1.25 MILLION AMERICANS ARE MENTALLY ILL PRISONERS.  Together with other human rights activists and organizations, we can decriminalize mental illness and become a bridge in the mist for incarcerated mental patients to a more humane existence.

Prisoners with mental dysfunctions should be either hospitalized or cared for in their communities, depending on their offenses and the severity of their conditions, not imprisoned!   Disabled people should not be jailed for their handicaps. 

AIMI is a group for those with a commitment to HUMAN RIGHTS to come together and promote decriminalization of mental illness and help remove the stigma associated with this condition.  AIMI gives no psychiatric, medical, or legal advice or referrals.  Our goals are simply to educate the public on the seriousness of the issue and promote change in how mental illness is dealt with by our legislators and law enforcement.

AIMI seeks to work with others to help (a) remove barriers to timely treatment,  thereby reducing the number of patients who must be removed from society, and (b) see that acute patients who do require containment become hospital inpatients, not prison inmates.  It is morally wrong and more expensive for taxpayers to prosecute rather than treat psychiatric patients.

Homelessness, prison, and death must not continue to be America's answers to mental illness.

  
                                              


PETITION FOR DOG JUSTICE IS BACK ONLINE! ~ Guantanamo is not the only place where people were Secretly Arrested, Abused and Killed.  The same thing happened to a U.S. citizen, Larry Neal.  As with the camp detainees, Larry's family has been denied any accountability about his secret detainment and death in Memphis/Shelby Co. Jail for almost six years.  Please support the DOG JUSTICE petition requesting an investigation to end the ongoing. conspiracy of cover-up 

http://www.petitiononline.com/Neal/petition.html


                                              

ALL NEW MEMBERS are invited to introduce yourselves at the pink "Welcome, Intros, Getting to Know You" tab below!  Much of our subject matter in this group is disturbing, but you will enjoy interacting with members and helping to effect positive Change.

            See the case that started AIMI:
         http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com 

Mary Neal 
Articles:  http://nowPublic.com/duo

Mary's Care2 Page: http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=513396753

Care2 Blog:  http://www.Care2.com/c2c/Share/Sharebook/513396753
AIMI Photo Album:  http://www.care2.com/c2c/photos/view/217/513396753/AIMI_Photo_Album/

CONTACT INFORMATION
 

Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 7222, Atlanta, GA  30357
e-Mail addresses: marylovesjustice@gmail.com
Message phone:  770.651.8413
(Electronic communication, incl. phone, is censored;
use regular mail for improved surety of receipt)


Members, please use the blue "Petitions, Call to Action" tab below to help decriminalize mental illness and assist with other pressing justice issues.  YOU ARE THE NEEDED CHANGE.  Thanks!