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Abused Mentally Ill Man's Lawsuit Against CCA Private Prison Dismissed
Health & Wellness  (tags: CCA, MentallyIllPrisoners, DecriminalizeMentalIllness, PrisonProfiteers, FrankHorton, NashvillePrisonSystem, AssistanceToTheIncarceratedMentallyIll, AIMI, MaryNeal, wrongfuldeathoflarryneal, SolitaryConfinement, PrisonerTorture )

Mary
- 110 days ago - tennessean.com
What happens when a mentally ill inmate is imprisoned naked for nine months living in filth in dark solitary confinement and is so abused and traumatized that he can only speak gibberish when released? Judge dismisses family's lawsuit, of course!
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Prisons Earn $878 Million Annually By Poisoning Inmates and Guards, Lawsuit Alleges
Health & Wellness  (tags: PrivatePrisons, VanguardGroup, CCA, LeadPoisoning, AssistancetotheIncarceratedMentallyIll, MaryNeal, LarryNeal, TheCochranFirm, DogJustice, Guerra, Gonzales, USDOJ, FederalPrisons, PrisonLabor )

Mary
- 371 days ago - my.nowpublic.com
Inmates had to bust computers with hammers to extract gold from within. Those who lived through lead poisoning and exposure to Cadmium, Barium, Beryllium will continue to work as slaves, although sick inmates are even more profitable for prison owners...
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Indicted: VP Chaney and Former Attorney General Gonzales - Private Prison Profiteers?
Health & Wellness  (tags: VanguardGroup, DickChaney, Gonzales, PrivatePrison, mentalHealth, MentalIllness, LarryNeal, MaryNeal, AssistancetotheIncarceratedMentallyIll, JulianBolton, TheCochranFirm, ShelbyCountyJail, ShelbycountyGovernment, USDOJ, CCA, Schwarzenegger, AIMI )

Mary
- 393 days ago - my.nowpublic.com
VP Dick Chaney and ex-Attorney General Gonzales have been indicted on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy's federal detention centers. The indictment criticizes Cheney's investment in the Vanguard Group, private prison interests
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Oregon Man Murders His Sister, By Mary Neal
Health & Wellness  (tags: Anosognosia, JosephRockwood, TheresaRockwood, TreatmentAdvocacyCenter, AssistancetotheIncarceratedMentallyIll, wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com, DogJustice, privateprison, CCA, mentalHealth, MentalIllness, decriminalizementalillness )

Mary
- 395 days ago - my.nowpublic.com
Joseph F. Rockwood killed his adoring sister, Theresa Rockwood, on November 10. He stabbed her to death. Theresa's brother suffers from a severe, chronic case of schizophrenia, but 54-year-old Joseph does not know that he is sick. He has anosognosia...
13 comments
Is America's Prison System Legalized Slavery?
Health & Wellness  (tags: PrivatePrisons, CCA, GEOgroup, AfricanAmerican, JusticeSystem, MaryNeal, LarryNeal, wrongfuldeathoflarryneal, Slavery, DogJustice, PrisonerAdvocacy, AssistancetotheIncarceratedMentallyIll, AIMI )

Mary
- 403 days ago - my.nowpublic.com
IS SLAVERY REALLY OVER in America, or was the privilege to enslave human beings and enforce their labor simply relegated to the nation's prison system? The 13th Amendment to the Constitution provides that slavery is legal for prisoners, and private priso
9 comments
Prison Torture of Mentally Ill American - Nine Months Solitary Confinement in Filth
Health & Wellness  (tags: CorrectionsCorpoationofAmerica, MetroNashvilleDetentionFacility, assistancetotheincarceratedmentallyill, DogJustice, MaryNeal, LarryNeal, USDOJ, CCA, FrankHorton, MentalIllness, DecriminalizeMentalIllness )

Mary
- 408 days ago - my.nowpublic.com
Video shows Frank Horton, an African American mentally ill inmate who was kept naked in solitary confinement for nine months - so long that he was "no longer able to speak a language anyone could understand." Video clips also show Horton repeatedly spray
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