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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Getting Away With Murder through Censorship

INVITATION: Discuss Book-Banning to Hide Oppression: Friday, January 8, 2016, 9pmEST, please join George Mallinckrodt and Mary Neal in discussions about the Florida Department of Corrections' ban on Mallinckrodt's book, "Getting Away with Murder." The book regards the scalding torture and murder of Darren Rainey, a mentally ill, black, middle age inmate who was brutally scalded to death by guards in Dade Correctional Institution in 2012, whose murder is yet unrequited. Call our FreeConferenceCall number (605)562-0020, code: 992-212-650. Let us discuss violations against Americans' rights under the First Amendment and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, #government cover-ups, #prisoner torture, and the USDOJ's failures to uphold the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) of 1980. That is a U.S. federal law intended to protect the rights of people in state or local correctional facilities, nursing homes, mental health facilities and institutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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‪#‎Prison‬ investors fear and resent movies like the one in production now by Dr. Stephen B Seager, "Shattered Families." They feel threatened by books like "Getting Away with Murder," investigative journalism reports about gross mistreatment of mentally ill prisoners like the Miami Herald published about Darren Rainey and other disabled Americans. Oppressors hate continual reports about individuals and families being negatively impacted by the prison industrial complex and overuse of police force, like those published by MaryLovesJustice in "Human Rights for Prisoners March" blog and "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com . But does the fact that government officials hate our books, news reports, and radio broadcasts give them the right to issue bans that deprive Americans of information that is intended to motivate this country be true to its laws, creeds, and ideals?

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CRIPA is great legislation, but the duty to protect the rights of institutionalized people in the USA is ignored by local and federal officials as prisoners are continually abused and killed in custody. Other examples of wrongful deaths in custody include my brother Larry Neal, Daniel Linsinbigler, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Sgt. James Brown, Eileen DiNino, Circle Bear, and many others - people who were blacks, whites, and Native Americans, able-bodied or disabled. Efforts to expose denials of due process of law are regularly #censored. Many writers and advocates are persecuted just as Mallinckrodt was when his position as a psychotherapist for Corizon Correctional Healthcare ended presumably because he complained about prisoner abuse. Call Friday night, January 8, 2015, and let us discuss these issues. The broadcast will be uploaded to Human Rights Demand channel at Blogtalkradio. Join us, please, and HAVE YOUR SAY!

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Authorities had no right to ban "Getting Away with Murder." Corrections officers had no right to scald Darren Rainey to death. Neither should mentally ill inmates be made to fight other inmates - sometimes to the death - to entertain guards: human dog fights. People like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. suffered and some died for protections offered under each of the laws listed below. Many active duty #military people as well as #veterans still pay dearly for our rights that are not being upheld by either federal or local governing authorities. Let us fight to keep them on the books and make the laws actualities. The cornerstone of all rights Americans have is the First Amendment. Use your First Amendment rights on January 8 to take a stand for freedom of press and CRIPA. "All we ask of America is 'Be true to what you said on paper.'" (MLK).

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT SO THAT HYPOCRITES IN GOVERNMENT CAN BE COMFORTABLE OPPRESSING, TORTURING, AND KILLING OUR FELLOW AMERICANS, ESPECIALLY NOT OUR ELDERS, CHILDREN, AND DISABLED PEOPLE.

See MaryLovesJustice articles about wrongful deaths of people in custody by conducting an Internet search for "Mary Neal" along with the names of each of the seven victims in paragraph 3 above. Learn about Larry Neal's secret arrest and covered-up murder in his website, "Wrongful Death of Larry Neal"

http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com/main.html

Please see George Mallinckrodt's web pages at the four(4) links below

https://www.facebook.com/george.mallinckrodt.5
http://www.georgemallinckrodt.com/index.htm
http://www.georgemallinckrodt.com/banned_book.htm
http://www.georgemallinckrodt.com/human_rights_campaign.htm

Order the second edition of "Getting Away with Murder"
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Away-With-Murder-Story/dp/1500705624

Learn more about "Shattered Families: THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICA'S MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM," a film by a noted psychiatrist, Dr. Stephen Seager
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shattered-families

Dr. Seager also published a best-selling book called "Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year with the Criminally Insane." Order it at the link below
http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Gates-Gomorrah-Criminally-Insane/dp/1476774498

Hear Mary Neal's interviews with George Mallinckrodt, Dr. Stephen Seager, and numerous families who lost relatives under the color of law at "Human Rights Demand" Blogtalkradio channel and "National Network in Action (NNIA1)"

http://Blogtalkradio.com/HumanRightsDemand

http://Blogtalkradio.com/nnia1

Censorship Quotes, collected by Mary Neal

http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2012/08/censorship-quotes.html

One of my ministers, Rev. Floyd Harris, Jr., is being prosecuted for initiating a "Black Lives Matter" march during summer 2015. His trial date is to be January 6 in Fresno, California. Freedom of expression is challenged throughout America regarding human rights. Telephone calls to me have been censored at (678)531-0262, but I recently switched to AT&T, the phone company that I am told the FBI uses. Let's see if that helps.

Let us strive to be who we say we are - One nation under God with liberty and justice for ALL. America has never been that, but it is a worthy goal. George Mallinckrodt and Mary Neal look forward to your opinions re Florida banning "Getting Away with Murder." Please call.

This article has five(5) paragraphs with Roman numerals before the MLK photo. It also has twelve(12) links, and two(2) photographs (count them to keep hackers honest, as if such a thing is possible). Congratulations to Edward Snowden for revealing the oppression under which many Americans labor.

Friday, September 11, 2015

Rev. Floyd Harris, Jr., Human Rights Advocate

~ Rev. Floyd Harris, Jr., activist minister in Fresno, CA ~

Oh, oh. I have two activist ministers: , who was arrested after sponsoring a recall election and remains imprisoned in Michigan, and Rev. . The feds showed up at Rev. Harris's church this week. Al Williams gave this report:

"About one hour ago, two federal marshals appeared at Rev. Floyd Harris Jr.'s church looking for someone, I assume to arrest. A friend of mine, who is a member of the church, and I were close by; [we were] a short 30 yards from the church when my friend received a phone call. It was obvious from the voice that it was Rev. Harris having a heated discussion with someone. My friend went in first, followed by me. Rev. Harris asked for a card or ID and was refused. Rev. Harris called 911 on the marshals. Then it was good cop, bad cop. I've seen so many good cop, bad cop movies it is almost boring now. The bad cop was a total ass, which was his job, but do you go on God's grounds and attempt to intimidate a reverend? Just to find out if the person was there? Or if Rev. Harris knew where the wanted person was?

My point to you is, if they go to a church and treat a reverend that way, what will they do do you?"

Thank you, Mr. Williams, for your report. Rev. Harris came under increased surveillance when he sponsored a "Black Lives Matter" march in Fresno, CA recently. The Chief of Police, Chief Dyer, expressed fears during a media interview lately that Rev. Harris is negatively influencing children in the community and turning them against the police. Rev. Harris should not teach the youth at New Light for New Life Church of God about their human and civil rights or how to raise and can vegetables, apparently.

FEDERAL MARSHALS! That seems like a warning. Hear a radio message from Rev. Harris that may demonstrate why he is getting federal attention:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2015/09/07/marylovesjustice-prayer-meeting-sept-6-2015-god-hates-sellouts-and-fascists
In the bible story about Esau, we learn that God did not simply hate sin but the sinner, also.

Furthermore, Rev. Harris and Rev. Pinkney keep "bad company." They hang out with MaryLovesJustice, a black woman who does not know her "place" and asks "WHAT HAPPENED TO LARRY NEAL?" her mentally, physically disabled brother who was killed after 18 days of secret incarceration in Memphis/Shelby County Jail in 2003 while the jail was under federal overview. I also ask officials to please treat others as they wish to be treated. That request was not appreciated from Jesus Christ, and neither is it acceptable from Black in 21st century America.

I already wrote about the Federal Marshal they sent to my house in an article called "Home Invasion Threatened Against Mary Neal." Access it at this link: http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/home-invasion-threatened-against-mary.html

Rev. Harris is quite a thorn in the side for law enforcement, apparently. Whenever he can, he goes cop watching and films police interacting with homeless people. He actually cares about homeless people, which is very unpopular among prison investors who plan to use them as prison commodities. See pictures and a video by Rev. Harris at an article called "Government Robbery of Homeless Men in Fresno, CA"
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/05/homeless-man-in-fresno-ca.html

Rev. Harris was also among a group of concerned citizens who went to the homeless people's encampment when police arrived to destroy it and confiscate their personal possessions in Fresno. They watched and videotaped the incident in hopes that their presence would help guarantee the homeless people's safety.

Satan says, "Damn those Christians! We've got to teach them a lesson!" Pray for Rev. Harris, please. He is not on the Homeland Security Clergy Response Team. I have four ministers, pictured below. They are:

(1) Pastor James C. Ward, who teaches us and leads us in praise and worship services, buried my brother, and baptized my children

(2) Rev. Dr. Floyd Harris, Jr., who inspires us with his courage and demonstrations of a shepherd's love for his sheep, even when endangered himself

(3) Rev. Edward Pinkney, who became a political prisoner because he obeys Proverbs 31:8-9: Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

(4) Rev. Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr., an assassinated minister whose messages arouse in us such longing for freedom and dedication to serve mankind. All he asked of America is that she "be true to what she said on paper."

The four men above are my ministers, who I believe live(d) as God would have us all to live as doers of the Word and not hearers only. I hope that Rev. Harris never uses his liberty in Christ and his "civil rights" to sponsor a recall petition like Rev. Pinkney did. Some of us have the right to vote, but apparently, none of us have the right to sponsor a recall petition to rid our communities of politicians who corporations have in place to help rob the People or the right to teach the People about their human and civil rights and how to protect them. All of the true followers of Jesus Christ support human rights. That is considered a problem in 21st century America, just as it always was everywhere, even when Jesus said, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Before the Change, Americans had freedom to practice their religions, a First Amendment right. But as Justice Scalia, of the U.S. Supreme Court, said, "The U.S. Constitution is dead, dead, dead!" Blessings.

Mary Neal's Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+MaryLovesJustice/posts - 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 - A list of MaryLovesJustice radio broadcasts - http://MLJradio.blogspot.com - A full list of my blogs is available at https://www.blogger.com/profile/02911729765985760491 - Contact me at email address: MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com (I'm censored, but some emails reach my inbox). Try to phone me at (678)531.0262 or (571)335-1741. If you receive no response within 48 hours, please email or call again.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Locked Down, Locked Out, by Maya Schenwar

Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family’s experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million Americans and decimates poor communities of color is shredding the ties that, if nurtured, could foster real collective safety. As she vividly depicts here, incarceration takes away the very things that might enable people to build better lives. But looking toward a future beyond imprisonment, Schenwar profiles community-based initiatives that successfully deal with problems—both individual harm and larger social wrongs—through connection rather than isolation, moving toward a safer, freer future for all of us.

Order at Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Locked-Down-Out-Prison-Doesnt/dp/1626562695

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Maya Schenwar is Truthout's editor-in-chief and the author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better.

Previously, she was a senior editor and reporter at Truthout, writing on U.S. defense policy, the criminal justice system, campaign politics, and immigration reform. Prior to her work at Truthout, Maya was contributing editor at Punk Planet magazine. She has also written for the Guardian, In These Times Magazine, AlterNet, Z Magazine, Bitch Magazine, Common Dreams, the New Jersey Star-Ledger, and others. She also served as a publicity coordinator for Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Maya is on the Board of Advisors at Waging Nonviolence. An impressive list of Schenwar's articles is available at this link:

http://truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/45138

Follow her on Twitter @mayaschenwar
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/maya.schenwar
Google+:
https://plus.google.com/117978083175749186723/posts
Website:
http://www.mayaschenwar.com/

MARY'S ASSESSMENT

This writer is impressed with the level of understanding about the prison system that is continually demonstrated by Maya Schenwar and Truthout writers. Privatized prisons are businesses. Like any business, they are concerned with having a steady flow of fresh commodities, and that drives up America's incarceration rate. Education and rehabilitation of inmates, counseling for drug abusers, resuming Medicaid for inpatients in mental hospitals, and funding assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs for mentally ill Americans would significantly reduce America's 67.5 percent recidivism rate. These and other prison reform methods are largely ignored by prison officials as well as prison investors, many of whom work in local and federal government offices (a conflict of interest).

Businesses prioritize keeping expenditures low, which negatively impacts inmates' access to nutritious and adequate meals and medical care. Some prisons hire fewer guards than are needed to allow inmates in solitary confinement to actually have their one-hour of daily exercise outside their cells. In fact, some inmates are kept in their tiny cells for weeks and even months at a time, increasing inmates' torture to guarantee that many who arrived in prison sane people will leave with some level of brain damage. A recent Truthout article is entitled "For-Profit Prisons: Eight Statistics That Show the Problems." It can be accessed by using the link below.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20880

Maya Schenwar's "Locked Down, Locked Out" is recommended for advocates against mass incarceration and inhumane prison conditions. Her research and interviews with prisoners and their families as well as her own family's experiences uniquely qualify Schenwar to explain "why prisons don't work" and advise Americans on "how we can do better" without reducing community safety. Please hear our interview on "Human Rights Demand" Blogtalkradio channel with Maya Schenwar. It is 2 hours and 15 minutes long and worth every minute!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2015/02/24/maya-schenwar-locked-down-locked-out-why-prisons-dont-work

REVIEWS

“Maya Schenwar's stories about prisoners, their families (including her own), and the thoroughly broken punishment system are rescued from any pessimism such narratives might inspire by the author's brilliant juxtaposition of abolitionist imaginaries and radical political practices.”
—Angela Y. Davis, author of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

“This book has the power to transform hearts and minds, opening us to new ways of imagining what justice can mean for individuals, families, communities, and our nation as a whole. Maya Schenwar’s personal, openhearted sharing of her own family’s story, together with many other stories and real-world experiments with transformative justice, makes this book compelling, highly persuasive, and difficult to put down. I turned the last page feeling nothing less than inspired.”
—Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow"

“A tour de force! Schenwar has written a must-read, damning account of the twisted philosophy and practice of incarceration …Until society changes its approach toward its ‘offenders,’ until we leaven punishment with forgiveness, reconciliation, and restorative justice, we are all guilty as charged.”
—Dennis J. Kucinich, US Congressman (1997–2013) and presidential candidate

“Locked Down, Locked Out paints a searing portrait of the real-life human toll of mass incarceration, both on prisoners and on their families, and—equally compellingly—provides hope that collectively we can create a more humane world freed of prisons. Read this deeply personal and political call to end the shameful inhumanity of our prison nation.”
—Dorothy Roberts, author of "Shattered Bonds and Killing the Black Body"

*****

Our featured book for December was "Judging Me", by Mary Elizabeth Bullock, a retired judge. In January, we featured "Getting Away with Murder," by George Mallinckrodt, a former prison psychoanalyst who is outraged by the negligence, torture, and unrequited murders in Florida prisons. We hope you enjoy "Slaying the Dragon" by Dave Koch, which was also featured in January. Koch is an ex-felon who launched an impressive aviation career after prison release. He later distinguished himself a successful businessman and now helps ex-offenders to reach the ivory towers in their own lives. His advice can apply to everybody who has obstacles to overcome before they experience success.

To suggest a book and author, please contact MaryLovesJustice, director of "Human Rights Demand" channel at Blogtalkradio, Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, the Human Rights for Prisoners March, and the Davis-MacPhail Truth Committee (an anti-DP org).
Website: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com/main.html
Email address MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
Phone numbers (678)531.0262 or (571)335-1741

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Privatization Runs Amok: Prisons and Psych Hospitals

PART 1: ONLINE PETITION SABOTAGE

Hello, online friends. Thank you for reading and signing my petition for free speech and freedom of press. I wanted to accomplish several things by publishing the petition. Most important among them is to expose the fact that such a petition is needed in the first place. I believe many people in the United States are denied freedom of expression, which is a supremely important human right and the foundation of democracy. Without the First Amendment, all other rights are voided.

I especially appreciate signatures with comments on the petition. I copied some to publish below:

Debbie Chapman ~ After taking a moment to read this petition, there is only one decision to be made. It is time to right a wrong. It is time to hear Mary's cry, take action, and fix a broken system. We need to protect the human rights of all, there is no room in our system for injustices. It's time to bond together, make our voices heard.

Jennie Bloom ~ Mary has been denied basic human rights: freedom of speech and association.

Yely Lod ~ You are doing great work Mary. The world could be changed only by activists, not the government. So keep fighting and you win

Susan Hammett ~ My human rights are also being violated. My prayers are with you.

I note certain Changes about the format of iPetition since I posted my petition for free speech on that site.

a) The signatures displayed are no longer numbered. As I published in an article called "Internet Censorship American Style," people can determine how many signatures have been stolen from a petition by noting the number that appears beside their names. If you sign as petitioner 44 on Monday and your signature displays as number 24 on Friday, it means the names of 20 people who signed before you have been removed.

b) Only the latest few signatures are on view. That prevents individuals from being able to see that their signatures have been removed, and it hides the petitioners' comments of support.

Removing the option to see all signatures and comments deprives petitioners of their freedom of press rights. Petitions are ordinarily attacked in America, and signatures are removed. Therefore, online petitions are unreliable. However, petitions are useful tools for communicating if the data is on public view.

Failure to make all signatures and comments visible censors Americans. It hides what petitioners wrote about the subject while also making it possible to steal signatures without detection. It is obvious when signatures are stolen because despite having numerous new signatures on view, the number of total signatures does not advance appropriately. The number of views for my YouTube videos do not advance as they should. Friends and I tested by having office workers open my videos one person after another, and the total number of views did not advance. One reason why the number of views on articles and videos and signatures on petitions are controlled is to keep ratings low for certain ideas and information. Another is to stifle financial advancements by targeted persons.

If you would like to read/sign the petition for my First Amendment rights at iPetitions, please use this url:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/free-mary-neal

I chose iPetitions specifically because the signatures were numbered and all petitioners' comments were on view. Within a few months, that Changed. Other ways advocacy for human rights is sabotaged in the United States are in "Internet Censorship American Style, by Mary Neal"
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/internet-censorship-how-they-do-it.html

Crimes against humanity in America are covered-up, then there is an attempt to cover-up the cover-up. I am America's most censored person. Many examples of my censorship are in a blog I started to reveal this information: "Justice Gagged"
http://JusticeGagged.blogspot.com

Saboteurs prevented the url I placed within the body of my petition from being a live link by removing the space between the link and the word before it. Many people may not know that all one has to do to access information at a link that does not work is to simply copy the link (remove spaces, if applicable), and enter it in a search engine like Google. The link that was sabotaged at iPetitions opens a video that proves my Internet censorship to protect the private prison industry, called "Prison Labor Profits."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRD77mugaI It is a very short video showing stalkers corrupting information as I type online in order to protect prison investors. The video is embedded below.

PRISON LABOR PROFITS

PART II: WAR ON BLACKS

African Americans are the most censored people on the planet. Suppressors appoint specific African American spokespersons and organizations, like the NAACP, to speak for my race. They have apparently committed to only give the agreed-upon responses to acts of racism and brutality that continually happen to us in America. Other black people are not allowed to speak, write, or discuss these issues, lest it become patently obvious that our circumstances since Reconstruction have not actually changed to the degree presented to the world, and our human rights and economic gains are systematically being eroded and have already reverted to the 1940s level. The latest example of this happened when a black freshman young man at the University of San Jose in California was tortured by his fellow students. Student protesters expected to give a press conference but were usurped by the NAACP, rushing to give the "official black response" and prevent disclosure about tortures and murders of other black students that happen periodically at that school.

Lynching is still legal, but until recently one had to become a police officer to enjoy that sport. In 2013, that Changed. Private citizens can now kill black people and say they did the murder because they felt threatened. This started after the Zimmerman verdict, and numerous blacks have been murdered by Caucasians who are not in law enforcement since the verdict was handed down. The latest such killing may have been of a mailman who was delivering mail after dark in the Washington, D.C. area. a young lady, 19, was murdered in Michigan when she went on a Caucasian man's porch. A football player was killed by police when he knocked on a white woman's door and frightened her. He wanted to use the phone after enduring a car wreck. A Florida man was also shot by a Caucasian man who saw him running exposed down the street (his clothes had been stolen).

Unemployment among African Americans is around 70% in some areas. Many blacks who do work are still deprived of equal pay and benefits for doing the same jobs as Caucasians, because corporations simply withdraw certain jobs from their own personnel departments and place those positions with temporary service companies. Therefore, the workers are employees of the temporary service company and not the corporation where they actually work alongside whites who earn double their wages and have insurance benefits, vacation pay and sick leave. I have friends who were "temporary employees" in same position for the same company for over five years. There should be a time limit on how long positions can be listed as temporary. So-called "black leaders" do not address this obvious discrimination, because they have apparently agreed not to, perhaps in expectation of prison stock or other personal gain. Censorship of persons who object is necessary to prevent public disclosure and outcry against America's racism and class consciousness. The rest of the world is led to believe that the United States is a country with liberty and justice for all.

I am especially censored because my handicapped brother's government murder while under secret incarceration that lasted 18 days proves that some of the same violations against human rights happen inside the U.S. that occur in China and other totalitarian countries. See "Wrongful Death of Larry Neal.com" at http://WrongfuldeathofLarryNeal.com/main.html ~ My censorship and persecution are meant to keep Larry Neal's murder covered-up while the mentally ill continue to be victims of over 50% of police violence incidents as well as over half the nation's 2.3 million prisoners. I am prevented from advocating freely to decriminalize mental illness in the USA while the prison investors in government positions devise new ways to financially benefit from victimizing people.

Since there is an attempt in the 21st century to hide racism while continuing to discriminate against blacks, independent oversight is crucial regarding new mental health laws and facilities that deliver psychiatric treatment. People labeled as being mentally ill in North Carolina will no longer be taken to public hospital emergency rooms if they are said to have a psychiatric crisis. Instead, they will be taken directly to a local for-profit specialty psych hospital. This is acceptable as long as it does not override the citizens' right to trial by jury for whatever offenses they may be accused of doing. See the NY Times article about this topic at at this url:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/health/er-costs-for-mentally-ill-soar-and-hospitals-seek-better-way.html

Medicaid was removed for psychiatric inpatient treatment from public hospitals in the 1960s in order to start America's private prison system by overcrowding the nation's public prisons and jails with mentally challenged people. Now Medicaid for mentally ill inpatients is back, but only for specific facilities. Every attempt must be made to see that abuses of citizens' rights do not happen in the private psych hospitals that receive Medicaid funds. Below are five examples of abuses of power involving the mental health care system.

1) Currently in Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Mason, a black woman, is being detained in jail (or a mental hospital) on allegations of being mentally ill after winning a Court Order allowing her to continue her pro se lawsuits against parties that she claimed (1) wrongly evicted her and her children from a home and (2) subjected her children to police violence by the law officers who evicted them while Mason was not home. Regarding Civil Action No. 12cv01619 in USDC, Western Dist. of PA, the Order reads thusly:

AND NOW, this 13th day of September, 2013, upon consideration of Plaintiff Florence Elizabeth Mason's motion to proceed in forma pauperis and her pro se complaint, it is ORDERED that: 1. Plaintiff Florence Elizabeth Mason is GRANTED leave to proceed in forma pauperis.

The Court Order set forth specific due dates for plaintiff to make submissions to the court, etc. After receiving the Court Order, Mason was arrested and given a psychological evaluation, which she passed. The judge then ordered a second team to administer a psychological evaluation days later around 10:30pm. The psych team awakened Mason and demanded a second evaluation after bed time. This probably caused the inmate, who had been sleeping, to feel disoriented and angry, because Mason knew she had already passed the evaluation once. This time, Mason was said to have failed the evaluation and is therefore eligible for commitment to a mental hospital, or she could already be in a prison psych ward. Mason feels this was done to interfere with her lawsuits.

The legal system can simply arrest ANYONE, INCLUDING YOU, and deliver individuals into a private psychiatric hospital on the supposition that they are psychotic. More information will be provided about Mason in "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill blog" by January 7, 2014, at http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com

2) Americans must not forget news stories reporting "Former Marine was Indefinitely Detained in a Psychiatric Ward Over 9/11 Facebook Posts."
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/former-locked-in-psychiatric-ward-over-his-911-facebook-posts.html

3) A young black man is indefinitely detained in a Pennsylvania prison today where he has been denied a trial for 4.5 years. Every time Terrell Scott's case should go to trial, either his attorney asks for a continuance or his prosecutor apparently files a false statement with the court claiming that Scott is not available because he is in a psychiatric hospital. Meanwhile, Scott's attorney allegedly tries to get the innocent young man to accept plea deals. In most states, if not all of them, defense attorneys cannot be sued for malpractice if the defendant accepts a plea deal.

Scott was arrested for crimes that never happened on the word of a single Caucasian woman who has no credibility. His case demonstrates how mental hospitals can be misused in a system where there is poor oversight. The prosecutor falsely asserts on court records that Scott is in Norristown State Hospital when he is in fact in prison year after year awaiting the opportunity to prove his innocence, and his mother visits him there every Friday. A simple phone call to Norristown by the court would have proved that Scott was not a patient there there. See the data at this url
http://www.scribd.com/doc/194905163/TerrellScottDocket-p20-21
Below is a pdf of Terrell Scott's Court Docket, pages 20-21.
TerrellScottDocket p20-21

As the director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, it is promising that more attention is being given to mental health care. However, there is a greater need for careful oversight than ever to ensure that people's human and civil rights are protected. Before mentally ill persons were de-institutionalized over 40 years ago, the country did not have private prisons. Private prisons plus private local psych hospitals could be extremely problematic without zealous oversight.

MaryLovesJustice

MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
(678)5

Monday, April 1, 2013

Lynne Stewart Update by Ralph Poynter

(RALPH POYNTER) 5,600 and counting! Individuals are reaching out to their friends, family and colleagues. Organizations are reaching out to their members. People throughout the world are joining together in the effort to free Lynne Stewart. [Links below lead to the 73-year-old former activist attorney's petition for compassionate release from prison due to stage4 cancer.]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu sent this Cri de Coeur: “It is devastating, totally unbelievable. Is this in a democracy, the only superpower? I am sad. I will sign. Praying God’s blessings on yr efforts.” +Desmond Tutu

Pete Seeger declared: “Lynn Stewart should be outa jail!” on a postcard signed “old Pete Seeger” accompanied by a drawing of his banjo.

Your outpouring of support has lifted Lynne’s spirits as she undergoes the ravaging effects of chemotherapy. On March 20, she sent this message to each and every one of you from her seven-person cell in the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, Texas:

“I want you, individually, to know how gratifying and happy it makes me to have your support. It is uplifting, to say the least, and after a lifetime of organizing it proves once again that the People can rise.

“The acknowledgement of the life-political, and solutions brought about by group unity and support, is important to all of us. Equally, so is the courage to sign on to a demand for a person whom the Government has branded with the ‘T’ word — Terrorist. Understanding that the attack on me is a subterfuge for an attack on all lawyers who advocate without fear of Government displeasure, with intellectual honesty guided by their knowledge and their client’s desire for his or her case, I hope our effort can be a crack in the American bastion. Thank you.” — Lynne

Lynne Stewart devoted over 30 years of her life to helping others as a criminal defense lawyer. She defended the poor, the disadvantaged and those targeted by the police and the State. Such had been her reputation as a fearless lawyer, ready to challenge those in power, that judges assigned her routinely to act for defendants whom no attorney was willing to represent.

Now Lynne Stewart needs our urgent help or she may die in prison. Our determination can compel the Bureau of Prisons to file the motion for compassionate release that will free Lynne Stewart.

Check out the Justice for Lynne Stewart website www.lynnestewart.org to view the signatories (up to 03/31/13), the postcard from Pete Seeger, Archbishop Tutu’s message as well as Lynne Stewart’s letter back to him, and much more.

Remind your friends to sign the petition and to disseminate it to others. Ask each person to get five people to sign, and each of those five to ask five people of their own. In five stages, you will have reached another 3,000 people!
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