrests, solitary confinement, homelessness, and avoidable death. Radio shows will be announced at this article. The general public is invited to call our radio programs during live broadcasts to share their viewpoints. Blogtalkradio links can access the live shows as well as recorded broadcasts that are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Sunday, March 23: "Human Rights for Prisoners March" on Human Rights Demand channel (3pm EST Sundays). Mary Neal discusses Jerome Murdough's demise and the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal, her mentally, physically disabled brother who also perished in jail. (347) 857-3293
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/03/23/human-rights-for-prisoners-march

Tuesday, March 25: "Dr. Ansari's Human Rights Updates" on Human Rights Demand channel (1pm EST Tuesdays). Dr. Mustafa is an international human rights attorney and dean of the American Institute of Human Rights. (347) 857-3293
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/03/25/dr-ansaris-human-rights-updates

Thursday, March 27: Mary Neal interviews Bob Darby, a former member and organizer of "Food Not Bombs," author, public speaker, and advocate for the homeless mentally ill. (3pm EST on Human Rights Demand channel). (347) 857-3293, A link will be provided.

Background information regarding Jerome Murdough's death is in the next article,
"Mentally Ill Marine Vet Baked at Riker's Island: AP Blew the Cover-up"

http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/03/mentally-ill-marine-vet-baked-at-rikers.html

Jerome Murdough suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He was presumably arrested for trespassing and vagrancy when he sought shelter from harsh winter weather on the roof of a building in Harlem. Murdough had endured numerous misdemeanor arrests in the past, as is common among acute mental patients from the working class whose mental illness is essentially untreated.

Murdough would ordinarily visit his family at least once every three months and sometimes more often. He is survived by his 76-year-old mother, a middle aged sister, and a host of other relatives and friends. Associated Press (AP) notified Murdough's family of his death three weeks after he died.

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill recognizes that Murdough's avoidable death is a worst case scenario of what happens when mental illness is criminalized instead of treated like a chronic health condition. Acute mental illness requires continuous monitoring and treatment like heart disease and other physical ailments. Treatment is ordinarily withheld when persons with severe mental illness suffer from anosognosia, which prevents them from realizing they have mental illness. Families are not permitted to commit mentally ill relatives to inpatient psychiatric treatment facilities unless they proved to be an immediate danger to self and others. Even when there are suicide attempts or assaults on family members and others, the mentally ill are usually jailed instead of treated in mental hospitals.

Information about anosognosia is available at Treatment Advocacy Center
http://treatmentadvocacycenter.org/component/content/article/1790

Severe mental illness is a disability that affects many of the 1.25 million mentally challenged inmates in America's jails and prisons. They comprise more than 60 percent of the 80,000 inmates who are relegated to solitary confinement, which further erodes their mental health. It costs at least $168,000 per year to incarcerate each inmate in New York and more for people who require special services like Murdough. Treating the mentally ill in AOT programs, which mandate continuous psychiatric care and provide subsistence assistance, is more affordable and just.

Please join our radio discussions about Jerome Murdough and similarly situated people.

Mary Neal, director
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI)
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi
Dog Justice for Mentally Ill
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com
Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

Paragraph 1 repeated: Jerome Murdough, 56, was a homeless Marine Corps veteran who was roasted to death at Riker's Island Jail in February 2014. No New York official or prison officials notified Murdough's family when he expired in a solitary confinement cell where the temperature was over 100 degrees. Murdough was in a section of the prison where inmates should be checked by the correctional officers every 15 minutes, but this was not done.

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog into a deadly restraint chair for control. But this happens to mentally ill Americans routinely in the nation's jails and prisons. What happened to Larry Neal?

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally.

Advocate for U.S. Congress to pass H.R.3717 - Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act

Mentally Ill Marine Vet Baked at Riker's Island: AP Blew the Cover-up

There was a time when I thought we could negotiate a confidential settlement regarding the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal. I assumed the government and The Cochran Firm would not want it known that a mentally ill heart patient who was a U.S. citizen was killed and his survivors were defrauded by a law firm carrying Johnnie Cochran's name. We initially believed Larry's death was accidental. Not only was Larry Neal's death NOT accidental, but authorities do not seem to mind if the whole world knows that mentally and physically disabled Americans are secretly jailed and killed and that such deaths are covered up. It happens regularly. Apparently, it happened to Jerome Murdough.

Jerome Murdough was a 56-year-old mentally challenged veteran who was BAKED to death in Riker's Island in February 2014, but his family was not told for weeks. Finally, AP notified Murdough's family, not prison authorities or his attorney. The prison reportedly informed Murdough's state-appointed attorney three days after his demise. Perhaps officials and the lawyer had agreed that Murdough's family must never to be told about their relative slow-roasting to death in a Riker's Island prison cell.

Like Larry Neal, Jerome Murdough had suffered numerous previous arrests due to his mental illness before his fatal incarceration. It is likely that officials had contact information for Murdough's relatives in his file. But officials withhold information about mentally ill citizens' deaths sometimes to spare themselves bad publicity and save money on wrongful death lawsuits. That is why AIMI recommends that families physically search jails when looking for missing loved ones. Merely calling authorities and filing a missing person report are insufficient, as police lied when Larry Neal was "missing" for 18 days in 2003. He was secretly incarcerated throughout that time. Larry died in Memphis Shelby County Jail, deprived of his heart medications and likely because of other inexcusable abuses of power. The Neals were NEVER told the circumstances of Larry Neal's death, and we are censored and persecuted for asking.

If not for AP contacting Murdough's relatives, Murdough might have been "missing" forever and presumed dead. That was the likely plan. If only The Cochran Firm had not pretended (under contract) to handle Larry Neal's wrongful death and negligence civil actions, the Neals would have contacted media companies much sooner than WE DID to notify the public about Larry's secret murder. The Cochran Firm swore us to silence immediately regarding Larry's death, which we did not recognize at the time as being a coldblooded, premeditated murder. By the time we discovered The Cochran Firm had secretly withheld our lawsuits while Tennessee's statute of limitations ran, nearly a year had passed, and mainstream media had obviously agreed to withhold reports about the "wrongful death of Larry Neal" (Google it). That is still the case today. As odd as it seems, Murdough's mom and sister (pictured below) are lucky. They do not have to investigate and report Murdough's death themselves. See links to reports about Jerome Murdough by AP and Mother Jones.

Mother Jones reports: 

(1) The United States operate 1,800 prisons and 3,000 jails. Like Alcatraz, they aren't about rehabilitation. They're about punishment.

(2) 80,000 people are held in solitary confinement every year.

(3) As many as half of all sexual assaults in prisons are carried out by prison guards.

(4) One fourth of the people incarcerated on Earth are incarcerated in the United States.

(5) We have 2.3 million Americans behind bars . . . they’re held at ADX Florence, Pelican Bay, and Rikers Island, where an inmate recently baked to death in his cell. Baked to death.

Rikers Island is the nation’s second-largest jail system with 12,000 inmates. A whopping 40 percent are mentally ill, and a third of them suffer from serious mental problems.

*****

Jerome Murdough was arrested after seeking shelter from harsh weather in New York in February. The meds he was administered for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia made the former Marine more susceptible to heat. One can only hope that Murdough was asleep as he slow-roasted in a solitary jail cell at Riker's.

APNEWSBREAK: NYC INMATE 'BAKED TO DEATH' IN CELL
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-nyc-inmate-baked-death-cell

Mother Jones: America's Worst Prison Closed 51 Years Ago. Except It Didn't
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/03/alcatraz-anniversary-51-years-ago

Condolences to Murdough's family and close friends. Hundreds of thousands of people of all races and ages who were labeled as being mentally ill were roasted in Nazi ovens before WWII. Our apologies for taking so long to decriminalize mental illness in the USA and give Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill. Our messages to the public and politicians are censored. Human rights advocates at AIMI hope that more care is applied in the future to ensure the safety of America's most vulnerable citizens and that victims and survivors are given due process instead of cover-ups when the system fails.

Citizen: One who by birth or naturalization owes a debt of loyalty to a country and is due protection BY that country (certain exemptions apply). Murdough showed his loyalty to the USA by enlisting in the military, but his protection as a homeless veteran was missing in action. Larry's family shows loyalty by enlisting in military service and paying taxes; however, we were told by federal court order that whatever was done to prevent lawsuit against Shelby County Jail was "immaterial." Certain exemptions apply no matter who is in the White House or over the Justice Department. 

Mary Neal, director
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI)
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi
Dog Justice for Mentally Ill
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com
Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

Paragraph 1 repeated: There was a time when I thought we could negotiate a confidential settlement regarding the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal. I assumed the government and The Cochran Firm would not want it known that a mentally ill heart patient who was a U.S. citizen was killed and his survivors were defrauded by a law firm carrying Johnnie Cochran's name. We initially believed Larry's death was accidental. Not only was Larry Neal's death NOT accidental, but authorities do not seem to mind if the whole world knows that mentally and physically disabled Americans are secretly jailed and killed and that such deaths are covered up. It happens regularly. Apparently, it happened to Jerome Murdough.

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog into a deadly restraint chair for control. But this happens to mentally ill Americans routinely in the nation's jails and prisons. What happened to Larry Neal?

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally.

Advocate for U.S. Congress to pass H.R.3717 - Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act

Cards Stacked Against Black Boys, Especially If Mentally Challenged

The American Psychological Association (APA) conducted a study indicating that black boys are perceived as being older and less innocent than their white peers by Caucasian police officers and college women. The APA study was discussed during two Blogtalkradio shows: "Human Rights for Prisoners March" on March 17 and "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI)" broadcast on March 19. Links to both shows are below in this article. Discussions will continue Sunday, March 23 on "Human Rights Demand" channel at Blogtalkradio. 

The APA study exposed that Caucasian police officers who dehumanize blacks are more likely to use force on black boys like those featured in five photographs in this article. Juries comprised of whites (like the white college students in the APA study) seem predisposed to attribute guilt to black boys. The white research participants generally believed black boys, even 10-year-olds, to be 4.5 years older than they actually were and therefore more responsible. The research also indicates that black boys accused of crimes were likely to be presumed guilty by the white study participants. This explains why prosecutors seldom charge, and Caucasians on grand juries seldom indict, police officers who brutalize or kill black boys.

“Children in most societies are considered to be in a distinct group with characteristics such as innocence and the need for protection. Our research found that black boys can be seen as responsible for their actions at an age when white boys still benefit from the assumption that children are essentially innocent,” said author Phillip Atiba Goff, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Discipline for Black Boys with Mental Disabilities Compared with White Peers

According to another report released in March, “African-American students and students with disabilities are suspended at hugely disproportionate rates compared to white students.” This report was provided by the Discipline Disparities Research-to-Practice Collaborative. Its results were published in the Washington Post (link below). An excerpt:

"'In the 1972-73 school year, suspension rates were 6 percent for whites and 12 percent for African Americans at the secondary school level. [Racism is getting worse.] The most recent federal figures, for 2009-10, show rates of 7 percent for whites and 24 percent for African Americans in those grades,' said researcher Daniel J. Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies, at University of California, Los Angeles.

"For some student groups, the rates are markedly higher. For example, among middle and high school students, 36 percent of black males with disabilities were suspended at least once in 2009-10,' Losen said." 

Mentally challenged black boys are extremely likely to experience out-of-school suspensions - not wholly because of their behavior but also because of systemic prejudice against them and the dehumanization of black boys, especially those with mental disparities. "Out-of-school suspensions are linked to academic disengagement, lower achievement and greater risks of school dropout and contact with the juvenile justice system," researchers said.

Disparity of Treatment for Black Mentally Ill Men in the Prison System

Mentally ill inmates generally receive harsher prison sentences regardless of their race, possibly because they are less able to participate in their own defense. Once incarcerated, people with serious mental illness are unlikely to have their sentences shortened by doing prison labor or being "model prisoners." In fact, prison sentences of mentally challenged inmates are often lengthened due to their lack of understanding or ability to follow CO's instructions and prison rules. One might assume from the two research studies referenced herein that mentally challenged black men are also more harshly punished in correctional institutions, like they were in school. 

Intolerance of black boys and men, especially if they have mental illness, is reflected in our prison rates. According to the United States Department of Justice, blacks comprised 12 percent to 13 percent of the nation's population but over 40 percent of the prisoners. Solitary confinement is one of the punitive methods used in corrections, and more than 80 percent of the inmates enduring solitary confinement torture in the United States are black people. 

Referenced radio show and research reports:

"Human Rights for Prisoners March" Radio Show, March 17, 2014 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/03/18/human-rights-for-prisoners-march
Mary Neal, host; former school teacher Wendy Benedetti, guest

"Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill" Radio Show, March 19, 2014 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/03/20/assistance-to-the-incarcerated-mentally-ill

Mary Neal, host; organizational psychologist Dr. Jean Kennedy, guest 

APA press release about its research regarding perceptions of black boys 

http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/03/black-boys-older.aspx

Washington Post report about disparities in discipline based on disabilities and race 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/researchers-point-to-racial-disparities-in-school-suspension-spotlight-new-practices/2014/03/14/0017cd98-aaa7-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html

(Line breaks were placed before each of the four links above to help assure your access.)

At Baldwin South Intermediate School in Quincy, Illinois, a 9-year-old Autistic child was taken from his special needs classroom with bruises all over his face and incarcerated after he was beat up by police. See a report by CopBlock.org http://www.copblock.org/21538/officer-assaults-and-arrests-9-year-old-boy-with-autism-in-public-school-classroom/

Marissa Sargeant, mother of a 14-year-old boy, claims officers brutally beat her son after he was arrested for shoplifting from a Wal Mart store in Tullytown, PA, reports The Grio. He was Tasered repeatedly in his face, which some consider torture. 

http://thegrio.com/2013/11/21/mom-claims-son-14-was-beaten-tasered-in-face-by-police-after-shoplifting-arrest/

Honor student, 16, suffered ruptured testicle during a rough 'pat down' by a police woman and now faces infertility. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2541780/Boy-16-suffers-ruptured-testicle-police-pat-infertile.html

A brain-damaged youth in Illinois was subjected to deadly face-down take-down over his shirt tail being out of his pants. Mentally challenged people are under attack. The special needs student was stalked by the school police who insulted him, then attacked and beat him. The face-down choke hold the police officer used on the student has caused deaths. See comments about the child abuse against that disabled youngster by Care2 members at this link, if they let you: http://www.care2.com/news/member/513396753/1272815

"If it seems to you that the police are becoming more violent, you may be right. In 2011, Los Angeles County police shot to death 54 people, some 70 percent more than in 2010. Between 2008 and 2013, the number of people shot by Massachusetts police increased every year. In 2012, police in New York City shot and killed 16 people, nine more the previous year and the most in 12 years. In 2012, Philadelphia police shot 52 people the highest number in 10 years." The victims of police violence are overwhelmingly black boys and men, including mentally challenged people who were killed when officers responded to families' calls for assistance. See "How Many People are Police Killing?" 

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/287-124/21754-how-many-people-are-american-police-killing

Watch a police officer deliberately break a black school boy's arm on video:
http://youtu.be/3CMT_qeHOnE Oops! Videos I use are often removed from YouTube. Try this video link. It was uploaded by a Caucasian http://youtu.be/XHU7nV4XrBk

If they remove that one, try this video of the incident (also uploaded by a Caucasian)

http://youtu.be/L5TECZwysqQ Some whites still have freedom of press in USA.

AIMI members support Rep. Tim Murphy's congressional bill, "H.R.3717 - Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act," which was introduced in December 2013 and now has over 40 co-sponsors. One provision of H.R.3717 is training for police officers and correctional officers regarding the apprehension and containment of people with mental illness without causing injuries and deaths. Please read about the bill in articles within this blog, and hear H.R.3717 discussed during "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill" radio broadcasts on Blogtalkradio (February 12 and 19, 2014). Few members from the Congressional Black Caucus have co-sponsored H.R.3717 thus far, although research proves that black people are overly represented among families experiencing mental health crisis and most likely to suffer serious injuries and fatalities because of it.

Racism, police brutality, wrongful deaths, prisoner torture, child abuse by police officers, prison profiteering, and hate crimes against the mentally disabled, particularly non-whites, are widespread problems that will not be addressed with corrective measures unless they are first exposed to the general public as well as to our elected and appointed officials. Unfortunately, advocacy for human rights in America is censored.

Internet companies are overwhelmingly owned and operated by Caucasians, and data exposing prejudice against blacks is censored. Mary Neal was not allowed to place links to this article and to the study by the American Psychological Association at the Facebook "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill" group. CoIntelPro/NSA assumed control of our AIMI group at Care2 years ago, which is why the "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog was started at Blogger. As AIMI's membership enrollment grew, our members at Care2 began experiencing frequent DoS attacks, surreptitious removal of site content, and denial of the opportunity to use many of the features that Care2 makes available for animal rights advocates. AIMI members feel that America's mentally ill people of all races deserve at least Dog Justice. See the result of my attempt to open the link at Care2 regarding the black boy who was attacked by his school police officer:
"Care2 is Down for Maintenance"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7OOCl9xjk33ek9ReklXNEdLalE/edit?usp=sharing

Through online media, human rights advocates expose crimes against humanity. Oppressing black school boys and criminalizing mental illness are tragic circumstances that deserve exposure. The recent studies published by the American Psychological Association and by the Discipline Disparities Research-to-Practice Collaborative identified extreme prejudice against black boys and men, especially the mentally disabled, which account for police violence against that population and the denial of due process by whites in positions of authority over the justice system after such offenses occur. But it is difficult to share the studies and challenge officials and the general populace to change because of racial prejudice in Internet media companies and the NSA, which not only monitors but also censors Internet content by and about African Americans.

Sometimes people harbor racist viewpoints without being aware of them. For example, a recent study by Kelly M. Hoffman and Adam Waytz shows that people, including medical personnel, assume black people feel less pain than white people. The researchers asked participants to rate how much pain they would feel in 18 common scenarios. The participants rated experiences such as stubbing a toe or getting shampoo in their eyes on a four-point scale (where 1 is “not painful” and 4 is “extremely painful”). Then they rated how another person (a randomly assigned photo of an experimental “target”) would feel in the same situations. Sometimes the target was white, sometimes black. In each experiment, the researchers found that white participants, black participants, and nurses and nursing students assumed that blacks felt less pain than whites. See "Racial Perceptions of Others' Pain" 
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0048546

Your opinions are invited in the comment field below, where this writer will also publish a copy of this article to discourage cyber bullies from tampering with the article. The public is invited to share mental health news and opinions in the comment field and during AIMI's Blogtalkradio broadcasts Wednesdays at 9pm Pacific by calling (818)572.2947.

Mary Neal, director
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI)

MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
Website: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal

http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com
Dog Justice for Mentally Ill
http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog into a deadly restraint chair for control. But this happens to mentally ill Americans routinely in the nation's jails and prisons. What happened to Larry Neal?

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally.

Terrell Scott Released from PA Prison on Forced Plea Deal

Terrell Scott was re-arrested on June 5 for failing to keep appointments with his probation office although he was committed to a mental hospital at the time. Terrell Scott's present imprisonment is the most blatant evidence of mentally ill Americans being victimized for being sick that this advocate has every encountered. His crime is apparently that he never learned astral projection - the ability to appear two places simultaneously. Prison profiteers in the Pennsylvania justice system need a psych evaluation. Pennsylvania had veteran juvenile judges who admitted they sold children into private juvenile facilities in exchange for $2.6 million "finders fees." Terrell Scott's case proves that the mentally ill in Pennsylvania are held indefinitely without trials unless and until they agree to plea bargain. But when they do, the State continues its harassment and re-arrests them anyway, again without defensible charges.

After 4.5 years of wrongful incarceration, TERRELL SCOTT IS FREE! The mentally ill man withstood barbarous conditions in prison. He was raped, beaten, exposed to HIV when he had to clean his cellmate's blood and urine from an overfilled colostomy bag, and subjected to solitary confinement torture. Terrell was finally made to understand that Pennsylvania would NEVER allow him to have a public trial by jury on the false child abuse charges but would continue to deny him due process of law, so he finally plead guilty after years of torture. He suffered PERMANENT DISABILITIES when he lost his eyesight in one eye and hearing in one ear from inmate beatings. Congratulations on your son's homecoming, Holly Alston! We will continue to work to clear Terrell Scott's name and get justice for his pain and suffering and denial of due process of law.

We may speak with Terrell Scott and his mother on March 5, 2014, during the "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill" broadcast on Blogtalkradio at 9pm PST.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/03/06/assistance-to-the-incarcerated-mentally-ill

You are invited to join the live show with your comments and questions at (818)572-2947. The show is archived for your access at any time after taping.

We at Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill know Terrell Scott's real story and helped publish it in articles and on radio shows. We are pleased at Scott's release and determined to continue to fight for justice. See the story in links below and evidence of what we consider to be frauds against the court by Scott's attorney and prosecutor to prevent justice for Scott.

Terrell Scott Too "Crazy" for Trial but Competent for a Plea Deal
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/terrell-scott-too-crazy-for-trial-but.html
An UPDATE on this article contains some shocking information; please see
"Pennsylvania: Black Mental Patients 4 Cash"
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/01/pennsylvania-black-mental-patients-4.html

Terrell Scott's attorney and the prosecutor appeared to have worked together to keep Scott's case from going to trial. Initially, Scott was arrested without a warrant. Then, Scott's attorney had him to sign a waiver to speedy trial. The mentally ill man signed whatever his attorney asked him to sign, not knowing that defense attorneys sometimes work against their clients' interests. Scott's attorney and the prosecutor continually reported falsely that Scott was unavailable for trial. See the court docket at the links above proving that this happened.

The headline at Lehighvalleylive.com screams, "Bethlehem man pleads guilty in torture case, released with nearly a decade of probation." After much interference from cyber stalkers, I commented thusly:

MaryLovesJustice

16 minutes ago

United States courts can arrest and hold mentally ill people like Terrell Scott in a Pennsylvania prison for nearly five years and deny them trials unless and until they plead guilty to crimes that never happened, or secretly arrest and murder them like my brother in Tennessee, Larry Neal, or punish them with solitary confinement torture for being mentally disabled like Jeffrey Benedetti in Colorado and Bianca Marquez in Arizona. Our most vulnerable citizens can continue to be shot like rabid dogs by police officers in our streets, but all of these injustices will probably be taken before the World Court. Crimes against humanity that continue to happen to the mentally ill in America should be exposed and opposed before the entire world. http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/...

Dog Justice for Mentally Ill

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June 5, 2014 UPDATE: Terrell Scott was re-arrested on June 5 for failing to keep appointments with his probation office although he was committed to a mental hospital at the time. Terrell Scott's present imprisonment is the most blatant evidence of mentally ill Americans being victimized for being sick that this advocate has every encountered. His crime is apparently that he never learned astral projection - the ability to appear two places simultaneously. Prison profiteers in the Pennsylvania justice system need a psych evaluation.

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.care2.com/group/aimi

Dog Justice for Mentally Ill
http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com
Website: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com

Mary Neal, director

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog into a deadly restraint chair for control. But this happens to mentally ill Americans routinely in the nation's jails and prisons. 

What happened to Larry Neal?

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally.

Brutalized Inmate: Bianca Marquez

Bianca Marquez

Elisa Obeso discussed her daughter, Bianca Marquez, on the "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill" Blogtalkradio show on February 27. AIMI broadcasts Wednesdays at 9pm PST, 10pm Mountain, 11pm Central, and 12 midnight EST. The call-in number is (818)572.2947. We endeavor to decriminalize mental illness by exposing and opposing mistreatment of mentally dysfunctional people like Bianca, who is presently suffering in solitary confinement in Arizona State Prison - Perryville, Lumley Unit.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/02/27/assistance-to-the-incarcerated-mentally-ill

Bianca is a 25-year-old mother with bipolar disorder, weighing only 110 pounds. Bianca says she has been brutally treated by prison guards: body slammed, Tasered, her front teeth were knocked out, and she was isolated numerous times during her incarceration. In fact, Bianca is in solitary confinement now. After two years of this ABUSE, the prison wants to lengthen Bianca's sentence for not being more cooperative. We say NO to prison investors. Imprisonment cannot help Bianca nor taxpayers. We need real solutions.

We discussed how passing Tim Murphy's congressional bill H.R.3717 would help people with serious mental illness like Bianca. Please listen to the interview with Elisa and share the link to the radio show (above) with your friends and online groups. Ask your representatives to co-sponsor H.R.3717.

Elisa Obeso asks that we also write letters on Bianca's behalf. She sent the following information:

Arizona Department of Corrections - Central Office
1601 W. Jefferson, Phoenix, AZ 85007 - Phone: 602-542-5497

1) Name: Bianca Jazmin Marquez, inmate #268664, in the Lumley Unit at Arizona State Prison - Perryville in Goodyear, Az, 85395

2) Request to have officer Morris-Moore-Chavez/s removed from the unit that Bianca’s in - Lumley. All this is at Bianca’s request, and at ours. Due to the fact that this woman is not helping Bianca. She is only making things worse by not understanding her as a mentally ill person, and she is the MAIN cause of Bianca's outbreaks. As a result of this Bianca is under a lot of stress, and this is jeopardizing her health.

3) Request NO consolidated confinement for Bianca- NO ISO for mentally ill persons, as this is only increasing their depression.

4} Request that Bianca’s rights NOT be violated, as they have been till now ... and that she NOT be denied the papers that she needs to file grievances.

5) We are aware of all the physical abuse that has been taken against Bianca, and we request that stops immediately. Abuse from prison guards is deteriorating Bianca’s physical body and mental health.

6) Please make it clear that you support Bianca and will continue to help if further action is needed.

*****

People with mental illness have been brutalized since ancient times. They have been considered to be inhabited by demons, locked away in dungeons and chains. Nazis killed hundreds of thousands. In America, they were warehoused in prisons and jails until Dorothea Dix was responsible for founding 40 mental hospitals in the 1800′s. Along came private prisons, and 1.25 million mentally ill people are presently incarcerated, and they comprise 60% of those in solitary confinement. Police regularly kill people with mental illness, and their abuses are usually congratulated and shielded by the government. This happened when Memphis Shelby County Jail secretly arrested Larry Neal in 2003 and killed him after 18 days of secret arrest. http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com

Although there were and still are abuses against mentally ill people, psychiatric treatment is superior to imprisonment and death-by-police. There have been improvements in psychiatric meds over the years, and most people with acute mental illness can live outside of a controlled environment if their conditions are properly monitored and treated effectively, such as under an assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) program.

The United Nations has declared long-term solitary confinement to be torture. New York State has agreed, after lawsuit by the New York Civil Liberties Union, to limiting its use of solitary confinement. It will no longer be used for minors or pregnant women, and the mentally ill cannot be isolated for more than 30 days. A United States Senate panel met in February 2014 to discuss solitary confinement, and the panel's decision is published in "Legal Victories" blog at the article called "Limiting Solitary Confinement in Corrections."
http://legalvictories.blogspot.com/2014/02/limiting-solitary-confinement-in.html

The people must insist on positive change. Why are police and correctional officers congratulated and shielded by the government for brutalizing and killing mental patients like my brother, Larry Neal? Why are mentally ill people warehoused in prisons, usually in solitary? Eugenics and psychiatry have a history dating from before WWII when hundreds of thousands of people labeled "mentally ill" in Germany were murdered en masse. See the film embedded below, showing that mistreating the mentally ill is Nazi.
Psychiatry and Racism - http://youtu.be/dJG_6uW7faY

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog into a deadly restraint chair for control. But this happens to mentally ill Americans routinely in the nation's jails and prisons.

What happened to Larry Neal?

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice.
Treat mental illness medically, not legally.

Mary Neal, director

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

Website: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal.com

Dog Justice for Mentally Ill

http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com

Mentally Ill Man Deliberately Made Homeless in Georgia

A retarded teenager visits his dad. He goes into the den and turns on the TV. A triple-x rated movie on the VCR begins to play. The boy masturbates. His young half-brother enters the den. The child immediately runs to tell his dad what he saw. The dad has always been ashamed of his mentally challenged son and now perceives an opportunity. If the teen goes to prison, the dad can stop paying child support. He calls police and says the teen exposed himself to his little brother. Hear the rest of the story from the teen's mother on "Human Rights for Prisoners March" at Blogtalkradio at 3pm EST on Sunday, March 2, 2014. The guest call-in number for our Sunday shows is (347) 857-3293. The radio interview is available for listening anytime
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/03/02/human-rights-for-prisoners-march 

The young mentally ill man was tricked into a plea bargain, like many mental patients and juveniles are by corrupt prosecutors. He believed he was admitting to masturbation when in fact he was admitting to sexually assaulting his half-brother who was only seven years old. The teenager had been receiving disability income from Social Security since he was age five, when his mental illness was initially diagnosed. He received social security payments until his imprisonment on the false charges of sexual abuse. His support has not resumed.

After seven years of imprisonment that included rape and brutal beatings by other inmates and solitary confinement, the young man now lives HOMELESS because Social Security refuses to restart his payments after release from prison, and his mother lives too close to a recreation center to house someone who is registered as a sex offender. Social Security Administration told Ms. Goolsby that Georgia Prisons have NOT released records of the young man's incarceration, during which he was in the psychiatric program. Prison investors should NOT work in corrections or the judiciary.

#SocialSecurityAttorneys should please call Ms. Goolsby at (404) 390-7020 and offer your services on behalf of her son who has been HOMELESS for a year due to corruption in the prison system that obviously WANTS HIM BACK IN PRISON on vagrancy charges or worse. Ms. Goolsby said her son's probation officer said if he is homeless, he must come and live behind the probation office. That seems to be a planned opportunity to arrest the young man for vagrancy.

Please listen to part 1 of Ms. Goolsby's interview on the Human Rights Demand channel at the first link above.  Part 2 of our interview with Ms. Goolsby will broadcast on the "Human Rights for Prisoners March" at Blogtalkradio on Monday, March 3 at 9pm PST. The call-in number to hear part 2, ask questions or comment is (818)572.2947. It will be recorded live, then archived at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/03/04/human-rights-for-prisoners-march

Roughly 1.25 million of America's inmates are mentally ill people who should be either hospitalized or released into community care programs, such as Kendra's Law and Laura's Law. These are assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs that mandate continuous psychiatric treatment and provide food and housing for seriously mentally ill people. It is less expensive on taxpayers and safer for our communities to treat mental illness than to await a crime to excuse the imprisonment of our most vulnerable citizens. 

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog in an often-deadly restraint chair to control him. But this happens to mentally ill Americans routinely in the nation's jails and prisons.
What happened to Larry Neal? 

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice.
Treat mental illness medically, not legally.

Mary Neal, director

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

Website: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal.com

Dog Justice for Mentally Ill

http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com