Government Murder Without Consequences in USA

Rasheen Rose, homicide victim in Fineson Developmental Center, Queens

Mentally ill citizens of the United States are victims in over 50 percent of police violence incidences. In addition, many mentally ill people are brutalized and murdered behind bars and in hospitals, where it is substantially easier to hide the abuses of power. Occasionally, news about extreme brutality of mentally ill inmates manages to reach the public despite cover-ups: Jerome Murdough was baked to death in Riker's Island Jail; Darrin Rainey was scalded to death in a Dade Correctional Facility's shower; Larry Neal was murdered after 18 days of secret arrest in Memphis; James Embry was starved to death in a Kentucky prison; Carlos Umana starved to death in a Utah jail; and Kathia Casseus, 16, a retarded child, was put on birth control, presumably to prevent pregnancy from prison rapes, and died from side effects caused by her Ortho patch. These are only a few examples of inmate murders that happen continuously. 

Abuses to psychiatric hospital inpatients are also notorious. For example, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution identified at least 115 patients from Georgia's state psychiatric hospitals who died under suspicious circumstances between 2002 and 2006. See an excerpt from the report below:

"The newspaper assembled a list of questionable deaths by examining state and federal inspection reports, a database of vital records, autopsies, medical files, court papers, state insurance claims and other documents. This study revealed a pattern of neglect, abuse and poor medical care in the seven state hospitals, as well as a lack of public accountability for patient deaths."

Government employees such as police officers, prison and jail guards, and hospital personnel are ordinarily excused from prosecution for personal injuries and homicides in the United States. Such abuses are less likely to be investigated and lead to prosecution and convictions than dogs' murders. Until now, victims or their families could sue for damages when institutionalized people were injured or killed. Lawsuits are the only barrier to many more such deaths, because so few result in criminal prosecution. Recently, New York claimed the right to be impervious to lawsuits for injuries and deaths of persons who use Medicaid insurance and are murdered in State health care facilities.

Rasheen Rose was killed in Fineson Developmental Center in Queens on August 6, 2012. According to his sister, Rasheen Rose was crushed to death when "at least three staff threw Rose to the ground and one sat on him while other staff stood by." Although the coroner ruled Rose's death a homicide, no criminal complaints were filed to date against his killers. A year after his sister filed a wrongful death lawsuit, New York billed Rose's estate for a $12 million reimbursement for his ten years of treatment using Medicaid insurance. That invoice may exceed the amount of damages recovered from Rose's wrongful death lawsuit and eliminate New York's need to pay anything for his homicide. If you think the remedy would be to raise the amount of plaintiffs' demands for wrongful death lawsuits, please consider that some states have capped the amount of recovery that is possible for personal injury lawsuits.

If the State escapes legal ramifications in the form of criminal prosecution and lawsuits, all institutionalized people are at greater risk for brutality and murder, including elderly people and children in State care homes as well as patients in psychiatric and medical hospitals. Veterans have no right to sue for malpractice in V.A. hospitals, and many of them are neglected, abused, and killed. If personal injury lawsuits will be reduced by the amount the government spent on people's health care and containment over the years, jails and prisons will be free to murder inmates, hospitals are free to murder inpatients and outpatients like the murders at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans during Katrina. Nobody served a day in jail for killing patients. Nursing homes and orphanages are free to rape and murder their residents throughout America without any fear of reprisal if Medicaid must first be reimbursed for their care. 

Rasheen Rose was a mentally ill black man who was murdered by hospital personnel in New York. His homicide is intended to go without any accountability in criminal or civil actions, since New York sued for recovery of monies spent providing Medicaid. Please consider this: Medicaid is government insurance like Obamacare is.

Since the entire nation is to be government-insured under the Affordable Care Act, this new threat to safety (brutality and murders of patients without financial accountability) also can be applied to you and your family.

According to spokeswoman Jennifer O'Sullivan, the State of New York was following federal Medicaid obligations in seeking reimbursement from the estate of Rasheen Rose. Will the federal government also assign itself the right to recover government funds used to treat people under Obamacare? What about government funds used to incarcerate inmates who are murdered by corrections officers? Will the federal government also assign itself the right to recover student loans and interest fees from the estates of students murdered by police officers like Robert Cameron Redus, a Texas honors student who was fatally shot in his back by police officer Christopher Carter in December 2013? (The officer was not prosecuted and remains on the job to possibly kill other students who get belligerent with him). 

To burden the estates of indigent Medicaid patients with the necessity to share wrongful death settlements with their murderers out of indebtedness to the Government constitutes classism and Nazism that must not be tolerated in this country. Wealth does not really trickle down, but oppression rises like heat. Almost NO government employees are held criminally responsible for brutality and murders of citizens, whether their victims are black like Rasheen Rose and Larry Neal or white like Robert Redus and Kelly Thomas. For the safety of all Americans, I urge you to demand that Rose's sister be awarded the entire amount of her lawsuit's demand for Rose's homicide without any deduction for Medicaid reimbursement. Failure to do so could eventually excuse government employees' brutality and murders of people who receive government benefits (including student loans) as well as inmates incarcerated at government expense and everyone who uses government health care insurance -- INCLUDING YOU.  

Four(4) references immediately below:

State Bills Family Of Homicide Victim For Nearly $12 Million

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/28/rasheen-rose-family-billed-million_n_5407326.html
Damage Caps and Other Limits on Personal Injury Compensation
http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/personal-injury/damage-caps-limits-compensation.html
Wrongful Death of Larry Neal.com
http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com/main.html
NY Claims the Right to Kill Black Patients
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/ny-claims-right-to-kill-black-patients.html

Memorial Medical Center staff murdered patients during the Katrina disaster.

Mary Neal, director
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi

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 in deadly restraint 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.
Elect people who promote justice for all.

Elliot Rodger's Crisis at UC Santa Barbara

Elliot Rodger, 22, UC Santa Barbara Shooter 

Again we are reminded that ignoring families experiencing mental health crises is dangerous. Please urge your congressional representatives to support H.R.3717 - "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The current health care system does not usually act to treat someone unless he/she PROVES through violence to be a danger to self and others. That may help prison investors, but it does nothing to save taxpayers' money, increase community safety, or restore sick people to wholesome lives. Too often, proof comes in bloodshed, which is unfair to the sick people as well as to the community at large. 

Like Sen. Deeds, of Virginia, and many other families, the UC Santa Barbara shooter's family had sought help for Elliot Rodger. They warned police about his threatening messages, but their concerns about Elliot's deteriorating mental health were apparently ignored. May Elliot and his six victims rest in peace. Condolences to families and close friends of those whose lives were tragically and unnecessarily lost. We hope for a speedy recovery for the injured. God bless us all. 

Details about the shooting that have been released to the media are being reported by LA Times. This article will be updated as names of the victims are released and more details are made available. The link below leads to news reports by the Times.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-isla-vista-shooting-parent-warning-police-son-threats-20140524-story.html

Peter Rodger, Elliot's father, was an assistant director on the 2012 film “The Hunger Games.” He also directed a 2009 documentary, “Oh My God,” in which various people were asked to answer the question, “What is God?” Elliot Rodger made numerous videos warning about his intentions. He complained about being a virgin at age 22 and declared his plan to make girls pay for ignoring him on the "day of retribution." See the video embedded below and at the YouTube link 

http://youtu.be/nIDGsz_8k_E

I go through so much to publish articles that promote positive change in how America responds to mental illness. We MUST prioritize treatment and relax commitment laws to make it possible for families in crisis to get help their loved ones need BEFORE tragedies. Treatment that precedes crimes will reduce your prison profits, but I urge you to do what is right, not what is expedient or most profitable. My mother sat up many nights during Larry Neal's crises to protect our family and neighbors. My brother Larry was a good person, but he had paranoid schizophrenia. Serious mental illness sometimes causes people to act very irrationally; occasionally, they may act violently. Larry never hurt anyone, but Elliot Rodger did. How horrible for him, his victims, and the families of those whose loved ones are dead, injured, and traumatized tonight. I feel that if I were not so heavily censored, we might be having another conversation right now. You can help by sharing my articles at Dog Justice for Mentally Ill. 

In the final analysis, Elliot Rodger and six other people near UC Santa Barbara lost their lives for the same reason as the Darrin Rainey, a Florida inmate, and Jerome Murdough, a homeless New York inmate, and this writer's brother, Larry Neal, a Tennessee mental patient, and Gus Deeds, a Virginia mental patient: The system awaits a crime to excuse arresting the mentally ill rather than treating people timely and avoiding disasters. See the index that should appear on the right side of the blog. Sometimes stalkers move it as censorship in order to keep placing prison profits before human beings without your objections. Thank you in advance.

Mary Neal, director

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi

Dog Justice for Mentally Ill

http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com

WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal

http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/main.html

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 deadly restraint for control. But this happens to mentally ill Americans routinely in the nation's jails and prisons after they are denied treatment and suffer arrests for behavior they may not even remember. 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. Elect people who promote justice for all. Waiting for sick people to prove they need help leads to tragedies. Please help families in mental health crisis. Ignore them, and the family in crisis could be your own.

Mentally Ill Inmate Murdered by Scalding

Murdered inmate Darrin Rainey (left), and whistleblower inmate Hempstead

Update: It should come as a surprise to nobody who follows cases about brutality and murders of mentally ill inmates in the United States that neither guard who participated in Darrin Rainey's death by scalding will face charges. Investigators determined that there is not enough evidence to charge the guards.

Original Article

While unscrupulous attorneys like Hezekiah Sistrunk are rewarded for defrauding clients to help a jail escape accountability for murdering a mentally ill black man under secret arrest, mentally ill blacks continue to be murdered while incarcerated in America. Darren Rainey, 50, was killed by scalding in Dade Correctional Facility, Florida. His death was similar to the one suffered by Jerome Murdough, in Riker's Island jail in February. Both black inmates died by extreme heat - the closest that correctional officers dared come to lighting a fiery cross and outright lynching them.

The Miami Herald released a report that is extremely disturbing to people who are not sociopaths about tortured and murdered mentally ill inmates. You might be able to hear Mary Neal and Bob Darby, advocates for mental health care, discuss the Miami Herald report at this link, unless prison investors censor ir:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/05/22/bob-darby-advocate-for-the-homeless-mentally-ill

The Miami Herald article reports:

"In his complaint [to the U.S. Department of Justice], George Mallinckrodt, a psychotherapist assigned to the unit from 2008 to 2011, related a series of episodes, including the death of inmate Darren Rainey. The 50-year-old was placed in a small, enclosed, scalding-hot shower by guards and left unattended for more than an hour. He collapsed and died amid the searing heat, suffering severe burns when he fell, face up, atop the drain . . . Richard Mair [who died by hanging] left a suicide note in his shorts accusing guards of sexually abusing inmates and forcing black and white inmates to fight each other for the entertainment of staff . . . [P]rison guards made “sport’’ of agitating the mentally ill inmates, hoping for an excuse to beat or otherwise punish them. If the inmates threatened to file a complaint, the guards would tell them they could be written up for something they didn’t do, or confined to their cell 24 hours a day."

Reports about Rainey's murder and other abuses were sent to:
~ Warden Jerry Cummings
~ the inspector general
~ the U.S. Department of Justice
~ Gov. Rick Scott
~ the Miami Herald

In his letter to the Department of Justice, Mallinckrodt said that after Rainey’s death, a nurse called him saying she had overheard a corrections officer remark: “I don't think we can get away with this one” (Miami Herald).

In my experience, correctional officers will indeed get away with Darren Rainey's torture and murder. This is how America's mentally ill citizens are mistreated in jails and prisons throughout the country. The number of dead mentally ill inmates is very high, because their murders are not visible to the public like the fatal beating of Kelley Thomas was. Inmates' murders are frequently covered up by the government agencies that are paid by taxpayers to guarantee the safety of Americans with disabilities. 

Rather than taking action against the killers, the system is more likely to punish the whistleblowers. After his reports, George Mallinckrodt was fired by Corizon Health Inc., the outside company contracted to provide mental health services at the prison. Inmate Harold Hempstead, who initially reported Rainey's brutal murder, is left in the Dade Correctional Facility despite requests from his family to Gov. Scott for his transfer. Hempstead is being threatened with bodily harm for exposing how correctional officers "do business" there. The Miami Herald reports, "Two years later, no one has been charged [with Rainey's murder], and the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office has yet to complete an autopsy."

The failure to investigate and prosecute after Rainey's murder is typical of America's justice system. Nearly 11 years after my mentally ill brother's murder, the secret arrest and death of Larry Neal in Shelby County Jail in Memphis, Tennessee remains without investigation, and his family is denied any reports about his 18 days of secret incarceration and murder. Our requests for help have gone to a list of government officials, human and civil rights organizations, and media companies that is significantly longer than the list of help requests for Dade County prisoners. Like Mallinckrodt and Hempstead, the Neal family is persecuted for reporting Larry Neal's murder and and seeking justice. Furthermore, The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm, which pretended under contract to act as the Neal family's wrongful death attorneys, is frequently awarded for "excellence" by legal professionals who know about The Cochran Firm's racism and continuous frauds against its African American clients.

Media companies, the Better Business Bureau, and state bar associations refuse to report The Cochran Firm's frauds. The secrecy allows more families to be similarly defrauded so that prisons, jails, and municipalities save money on wrongful death civil actions. Unfortunately, the family of Jerome Murdough, an inmate who was baked to death in Riker's Island jail in February, is now represented by The Cochran Firm frauds. Censorship by media companies and cyber attacks against Internet communications ensure that families of murdered mentally ill inmates remain vulnerable to legal abuse. Censorship and terrorism against whistleblowers protect jails and prisons like Dade Correctional Facility and Shelby County Jail. For instance, mental health advocate Mary Neal hosted a radio show on May 19. Guests included two psychologists and one international human rights attorney to discuss America's high recidivism rate. Censorship prevents her from accessing the interview at Blogtalkradio. Please see if "they" will let you listen:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/05/20/human-rights-for-prisoners-march

Government agencies totally disregard their responsibility to ensure the right to free speech about prison issues and the right to life for mentally ill Americans, especially prisoners. Murders of America's mentally dysfunctional people are crimes that are less prosecuted than dog abuse, especially if victims were African Americans like Darren Rainey, Larry Neal, and Jerome Murdough.

Florida and Tennessee are both death penalty states. To date, no policeman or correctional officer there has ever faced the possibility of capital punishment for the wrongful death of any citizens, although inmates' murders are common in those states and throughout the USA. Some people may believe the Dade Correctional Facility should be investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice and placed under federal overview to resolve its abusive treatment of mentally ill inmates. When Larry Neal was secretly arrested and murdered in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003, the jail was already under federal overview after investigation and lawsuit by the USA. Apparently, federal overview merely ensures suppression of news reports regarding such inmate murders and better surveillance, intimidation, and persecution of victims' families and others who are considered whistleblowers.

The Miami Herald is to be congratulated for its news reports regarding Darren Rainey's murder and ongoing brutality to other mentally ill inmates. A bill is before the U.S. Congress which would offer relief to mentally ill Americans, if it is passed: H.R.3717, the "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The health care bill provides four important changes in how America's mentally ill citizens are treated:

1) Medicaid insurance for inpatient treatment in some facilities

2) assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs for subsistence assistance and mandated treatment

3) crisis intervention training for police and correctional officers

4) relaxed HIPPA laws, allowing families to know more about their sick relatives' condition and treatment

The abuses and murders of black mental patients like Neal, Rainey, and Murdough happen regularly throughout America, but Democrats are less likely than Republicans to support the congressional bill that would help. In fact, certain members of the Congressional Black Caucus recently withdrew their support from H.R.3717: Cedric Richmond (Louisiana) and Gwen Moore (Wisconsin). Leaving mental patients to continue to suffer homelessness, imprisonment, and avoidable deaths must seem more desirable to these lawmakers than making hospitalization and community treatment possible and properly training officers who are first responders or prison guards who are too often their caretakers. Nobody can punish the mentally ill into a state of sound-mindedness, and no one should be imprisoned for having a health disability. Please support H.R.3717, and replace expensive, abusive imprisonment with mental health treatment in the United States of America.

Four (4) References:

Staff at a Miami-Dade prison tormented, abused mentally ill inmates, former worker says
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/19/4125544/staff-at-a-miami-dade-prison-tormented.html

Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

Beware of Treacherous Lawyers: The Cochran Firm
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/beware-of-treacherous-lawyers-cochran.html

Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act - Rep. Tim Murphy
http://murphy.house.gov/helpingfamiliesinmentalhealthcrisisact

HOW YOU CAN HELP

Please join Harold Hempstead's family in requesting Governor Scott to immediately transfer the inmate who reported Rainey's murder to another facility and guarantee his safety. Also, please ask these people to stop flying helicopters over my house to terrorize me as I type articles advocating for justice and compassion for the mentally ill in America. Contact your congressional representatives and candidates and speak to them in favor of H.R.3717. Contact the United States Department of Justice and request an investigation of Dade Correctional Facility and Darren Rainey's murder in a scalding shower. Demand prosecution of all abusive correctional officers. Write to the Gate City Bar Association in Atlanta and to the Mass Torts Made Perfect (MTMP) Committee and object to their awards which were made to Hezekiah Sistrunk, Esq., president of The Cochran Firm frauds' law firm. Withholding justice to grieving black families is nothing to reward.

Repeat of the first three(3) paragraphs in this article:

While unscrupulous attorneys like Hezekiah Sistrunk are rewarded for defrauding clients to help a jail escape accountability for murdering a mentally ill black man under secret arrest, mentally ill blacks continue to be murdered while incarcerated in America. Darren Rainey, 50, was killed by scalding in Dade Correctional Facility, Florida. His death was similar to the one suffered by Jerome Murdough, in Riker's Island jail in February. Both black inmates died by extreme heat - the closest that correctional officers dared come to lighting a fiery cross and outright lynching them.

The Miami Herald released a report that is extremely disturbing to people who are not sociopaths about tortured and murdered mentally ill inmates. You might be able to hear Mary Neal and Bob Darby, advocates for mental health care, discuss the Miami Herald report at this link, unless prison investors censor ir:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/05/22/bob-darby-advocate-for-the-homeless-mentally-ill

The Miami Herald article reports:

"In his complaint [to the U.S. Department of Justice], George Mallinckrodt, a psychotherapist assigned to the unit from 2008 to 2011, related a series of episodes, including the death of inmate Darren Rainey. The 50-year-old was placed in a small, enclosed, scalding-hot shower by guards and left unattended for more than an hour. He collapsed and died amid the searing heat, suffering severe burns when he fell, face up, atop the drain . . . Richard Mair [who died by hanging] left a suicide note in his shorts accusing guards of sexually abusing inmates and forcing black and white inmates to fight each other for the entertainment of staff . . . [P]rison guards made “sport’’ of agitating the mentally ill inmates, hoping for an excuse to beat or otherwise punish them. If the inmates threatened to file a complaint, the guards would tell them they could be written up for something they didn’t do, or confined to their cell 24 hours a day."

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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 deadly restraint 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. Elect people who promote justice for all. Condolences to the family and close friends of Darren Rainey. Please join Harold Hempstead's family in requesting that Governor Scott immediately transfer the inmate who reported Rainey's murder to another facility and guarantee his safety.

Dr. Earle Williams Joins Human Rights for Prisoners March

Special guests for the "Human Rights for Prisoners March" Blogtalkradio shows next week will be Dr. Earle Williams and Dr. Jean Kennedy. Dr. Williams is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of professional experience in Forensic Psychology. Dr. Williams is an educator and television commentator as well as a practicing psychologist. One of his missions is to reduce recidivism. Research by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that 67.5 percent of released prisoners are rearrested within three years, almost exclusively for felonies or serious misdemeanors. All reentry programs should include counseling ex-offenders on how to avoid recidivism.

Dr. Williams wants to give back by helping released prisoners have a successful reentry. VIDEO http://youtu.be/gVVl3HtaL3A

Sunday, May 18, 2014, 3pm EST - "Human Rights for Prisoners March" Blogtalkradio show on HUMAN RIGHTS DEMAND channel. Call-in (347) 857-3293. Listen live or to the archived tapes 24/7 at 
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/05/18/human-rights-for-prisoners-march

Monday, May 19, 2014, 12 midnight EST - "Human Rights for Prisoners March" Blogtalkradio show on NNIA1 channel. Call-in at (818)572-2947. Listen live or to the archived tapes 24/7 at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/05/20/human-rights-for-prisoners-march

Visit Dr. Williams' website at 
http://www.drearle.com/

Dr. Williams is committed to helping improve success and has made some of his publications available for free 
http://www.drearle.com/publications.html

Organizational psychologist and radio host Dr. Jean Kennedy will also be a guest on both shows. She is currently working with prisoner activist Mary Neal to publish a book to expose and oppose detrimental punishments in America: "Extreme Punishments - SHU and DP." Dr. Kennedy is prepared to explain the organization structure of America's justice system, which contributes to the nation's unacceptable high rate of recidivism.

Current National Statistics on Recidivism
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) studies have found high rates of recidivism among released prisoners. One study tracked 272,111 prisoners in 15 states after their release from prison in 1994.[1] The researchers found that:
Within three years:
~67.5 percent were rearrested (almost exclusively for felonies or serious misdemeanors)
~46.9 percent were reconvicted
~25.4 percent were resentenced to prison for a new crime

The offenders accumulated 4.1 million arrest charges before their most recent imprisonment and another 744,000 charges within three years of release.

Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were robbers (70.2 percent), those in prison for possessing, using or selling illegal weapons (70.2 percent), burglars (74.0 percent), larcenists (74.6 percent), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4 percent), and motor vehicle thieves (78.8 percent).

Within three years, 2.5 percent of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2 percent of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for another homicide. See NIJ data at
http://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/Pages/welcome.aspx

Visit "Human Rights for Prisoners March" blog at 
http://humanrightsforprisonersmarch.blogspot.com

Please listen to and share our radio broadcasts. Many government officials and human rights activists are involved in justice reform. All agree that 2.3 million prisoners are too many. More must be done to reduce incarceration through education, skills training, decriminalizing mental illness and drug addiction, and successful reentry programs. Human rights are for us all!

Mary Neal, director
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi

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

WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/main.html

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 deadly restraint 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.

Elect people who promote justice for all.

STOP Killing American Elders, Police!

It appears that in addition to the death penalty race, America has added a new contest: Who can kill the oldest Americans? So far, Arkansas leads in that sport, with SWAT having killed 107-year-old Monroe Isadore in summer 2013. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston in 2006. Numerous police departments have killed senior citizens who were over 80 years old, Caucasians and blacks alike. New York police might have killed an elderly Asian man for jaywalking last year, but his blow to the head was not fatal. New York police had better luck with Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. Police invaded Chamberlain's home and murdered him (beating, Tasering, and shooting) when his life alert called emergency by accident.

STOP KILLING AMERICAN ELDERS, POLICE!

The latest geriatric victim was a 93-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a police officer at her Hearne, Texas home near Dallas. Pearlie Golden, known in the neighborhood as Ms. Sully, was pronounced dead at St. Joseph Hospital after having been shot at least five times, according to witnesses. Officer Stephen Stem is on administrative leave. Ms. Sully was reportedly walking around outside with a gun, probably suffering from old age #dementia . Police officers have Tasers but prefer bullets for our elderly citizens. Happy Mother's Day, Ms. Sully.

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/93-year-old-woman-shot-killed-by-Hearne-police-officer-258285641.html

Many senior citizens suffer from age-onset dementia. Mental illness is the most fatal disease in America, thanks to the lack of accountability for murders by police.

See six(6) references and links immediately below:

Police Won Battles with a 95-yr-old, 107-yr-old, and a double amputee - Killed 'em all http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/09/police-won-battle-w-95-yr-old.html

Police Taser and Kill 60-year-old Bipolar Man

http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/05/police-taser-and-kill-60-yr-old.html

Police Ridicule, Beat, Taser and Kill Amputees
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/09/no-charges-for-fatally-shooting.html

Retired Lockheed Martin Engineer Killed by Police: Eugene Mallory, 80
http://humanrightsforprisonersmarch.blogspot.com/2013/10/lockheed-martin-does-research-design.html

Police Kill: Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., Black Marine Vet
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/police-kill-kenneth-chamberlain-sr.html

DP - The Unholy Race
http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2011/10/dp-unholy-race.html

Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. ~ Proverbs 23:22

Mary Neal, director
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi

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

WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/main.html

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 deadly restraint 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.
Elect people who promote justice for all.

Government Robbery of Homeless Men in Fresno, CA

The homeless man in Dr. Floyd Harris' video posted below at the link was crying and saying police raped him repeatedly as cops wrote him a ticket for being homeless. A city truck is used to confiscate homeless people's clothes and other chattel. Many homeless people are not allowed to have personal property in the USA. The man in the film could be a former teacher or veteran, somebody's son, brother, or friend, but he is obviously nothing to the administrators in Fresno, California.

Thanks to Rev. Floyd Harris, Jr. and others who carry a camera and film scenes like this one. The homeless man is so afraid and tearful, especially when the city sent a truck to take his meager possessions. The homeless are criticized for smelling bad, but did you know some are not allowed to have a change of clothes or towels and soap?

NO SHOPPING CARTS ARE ALLOWED FOR HOMELESS IN FRESNO. PLEASE SEND MONEY FOR BACKPACKS ~ Rev +Floyd Harris , Jr. is an advocate against homelessness. He cop-watched and made the video of a homeless man in Fresno being given a ticket, and we can see the city truck that takes homeless people's personal property they cannot carry, which might include a change of clothes, prescription meds, a blanket, soap and towels. Please send donations to Rev. Floyd Harris to purchase and fill large, waterproof backpacks for the homeless in Fresno, a city where the homeless camp was bulldozed last fall in order to arrest our most vulnerable citizens for prison profits. Authorities refused to allow Fresno churches to invite the dislocated homeless people to encamp on their lawns.

Send donations to the attention of Rev. Floyd Harris, Jr., New Light For New Life Church Of God, 1106 W. Woodward, Fresno, CA 93706. If you require a receipt for a tax deduction, please include a request for same. Please notify me if you have any problems seeing the heartbreaking film below. My murdered brother might have been such a man if he had not lived in a care home. WE MUST DO BETTER.

Homeless citizens of Fresno, CA seek sanctuary among the dead. The photo below shows homeless people's possessions along the wall of a graveyard. Especially after city officials ordered their homeless camp demolished, it seems preferable to live among people who are beyond complaining about their presence. It seems best to live near the place they are intended to be.

Post by Floyd Harris Jr.

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI)

Mary Neal, Director

MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com

Dog Justice for Mentally Ill

http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com

Wrongful Death of Larry Neal

http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

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

Indefinite Detention for Black Mental Patients

Two black men were denied a speedy trial in Mississippi for seven and eight years because they are African Americans with brain issues who lack wealth - the triple whammy. They are lucky to be alive, unlike many black mental patients who were killed during arrest attempts.

"Marktain Kilpatrick Simmons, 43 (pictured above), and Lee Vernel Knight, 47, both have mental issues and have been waiting years for a their day in court. Both Simmons and Knight are being held at the Hinds County Detention Center." This injustice was reported by "Your Black World" in an article at the link below

http://www.yourblackworld.net/2014/04/uncategorized/two-mississippi-inmates-are-still-awaiting-trial-after-7-and-8-years-breakingbrown-com/

Laws protecting citizens' rights don't necessarily apply to African Americans or the mentally ill of any race. Lengthy imprisonment with trials denied is a common practice in the USA, regardless of the "speedy trial" constitutional guarantee. Terrell Scott, a Pennsylvania mental patient, was imprisoned for 4.5 years with trial denied. He would undoubtedly still be incarcerated today if he had not finally agreed to make a false confession and accept a plea deal. Shannon Nyamodi, 20, has been incarcerated for nearly two years on false charges in North Carolina - most of the time in solitary confinement to torture him into making a false confession. Nyamodi is not mentally ill, but like mental patients, children are often intimidated into making false confessions. Nyamodi was arrested shortly after his 18th birthday, possibly to protect the real robber and shooter in his case, who is reportedly a white youth.
See "Maitri Klinkosum Blocks Shannon Nyamodi's Trial"
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/maitri-klinkosum-blocks-nyamodi-trial.html

Americans are innocent until PROVED guilty in courts of law. There is obviously something wrong with the prosecutors' cases against the Mississippi men held indefinitely without trials, which is why trial is denied for them like it was for Terrell Scott. He was made a white woman's sex slave at the age of 17, then imprisoned on her false allegations when he left her and reported her neglect and abuse of her young children. Scott's child endangerment report was investigated, found credible, and Crystal's children were removed from her custody. Months later, Crystal retaliated by making a false criminal report against Scott, and justice officials gladly made a media event of Scott's arrest during an election year. Terrell Scott's real "crime was miscegenation (race mixing).

See "Teen Sex Slave Wrongly Arrested in PA"
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/11/teen-sex-slave-wrongly-arrested-in-pa.html

Many mentally ill Americans of all races either plea bargain or are tried and found guilty of crimes every year, then join 1.25 million other mentally ill people imprisoned in this country. The mentally ill should not be brutalized or killed while incarcerated in America's prisons and jails, either. But brutality and deaths are common among mentally ill people before and after incarceration. Three examples are below:

1) Terrell Scott endured brutal imprisonment for nearly five years while denied a trial. He lost his eyesight in one eye, hearing in one ear, and his jaw bone is misaligned from beatings by inmates. His front teeth were knocked out, and he was imprisoned in solitary confinement after his suicide attempt, which followed his rape and brutality that exposed him to HIV. Upon his release from prison, a reign of terror started against Scott's family. Because Scott finally confessed to having molested Crystal's children after he saw he would never be allowed to defend himself against the false charges in a trial, Pennsylvania decided to remove Scott's 10-year-old brother from his home to "protect" him from Scott. The family is currently fighting in family court for the right to remain an intact family. Can't the State realize it already has its pound of flesh? Terrell lived for four years with a white woman, but at this point, he's paid enough for his miscegenation.

2)  James Embry, Kentucky State Penn Inmate STARVES to death ~ "James Kenneth Embry, 57 and with just three years left on a nine-year sentence for drug offenses, began to spiral out of control in the spring of 2013 after he stopped taking anti-anxiety medication. Seven months later, in December, after weeks of erratic behavior — from telling prison staff he felt anxious and paranoid to banging his head on his cell door — Embry eventually refused most of his meals. By the time of his death in January of this year, he had shed more than 30 pounds on his 6-foot frame and died weighing just 138 pounds, according to documents reviewed by the AP."
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-kentucky-inmate-starves-death-160028075.html

3) Larry Neal was a mentally ill heart patient who was secretly arrested in mid-July 2003 and detained until his death on August 1, 2003. Neither Shelby County Jail nor the United States Department of Justice release records and information to explain this kidnapping and murder. Prior to Larry’s final incarceration, whenever he was arrested on public nuisance charges and other misdemeanors related to his handicap, the police would contact his social worker or family and Larry would be released into their care. Given the long history Larry had with Memphis Police, it is impossible for Larry’s family to believe that Shelby County Jail did not know that Larry was under arrest during the nearly three weeks that his family agonized over his whereabouts. The police repeatedly denied having Larry in custody but did nothing to help search for the mentally ill heart patient precisely because police knew that no search was necessary. Fingerprinting for accurate identification is a routine part of arrest procedures. Yet, Larry’s family was allowed to spend weeks looking for Larry while he suffered and died in jail. One would assume that police became weary of their enforced role as caretaker to this man who would stand and sing loud on street corners, bother pedestrians for handouts, eat in grocery stores without paying first, etc., and decided to rid themselves of a "nuisance." His murder remains a national cover-up that the media will not report and the government will not address. See "Wrongful Death of Larry Neal" http://Wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

In addition to Sixth Amendment rights being set aside for mental ill Americans, so are other due process of law provisions. Mentally ill people's murders behind bars should be reported immediately to their families, unlike the family of Jerome Murdough, who was baked to death in Riker's Island prison. A reporter from Associated Press informed his family weeks after his death when he sought an interview. Neither Murdough's lawyer nor prison or state officials had informed his survivors of his demise. Cover-ups are common to hide murders and brutal treatment of mentally ill Americans under incarceration. See
APNEWSBREAK: NYC INMATE 'BAKED TO DEATH' IN CELL
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-nyc-inmate-baked-death-cell

Politicians who continually usurp funding for psychiatric treatment in order to keep the mentally ill revolving in and out of prisons and jails should not be reelected. Please see other stories about abuses of civil and human rights of America's mentally ill people in the index at Dog Justice blog on the right margin at http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com

The Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial should apply to every defendant and not be denied to persons based on race and health status. Laws against kidnapping and murder should not be set aside in cases of mentally ill victims. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'" That has forever been a problem, especially regarding people of color.

Hear voices in support of H.R.3717 "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act" that were recorded at "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill" Blogtalkradio show on February 12 and at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/02/13/assistance-to-the-incarcerated-mentally-ill

JAIL IS THE LAST THING THAT MENTAL PATIENTS NEED, AND TOO OFTEN, IT IS THE VERY LAST THING THEY EXPERIENCE. Please join our effort to decriminalize mental illness. No one deserves to be punished for having a disability.

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill. Mary Neal, director.
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi

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? He was a black disabled man, and his wrongful death in police custody is covered-up rather than treated with due process of law because crisis intervention training started in Memphis, Tennessee, where Larry Neal was kidnapped and murdered in 2003. This proves that crisis intervention teams (CIT) alone will NOT prevent brutality and deaths, neither will CIT prevent people with serious mental illness from going into crisis and being arrested. ONLY treatment can help reduce the great number of mentally ill people and drug addicts revolving in and out of America's prisons and jails. Treatment is needed for persons with acute mental illness whether or not they agree to treatment. Assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs provide for mentally disabled people's subsistence assistance (food, housing) and mandate continuous mental health care.

Dog Justice for Mentally Ill
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com
Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

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