Showing posts with label HR3717. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HR3717. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Attempted Murder of AIMI vs. USA Parent, Holly Alston

Terrell Scott is pictured at the top, left corner. The other mental patients in this collage were killed under the color of law, including Larry Neal, bottom right.

An attempt was made to kill a claimant to "AIMI vs. USA" a planned International Court civil action (this article will be repeated in comments plus read aloud on radio). "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI") vs. USA" is a lawsuit to protect the civil and human rights of mentally ill Americans, which will be filed in 2015. More than 100 claimants are expected to use "AIMI vs. USA" to allege neglect, wrongful deaths, and prisoner torture, including long-term solitary confinement while denied visits for years or even decades. 


AIMI will also sue for damages regarding chronic homelessness, denial of mental health care, rapes, exposure to HIV AIDS, brutality by police and corrections officers, housing discrimination, lengthy incarceration with trials denied in violation of Sixth Amendment rights, and America's refusal to prosecute police officers and prison guards who abuse and kill mentally ill Americans. Unfortunately, people in the United States with mental disabilities are usually denied protection under any of the domestic and international laws listed below:

Blaring failures exist regarding the U.S. Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), the Civil Rights Act, the Convention Against Torture, and Executive Order 13107, implementing human rights treaties.



ATTEMPTED MURDER AND A LIKELY MOTIVE

Holly Alston, an "AIMI vs. USA" claimant, told the radio audience about the recent attempt on her life at "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI") vs. USA" Blogtalkradio show dated March 26.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2015/03/26/assistance-to-the-incarcerated-mentally-ill-aimi-vs-usa


Alston revealed that an advocate from the prisoners' rights group "New Vision Organization" contacted the Pennsylvania Bar about improprieties by Terrell Scott's attorney, Phil Lauer, Esq. Lauer induced his mentally ill client to waive his right to a speedy trial, then he refused court dates for Scott by claiming on court records that Scott was not ready for trial. The prosecutor also lied on court records and reported that Scott was not available for trial because he was in a mental hospital when that was not true. I have written numerous articles about Scott's wrongful incarceration. Please search online for "Mary Neal Terrell Scott." Scott's defense lawyer appeared to be working together with Scott's prosecutor to keep the "Pennsylvania vs. Terrell Scott" out of trial, apparently because the prosecutor had no chance of winning his case in a just court. See proof at this article: 
"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

Phil Lauer, Esq.

The Bar complaint against Lauer was probably received by the Bar on Monday during the first week of March. On the following Wednesday, a murder attempt was made on Holly Alston, Scott's mother, who vowed to continue to fight for her innocent mentally ill son's prison release until the day she DIES, if necessary. Alston drove her car home from work Wednesday afternoon without problems, but she heard strange noises as she drove and had trouble steering during a quick drive later that night. She canceled her trip to visit Scott because of this. 

When she reached her auto service company Thursday, the attendants notified Alston about the attempt on her life. The lugs had been loosened and were missing from her rear tire on the driver's side while the car had been parked in front of Alston's house. If Alston had tried to travel to visit Scott Wednesday night as she had planned, she certainly would have lost control of her car on the mountainous roads. 

"Somebody must really hate you," Alston's auto mechanic said. 

"AIMI vs. USA" claimants must recognize that a mentally ill inmate is worth an average of $4million to prison investors over the course of a life sentence (generally, persons with mental illness are excessively sentenced or re-sentenced while incarcerated to prevent prison release. See an article in "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog about Damion Hayes, for examples). Trying to extract such persons from the prison industrial complex is froth with danger, but neglected and abused Americans must get up and stand up for your rights. Please don't give up the fight. It is useless to beg for human and civil rights from elitist slave masters like those who enslaved Africans and Native Americans for centuries, interned the Japanese in concentration camps, and made early European immigrants slaves and indentured servants. "Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has, and it never will" ~Frederick Douglass.
FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS

I tried to post the "AIMI vs. USA" Blogtalkradio show's link about the murder attempt at Google+ and share it with my many followers there and especially some people and agencies who I hoped could help ensure Holly Alston's safety (see the link above in this article). Either Google+ or cyber stalkers prevented the post from publishing. See proof on two screenshots below (click to enlarge photos):


The following screenshot shows my message to the government agencies, organizations and activists with whom I tried to share the news about Alston's endangerment: 


Censorship is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the listener as well as the speaker, according to Frederick Douglass, a slavery abolitionist of the 1800's. Americans, especially Black people, continue to experience compromised communication because elite white supremacists are offended by our attempts to free ourselves and our victimized family members even in the 21st century. For example, Holly Alston endures Legal Abuse Syndrome while trying to protect her innocent, mentally challenged son as well as her 11-year-old from the State of Pennsylvania. Her circumstances caused her to have a heart attack while in her 40's. (Pennsylvania threatened Alston, saying that if she somehow gets Scott out of prison, the state will take her youngest son away from her. Apparently, the state demands one of this Black woman's sons.)

As director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, and an advocate and survivor of murdered mentally ill heart patient Larry Neal, I became the most censored person in America years ago. I do not ordinarily share much information about my censorship and intimidation at this "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog out of concern for my readers, some of whom have nervous conditions, and understandably so. However, I feel that all "AIMI vs. USA" claimants must know about the attempt on Holly Alston's life and that their concerns about being "targeted" are valid. 

News about "AIMI vs. USA" is apparently attacked by Internet companies or some government agency that has control over the Internet companies. Stalkers will not allow me to freely use my First Amendment rights to try to move mental illness away from the criminal justice system back to the health care arena, where mental illness should be addressed. My telephones and computers have been attacked and taken over. I have been refused assistance by federal authorities, which ignore my requests, and by the DeKalb County Police Department (one of my main suspects). In fact, a DeKalb County detective claimed that it is NOT illegal to censor Mary Neal. I also suspect the National Security Agency (NSA), which was given the right to wage cyber wars under NDAA, although my censorship precedes that law by years.

On March 24, I uploaded a petition at Care2 Petitionsite to announce "AIMI vs. USA," our International Court lawsuit on behalf of mentally ill Americans who endure negligence, brutality, and wrongful deaths. Today when I was not logged in at my computer, I browsed as a guest and discovered that Care2 or its stalkers had redirected the "AIMI vs. USA" petition link a "page-not-found" web page. The link worked and signatures were coming in fast after publication on March 24, but on March 26, I was not allowed to see the petition which should have had many more signatures and comments. The petition stopped working when I added a film showing a mentally ill man being killed by Dallas police within seconds of their arrival at his home. The YouTube video https://youtu.be/-aALArJP4rw which Care2 censors is embedded below.




The video above shows the June 14, 2014, fatal shooting of mental patient Jason Harrison, 38, who was killed while holding a screwdriver after his mother called 911 for help getting him to Parkland Hospital. Dallas police gave Harrison two seconds to respond to a command to "Drop that for me, guy." How was Harrison to know WHAT he was ordered to drop? It could have been his pants for all he knew. The police did not have time for giving clear instructions. They claimed they "feared for their lives."

AIMI believes that it is inappropriate to hide the many murders of mentally ill and homeless people in the United States. We must expose and oppose corruption that allows police officers and prison guards to kill thousands of people every year who experience psychiatric crises or live homeless. Yet, Care2 took our petition offline when the video of Jason Harrison was added. Proof is below:


Please see the PETITION that should have been reached  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/713/784/918/aimi-v-usa/


I plan to sue Care2 and other Internet companies about censorship that is used to prevent AIMI's advocacy for human rights. I hope that this time, a lawyer will come forward to represent me. That is my dream although I am perceived as being an "immaterial" black woman who challenges elite white supremacists' right to allow the abuse and murders of "useless eaters" in America. People have a right to know that federal court ruled that The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm's fraud against the Neal family was "immaterial" after Larry Neal's secret arrest and murder in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003. Americans cannot change negative circumstances they do not know about, and unfortunately, media companies refuse to report that The Cochran Firm claimed innocence by nonexistence (a new defense that probably only works for CoIntelPro).

The Cochran Firm accepted contract as our wrongful death attorneys in a blatant conflict of interest immediately after Larry's death, then the lawyers did fraud and withheld legal services while the statute of limitations ran. The Federal Court order dismissing our case against the treacherous attorneys apparently means the Neal family's right to due process and Larry Neal's right to life are considered irrelevant in America. That fact has been reaffirmed in numerous deaths by police that have turned the USA itself into something of a concentration camp for Black men, homeless people, and mentally challenged Americans of every race. We are very thankful that there is an alternative for people who endure discrimination and violence: the International Court of Human Rights.

If Care2 only values animal rights and human rights advocacy is unwelcome, it should have made that clear before I poured thousands of hours into building my advocacy group there from 2007 until 2010, when I basically conceded to CoIntelPro. I gave up when stalkers started aggravating some of my mentally ill members ferociously. I feared for their health and safety. Continuously provoking people who have diagnosed mental conditions is unwise, and the government or whomever hires stalkers should not do that to people who have lower tolerance levels. It was as though they wanted AIMI members to have breakdowns. If Care2 invests in prisons like Microsoft does, maybe that was its intention.

The video embedded below captured stalkers preventing my ability to alert the public about U.S. congressional bill H.R.619. The mental health care bill was introduced by Rep. Eddie Johnson in January 2009 to resume Medicaid for mental hospital insurance but was denied news coverage from mainstream media companies. Resuming Medicaid insurance for psychiatric inpatients would threaten prison profits; therefore, my post about H.R.619 was not allowed to publish. No interference would have happened at Care2 if I had been advocating for pet insurance. Advocacy for lions, tigers, and bears is welcome at Care2, but advocacy for human rights for mentally ill and homeless people is treated like terrorism.





The video at YouTube https://youtu.be/mTnBUYoJtk4 (embedded above) proves that prison investors moonlighting as public officials seem to act in direct conflicts of interest to do or allow censorship against Mary Neal's advocacy to replace incarceration with hospitalization for mentally ill Americans. Stalkers virtually took over my AIMI group at Care2. At Twitter, my tweets about H.R.619 were published among tweets that had posted hours earlier in order to limit the number of people who saw my tweets. My censorship spans the entire Internet; wherever I go, I am censored, especially when I write about mental illness and executions.

AIMI members and friends, now you know the ugly truth. Censorship is used to prevent your knowledge about crimes against humanity that are happening every day in America to our most vulnerable fellow citizens: people with acute mental illness -- not only to Blacks like Terrell Scott but also to whites like Kelly Thomas. We should demand prosecution of criminals who terrorize or attempt to murder parents who join "AIMI vs. USA" to win damages for pain and suffering. Potential claimants must find the courage to get up and stand up for their rights. Families of acute mentally ill Americans have a right to go to the United Nations' International Court to gain relief from torture in jails, hospitals, and prisons and to get restitution for wrongful deaths. We must be like slavery abolitionists of America's previous slavery era who demanded justice despite risks from angry slave masters.

I sent an email to the United Nations last week to ask that the "AIMI vs. USA" director and claimants be given whatever help communicating that people in repressive regimes need in order to organize human rights lawsuits against their governments. AIMI needs protection from stalkers who control Mary Neal's phones and Internet access. Since stalkers attacked my email account at Gmail, one cannot swear the United Nations actually received the request. Judging by the amount of cyber stalking that is applied to this paragraph, it is unlikely that stalkers allowed the email to reach the U.N.

We will TRY to reach the U.N. by phone, but I have no way of knowing if whomever answers the call will actually BE a United Nations employee. Stalkers have frequently answered my calls and pretended to be the parties I called, and stalkers sometimes redirect calls I should receive to their residences or companies instead. Stalkers have already demonstrated their ability to redirect calls away from my Google Voice computer phone, my cellphone, my radio programs at Blogtalkradio, and my home phone (AT&T uses prison laborers and may be adversarial to decriminalizing mental illness). It disheartening that U.N. ambassadors also experienced privacy violations last year, possibly by NSA.


Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly said, "Americans have a right to be stupid." AIMI believes Americans should have a corresponding protected right under domestic and international law to be informed.



EXPOSING WRONGDOING SAVES LIVES

While the Care2 "AIMI vs. USA" petition was offline, I wondered if the reason AIMI's director could not access the petition was because potential claimants for "AIMI vs. USA" had written comments requesting help for starving prisoners or inmates who were otherwise at risk. Nikko Albanese was starving to death in a Florida prison before I published an article about his dire condition. The young bipolar man, who is nearly six feet tall and normally weighs 160 pounds, had dropped to a dangerous 120 pounds. Since AIMI exposed his dire circumstances, Nikko has reportedly been put on a high-calorie diet, and his mother was allowed to visit the SHU inmate for the first time in two years.

A reported 346 inmates died in Florida's prison system in 2014 alone (that total may not include jail deaths). If that death rate was true for all 50 states, America's prison death total for 2014 would be 17,300 prison inmates. A total of 4,491 U.S. service members were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2014. Therefore, America's 1.25 million mentally ill inmates are significantly more endangered than our battlefield soldiers. Risk to soldiers actually increases substantially after transitioning home.


Thousands of U.S. veterans return home unscratched and become prisoners of war in America due to post traumatic stress disorder they contracted in battle. Many such veterans die because of neglect and abuse like Jerome Murdough, who was baked to death in Riker's Island Jail, and Anthony Hill, who was shot to death in DeKalb County, Georgia by police officer Robert Olsen as Hill jogged naked, unarmed, and harmless. Police have only to say, "I feared for my life," no matter how doubtful the assertion is.

Thank you, Google and AIMI members, for caring about Nikko Albanese. I believe your interest helped to saved his life. Numerous mentally ill persons have already starved to death in America's correctional institutions in various states. If you need assistance, please contact me by phone at (678)531-0262 or by emailing me at MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com. Title the message "AIMI vs. USA," if you email me. Almost NO messages reach my inbox except from Facebook and other social media companies. Unless I know what to search for, I may never see your correspondence.

Please see AIMI's article about Nikko in "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog, which Google carried as a Google Alert (the blog's index listing all articles should appear on the left margin). See more abuses and wrongful deaths of mentally challenged people, and please elect to "follow" this blog.


Holly Alston, Terrell Scott, and Kai

It is extremely sad that an attempt was made on Holly Alston's life, likely by a prison investor who wants Terrell Scott to remain incarcerated indefinitely without trial as an opportunity to extract Americans' tax money. We must not be deterred by Nazis. AIMI claimants have to take a stand against oppression, especially because 1.25 million mentally ill Americans are imprisoned, and tens of thousands more wander our streets, chronically homeless and vulnerable. 

The homeless endure attacks from community members as well as police officers, and many are killed every year. The exact number is unknown, because police only report these tragedies to the Justice Department if it suits them. There are usually several mentally challenged people killed by police every day in America. Consider the deaths at the website "Killed By Police.net" to be a partial list. It only includes cases that got news coverage, and it omits all of the people dying in jails and prisons. Today, a 77-year-old man died who Birmingham police shot in February. The old guy had dementia like 107-year-old Monroe Isadore did when Arkansas S.W.A.T. killed him in 2013.
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/28633139/man-77-shot-by-birmingham-officer-in-february-dies-of-his-injuries


Neither corrections nor law enforcement officers are likely to be prosecuted for mentally ill people's brutality and deaths, even if the deaths are ruled 'homicide' like Darren Rainey's and Daniel Linsinbigler's were. (Please Google Mary Neal with the name of each murdered inmate for more information).

Every mentally ill person on death row and all families of executed mental patients should join "AIMI vs. USA" claimants. Executing mentally ill and seriously retarded people violates international and domestic laws, yet it is done in the United States regularly. Georgia executed three mentally ill people recently, and Texas makes killing mentally challenged Americans a hobby. This writer is especially concerned about Texas death row inmates Andre Thomas, who ate both his own eyes while in custody, and Jeff Wood, who Texas admits never killed anyone, but the retarded youth was sentenced under the law of parties. AIMI is also concerned about Scott Panetti, a man with severe mental illness who was convicted of murder while representing himself in court wearing a cowboy costume. It was a travesty of justice that officers of the court probably still find funny.


HUMAN RIGHTS DEMAND

I hereby ask the U.S. Government to stop all RICO Act racketeering and attempted murders against claimants in "AIMI vs. USA," our International Court civil action, under 18 U.S. Code § 242, which regards deprivation of rights under the color of law, and all other applicable laws. However, from my experiences, which I do not usually discuss here out of respect for nervous AIMI members, the federal government itself is a likely suspect. You can write to the Department of Justice and insist that telephone and computer interference as well as Internet censorship, terrorism, and murder attempts on "AIMI vs. USA" parents be investigated and stopped: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

Justice has failed the mentally ill and their families in the USA; therefore, we must seek help from the international community. "Why sit we here until we die?" ~Holy Bible.


HELP WANTED

AIMI needs your energy and talent. Please consider working with AIMI as we continue advocacy for eliminating discrimination against people with serious mental illness. Call me at (678)531-0262 or (571)335-1741 daily between 11:00 am EST and 2pm EST to discuss becoming an AIMI volunteer. Emails should be sent to MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com. Please title your email "AIMI volunteer." We expect to have funding eventually, and all volunteer positions may eventually be salaried. Meanwhile, working as a volunteer gives excellent work experience in areas that one may not initially qualify for as a paid employee, and volunteering helps young people build their resumes, especially students. 

Retired professionals and unemployed people also find volunteer work meaningful and satisfying. Mental illness affects families from all socioeconomic backgrounds and all races, and there is work for everyone to do no matter who you are or what your educational level is. Consider working to improve life for millions of Americans through AIMI. 

We thank Zora Jay, a retired psychiatric nurse, for volunteering as AIMI's coordinator for persons with drug/alcohol dependencies. Email her if your relative needs helping getting into a drug/alcohol treatment program at ZoraJayPhoenix@gmail.com

If you need a letter from AIMI to officials on your behalf, please contact AIMI's director, Mary Neal. Diana Sprouse has volunteered to make phone calls and write letters on your behalf. You may have trouble accessing psychiatric treatment for yourself or a relative or letters to court or prison officials, etc. AIMI is here for you.

AIMI will publish a fundraiser to invite your gifts to help AIMI have better computer technical assistance and part-time clerical help. AIMI hopes you will participate. We declare that Nazi Germany, which isolated and killed roughly 300,000 people labeled as mentally ill, was wrong in asserting that persons with mental health disabilities were "useless life." Instead, AIMI declares that ALL LIVES MATTER. We hope you will show that you agree by helping "AIMI vs. USA." Please begin by signing and sharing "AIMI vs. USA" petition, and please share a link to this article.

This article has eleven(11) active links (including four email addresses), eight(8) photographs, and two(2) embedded videos. See if your right to receive the information is respected.

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Thank you for giving Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill.

How can you help? Follow this blog, and listen to the George Mallinckrodt Blogtalkradio presentations we taped January 11 and January 15, and again in March 2015. Mallinckrodt exposed brutality and a murder against mentally ill inmates in his book, "Getting Away with Murder," and was fired from his position as a psychotherapist in Florida prisons as a consequence of his objections to torture. Human and civil rights of persons with mental disabilities in the United States are treated as nonexistent. Your purchase of his book will help him regarding the loss of his salary for upholding human rights.

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. That happens to mentally ill people routinely in the nation's correctional facilities. What happened to Larry Neal? Why are we still asking that question after eleven years? Cover-ups regarding the wrongful deaths of mentally ill inmates and free people in the USA are common but vile, nonetheless.

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. Support the H.R. 3717 "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The U.S. congressional bill provides for crisis intervention team (CIT) training for police and corrections officers, assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs to stop recidivism, and other needed changes.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

"FL DOC IS GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER": George Mallinckrodt


GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER - Join "Human Rights Demand" Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, at 3pm EST, when our guest will be George Mallinckrodt, author of "Getting Away with Murder." Call-in number (347)857-3293. Mallinckrodt was a licensed mental health counselor in the Florida prison system who helped reveal the murder by scalding of Darren Rainey and a pattern of abuse and cover-ups by the Florida Department of Corrections against mentally ill inmates. Part 2 of our interview will air live Thursday, January 15, at 9pm EST. Both links are below:
January 15, 9pm EST

You are invited to call "Human Rights Demand" radio broadcast and make comments or ask questions, which will be aired live on the show. The broadcasts will also be available via computer and archived at Blogtalkradio for future listening and sharing 24/7.

"The Florida Department of Corrections is riddled with amoral, sadistic sociopaths and the people who support, enable, and cover-up their crimes." ~ @GeoMallinckrodt . . . (Twitter address)

"If what is done to mentally ill Florida inmates was done in the military, these would be considered war crimes." ~George Mallinckrodt

Mallinckrodt advocates on behalf of the mentally ill. He recently met with with Senator Greg Evers, the Chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee, and staffers Amanda and Tracy. 

Author's Website

Author's Blog

Order the book: "Getting Away with Murder". 


Learning of Darren Rainey's death over two years ago, late June 2012, George Mallinckrodt authored Getting Away With Murder in frustration over the many dead-ends he encountered while trying to bring Rainey's killers to justice. The narrative follows George's progression from an idealistic psychotherapist to a prison hardened case manager in the Transitional Care Unit where Darren Rainey would be housed.

Refusing to let go of the notion he could make a difference, George encountered inmates with deep rooted pathologies he had only read about in psychology journals. Undaunted, he steadily set about helping those capable of benefitting from his nearly 20 years of counseling experience.

Behind the scenes, rumors began to circulate regarding inmate abuse. Guards cleverly masked their behavior by choosing the weak and mentally ill. They abused inmates at night when mental health staffers were not around.

Overly confident that their misdeeds would go unpunished, guards made the mistake of beating an inmate during the day as an eye-witness looked on. That was the day that changed everything.

A book review by Amy M. August 17, 2014:

A shocking and darkly humorous account of working with mentally ill inmates in Florida's Dade Correctional Institution

George Mallinckrodt writes a gritty, mesmerizing account of his three years as psychotherapist in the "Transitional Care Unit" of the Dade Correctional Institution in south Florida, where inmates with mental health problems, including the most severe mental illnesses, are housed.

It's hard to put this book down. Although the subject is depressing, he weaves ribald prison humor and lively dialogue into his story. Mallinckrodt tells of his struggle with "being in prison" at a difficult and frustrating job. It is also a story about the inhumane and dangerous conditions for inmates in a run-down, poorly managed prison. Retribution keeps the inmates and the staff from reporting abuse. His journey from stressed out employee to prison rights advocate takes on greater urgency when a mentally ill inmate is brutally tortured and murdered by corrections officers in the prison and incident is completely covered up by authorities. (The investigation of the murder of the mentally ill inmate has still not been completed two years later.)

This book leaves you with the uncomfortable knowledge that terrible abuse is probably happening to inmates on a daily basis in badly managed prisons throughout the U.S., especially to inmates suffering from mental illness. If it were not for a few brave souls who are willing to report it, like Mallinckrodt and the inmates themselves, no one would ever know.
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PETITIONS FOR JUSTICE FOR DARREN RAINEY
A Change.org petition with roughly 205,000 signatures demands a federal investigation 

A ForceChange.com petition demands justice for Darren Rainey
"Demand Justice for a Tortured Prisoner"

SAVE HAROLD HEMPSTEAD
Harold Hempstead is the Florida inmate who heard Darren Rainey screaming for help and begging for mercy as he died in the scalding hot shower where he was dragged and locked in by murderous corrections officers. Harold is serving a long prison sentence and is concerned about his safety in the Florida prison system. Retaliation against whistleblowers is common. His brave sister, Windy Hempstead, launched a Change.org petition to improve security for Harold Hemptstead by relocating him to federal custody. 

Read a series of articles about Darren Rainey and the torturous incarceration of other mentally ill inmates in Florida published by The +Miami Herald. 

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Thank you for giving Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill.

How can you help? Follow this blog, share this article, listen to the George Mallinckroth shows on January 11 and January 15, and share the links with your social networks. George Mallinckroth experienced retaliation and is no longer a psychotherapist for Florida DOC. Please purchase a couple of his books - one for you and one for a friend or relative. We must support people in law enforcement and corrections who blow the whistle on brutality and murders. 

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. That happens to mentally ill people routinely in the nation's correctional facilities. What happened to Larry Neal? Why are we still asking that question after eleven years? Cover-ups regarding the wrongful deaths of mentally ill inmates are common and vile.
Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. Support the H.R. 3717 "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The U.S. congressional bill provides for crisis intervention team (CIT) training for police and corrections officers and other needed changes.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Forced Drugging - Is It Ever Justified?

Below is an excerpt of an invitation by Katherine Hine to the October 8th "Human Rights Demand" show, which regarded enforced drugging. She and other guests on that episode oppose enforced psychiatric treatment, whereas Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) perceives enforced treatment, such as under AOT programs, as necessary for many people with acute mental illness to avoid homelessness, imprisonment, and avoidable deaths. Ms. Hine wrote, in part:

Katherine Hine and Sharon Cretsinger will be guests at 3 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, on Mary Neal’s daytime call-in broadcast, "Human Rights Demand." Speakers and guests should call to speak on air at (347) 857-3293 or listen by computer at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/10/08/forced-drugging--is-it-ever-justified We are talking about doing another show about forced confinement.

If anyone wants to make sure to have his or her voice heard, please call. Everyone is welcome to call in. Mental health treatment concerns us all either directly or indirectly.

Among the points that are expected to be made in the broadcast are 10 basic legal reasons why we feel forced drugging in Ohio is unlawful – particularly where forced drugging is ordered as a result of hearings in which no evidence is presented. Most of these grounds apply in other states. Sharon, who is a survivor of psychiatry as well as an MSW with many years of clinical experience within the mental illness system, will address the fact that many if not most people with psychiatric histories are capable of fully recovering without drugging, and that drugging itself can predispose a person to act violently.

See Free John Rohrer campaign
http://en.gravatar.com/jonnylucid


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AIMI members believe that persons with acute mental illness should be hospital inpatients or outpatients as opposed to jail and prison inmates. Our welcome and mission statement from AIMI's Care2 group is published below.


Thank you for joining us in giving Assistance for the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI"). Mental health care is a vast area. To be most effective, we will limit our advocacy on this group to issues related to incarcerated mentally ill persons in America and those likely to suffer imprisonment due to their mental disorders. You are already helping the incarcerated mentally ill merely by joining this group!

Most chronically mentally ill persons do not vote or engage in America's political process, yet our legislators determine the direction of their lives. Your participation in this group demonstrates that voters are concerned about mentally ill prisoners. We welcome everyone who is interested in decriminalizing mental illness.

We hope AIMI attracts diffable person who have suffered incarceration. First person accounts are very valuable! Families of mentally ill persons, please share your input. Too often, the family members of mental patients have little voice in policy decisions that impact their lives and the lives of their sick loved ones. Psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health care professionals, we welcome you. Law enforcement officers, attorneys, and others who work in the criminal justice system, thank you for joining us.

We will use this group to share our experiences, seek assistance on specific cases, offer and receive advice and encouragement, and to impact public policy by denouncing criminalizing mental illness. We will discuss treatment options and impediments thereto, along with a wide range of topics having to do with mental illness.

It is not necessary for all members of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill to agree on every topic of discussion, and neither is it likely. However, we will respect and value each other and the rights of each member to express differing views.

We believe prisons have become America's mental institutions in large part because of restrictions against enforced treatment and hospitalization of chronically mentally ill persons.  There is a serious lack of short-term inpatient care and community care for mental health crises that frequently lead to avoidable tragedies.  Long-term hospitalization is frequently needed for patients who require constant monitoring and treatment.  Imprisoning mentally ill Americans is financially wasteful, discriminatory, and inhumane.  No one can be punished into a state of mental health.

Most diffable people are capable of functioning well in society without enforced treatment or confinement. However, our advocacy in this group concentrates on providing humane options for the care of patients who are incarcerated precisely because they require either hospitalization or enforced treatment in their communities.  

In this group, we acknowledge that the decision to put chronically ill patients in charge of their own treatment options (to treat or not to treat) contributed to the criminalization of mental illness. Enforced psychiatric treatment is often necessary for acute mental patients’ safety. These patients are usually expected to make major health decisions while in a demented mental state. We believe someone other than the acute mental patient must be allowed to make their treatment decisions before any tragedy occurs, or mental patients face the likelihood of repeated arrests for crimes committed while in a mental crisis.

AIMI's goal is to gain release from prison for the estimated 1.25 million incarcerated mentally ill Americans in order that they may be treated in their communities or hospitals, depending on the severity of their crimes. AIMI seeks to reverse the trend to imprison rather than treat our mental patients. We believe the laws restricting enforced hospitalization and outpatient therapy often hinder chronically mentally ill persons from receiving needed treatment.

We acknowledge that chronically mentally ill prisoners have a higher rate of return to jail than other inmates precisely because of their tendency to discontinue therapy and lapse back into psychosis. We assert that prison release for the nonviolent offenders should include mandatory treatment, at least during their parole or probationary periods. Inmates who are incarcerated for violent acts should be hospitalized for the duration of their criminal sentences or until their psychiatrists recommend release. Such psychiatric recommendations should be reviewed by the sentencing court. 

If the court agrees with the psychiatrists’ recommendation for prison release, the court should then order the patients' continued psychiatric monitoring and care as outpatients for the duration of their parole or probationary period. Mental patients who are required to receive court-ordered treatment should be zealously sought and remanded to hospitals if they disobey the court and discontinue their treatment at any point while on probation or parole.

Decriminalizing mental illness will not occur unless and until sensible alternatives to prison are available for persons in crisis. We believe that mental hospitalization in extreme cases, and community care under enforced treatment will provide the alternatives that our most severely ill citizens need in order to regain and to retain their freedom from our nation’s correctional institutions.


Welcome to our quest for justice for the incarcerated mentally ill! Thank you for your involvement in this human rights effort.

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Police Killings Increase As Executions Decrease

1.  Anti-death penalty advocates were elated to learn that capital punishment has been eliminated or placed on hold in 36 states in the USA partly because of torturous executions in 2014 using mystery drugs. However, police killings have increased to the point that no reduction in democide actually happened. Within one month, from mid-July until mid-August, the police body count is four killings for California and one each for Utah, Missouri, Ohio, and New York. Another beer summit might be in order to withdraw military equipment from non-military government agencies, including police departments (Ref. #1, at paragraph 9).

2.  The world is increasingly alarmed at how little freedom and justice people in America actually have. Even journalists were arrested in Ferguson, Ohio during protests over Michael Brown's shooting death by Officer Darren Wilson. Some journalists were told to turn off their cameras then attacked with rubber bullets and tear gas when they refused to comply with police orders that violated their freedom of press rights. There have been injuries among Ferguson's protesters - one that was critical - but no more deaths at the time of this writing (Ref. #2, at paragraph 9). This is #ourGaza 

3.  California police fatally shot two mentally challenged people in August, including  a 19-year-old woman in crisis and Ezell Ford, 25, an unarmed black man who witnesses say committed no crime and was completely compliant with police. California police also beat a Latino young man named Omar Abrego to death. Utah police fatally shot a 20-year-old unarmed Caucasian, Dillon Taylor. See their stories at the four(4) links below.

     i.  San Jose Police killed a 19-year-old woman who had a power drill they "thought" was a gun
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/15/san-jose-police-fatally-shoot-woman-19-after-mistaking-power-drill-for-a-gun/
 

     ii.  LAPD fatally beat a young Latino father at a traffic stop
http://laist.com/2014/08/15/video_man_dies_after_bloody.php


     iii.  Ezell Ford, 25, was reportedly laid out on the ground and shot multiple times in his back by LAPD. His death was added to "Random Killings of Disabled Americans"
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/06/random-killings-of-disabled-americans.html


     iv.  THE EIGHTH UNARMED POLICE VICTIM WITHIN ONE MONTH - Salt Lake City police fatally shot Dillon Taylor, 20, on Aug. 13. The victim was unarmed when police confronted him, his brother says. Court documents show a $25,000 arrest warrant had been issued Aug. 7 for Taylor, alleging that he had violated his probation on earlier felony robbery and obstructing justice charges.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58300854-78/taylor-police-lake-salt.html.csp

4.  *Note: The body count below does not include inmates killed behind bars. Inmates' deaths are often subject to government cover-ups, like the secret arrest and murder of mentally, physically disabled Larry Neal in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003, while the jail was operating under federal oversight. Within five weeks, the following eleven(11) individuals fell victim to police violence:

NEW BODY COUNT FROM AMERICA's SUMMER OF POLICE TERROR (updated August 28, 2014).
White ~ Joseph Jennings, 18, Ottawa, KS, Aug 24 (mentally ill)
Latino ~ Hernan M. Ossorio, 61, Ellicott City, MD / Aug 23 (mentally ill)
? ~ Darren Friedman, 45, Ellicott City, MD / Aug 20 (mentally ill)
Black ~ Darius Colegarrit, 21, Chicago, IL / Aug. 20
White ~ John Winkler, 30, Los Angeles, CA / Aug 19
Black ~ Kajieme Powell, 25, Ferguson, MO / Aug 19 (mentally ill)
White ~ Diana Showman, 19, San Jose, CA / Aug. 14 (mentally ill)
White ~ Dillon Taylor, 20, Salt Lake City, UT / Aug. 13
Black ~ Dante Parker, 36, Victorville, CA / Aug. 12 (Taser)
Black ~ Ezell Ford, 25, Los Angeles, CA / Aug. 11 (mentally ill)
Black ~ Michael Brown, 18, Ferguson, MO / Aug. 9
Black ~ John Crawford, 22, Beavercreek, OH / Aug. 5
Latino~ Omar Abrego, 37, Los Angeles, CA / Aug. 2
Black ~ Eric Garner, 43, Staten Island, NY / July 17 (prosecution underway)
As you can see from this growing list of police victims, mentally ill people of any race are the most often victims of police violence. People with severe mental disabilities comprise a small percentage of the nation's population, but they are overly represented among people who are arrested, brutalized, and killed in the USA.


5.  Many people wonder what the point of agreement was at the WH Beer Summit of 2009. The outcome did not bode well for African Americans and other minorities or disabled people of any race or age. Little information has been released at this writing about the teenager police killed in San Jose, but five of the men in the body count were unarmed blacks, one was Latino, and one was Caucasian. What makes police officers perceive black men as being more worthy of deadly force? Three psychological studies offer answers at: 
"Cards Stacked Against Black Boys, Especially if Mentally Ill"
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/03/cards-stacked-against-black-boys.html


6.  The USA is a member state of the United Nations and has signed certain treaties to uphold human rights within this nation. Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) plans to bundle 100 cases evidencing overuse of force against mentally ill people during arrests, within correctional facilities, or by hospital personnel for presentation to the World Court.  Evidence presented is expected to include long-term solitary confinement torture, brutality by law enforcement, corrections officers, other inmates or inpatients, wrongful deaths, and medical neglect. Please invite persons who might have an interest in joining the Complainants to read this article in "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog:
"Police Killings Increase As Executions Decrease"

http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/08/police-killings-increase-as-executions.html

7.  To have your case considered for inclusion in the 100 that will be presented to the U.N., please use the contact information below. AIMI plans to request restitution for victims or their successors as well as sanctions against the USA regarding its disregard for human rights of persons with mental illness. The 100 Complainants may also include victims of aggression by untreated mentally ill people or the victims' successors. 

8.  The USA's disregard for mentally ill persons is evidenced by the fact that 1.25 million mentally dysfunctional people are imprisoned (over half of the nation's inmates). They comprise over 60 percent of prisoners in long-term solitary confinement torture, some for decades. More than 50 percent of the nation's victims of police violence are mentally ill, although no exact numbers are kept (which also evidences disregard). Additionally, tens of thousands of mentally handicapped people are homeless and/or denied psychiatric treatment unless and until they prove, usually through crimes, that they are immediately dangerous to self and others. This is likely done to preserve untreated mentally challenged Americans for use as private prison commodities, including some veterans. 

9.  Condolences to families and friends of all eleven(11) victims named in this article. Thanks to justice officials, law enforcement administrators and officers who attempt to bring justice and restore peace to affected communities without further violations against citizens' constitutional and human rights.

TWO REFERENCES
Change.org Petition: Don't Militarize My Block
In 1991, Congress established the LESO program which allows the Defense Department to transfer excess property to state agencies who request them. The property is given to agencies - police departments, fish and wildlife services, and state universities alike. the equipment is transferred as-is and must be used by the agency within a year. LESO gives agencies access to tanks, helicopters, tear gas, machine guns, armored cars, night-vision equipment, and more battlefield-tested equipment. In 2013 alone, more than $440million in supplies were doled out to agencies in all 50 states.
http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-your-governor-don-t-militarize-my-block

Police critically wound man amid protests over Brown killing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/08/13/report-police-wound-man-in-ferguson-protest-over-michael-brown-killing/

10.  First paragraph repeated: Anti-death penalty advocates were elated to learn that capital punishment has been eliminated or placed on hold in 36 states in the USA partly because of torturous executions in 2014 using mystery drugs. However, police killings have increased to the point that no reduction in democide actually happened. Within one month, from mid-July until mid-August, the police body count is four killings for California and one each for Utah, Missouri, Ohio, and New York. Another beer summit might be in order to withdraw military equipment from non-military government agencies, including police departments (Ref. #1, at paragraph 9).

11.  Nine(9) links carrying more information are above this point in this article. Contact information with five(5) links and a comment field are below for your convenience:

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Thank you for giving Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill.

Mary Neal, director


Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI")


AIMI's broadcast on Blogtalkradio, 9pm PDT on Wednesdays


Website about my brother: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal


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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. That happens to mentally ill people routinely in the nation's correctional facilities. What happened to Larry Neal?



Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. Please advocate for your congresspersons to pass H.R.3717 - The "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." Try to elect people who support human rights and justice for all.

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Right Time for H.R.3717: Larry Neal's Murder Anniversary

*MURDER ANNIVERSARY* ~ August 1 was the eleventh anniversary of Larry Neal's murder, which happened following 18 days of secret incarceration in Memphis at the Shelby County Jail. Our family initially believed that Larry, a man who suffered from a heart condition and paranoid schizophrenia, had fallen through the cracks somehow. Now we know more about homicides against imprisoned mentally ill people. They get scalded to death, baked, starved, raped, dangerously restrained, Tasered, shot, and some are used for human dog fights.

It appears that most crises that mentally challenged Americans endure result from inhumane treatment by jails, prisons, and emergency police rather than the disease itself. Support H.R.3717, which has provisions for Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training, assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs, and resumption of Medicaid insurance for inpatient psychiatric treatment in certain facilities. Nobody deserves to be secretly arrested by police and murdered like Larry Neal was in 2003 because a mental disease makes sick people a nuisance to police.

Torture and murders of America's mentally ill people are secret crimes against humanity that millions of people throughout the world know about. The U.S. Congress should pass H.R.3717 ~ Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act. It is too late to save Larry Neal, Kelly Thomas, Brian Claunch, Jerome Murdough, Darren Rainey, Daniel Linsinbigler, and so many others, but "the time is always right to do what is right" (MLK).

Mary Neal, director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI)
a/k/a MaryLovesJustice Neal
MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
Phone (678)531.0262 or Google Voice (571)335-1741

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Wrongful Death of Daniel Linsinbigler at Blogtalkradio


Valerie Linsinbigler, joined "Human Rights Demand" on July 19, 2014, at 3pm EDT to discuss the murder of her teenage son, Daniel, by SUFFOCATION while in a restraint chair in Clay County Jail in Florida. See Daniel's photograph below. The radio show is archived at Blogtalkradio. You can hear it any time by accessing it at the url below:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/07/19/release-the-innocent
Please also see an article about Daniel in this "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog at http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/07/and-then-daniel-linsinbigler-died.html 

Plan to join us by phone or computer on "Human Rights Demand" channel at Blogtalkradio daily at 3pm EDT, except Fridays, when we broadcast at 6:30pm EDT. Every show regards human rights.

Speakers on "The Wrongful Death of Daniel Linsinbigler" radio broadcast included:
1. Valerie Linsinbigler, Daniel's mother
2. Marissa Linsinbigler, Daniel's sister
3. Leonna Brandao, president of New Vision Organization, Inc, and NVO's vice president
4. Holly Alston, mother of a mentally ill prisoner in Pennsylvania, Terrell Scott
5. Ana Santiago, mother of an inmate serving a life sentence in Massachusetts
6. Ted Burgess, a former law officer and correctional officer whose son Christopher was murdered in Clay County Jail on December 5, 2002. His death was apparently covered-up by calling it a suicide. A news story about Christopher was published by the Florida Times Union, Jacksonville.com, called "An Inmate's Death in Question"
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/121402/nec_11214666.shtml

7. Mary Neal, host, and sister of Larry Neal, a mentally ill heart patient who was killed in Memphis Shelby County Jail on August 1, 2003, after 18 days of secret incarceration. His death is so covered-up that his relatives are persecuted and censored to prevent public disclosure.

I informed our guests and radio audience about: 

(1) H.R.3717 "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act," a congressional bill that would resume Medicaid insurance in certain facilities and start pilot AOT programs (among other provisions) that would increase opportunities for psychiatric treatment in the USA. See the next article in the "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog, which is called
"Washington Tour for H.R.3717 Supporters"
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/07/washington-tour-for-hr3717-supporters.html


(2) a wrongful death lawsuit that was filed after the statute of limitations passed but was allowed by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco because a police cover-up caused the family's late filing. (This also was alleged in Christopher Burgess's case and in the wrongful death of Larry Neal): 

Families of people with serious mentally illness and everyone who cares about human and civil rights must unite for justice. We appreciate your interest in the information at the five(5) links above, and we ask you to share it with your online groups. Please plan to join members of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill on our Washington tour for supporters of H.R.3717 the "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act," tentatively planned for September. Many avoidable deaths should make America's mental health crisis a campaign issue in 2014. Elect only people who support human rights in the USA for all Americans, including mentally ill people and prisoners.

Daniel Linsinbigler, 19, was reportedly handcuffed, pepper-sprayed, hooded, Tasered, and placed in a restraint chair with a cloth that was also pepper-sprayed and placed underneath the hood to suffocate him.
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Thank you for giving Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill.
Mary Neal, director
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI")
AIMI's broadcast on Blogtalkradio, 9pm PDT on Wednesdays
Website about my brother: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
Follow our "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog

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. 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. Please advocate for the U.S. Congress to pass H.R.3717 - Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act. Elect only people who support human rights and justice for all.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Damion Hayes: Life Sentence for Mental Illness

OCCUPY the U.S. Congress. Ask representatives to pass H.R.3717, Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (a handy link is provided below). You do not have to have a mentally ill loved one to care. Families in Santa Barbara did not think mental illness was their problem, either, but it was. Condolences to grieving families, and may victims of assault have a speedy recovery.  http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill Blogtalkradio show featured Fred Hayes, father of mentally ill inmate, Damion Hayes, Wednesday, June 4, at 9pm Pacific. 

Mr. Hayes said, "My son shouldn't be in the Florida prison where he has been for 14 years for an assault committed while having a mental health crisis. I will NOT give up the fight for his freedom and treatment. I stand not for Damion only but for all mentally ill inmates in America." 


PETITION: Save Florida Inmate Damion Hayes from SHU 

Hear the taped radio show at the link below. We were joined by Ms. Lillian Eaglefeather, who is the mother of Paul, another a mentally ill American. Each Wednesday night in June, please call (818)572.2947 to speak to Mr. Hayes and other guests. Ask questions or comment on this father's mission to help save his son and other mentally ill Americans. 
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/06/05/assistance-to-the-incarcerated-mentally-ill 

Family portrait of Damion (left) with his family

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hayes are the parents of two sons. The oldest grew up to become a law enforcement officer with the Sheriff's Department. Damion, their youngest, developed schizophrenia as a teen. The Hayes family grew alarmed at Damion's violent outbursts, when he would punch holes in their walls with his fists and talk to himself. Before Damion's mental health crisis resulted in an assault on a neighbor, Mr. Hayes took Damion to a mental health center for evaluation and treatment. Damion was kept for two days only, and he was released to his father without any appointment for additional psychiatric treatment and with no prescriptions for psychiatric medication. Not long after that, Damion apparently attacked a middle age neighbor, a woman who was a friend of the family. She was gardening in her yard when the assault happened. The attack was not prompted by any feelings of discord, and it occurred without any discussion between the woman and Damion.

Damion was arrested, tried, and sentenced to LIFE imprisonment. This mentally ill youth was hospitalized for two years to get him "trial ready," then sentenced and imprisoned in a Florida correctional facility. Damion's former cellmate wrote to Mr. Hayes numerous times and told him that his son would talk to himself in the cell at night and have long arguments and even physical confrontations with imaginary enemies. Damion is obviously mentally ill and should be transferred from the prison to which he was overly sentenced for an assault that resulted in no life threatening injuries for his neighbor. Damion should be relocated to a mental hospital and stabilized. Upon release from the hospital, Damion should be placed in an assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) program for his subsistence needs and continuous psychiatric treatment. 

AOT program participants in New York experienced an 85 percent or greater reduction in homelessness, hospitalizations, arrests, and incarceration as compared to their rates three years before entering the Kendra's Law program. AOT programs costs substantially less than incarceration, and community safety is greatly enhanced, as revealed by the reduction in arrests and incarceration among program participants. H.R.3717 has a provision for pilot AOT programs, which have already been certified by the United States Department of Justice.

Damion's arrest photo and information from the Florida DOC

Damion's life was full of promise as a youngster. He is from a middle class Christian family. His father worked in a middle management position until retirement. His mother retired as a civil servant. Damion has a good support base to help him resume wholesome living. He deserves psychiatric treatment, not prison. There are no throwaway people. Damion was wrongly sentenced to life in prison for an assault that (a) resulted from mental illness and (b) caused no catastrophic injuries. Damion's family were amazed when the defense attorney who had charged them $20,000 stood at the end of the prosecutor's case and merely said, "The defense rests." Florida taxpayers were sentenced right along with Damion. Incarcerating this young man indefinitely would cost the State millions of dollars unnecessarily, because many people with schizophrenia respond well to treatment and are able to resume normal lives. Damion's case is being appealed. 

PETITION: Save Florida Inmate Damion Hayes from SHU 

Damion Hayes, age 7

Mary Neal, director
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
Dog Justice for Mentally Ill

Repeat of paragraph 1: OCCUPY the U.S. Congress. Ask representatives to pass H.R.3717, Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (a handy link is provided below). You do not have to have a mentally ill loved one to care. Families in Santa Barbara did not think mental illness was their problem, either, but it was. Condolences to grieving families, and may victims of assault have a speedy recovery.
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

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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.
Try to elect people who promote human rights and justice for all, not prison profits.