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“I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten . . . men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.”

"Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence." 

" While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope: in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience."

                            

Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887)  http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/865865

"In a world where thre is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do."

"If I am cold, they are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned."

JAIL IS THE LAST THING
MENTAL PATIENTS NEED ... AND TOO
OFTEN, JAIL IS THE LAST THING
THEY EXPERIENCE.  Please join us in
our quest to decriminalize mental
illness in America. No one should be
punished for having a disability.


ANNOUNCEMENT:  PLEASE COME to the HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH IN ATLANTA, GA ON MAY 16!  See the link below:
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/human-rights-prisoners-march-planned-mid-may-atlanta

Conditions in American prisons, where 1.25 million mentally ill citizens are warehoused, are nearly as bad as those in the War on Terror determent camps.  See for yourself at this link:

 This video shows why the march is needed.

      (Beware - graphic violence, nudity, and death): 
       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWxpQ87C4t4

And here is another heartbreaking video:

Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons 


Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI

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