USDOJ Certifies AOT Programs for Mental Illness

Stalkers prevented me from placing my link at Twitter for good news I posted at ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL today. My online advocacy group to decriminalize mental illness was taken over by stalkers years ago; however, as the elections draw closer, stalkers become more adamant that Mary Neal shall NOT exercise freedom of press RIGHTS. At this link that stalkers will likely attack, http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=17280&pst=1071929 I wrote the following:

GOOD NEWS! The United States Department of Justice certified Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) programs! The programs like Kendra's Law provide mandated treatment for acute mental patients as outpatients and provide subsistence assistance - basics like food and shelter. This is one of AIMI's main goals. AIMI's second goal is to increase hospital beds for mentally challenged people who experience crises and for those who need indefinite containment in a treatment environment because of crimes and/or an inability to survive outside a controlled environment. We are well on our way to step 1. We must advocate for AOT programs to be set up across the nation and for every acute mental patient exiting jails, prisons, and hospitals to be mandated into an AOT. Step 2 is to open more mental hospitals for inpatient care. Some states are already building new hospitals or refurbishing those they have. But, unfortunately, some states continue to reduce mental hospital beds. More advocacy is needed.

AIMI also advocates against capital punishment. THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT JUST ENDED THE DEATH PENALTY! WAY TO GO, CONNECTICUT!

See the announcements in these two articles:

USDOJ certifies AOT programs http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dj-jaffe/department-of-justice-fin_b_1380308.html

Connecticut  becomes 17th state to repeal DP 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-connecticut-death-penalty-20120412,0,6052264.story

Keep up the good work, AIMI members and online friends! We are becoming more just and compassionate as a nation thanks to everyone who protests capital punishment, mass incarceration, and those who give ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL.

Save California Kids from Solitary Confinement

Soaring No More

(photo by Joseph Siroker ) 

Please support SB 1363, a bill that would limit the harmful practice of solitary confinement, which is being used against kids in California’s juvenile facilities. Currently, kids are locked up in isolation, denied education and basic programming. The international community has condemned the use of solitary confinement against youth. Research has shown the traumatic toll and mental health breakdown caused by isolation in healthy adults. Children who are still in their development stages are at an even greater risk of permanent damage. It is unacceptable that our state allows this to happen. Sign the petition at this link, please!  Urge the Senate Public Safety Committee to end the solitary confinement of kids.

WHERE DOES THE CRUELTY END?

Please sign the petition to SAVE THE CHILDREN http://goo.gl/P2l9W 

Open thy mouth for the voiceless in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction [capital punishment].  Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy [victims of racism, poverty, unjust prosecution, excessive sentencing, three-strikes laws, imprisonment for offenses caused by mental illness, and all unrighteousness] ~Proverbs31:8-9. GET UP, STAND UP FOR LOVE. See an excerpt from the petition below:

Solitary confinement is torture. Yet, this harmful practice runs rampant in California’s state and local facilities.
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Research has shown the traumatic toll and mental health impacts of isolation in healthy adults. Children who are still in their development stages are at an even greater risk of permanent damage. When the state takes custody of our children, parents expect them to get the education and programming they need to lead healthy lives. Instead, their children are isolated and damaged.

Is this what we want for our children? If your child attempted suicide, would you lock her up alone in a cell to “fix” the problem? Our children deserve better. The state has a duty to protect our children in its custody from harmful practices that endanger their lives. SB 1363 (Yee) will limit the use of solitary confinement in juvenile facilities and provide protective guidelines on how and when it is used. Stand with us and urge the Senate Public Safety Committee members to vote “YES” on SB 1363.

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Mary Neal, Child Advocate, director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill at http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi Four links are on this page, not counting the ad below. Unfortunately, messages to make the justice system in America more just and compassionate are cyberstalked. Pray for the cruelty and injustice to end. Pray for officials to repent and be righteous. Pray for justice for ALL.

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Center for Church and Prison Meeting

Thank you, Center for Church and Prison, for the following announcement. I responded via email: Please see my response to BBC in the article at the link below: (Thirteen links are in this article.)

BBC Asks: How Bad Are U.S. Supermax Prisons?

  http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/bbc-asks-how-bad-are-us-supermax.html

The Center for Church and Prison

in collaboration with

The Trotter Institute at the Univ. of Mass,

The NAACP/Boston &

Other Organizations

Invite You to an

Important Public Forum on

Stand Your Ground, 3-Strikes You're Out &

Private Prisons

The  Future of Minority Communities in Massachusetts

Expert Panelists: 

Rahsaan Hall, Esq.  

Coun. Charles Yancey 

Dr. Marie McIlwrath 

Mr. Bob Marshall  

Ms. Alejandra St. Guillen: Director: Oiste 

Ms. Helen Credle 

Andrea Goode-James, Esq. 

Rep. Gloria Fox 

Hispanics are 9.7% of Massachusetts general  population but 28% of those behind bars in Massachusetts. Blacks are 6.6% of Massachusetts general population but  approximately 32% of those behind bars including juveniles. Hispanics and Blacks are less than 17% of Massachusetts general population but over 55% of those incarcerated in Massachusetts.

(Thirteen links are in this article. Cell phone users, select "go to page 1" to see what stalkers hid) 

Date: Friday April 20th 

Time: 5:45pm-6:15pm:Networking/Refreshment, 6:15pm: Forum

Venue: Anthony Perkins Community Center, 155 Talbot Ave. Dorchester 

This is a strategic solution development discussion that looks at sentencing/incarceration, Mental health/incarceration, Education/Incarceration, Poverty/Incarceration,  Minority families/ Incarceration etc.  

If you need a table to display your organization's materials,

please RSVP by: Wednesday April 18th.

Email: churchandprison@gmail.com 

This message was sent to marylovesjustice@gmail.com from: The Center For Church and Prison | 101 Nightingale Street | Dorchester, Massachusetts 02124

Note: When I received this message via email, it said "Center for Church and Church" in its title, not "Church and Prison." Maybe a typo. On the other hand, stalkers are hired to interrupt Christian messages and any messages related to incarceration. Cell phone users, always select "go to page 1" when reading my articles to see what prison investors' cyberstalkers hid.


RECOMMENDATION 1)    I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT ALL PRISON MEETINGS INCLUDE DISCUSSIONS ON INDEFINITE MILITARY DETENTION IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS WHICH CAN BE IMPOSED ON AMERICANS AND VISITORS HERE WITHOUT THE NEED FOR THE WHITE HOUSE TO GIVE ANY CAUSE AND WITHOUT ALLOWING DETAINEES ANY OPPORTUNITY FOR DEFENSE. ALSO, PLEASE DISCUSS H.R.3785, THE CONGRESSIONAL BILL INTRODUCED BY REP. RON PAUL IN JANUARY 2012 TO REPEAL THAT UNJUST LAW - National Defense Authorization Act, Section 1021. 


RECOMMENDATION 2)  I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST THAT CHURCHES AND OTHERS WHO CARE ABOUT FAIRNESS TO MINORITIES MAKE SURE THEY ARE NOT DISCUSSING SOLUTIONS WITH PRISON INVESTORS WHO BENEFIT BY HIGH INCARCERATION NUMBERS. SEE "MARY NEAL'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2011" AND PLEASE SEE "NAACP v. BLACK CIGARETTE SMOKERS" AT HUB PAGES.

Mary Neal, director Human Rights for Prisoners March across the Internet and of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi (CoIntelPro took over my advocacy group and refuse to allow me to input data about recent deaths and abuses of mentally ill Americans or the fact that the USDOJ recently certified Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) programs; twelve links are in this article); Dog Justice for Mentally Ill http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com . Please see my Google Profile - http://www.google.com/profiles/MaryLovesJustice - Follow me at Twitter @koffietime - http://twitter.com/koffietime - Current, urgent justice issues from a laywoman's viewpoint at my primary blog http://FreeSpeakBlog.blogspot.com (the name is a joke, believe me). See also Justice Gagged blog http://justicegagged.blogspot.com and MaryLovesJustice blog at: http://MaryLovesJustice.blogspot.com and Mary Neal at HubPages. Recommended articles - http://topsy.com/site/freespeakblog.blogspot.com - Address: MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com (I am censored, but some emails reach my box)

You've Got to Be Taught

YOU'VE GOT TO BE TAUGHT

To hate and fear,

You've got to be taught

From year to year,

It's got to be drummed

In your dear little ear

You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid

Of people whose eyes are oddly made,

And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,

You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,

Before you are six or seven or eight,

To hate all the people your relatives hate,

You've got to be carefully taught!

Rodgers and Hammerstein's "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught",

from the musical "South Pacific"

 

The t-shirt says, "It's not a black or white thing; it's a wrong thing." Let us not deny that racism exists. There are two empty graves: Jesus Christ's and Jim Crow's. However, We the People should be too busy uniting for social and economic justice to hate. Racial prejudice is an unnatural emotion that is learned. It benefits the oppressors, not the People. Reject it. UNITY is strength for the 99%. People who are united in purpose and speak the same language like computers make possible can have whatever they work toward, even real democracy (Gen. 11:6).

He stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

~John 8:8

Trayvon Martin Diversion from H.R.3785 to Repeal NDAA

Police Kill: Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., Black Marine Vet

Although most black men killed by police are young, Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., a 68-year-old African-American Marine veteran, proves old age and disability are not deterrents. Chamberlain was fatally shot in November by White Plains, NY, police who responded to a false alarm from his medical alert pendant. The officers broke down Chamberlain’s door, tasered him, and then shot him dead. I used to live next door to an elderly lady whose medical alert pendant issued false alarms. Police and a fire truck would respond only to find no emergency. It must get frustrating. Police sometimes have a very low tolerance for handicapped people, especially black ones, so watch out! My mentally, physically handicapped brother's secret arrest and murder proves that at Wrongful Death of Larry Neal website http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com . Larry, a lifelong schizophrenic heart patient, sometimes sang loud in a business area in Memphis, Tennessee. He hospitalized for 20 years until mental hospitals were closed and downsized in the 1970s to use mental patients to start private prisons. Please also pray for elderly black women. Kathryn Johnston, 92, was killed in a home invasion by Atlanta police in 2006. Invading police blasted Johnston in a hail of 36 bullets and 6 hit her. They then handcuffed the dying elder and planted drugs in her home to excuse their break-in.

Audio of Chamberlain's death by Taser and shooting death are available. Listen at this Democracy Now linkhttp://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/29/killed_at_home_white_plains_ny

It was recorded by the medical alert device in Chamberlain’s apartment. Please help Mr. Chamberlain's family by signing a petition at MoveOn.org. Will you sign our petition? Click here to sign and please share with your friends:  http://www.moveon.org/r?r=273615&id=38418-17184092-Dl9Jm6x&t=3

I am thankful that MoveOn.org and Democracy Now are speaking up for Chamberlain's survivors. My brother's inexcusable kidnapping and murder were covered up by Shelby County Government and the United States Department of Justice, which was in overview of the "jail from hell" after a lawsuit by the U.S.A. If government agencies want a death covered-up, the media and some organizations ignore it. See if they steal my final paragraph that begins with "The 21st century wrongful deaths suffered by Africans in America amount to a staggering number . . . " Larry Neal's elaborate murder cover-up makes me wonder how many police killings really happen in a year. The wrongful death government officials focus their outrage on is Trayvon Martin's murder in Florida. Martin's shooting death does not subject government entities to a wrongful death lawsuit, because the shooter, Zimmerman, was a neighborhood watchman, not a police officer. Smart choice, officials!

When covered-up police murders like Larry Neal's happen, the media, civil and human rights organizations, churches, and others with New World Order affiliations pretend the death never happened, and families who defy the cover-ups are censored and terrorized by organized gangstalking, computer takeovers, and phone taps (allowed or done by government officials and ignored by civil liberties organizations). Victims' survivors can expose police murders on the Internet like I do until net freedom is finally destroyed by Congress. Families can also register their loved ones' deaths with STOLEN LIVES PROJECT at this link: http://www.stolenlives.org/Submit-Case.html  - Truth is the light; let it shine! See if stalkers allow five links to remain in this article and actually lead to the targeted data. My articles are zealously censored to continue Larry Neal's murder cover-up and hide The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm fraud against grieving families. Try to protect Chamberlain's family from the lawyers who sign contracts with minorities then work for police and large corporations behind their own clients' backs to reduce or eliminate payouts for wrongful deaths. The family of Marine Sgt. Loggins, who was killed by an Orange County, California sheriff's deputy in January, already fell prey to that CoIntelPro law firm that tricks blacks in Johnnie Cochran's name. Minorities, including elderly and/or handicapped people like Chamberlain, are killed by police regularly. It is political posturing to focus on Trayvon Martin's death by a private citizen because his murder affords no opportunity to sue any government agency. Happy election year!

The 21st century wrongful deaths suffered by Africans in America amount to a staggering number, especially when adding the covered-up murders of inmates and inpatients and homeless people by authorities. We could start our own wall, like the one commemorating Vietnam's fallen soldiers. No matter how many elitists and "civil rights heroes" grandstand on Trayvon Martin's casket, I maintain the opinion Michael Jackson had: They don't care about us. See MJJ's video at this link http://youtu.be/QNJL6nfu__Q . Therefore, while marching for Trayvon Martin, African Americans and middle class or indigent whites need to concentrate on including LOUD opposition to NDAA, the bill Congress and the White House passed to authorize INDEFINITE MILITARY DETENTION without criminal charges, or there could be hundreds of thousands of Trayvon Martins, including YOU. Do not be diverted by another of MANY deaths and neglect to insist that your own children grow up in a real democracy where they cannot be snatched from their villages without cause. Support congressional bill H.R.3785 to repeal NDAA. PLEASE WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!

Blessings from Mary Neal, advocate against crimes against humanity, government corruption and cover-ups, racism, class consciousness, and criminalizing mental illness

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Justice Seekers Conference Call Report 1

Individuals, grassroots groups, organizations, and others are invited to join JUSTICE SEEKERS CONFERENCE CALLS throughout April 2012 http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/justice-seekers-conference-call-april-1.html  - Call 218-632-0550, at 6:30pm EST every Sunday in April. Dial the access code 330203# and to speak, dial *6. This is a networking opportunity for activists, organizations, lawyers and others that offer advocacy, goods and services to provide for and promote social and economic justice as well as persons who need help w/ their justice quests! I can't wait to actually speak with my online friends. UNITE for justice!

The first JUSTICE SEEKERS CONFERENCE CALL was today, April 1, 2012. It was not recorded, although future calls will be. Callers included:

Mary Neal, host, advocate for human and civil rights for all people, director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

Anna Santiago, a New York mom who writes to prisoners. Her own privileges to visit her son who is a lifer in Pennsylvania were suspended because she writes to numerous inmates to send a friendly hello and birthday card. Authorities say she writes too many inmates. She was listed as DC15 - STJ (meaning potential gang affiliations). Because Ms. Santiago tries to lighten the burdens of inmates with short letters of inspiration and Christmas and birthday cards, she lost the right to visit her own son, who is in solitary confinement and who she dearly loves.

Brother Lukata, joined the call. He is a Mississippi prisoner advocate seeking a full pardon for the Scott Sisters and justice for James Craig Anderson, an elderly black man in Jackson, Mississippi, who was killed by young white supremacists. Anderson was beaten and run over by an SUV by youths who went "nigger hunting." Only one of the men was tried and sentenced so far.

Rozy Press also joined the Justice Seekers Conference Call. She is a former L.A. County school teacher who was attacked in her classroom by a student who sprayed her in the face with a fire extinguisher. She is very sick from the toxins that lodged in her lungs, but she is denied workers' comp and long-term disability.

Justice Seekers discussed each case as well as the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. I then informed conference call participants about several injustices, including:

(1) Kendrec McDade, a 19-year-old Pasadena, California college student whose recent death-by-police was reported by the L.A. Times on March 28, 2012 (an excerpt is below); 

(2) Benton Harbor, Michigan, a town where residents are greatly oppressed, according to reports from B.H. BANCO organization; and 

(3) Anne Brown, a homeless black woman who went to St. Mary's Medical Center in St. Louis for treatment after spraining her ankle. St. Mary's told police Brown was trespassing, and she was arrested. Brown died ten minutes after police carried her into a jail cell like a bag of cotton and dumped the moaning woman on the concrete floor. Blood clots in her legs traveled to her lungs. 

(4) Good News Report: Today on the Rev. Pinkney Blogtalk Show, I announced good news that can help homeless mentally challenged people. The United States Department of Justice certified Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) programs. AOT programs like Laura's Law and Kendra's Law provide for mandated psychiatric treatment for acute mental patients and subsistence assistance for basic needs, like housing and food. 

I will add links to news accounts about each story in this article by the end of this week. Below is a news excerpt about Kendrec McDade's death. Everyone who is interested in promoting justice is asked to join us next week with your own reports. Please also contact today's Justice Seekers Conference Call participants and lend your support to their justice quests.

1) Anna Santiago - email iceladywest@yahoo.com - phone (646) 251-5405

2) Rozy Wow - email rozywow@aol.com

3) Brother Lukata - email Afrikan_tbt@yahoo.com

4) Mary Neal - email MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com - phone (678) 531-0262

While the nation's eyes are on Florida and the Trayvon Martin case, more black youths are killed in America in similar incidents - no crime and no weapon. Kendrec McDade, a 19-year-old college student, was shot and killed last weekend by a police officer in Pasadena, California for "walking while black." Los Angeles Times reports:

L.A. Times - March 28, 2012 - Police shooting of black college student roils Pasadena
"The fatal shooting of a college student by a Pasadena police officer on a dark street last weekend has stirred community concerns and prompted the police chief to call for an independent investigation. The officer shot 19-year-old Kendrec McDade while sitting in the driver’s seat of his police cruiser in a narrow alley in the city’s Northeast district about 11 p.m. on Saturday. Police were chasing two people who they believed were armed and had stolen a laptop computer. But authorities have recovered neither a gun nor a computer from the scene." See the entire Los Angeles Times article, dated March 28, 2012 at this link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/police-shooting-of-college-student-roils-pasadena.html  

Blessings! Let us continue climbing Justice Mountain TOGETHER, without regard for race, socioeconomic class or health status, and make America a land of justice for ALL. 

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NETWORKING INVITATION - You and your friends and groups are invited to JUSTICE SEEKERS CONFERENCE CALLS throughout April 2012. Link http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/justice-seekers-conference-call-april-1.html - Call 218-632-0550, at 6:30pm EST. Dial the access code 330203# and to speak, dial *6. The three photos and one link in this blog are to inform you about this exciting networking opportunity for activists, organizations, lawyers, officials, the media and others who offer advocacy, goods and services that provide for and promote social and economic justice as well as individuals who need help w/ their justice quests! I can't wait to actually speak with my online friends. UNITE for justice! We are all committed to improving the human condition. We will become more effective as we learn about and commit to help grass roots and large organizations. By promoting each other's events, signing petitions, and knowing who to refer people to who face particular issues, we can help each other reach the top of Justice Mountain. Unity is imperative to a successful climb. Meet your teammates in Justice Seekers Conference Calls throughout April 2012.

See the link above for full information about the JUSTICE SEEKERS CONFERENCE CALL. The conference call is an incredible opportunity for people to come together and share news and information or seek assistance regarding:

• human and civil rights
• prison intervention
• mental health services and programs
• youth services
• re-entry programs
• law enforcement
• elder care
• health care 
• drug / alcohol intervention
• legal services
• housing
• economic justice /employment
• outreach and missionary ministries
• services for families and/or children
• literacy, adult education, public/private schools, tutoring
• war/peace
• media
• government
• ALL OTHERS ARE INVITED!

Unity makes it happen! Join hands and keep climbing Justice Mountain together.