US Department of Justice
Shelby County Jail had such a grievous record of violations of inmates’ civil rights that in 2000, the jail was sued by the United States of America. At the time of Larry’s death, the jail was operating under the terms of a settlement agreement related to that suit. Section IV of the Agreement between the United States of America and Shelby County Jail specifically required that the jail make a semi-annual report to the Justice Department. The semi-annual report was to include the individual monthly reports, which the jail was required to keep regarding its operations, as well as mortality review reports on any deaths of inmates during the reporting period. [See Ex. 10 – Agreement - USA/Shelby Co., Section IV.] In May 2005, I wrote a letter to the Justice Department, which was addressed to Terrell L. Harris, Mellie Nelson, Mary Bohan, and Tammie Gregg, and requested Shelby County’s report on Larry’s death. The Justice Department reported that that agency never received any report regarding Larry Neal from Shelby County Jail/ Government. [See Ex. 11 – Lt to USDJ and Response 1.] [See Ex. 12 – USDJ Report 7-26-2005.]
Larry’s family believed strongly that the reason The Cochran Firm accepted Larry’s wrongful death case was partly to protect Shelby County Jail from reporting its breach of that jail’s Agreement with the U.S.A. regarding inmate intake procedures and the care of the mentally ill and physically handicapped persons under arrest in that facility.[See Ex. 10 – Agreement – USA/Shelby Co., Section III]
Larry’s family realized that any reports from the jail to the Justice Department that included July and August 2003 and failed to report Larry’s incarceration and death were misleading at best, and likely fraudulent. Larry’s family wanted to verify that the Shelby County Jail had in fact lied by omission in its failure to report to the Justice Department information about Larry’s incarceration and death. Therefore, on March 29, 2006, I sent a request under the Open Records Act to Chief John L. Wodatch, of the United States Justice Department, for copies of the jail’s reports that included July and August 2003. For 16 months, we received no response from The Justice Department regarding our request for reports from Shelby County Government/Jail for the time period when Larry was incarcerated and died in that facility. [See Ex. 13 – Lt to USDJ – 3-29-06.]
May 2007, I wrote United States senators asking for their help in ascertaining records and justice for Larry, and requesting that our government rethink its current trend of jailing rather than hospitalizing severely mentally ill Americans. Thanks to intervention by Senator Chambliss, on August 15, 2007, the Justice Department finally responded to our March 2006 letter. However, the Justice Department’s response did not include a single copy of any record filed by Shelby County Jail for the time period of Larry’s secret incarceration and death. Instead, Nelson D. Hermilla, of the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Branch of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, wrote, “After extensive search in the Civil Rights Division, we are unable to locate records responsive to your request . . .” [See Ex. 14 – USDJ Report 8-15-07.] The Justice Department did not explain why Shelby County Jail was apparently allowed to ignore its reporting responsibilities under the terms of its Agreement with the United States of America. Mr. Hermilla’s letter conflicted with information from the Shelby County Attorney, Brian L. Kuhn. Mr. Kuhn plainly stated in his August 17, 2006 letter to me that the jail’s semi-annual report, including a critical incident review report about Larry’s death, had been filed with the United States Department of Justice in accordance with the terms of the jail’s Agreement with the United States of America.
It is my understanding that in 2006, the Justice Department released Shelby County Jail from overview under the terms of the 2001 Agreement between the United States of America and Shelby County Jail. The Justice Department refuses to conduct an investigation regarding Larry Neal’s death, which occurred at that facility during the time of federal overview. Perhaps the Justice Department seeks to avoid shedding more light on an embarrassing problem – our nation’s lack of care for its mentally ill citizens. In October 2003, the year Larry died, Human Rights Watch, an organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world, issued a report indicating that America has more mentally ill persons in jail than in hospitals and that mentally ill offenders face mistreatment and neglect while incarcerated. (http://hrw.org/english/docs/2003/10/22/usdom6472.htm)
Please contact your congressional representative today and demand that hospitalization replace incarceration for the mentally ill people in your state. http://www.house.gov/writerep
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Forbes.com recently named Memphis as the third most miserable city and cited two reasons: a high violent crime rate and a high number of convicted officials. The cities that made Forbes.com's "miserable cities" list ahead of Memphis are being mistreated by my cyberstalking and censorship. As a city where officials collude to cover up the murder of a handicapped citizen who died under secret arrest due to causes that illegally remain undisclosed after six years, Memphis should be listed first.
China and Iran are hotly criticized by the U.S. for killing their own citizens and practicing censorship. Larry Neal's secret arrest and extermination followed by media censorship to keep that murder quiet and terrorism against Larry's family to prevent our justice quest regarding his death and my advocacy for 1.25 million other mentally ill inmates prove that U.S. criticism against other countries for murdering citizens and censoring news is hypocrisy. That is why I cannot upload my cyberstalking videos at this blog and had to have someone else upload the one that is at YouTube. That is why I had to cower in a Chevron station while pursued by four vehicles led by a USDOT truck on September 27, 2008, and police ignored my 911 call. That is why people sit outside my home in their cars and my family and I are frequently followed. That is likely also why the people who moved in across the street from my home had deliveries by a USDOT truck the week they came to my neighborhood. That is why a lie was posted at my phone number, 678.531.0262, saying the phone is not in service or callers are directed to a voicemail box my family cannot access and we receive no notice of callers' messages. That is why my own phone calls are frequently blocked, depending on who I try to call. That is why I visit my websites sometimes, like last night, and see a message saying the site is unavailable and may be permanently deleted. All of that was and is done for one simple reason: The FEMA camps and railroads are not ready yet. Be aware, oh silent one, that with six camps proposed under H.R. 645, there is more than enough room for the Neal family and yours.
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Both the Georgia Superior Court and USDC court cases are available online. Witness affidavits attesting to my stalking were filed in USDC, and I have others to pick up from more witnesses. Because I am aware of the stalkers, I only go where there are plenty of people and avoid being away from home after dark; therefore, many people observed the crimes. Proof of my censorship and cyberterror is on the videotapes I recorded during the last couple of years as well as on printscreen snapshots of Internet sites showing the "site down for maintenance" signs I would reach to prevent my access, coffin ads and violent advertising that are peculiar to my computer, and more. We are prevented from going before a jury because of the abundance of evidence that after Larry's murder and the cover-up that is still in effect, his family's civil rights were and are violated to prevent due process of law and to punish us for even asking "What happened to Larry Neal?" My calls and emails are frequently blocked. Please forward this blog to attorneys and all persons organizations who you believe care about civil and human rights. You may be surprised at their reaction or lack thereof. (According to data to Congress.org stats, my petition for relief from terrorism and cyberstalking was among the most read citizens' writing in July 2009, and I wrote many senators in 2007 using U.S. Mail, so many of your representatives know about (and agree with?) our terrorism. Cyberstalkers prevent my opening my petition, but you should be able to reach it at this link - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/justice4maryneal or by inputting "Petition to Stop Censorship and Terrorism Against Mary Neal" in your browser. I hope cyberdogs have not deleted it, but they do that.)
If you would like to join nearly a thousand other people who asked that the USDOJ investigate the secret arrest and wrongful death of a handicapped American, my brother Larry Neal, please email them atÂ
AskDOJ@USDOJ.gov  and/or join the petitioners:
Open Petition:Â http://www.petitiononline.com/Neal/petition.html
See petitioners' comments (Select "view signatures" below the ad): http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?Neal&1
Closed petition- See comments from across the globe. It's a shame when people in other countries have to petition the U.S. to please be fair to its own citizens: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/380598497
I don't know what all the symbols  mean. I just copied this from my profile at Google - http://google.com/profiles/MaryLovesJustice
I don't know why I spend so much time writing online. I know from experience, and you can see in my films, that cyberdogs can render any or all of this blog invisible.
I BELIEVE more regular people know about our family's terrorism, it might subside. Hopefully, you will demand it.
Mary Neal
Director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI
P.O. Box 153
Redan, Ga 30074-0153
(Write, donate, and request a censorship CD.
Maybe they will allow the mail to get through.)
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.