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CoIntelPro prevents this tweet from posting at my Twitter account, where I am @koffietime http://twitter.com/koffietime

@TampaSeniors @righttolife @NAMIOC @Delaproser DHS Target Practice: Pregnant Women, Children, the Elderly http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/02/dhs-target-practice-pregnant-women.html #guncontrol

It appears that while Americans are subjected to gun control, the Department of Homeland Security is training shooters to kill non-traditional targets - pregnant women, old people, and little children. It probably requires practice to acclimate security forces to shooting such Americans. Read more about this if they let you at "DHS TARGET PRACTICE: Pregnant Women, Children and the Elderly" in the DogJustice blog 
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/02/dhs-target-practice-pregnant-women.html

20 minsMary Neal ‏@koffietime

@ggreenwald @joanwalsh I wish CoIntelPro would allow me to get my Guardian password in my gmail account: MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com #censor

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22 minsTop Bible Verses ‏@TopBibleVerses

God appointed Jesus heir of all things and through him he made the universe - Heb 1:2 (please retweet)

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22 minsMary Neal ‏@koffietime

@RippDemUp Right-to-Lifers should care abt people who cleared the birth canal on death row in Alabama, incl Thomas Arthur, innocent per DNA

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24 minsRiPPa ‏@RippDemUp

Alabama GOP Moves Closer To Shutting Down The Last Abortion Clinics In The State http://bit.ly/WRCnaR  #p2

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1 hrMary Neal ‏@koffietime

@ggreenwald DHS using pregnant women, children, elderly as target practice http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/02/dhs-target-practice-pregnant-women.html … See also http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com  #murder

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Feb 19Glenn Greenwald ‏@ggreenwald

Salon/@JoanWalsh: "Study finds 'liberals' more likely to favor targeted killings once they know it’s Obama's policy"http://www.salon.com/2013/02/19/targeted_killings_ok_if_obama_does_it/ …

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20 hrsMary Neal ‏@koffietime

@PFADP @ncadp Warren Hill got a stay of execution. Don't you want to Shout?! http://youtu.be/-Jgv6BS5jP4  See @AJC rpt http://bit.ly/13bRhJR  #God

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

@Twitter I wish you would lock my followers in unless they request to leave. CoIntelPro removes them, and the mentally ill need them all.

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

@PFADP I have done what I could 4 #WarrenHill , a retarded man who sinned like we all have. Heaven help him & us allhttp://youtu.be/vrlBeEkvzHY 

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

@Delaproser @RCdeWinter @BFERC @ReprieveUK @ncadp GA Kills the Mentally Ill: Warren Hill http://dmtruth.blogspot.com/2013/02/georgia-murders-mentally-ill-warren.html … Brandon Rhode in 2010. #DP

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

@NAMIOC GA may kill a mentally challenged man today: Warren Hill. Killed Rhode in 2010. NY is rounding up "the nuts" http://goo.gl/9C2LF 

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

@googlechrome They're rounding up the mentally ill in NY. NY Post article "Scoop the Nuts" http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/scoop_the_nuts_TujGFMPDFLCfDgxDqmjHIL … You see,@TreatmentAdvCtr?

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

@googlechrome They were desperate to control where and what I could say to help #WarrenHill. GA says the retarded man dies tomorrow. #DP

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

@googlechrome The stalkers made the new computer go black for a moment, then I had to sign on as a guest. CoIntelPro is my administrator.

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

@googlechrome Sad news. I had hoped for net freedom to help#WarrenHill. CoIntelPro took over my new GoogleChromeBook in less than 1 hr.

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

Hello, @VictorHoustonBP Like Nazi Germany, they're rounding up the mentally ill: "Scoop the Nuts" http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/scoop_the_nuts_TujGFMPDFLCfDgxDqmjHIL … Minorities next?

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

Thanks for RT @FRamabama @Delaproser @SVOS007 @NAMIOC@BIG_GOV Thanks @Prisonwatchint and @WeRalldoingtime for sharing my articles & tweets.

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

Welcome @LegacyBookGroup @worrier2warrior @BridgesCourt@MauMau1067 @ShashanaPage @MichaelMcgrew@MyTherapyQuotes Thanks for caring abt ppl!

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

Welcome @Ogoing @A_BetterDivorce @foxcat44 Did my cyberstalkers let you stay @RealFarrahGray ?

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

Welcome @Top50LawFirms @ReclaimInternat @LisaAndersonLMA@Spiritual__Book @TheMasterGroom @Dawson_LM@LadiesInPower @chenae17 @whistle39

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

Welcome @Prodigal @HaveProsperity @RoyalAzurianLin@AmpOnTheTrack @leosoup @_ElectricianJob @ShapeConferenceWelcome back @VictorHoustonBP !

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

America cannot go on this way. Killing mentally challenged people and relying on God to bless us. Please obey God. Have mercy on#WarrenHill

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

@GovernorDeal Please Governor, please, please save Warren Hill. Please have mercy, sir. @iSupremeCourt Justices, please help Warren Hill.Pls

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏@koffietime

Warren Hill, I play "Jesus Is Love" for inmates facing death. I'm so sad 4U I have no words and neither does the songhttp://youtu.be/4ese_GWL4JI 

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Feb 19Mary Neal ‏

      My home phone is tapped to prevent my sharing information about The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm fraud and other injustices against poor and middle class Americans, especially minorities and people who have disabilities.  The illegal phone tap that is on my phone prevents incoming and outgoing calls according to the will of those administrating the illegal attack on our communication. 

Today I was speaking with an online acquaintance, Gary, about The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm fraud against the family of Kathryn Johnston, the 92-year-old woman who former Atlanta police officers killed in the world's worst no-knock warrant case in November 2006.  We were immediately disconnected, which is what usually happens when I attempt to share information about the fact that The Cochran Firm never really filed suit for Sarah Dozier, Kathryn Johnston's niece, but pretended to do so to trick its client, millions of concerned people, and the United States District Court ( USDC ).  We were immediately disconnected, which is what usually happens when I attempt to share information about the fact that The Cochran Firm never really filed suit for Sarah Dozier, Kathryn Johnston's niece, but pretended to do so to trick its client, millions of concerned people, and the United States District Court ( USDC ).  The Cochran Firm filed fraudulent documents in USDC falsely claiming to have e-filed the Dozier vs. City of Atlanta November 21, 2007.  The court of jurisdiction should be Fulton County Superior Court. That court does not accept e-filed Complaints. The lawsuit was supposedly removed to federal court from Georgia State Court. Effective August 18, 2010, that court had no record of Dozier vs. City of Atlanta. To be valid, a Complaint has to be filed in a court with jurisdiction then served to defendants within 30 days of court filing. It appears that NO complaint was filed and served in Dozier vs. City of Atlanta; therefore, the lawsuit could not have been "removed" to Federal Court from like those bogus documents in United States District Court claim. All of the attorneys on that case know that. This particular Cochran Firm fraud was done to prevent Kathryn Johnston's wrongful death case against the City of Atlanta from going to a jury where Sarah Dozier would undoubtedly have been awarded the entire $18 million that The Cochran Firm PRETENDED to demand in the lawsuit that was never actually filed in the court with jurisdiction.

I called Gary back after being rudely disconnected by those who illegally tap my phone and control our communication.  On the second call, I could hear my voice echoing, which indicates that our conversation is being taped and possibly broadcast to those who tap our phone.  Gary asked if I was calling from a different phone, and I replied "no." 

Gary said, "I am looking at your caller I.D., Mary.  Your first call came from your home number, (678)531-0262.  But this call is coming from Global Telephone no. (786)377-7101."

Again, we were cut off.  I called the Global Telephone number Gary gave me and heard only static and a whinning sound.  Then I called DeKalb County Police about the illegal phone tap, and the officers said I must report the interference to my phone service provider, which I will do.  DeKalb Police said that if my phone service provider verifies that my phone has an illegal tap, police will investigate it. I have been through this same interference with phone service through ATT, Bell South, Vorizon, and MajicJack over the last few years - ever since my family discovered that we had been defrauded by The Johnnie Cochran Firm to protect Memphis Shelby County Jail after the secret arrest and murder of my mentally, physically disabled brother, Larry Neal, and that his murder was covered due to government corruption (2003).  It does not matter who the Neals have phone service with, because the interference continues regardless. 

In addition to the tapped phone, computers are not allowed to go online from my home address even if they are brand new and equipped with a wireless Internet receiver. When the computers leave my home, they are able to go online again. Over the last couple of years, six of my home computers were put on an illegal workgroup domain over which I am not the administrator. That is done to monitor and control my Internet access, and we must continually have computers wiped clean and Windows re-installed to rid our PCs temporarily of the spyware and network administrators' control. I have reported the illegal censorship against my family's use of phones and computers to police, FBI, Homeland Security, U.S. Attorneys Office, DeKalb CEO, individual congressmen, senators, civil liberties groups and civil rights organizations, as well as all major broadcast media affiliates and the general public.  I would not mind as much if the censorship force simply listened to what we say on the phone and watch what I publish online, but I object to them preventing our phone calls, deleting our voicemail messages, and preventing computers from going online from our home address.

Ironically, President Obama will address the nation today about the Iraq War and troop withdrawal. That war supposedly started because of human rights abuses - Iraq citizens were reportedly slautered by their own government. My disabled brother, Larry Neal, and elderly Kathryn Johnston were both American citizens. Yet, I am prevented from notifying the world that their lynchings were met with cover-up by authorities and fraud by The Cochran Firm working on behalf of government entities to prevent justice to the survivors. In Larry's case, the U.S. Department of Justice and Shelby County Jail refuse to answer federal subpoenas or Freedom of Information Act requests for records and accountability about his secret arrest and murder, and they may be who authorized The Cochran Firm to defraud my family and ordered the fraud to be enabled by the courts. At the end of Tennessee's statute of limitations for wrongful death lawsuits, The Cochran Firm's file regarding Larry's murder was EMPTY. The law firm contracted with my family, then sent us lying updates (through U.S. Mail fraud) about work that was not really being done to reconcile Larry's murder by police. The Cochran Firm fraud is a conspiracy against minority citizens across the nation to help government entities avoid heafty payouts after murders-by-police and other matters.

Plaintiffs' attorneys generally work on a contingency fee basis and are only paid when and if their clients are paid. Consider the millions of dollars The Cochran Firm seemingly forfeits by defrauding its minority clients on a continual basis, because minorities have a misplaced trust in the law firm that wears Johnnie Cochran's name. Who pays The Cochran Firm to "take a fall" on certain cases? See this link for three examples of fraud against black and Latino clients:
THE COCHRAN FIRM DEFRAUDS LATINO CLIENT AND SUES ITS INSURERS http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/johnnie-cochran-firm-defrauds-another.html

If the government wishes to minimize the amount of damages being paid after abuses of power, etc., it should (1) institute a policy of zero tolerance for police abuse, and (2) go through the proper procedures to place legal limits on wrongful death payouts by government entities. Defrauding black families through The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm after lynchings is not the answer.  Neither is it acceptable to monitor and control my communications to prevent spread of information about The Cochran Firm fraud.

"They're not really citizens; they're negroes." ~ Quote from The Resurrectionist, by Mark Graham

NOTE:  I am frequently given an html screen for input at Care2 instead of a screen where my links appear live. That is probably done to dissuade readers from accessing the data at my links, which can also be accomplished by copying the link and placing it in a Google browser field. If you find links in my Sharebook that are not live or do not lead to the targeted data, copy and paste them into Google.  The truth goes marching on!

Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

Website:  http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/

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    (The nine links herein do not open in a new window. Please use your back arrow to return.)    Mental illness often leads to crisis situations that require police intervention. That is one reason why members of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill are concerned about police departments having officers with high integrity and morale. This can only happen when they are fairly paid. Police need fair pay to avoid fatigue caused by working two jobs and economic stress that could impact their ability to properly assess situations and handle them appropriately. Please support this petition for DeKalb County, Georgia police officers to have their full pay reinstated. They face seven furlough days and having to work on holidays without holiday pay. Human rights advocates like AIMI members are not anti-police; we are anti-police brutality.

Please use the link below to access the petition.  Sign and share with others.  Thanks in advance for your support for men and women on the force to have adequate wages!

PETITION FOR FAIR PAY FOR DEKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA POLICE OFFICERS

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/fair-pay-for-dekalb-county-police/

Interestingly, while DeKalb County police officers' pay was cut, some county commissioners raised salaries for their staff. Furthermore, former DeKalb County Chief Communications Officer Shelia Edwards was given $46,000 severance pay after she voluntarily quit her job that paid nearly $150,000 per year. Severance packages should be reserved for people who were laid off or forced to accept early retirement, not people who decide to quit their jobs - especially while the county's police officers' wages are cut. See the article at the link below:
www.cbsatlanta.com/news/24762094/detail.html

What is happening in DeKalb County to police officers mirrors problems across the country for middle-class and poor people.  Many of America's decision makers are millionaires or people who aspire to be wealthy and have little empathy for working class citizens, including people in important service positions like police officers, firefighters, and public school teachers. 

How much concern do Georgia officials show to middle class and poor people, including hundreds of thousands of displaced workers? The Georgia Fresh Start Program is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The program is designed to assist low income families with specific critical needs: their utility bills and overdue rent or mortgage payments. As much as $7.6 million of monies appropriated under that program may be refunded to the federal government, not because Georgians don't desperately need assistance, but because the money was not distributed. Meanwhile, nearly 2,000 Georgians are on the waiting list for help and tens of thousands of others who qualify for assistance do not know about the program. Read about the injustice at this link:

State Has Just Weeks to Use or Lose $7.6 Million
http://www.ajc.com/news/state-has-just-weeks-593453.html

While the poor and working class scramble to make ends meet, the money continues to pour in for the wealthy.  Economic crises make police officers' work more dangerous, because desperate people sometimes do desperate things.  But the increasing crime rate is good for prison investors. The prison industrial complex costs taxpayers around $50 billion per year, and prison owners and investors also earn untold billions more per annum from prison work projects.  America's jobs are steadily disappearing across seas or behind prison walls while the men and women who risk their lives to fight crime and apprehend perceived lawbreakers have their salaries reduced. 

Classism has eclisped racism as being America's worst discrimination problem. DeKalb County police officers' salary reduction is indicative of that problem. Another example is The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm's fraud against the Kathryn Johnston's survivors to benefit the City of Atlanta. On November 21, 2007, The Cochran Firm published lies in the media and later filed fraudulent documents in United States District Court falsely claiming to have filed an $18 million lawsuit on behalf of Sarah Dozier regarding her aunt, 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston, who was killed in 2006 by former Atlanta police officers in the nation's worst no-knock warrant case. The truth is that no lawsuit was really filed for the Johnston family.  The Cochran Firm withheld lawsuit and worked for the City of Atlanta behind its clients' backs to force them to accept a much smaller than necessary award for the elder's murder. Any jury convened in Atlanta would have awarded the family the entire $18 million that was reported to be The Cochran Firm's demand. After Kathryn Johnston's family accepted a small settlement on August 17, 2010 of less than one-third that amount (that must be divided with The Cochran Firm as their lawyers), I checked with Georgia Superior Court and Georgia State Court. No law suit was filed in either court for Dozier vs. City of Atlanta, but fake documents in United States District Court claim the lawsuit was moved from the lower court (Georgia Superior Court) to federal court.  This is another conspiracy to deny justice to a black family after murder by police. See the article at this link: 

Cochran Firm Defrauds Kathryn Johnston's Survivors
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/cochran-firm-defruads-kathryn-johnstons.html

The media censors news about THE COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD and many other subjects that Americans need to know, and civil rights organizations and the U.S. Government either do not care about the fraud against minority citizens, or they facilitate it. I wrote to Sarah Dozier to warn her about her family being defrauded in my blog. Please share the link so that eventually, she may recognize the need to sue The Cochran Firm for its malpratice and fraud against Kathryn Johnston's estate. Of course, when my family sued The Cochran Firm and served suit in Georgia Superior Court, Judge Wendy Shoob dismissed our lawsuit in 2006 (six months before Kathryn Johnston's murder) and said our suit was served wrong because there is no Cochran Firm in Georgia. Ironically, The Cochran Firm filed fraudulent documents regarding Dozier vs. City of Atlanta in United States District Court with Judge Marvin Shoob presiding.  My letter for Sarah Dozier is at the link below:

To Sarah Dozier: FRAUD Against Kathryn Johnston Estate
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/to-sarah-dozier-fraud-against-kathryn.html

When officials collude against working class and poor Americans, the media helps by withholding news reports that would serve to warn people about the deception.  Thank God for Internet news sites and networks like Care2 where the truth can reach people to a limited degree and DeKalb County police officers and others can get support for their justice quest for fair wages.

There are police officers who do not deserve public trust, like former Atlanta police officers who murdered Kathryn Johnston and tried to cover the elder's murder by falsely accusing her of drug trafficking.  Some officers are corrupt like the Memphis Shelby County police who murdered my mentally, physically disabled brother, Larry Neal, after 18 days of secret arrest in 2003 ( see http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/ ).  But most police officers are dedicated professionals who are as displeased as other citizens by the wrong direction America is taking.  Virtually 100% of the police officers I spoke with agree that acute mental patients should not be jailed, but hospitalized. However, when police are called to the scene of public disturbances or crimes involving mentally ill Americans, they ordinarily have no choice but to arrest sick people because mental hospitals across the country continue to be closed or reduce services. Medicaid was deleted for psychiatric inpatients during the 1970's, and only the wealthy can afford private mental hospitals or drug rehabilitation therapy. Consequently, mentally ill Americans from poor and middle class families comprise over half of the nation's 2.3 million inmates, and they are 60% of the inmates warehoused in cruel solitary confinement, frequently without any psychiatric or medical care.  Inpatient treatment for mental patients was omitted from the national health care plan that Congress passed in February, but there is still hope to end discrimination against people with mental health problems. There is a federal bill pending to resume Medicaid for inpatient treatment for mentally ill Americans.  H.R.619 was introduced in Congress by Rep. Eddie Johnson (D-TX) in January 2009, but it has received zero media coverage.  That is likely because private prison investors do not wish for Americans to know we have an opportunity to decriminalize mental illness by making inpatient mental health care accessible to middle class and poor people by passing H.R.619.  It would hurt prison profits to stop treating sick people like criminals.  Ask yourself why the media refuses to report the opportunity H.R.619 presents to decriminalize mental illness although the condition affects 1 in 5 Americans and millions of people who have mentally challenged loved ones. Please read about and vote for the important, censored bill at OpenCongress.org at the following link: H.R.619 - Federal Bill to Resume Medicaid for Inpatient Psychiatric Care
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h619/news_blogs 

As I recently watched the Chief of DeKalb County Police Department speak to DeKalb County Commissioners on television about the importance of restoring full pay to officers, I became concerned for him. In my experience, people who request justice for working class Americans are censored, persecuted, and stalked. See the article at the link below about my most frightening stalking episode:

Mary Neal Finally Heard from Police re 911 Emergency Call
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/mary-neal-finally-heard-from-police-re.html

Police officers are also considered to be insignificant working class people by some decision makers. Yet, public safety depends on having police officers who are ready, willing and able to protect and serve our communities and who are too satisfied with their jobs to violate the rules of conduct themselves. High morale and strong integrity among police officers can only happen where officers feel valued.  Thanks for your support for the Petition for Fair Pay for DeKalb County Police Officers.  Please share the link with others who care about promoting liberty and justice for all. 

It is time for people to do as Dr. King advised:  Come together as brethren, or perish together as fools.

NOTE:  I am frequently censored to hide wrongdoing and actual crimes. Copy and paste any links that are prevented from being active in my Sharebook into your Google browser to access the articles the censorship force doesn't want you to read.  The link to my article,Mary Neal Finally Heard from Police re 911 Emergency Call, appeared with a space afterward that sometimes is used to drag my data into invisibility.  See some of my computer censorship at my YouTube channel jkempp703.  Follow me at Twitter, where I am Koffietime, and I will follow you back!  http://twitter.com/koffietime
  

Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI  

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

    A Care2 News Network story reports abandonment of mentally ill childen in Senegal. I wrote the following comment at the story, but got a DoS. (Censorship is usual for my comments.  I filmed the censorship, which is also usual.  See samples of real-time cybercensorship at my YouTube channel jkempp703). "Senegal sounds almost as bad as America where mentally ill people are frequently abused, neglected, 1.25 million are imprisoned for being sick, and some, like my brother Larry Neal, are murdered under secret arrest. http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com "

Unfortunately, we do not have to travel to Senegal to see abused, neglected, abandoned mental patients.  That is often how Americans are treated when they suffer mental illness.  Another sad example of America's neglect of mental patients became evident this week when Mitrice Richardson's remains were found in Malibu Canyon in California. 

Mitrice was a 24-year-old recent college graduate who was arrested in Lost Hills, CA Jail on September 16, 2009, at 10p.m.  She was reportedly released from jail around 1:30 a.m. without any money, I.D., food, water, or cell phone in an unfamiliar area on foot, because police had her car. Mitrice was reportedly acting erratically and suffering depression before being arrested for 1) disturbing the peace in a restaurant - talking about Martians; 2) possession of a small amount of marijuana; and 3) running an $89.00 tab at the restaurant that she did not have ready funds to pay.  The young woman obviously needed help.  Instead, Mitrice went missing for almost a year after her arrest until her skeletal remains were found Monday.  See more about Mitrice at this link:   http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=17280&pst=884068

PLEASE NOTE THE CARE2 STORY: 
SENEGAL: Children With Disability - When Stigma Means Abandonment

http://www.care2.com/news/member/100330942/1967217

Naoko 
Aug. 12 - irinnews.org
In Senegal many women refuse to take mentally disabled children on public transport; families hide children with mental or neurological disorders, and some parents disown them outright. Such is the stigma of having a child with these widely misunderstood

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI

NAMI Advocacy Action Center carries information about pending legislation that has significant impact on mentally challenged Americans and others. Your support is needed for H.R.4213.  NAMI reports the following information about this important bill:

Call Now to Preserve Vital Funding for State and Local Mental Health Services

State Medicaid Funding at Stake!

The Senate has been working on a new version of the Jobs and Tax Extenders legislative package that passed the House of May 28.  The bill, known as the American Jobs, Closing Tax Loopholes and Preventing Outsourcing Act (HR 4213), includes a provision that would extend each state's federal Medicaid match rate (known as FMAP) through June 2011.  Without this extension, many states will very likely cut funding for Medicaid, which is the most important source of funding of public mental health services. The extended Medicaid FMAP was removed from the House bill, so getting it passed in the Senate is of particular importance. 

1. Extended Medicaid FMAP Funding - The new Senate version of HR 4213 includes $26 billion to extend the current higher federal match for state Medicaid programs that was included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in 2009.  This higher federal Medicaid match rate (known as FMAP) is set to expire at the end of 2010.  It is critical for Congress to extend the higher FMAP for states through June 2011.  Securing these funds now will help avoid further deep cuts to mental illness treatment and support services financed by Medicaid.  As many as 30 states have already passed budgets for 2011 that assume extended higher FMAP.  If Congress fails to act, these states will be forced to make additional cuts to human service programs including mental health services.  Read a full analysis of the impact of failing to extend Medicaid FMAP at this link:  http://www.cbpp.org/files/6-8-10sfp2.pdf
   
2. National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) Investment - HR 4213 includes $1.065 billion for initial capitalization of the NHTF, a program authorized by Congress in 2008 to invest in the development of rental housing targeted to households with extremely low incomes, including non-elderly adults living on SSI.  This provision of $1.065 billion will be allocated to states by formula and includes funding for capital and project-based rent subsidies to ensure that rents are affordable to people living on SSI.  More information on the NHTF and efforts to secure this initial capitalization is available through NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION at this link:  http://www.nlihc.org/template/index.cfm

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Mentally challenged people need help to avoid homelessness, prison, and health crises.  Mental hospital insurance, which is available under H.R.619, was omitted from the national health care reform bill that Congress passed.  The extended Medicaid FMAP, available under H.R.4213, was removed from the House bill.  Please ask your representatives to support both these important bills.  When important services are not funded, taxpayers save no money because more sick people join the 1.25 million who are already behind bars, adding to our $50 billion per annum prison budget and subjecing sick Americans to needless suffering.

Thanks in advance for helping mentally challenged people avoid incarceration (after avoidable crimes) by insisting that they have the support they need to live wholesome lives.

Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI

     Below is an invitation to participate in a justice quest for the Scott sisters - two African American women who have served over 15 years imprisonment on double life sentences in Mississippi for an $11 theft they claim not to have done. Excessive sentencing and wrongful convictions help no one but prison investors. America's economy is getting as dependent on prison profiteering as it once was on slavery. Justice will not improve until Americans demand, " EDUCATION, NOT PRISONS! HEALTH CARE, NOT PRISONS! JOBS, NOT PRISONS! MENTAL HOSPITALS, NOT PRISONS! YOUTH PROGRAMS, NOT PRISONS! " 

The Scott sisters' case is highly censored.  Jamie Scott is dying in prison of kidney failure.  Because she is an inmate, she has no employee health coverage to be able to pay for a kidney transplant.  Her sister offered to donate her a kidney, but Mississippi says the operation is too expensive for a prisoner.  The contested $11 theft may soon turn into a death sentence without your intervention.  Hebrews 13:3 makes prisoner treatment your business.  I put tags to this Share twice and they disappeared when I submitted the Share.  Tags should read:  ScottSisters, MaryNeal, WrongfulConvictions, ExcessiveSentencing, PrisonInvestment, PrisonProfiteering, OvercrowdedPrisons, Racism, AfricanAmerican, Slavery, InmateHealthCare, KidneyTransplant, KidneyFailure, MississippiAttorneyGeneral, AssistanceToTheIncarceratedMentallyIll, DogJustice

I received the following email about the Scott sisters today:

ACT NOW!! CALL, WRITE, AND BROADLY DISTRIBUTE!!
Contact the Mississippi Attorney General
Telephone: 601-359-3680

MS Attorney General's Office
Walter Sillers Building
550 High Street, Suite 1200
Jackson, MS 39201
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 1st, 2010

Contact: Kambiz Mostofi, 818-451-6472
Life Imprisonment for an $11 Robbery

Jackson, MS – On Christmas Eve in 1993, sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott left a mini-mart near their home in Scott County, Mississippi. Their car broke down. They hitched a ride from two young men, one of whom they knew. Later that evening the two men were robbed at gunpoint by three teenagers in another car. The robbers took an estimated $11 from the two young men. No one was hurt. Police accused the Scott sisters of setting the victims up.

Their father, James “ Hawk ” Rasco had experienced problems with law enforcement after he moved his family from Chicago back to Scott County, Miss. Rasco took over a nightclub previously owned by a nephew who had turned state’s evidence in a case against the “ High White Sheriff ” of Scott County, Glenn Warren.

In the case of the Scott Sisters, the gun allegedly used in the robbery was never located, and the “ stolen ” wallet was recovered according to an affidavit by a trustee of the jail.

Jamie Scott is currently suffering from kidney failure and is gravely ill due to the care she is receiving at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) in Pearl, Mississippi. Jamie’s condition has grown more critical prompting many groups in Mississippi to start writing letters and making phone calls to elected officials.

Civil Rights Advocate Dr. Adam Reza said “ The people of Mississippi demand an investigation into the case of the Scott Sisters, and we call on Attorney General Jim Hood to personally look in to the health of Jaime Scott. This is the United States of America and the Scott Sisters are entitled to their civil rights. We shall pursue legal action against the state of Mississippi if matters are not rectified. ”

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A Mercer County, New Jersey program proves the wisdom of providing subsistence assistance to former inmates who are mentally ill.  Members of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) advocate for two methods to decriminalize mental illness in America:  1) Pass federal bill H.R.619 to resume Medicaid for inpatient psychiatric treatment for middle class and indigent mentally ill Americans. Medicaid for inpatient psychiatric care was eliminated in the 1970's and led to today's crisis:  1.25 million of the nation's mental patients are prisoners, mostly due to avoidable crimes committed by people who were not being treated for their mental illness; and 2) Use assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs for chronic mental patients exiting jails and hospitals.  AOT programs that combine mandated psychiatric treatment with subsistence assistance reduced homelessness, arrests, hospitalizations, and incarceration among program participants in New York by around 85% as compared to their experiences three years before joining the program.  New Jersey's program of monitoring and supporting mental patients after prison release further prove that it is humane and financially prudent to give mentally ill ex-prisoners the support they need to live wholesome lives and avoid recidivism.  See an exciting article about the Mercer County program below.

New Services for Released Prisoners With Mental Illness in Mercer County, N.J. - http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=65408

(June 28, 2010) -- In 2005, Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare launched an initiative to assist released prisoners in Mercer County, N.J., who suffered from mental illness and substance abuse problems. The project was funded under New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).

The agency partnered with a range of organizations representing government, health care providers, the mentally ill and ex-offenders to:

• Implement a model for prisoner discharge planning and services geared to the needs of those with serious mental illness or substance abuse problems.
• Gather data useful in reevaluating statewide public policy for serving former prisoners with serious mental illness or substance abuse problems, including:
  • The risk of hospitalization or re-incarceration
  • The level of services needed
  • Follow-through and adherence to treatments

A project advisory committee, made up of staff and representatives of the partnering organizations, provided guidance and coordination. For a list of the project's partnering organizations, see Appendix 1.

Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare reported the following results to RWJF in 2008:

• From July 2005 to June 2008, Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare received grant support under NJHI to provide re-entry assistance to 176 people—45 from state prisons and 131 from the county jail. These clients received assessment, discharge planning, case management, service coordination and needed follow-up services for 12 months or more. Services included:
  • Assistance in obtaining public benefits (120 clients, or 68 percent of those served)
  • Providing medication (88 clients, or 50 percent of those served)
  • Linking clients to treatment (79 clients, or 45 percent of those served)
  • Securing housing (111 clients, or 63 percent of those served)
• Re-incarceration rates during the project were substantially lower than the national average:
  • Of those released from state prisons, 20 percent (9 of 45) were re-incarcerated. The national average for state prisons is 81 percent.
  • Of those released from the jail, 30 percent (39 of 131) were re-incarcerated. The national average for local jails is 79 percent.
• The project fostered a broad-based systems change in the handling of released prisoners, including:
  • Providing re-entry services to state prisoners with mental illness
  • Improving access to financial assistance for re-entering prisoners
  • Improving the quality of treatment through staff training
  • Better service coordination among courts, corrections and health agencies

For project findings comparing those released from state prison to those released from jail, see Appendix 2.

1. When working with the prison and county jail systems, do not rely on predicted release dates. Staff planned to work with clients for three months prior to discharge, but this was not possible since—especially for jail clients—discharge dates were often unpredictable with clients tending to be released earlier than anticipated. (Project Director)
2. Several factors predict positive outcomes for clients remaining in the community, including:
   • The client is linked to treatment and receives medication.
   • The client has permanent housing.
   • The client's case manager completes an intervention within one week of release. (Project Director)
3. Many former prisoners with mental health or substance abuse problems need longer support than the nine to 12 months of follow-up originally envisioned in the project because of the severity of challenges this population faces. (Project Director)

RWJF provided a $300,000 grant to Greater Trenton C.M.H.C., Inc. (the incorporation name for Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare) for this project from July 2005 to June 2008. Mercer County, N.J., and the New Jersey Division of Mental Health Services also provided funding.

Mercer County and the New Jersey Division of Mental Health Services continued to fund the project after RWJF support ended. The state agency also has contracted with Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare to expand the effort by intervening when a person with mental illness first comes in contact with the justice system. The goal is to provide treatment in lieu of incarceration.

With a grant from RWJF (ID# 063162), Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare offered free technical assistance in 2009 to organizations helping former prisoners with mental illness. This included a conference on November 13, 2008, in Monroe Township, N.J. Some 154 individuals representing corrections, mental health, governmental and other organizations attended.

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Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI