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Mental Patient Deteriotating Fast in Solitary Confinement in CA Prison, Reports Prison Doctor to Care2 Member, Mother of Inmate


Health & Wellness  (tags: JeremySmith, CaliforniaPrisonSystem, AssistancetotheIncarceratedMentallyIll, SSCCCCS, AIMI, MaryNeal, LarryNeal, DogJustice, MentalIllness, DecriminalizeMentalIllness, Persecution, AmericansWithDisabilities )

Mary
- 1060 days ago - care2.com
Young schizophrenic Calif. inmate Jeremy Smith survived FOUR YEARS in solitary confinement before being rescued and sent to a mental hospital where he hit another patient. Now he is back in prison sentenced to EIGHT YEARS. He is deteriorating fast! Needs.



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Mary Neal (186)
Tuesday March 17, 2009, 7:40 pm
PLEASE help Jeremy Smith, everyone! Don't let what happened to Mr. Horton in CCA's prison in Nashville happen to this young man!

Mr. Horton was kept in isolation for 9 months. He lived in filth - no baths, no medical or psychiatric care, and no exercise until a prison guard feared for the mentally ill inmate's life and blew the whistle on his employers!

Read about Mr. Horton and SEE THE VIDEO.

PRIVATE PRISON TORTURE OF MENTALLY ILL AMERICAN - 9 MO. SOLITARY IN FILTH

http://my.nowpublic.com/health/private-prison-torture-mentally-ill-american-nine-months-solitary-confinement-filth-and-naked

Please help Jeremy Smith get out of solitary confinement and into a mental hospital where he and all acute mental patients who are presently being warehoused in prison belong!

It is on you, America. Such as you do to the least of these, His brethren, you do also unto Christ, the Lord. Matthew 25:40

Don't do this to mental patients, I beg you! Don't do to Jeremy what you did to my mentally ill brother, Larry, who died in Memphis/Shelby County Jail under secret arrest, and no one will explain why - 5 years and no records, no explanation, and no accountability!

Please stop and consider this: Mental patients are people, too. They are Americans, too. They are supposed to have their rights protected, too. Don't kill them! Don't lock them away in solitary confinement AS PRISONERS and throw away the key!

People love their mentally ill relatives! STOP THE ABUSE OF POWER. Stop using mental patients to make money for the prison profiteers.

Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

 

Joycey B. (754)
Tuesday March 17, 2009, 7:52 pm
Gladly signed,#274 and noted with thanks Mary.
 

Suzybell H. (202)
Tuesday March 17, 2009, 7:53 pm
Noted and signed! Thanks Mary I remember all the months my son was on lock down "for his own protection" once because he was suicidal no clothing had to eat with his hands nothing no blanket in Nov-Jan. Mostly because of threats from officers
 

Mary Neal (186)
Tuesday March 17, 2009, 8:30 pm
PLEASE LEAVE THIS IN NEWLY SUBMITTED, NOT COMMUNITY. THANK YOU.
 

Mary Neal (186)
Tuesday March 17, 2009, 9:04 pm
YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED. JEREMY IS NOT RECEIVING ANY DOCTOR'S HELP.

1) e-Mail Gov. Schwarzenegger - http://gov.ca.gov/interact

2) Send this news to all your groups and your friends.

Don't let Jeremy die in solitary confinement. Gina loves her son!

Thanks for all that I know you will do to help, because you CARE.

 

charles mclachlan (1259)
Tuesday March 17, 2009, 9:25 pm
noted thanks mary,well what a system yous have in america 8 years for hitting someone lucky if they get 3 or 4 years in this country for killing babys getting of with manslaughter insted ,this man should never have bee jaild for 8 weeks never mind 6 years the law and system tinks jut like here in the uk.poor man and his family
 

DoNotMessage G. (267)
Wednesday March 18, 2009, 1:52 am
Hey Charles, two women raped in my family and their attackers spent less than two years each in prison. Neither of those two have a mental illness, they are just criminals. So is our system a criminal for torturing the mentally ill.
ty Mary, our country is sick itself for this treatment, ugh. prayers out to the family
 

Marylee Tarrats (23)
Wednesday March 18, 2009, 2:54 am
Noted, petition signed, and email sent to Gov. Schwarzenegger.
 

ROBIN M. (312)
Wednesday March 18, 2009, 3:38 am
SIGNED AND NOTED, PEOPLE SEEM TO CLOSE THEIR EYES AND LOOK THE OTHER WAY WHEN IT IS A MENTAL ILL PATIENT. I GUESS THEY ARE AFRAID IT IS GOING TO RUB OFF OR SOMETHING OR THEY MIGHT BE ASSOCIATED WITH IT. MENTAL ILLNESS SLOWS THE PROGRESS OF A WHOLE NATION FOR THOSE WHO HAVE IT AND THOSE WHO ARE AFRAID OF IT.
 

Mary Neal (186)
Wednesday March 18, 2009, 4:52 am
Thank you, Sheila. Please drop an encouraging line to Gina. She is a Care2 member and her page link is at the site of this article.

Please also email the Governor on her behalf. I have the tape of AS playing in Kindergarten Cop. Anyone that good with children on film has to CARE!

Mary
 

Jim PhillipsComputerDown (2620)
Wednesday March 18, 2009, 9:24 am
Petition signed.

TY, Mary.
 

Mary Neal (186)
Wednesday March 18, 2009, 2:20 pm
THANK YOU, JIM AND EVERYONE!!! GINA IS SO GRATEFUL TO YOU. PLEASE TELL YUR FRIENDS.

SEE THIS VIDEO -- PLEASE SEE IT!!! SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEs3BQ0znAs ~~

SEE HOW 200,000 AMERICANS LIVE IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, 60% OF WHOM ARE MENTALLY ILL. SEE HOW JEREMY LIVES!
 

Elainna Crowell (174)
Thursday March 19, 2009, 12:58 am
Noted, signed, and watched with horror & disgust. This kind of torture must stop!
 

Mary Neal (186)
Thursday March 19, 2009, 11:07 am
I was repulsed to see the video, also. If you go to the main article that this excerpt is from, you will see another video - Mr. Horton's video. He is mentally ill like Jeremy. He was kept naked 9 mo. in solitary with no baths, doctor's visits, or exercise. Anyone who did that to a dog - locked them up in a tiny space with feces all over the place and no baths and no outdoor time at all - sick and no vet - there would be lines of people and thousands of names on the petition. PLEASE EVERYONE, help the mentally ill citizens in America finally achieve Dog Justice!

Never forget this. There are 200,000 people in solitary confinement as you go about your day today - little 9' x 6 foot cells - some in complete darkness for YEARS. Others are in bright neon light for YEARS. All their juries and judges said was "prison," not "torture." PLEASE HELP!
 

Mary Neal (186)
Thursday March 19, 2009, 11:19 am

Listen at this: Although prisoners have a hard time, good news!

New Mexico Governor Richardson signed the bill! DEATH TO THE DEATH PENALTY!

WHAT IS HAPPENING CARE2? YOU NOTE JEREMY'S STOY, BUT THE PETITION ONLY GREW BY A FEW NAMES? Is something wrong with the petition? Could someone please post it here as a link? I don't know how.

Here is the link -- post it into your web browser and sign, please!

JUSTICE FOR JEREMY - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/JusticeForJeremy

Make this a link, someone. Thanks.
 

Past Member (0)
Thursday March 19, 2009, 9:38 pm
noted and signed.
 

Joann Shanks (251)
Monday March 23, 2009, 2:53 pm
noted and signed JoAnn..
 
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