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Sunday, March 1, 2015

AIMI vs. USA International Court Action

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI") plans an action in International Court to (i) win restitution for victims of human trafficking - people who were denied psychiatric and/or drug and alcohol treatment in order to enrich prison investors, (ii) win restitution for victims of mentally ill people and drug/alcohol addicts who were denied treatment, and (iii) help decriminalize mental illness and drug/alcohol addictions in the USA by demanding punitive damages for the failure of the United States, a United Nations member state, to adhere to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention Against Torture, and other international laws, treaties, and conventions regarding human rights, particularly the rights of individuals with health disabilities. The action will be filed in 2015 by an International Human Rights Lawyer.

Please note that AIMI vs. USA will only sue for monetary damages, not for release of prisoners or policy changes. AIMI believes that if enough money is paid by the United States to persons whose human rights are or were violated, policy changes will be a natural consequence of the international exposure and financial loss resulting from this lawsuit. Claimants are encouraged to continue using regular legal channels to seek prisoners' releases and humane incarcerations. AIMI will sue for monetary compensation to our claimants for pain and suffering. Generally, persons who have already settled monetary claims for personal injuries and deaths will be ineligible as claimants for AIMI vs. USA, but feel free to apply.

Potential claimants are invited to phone conferences on the first Saturday and Sunday mornings of each month, using the telephone numbers listed below.

Conferences begin at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time. You can connect with the conferences at Blogtalkradio by calling (347)857-3293. You can also connect to the claimants' conferences using our FreeConferenceCall dial-in number (605)562-0020, Meeting I.D. Code: 992-212-650. If that fails, the backup number is (805)360-1075. Learn more about this international action to win restitution for Claimants and change for America. If you experience problems connecting, call and report problems to the director, Mary Neal, at (770)879.5163. (Please note that 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time is 10:00 a.m. Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Central, and 12 noon Eastern.)

Most of our claimants have a close relative or next friend who has experienced or is experiencing long-term homelessness, brutality by community members or police officers or jail and prison guards, prison torture (including long-term solitary confinement) or wrongful death, especially under the color of law. Other acts of discrimination will be considered, such as the government's neglect to provide timely, appropriate psychiatric services or adequate special education services, as well as housing discrimination.


Tapes are available for listening any time. "AIMI vs. USA" has had EIGHT claimants conferences. They are scheduled for the first Saturday and Sunday of each month. Thank you for sharing.

1. AIMI vs. USA Claimants Conference Nov 2
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/11/02/aimi-vs-usa-claimants-conference-nov-2

Claimants: Brenda Anderson, Fred Hayes, Olga Garcia, and Jillian 

2. AIMI vs. USA Claimants Conference Nov 1

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/11/01/aimi-vs-usa-claimants-conference-nov-1

3. Hear stories of some plaintiffs in "AIMI vs. USA" in International Court 2015 regarding denial of human and civil rights for the mentally ill - October 5, 2014
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/10/05/aimi-vs-usa-in-international-court-2015--conference-5

4.  Interview with Joanna re housing discrimination - October 4, 2014
Today's guest discussed her federal housing discrimination and alleges that she received retribution through the Social Security Admn. when she complained against HUD regarding her illegal eviction. Our AIMI vs. USA in International Court 2015 conference incurred interference at FreeConferenceCall.com and was recorded at Blogtalkradio.

5.  My mother, Hattie Neal, joined AIMI vs. USA claimants, September 14, 2014
Hattie Neal, 91, asked the government to please tell her how Larry Neal was murdered after 18 days of secret arrest. She made this request during the last minutes of her interview on Human Rights Demand channel at Blogtalkradio on September 14, 2014.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/09/14/human-rights-for-prisoners-march-w-hattie-neal-91-mom-of-larry-neal-deceased

6.  "AIMI vs. USA Plaintiffs Conference" September 13, 2014
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/09/13/aimi-vs-usa-claimants-conference

7. and 8.  "AIMI vs. USA" Plaintiff Conferences September 6 and 7, 2014
Hear conference calls by computer rss at
https://www.freeconferencecall.com/rss/podcast?id=6055620020:992212650

Some participants experienced trouble connecting with "AIMI vs. USA" phone conferences in September. If the interference continues, we will seek assistance from the United Nations. People with mental illness and drug/alcohol addictions are worth a great deal of money to prison investors in government; therefore, "AIMI vs. USA" is greatly feared. Taxpayers are billed over $80 billion per year for America's prison expenditures, and more than half of the inmates are mentally ill people. Another reason for censorship that most "AIMI vs. USA" Claimants reveal crimes against humanity that happened or are still happening to Americans with mental disabilities, including prisoner torture and wrongful deaths. These revelations are embarrassing. 


If you have difficulty joining the phone conferences, please email Mary Neal at MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com, and call (678)531.0262 or (571)335-1741. Title your email "AIMI vs. USA." You can also use the comment field of any article in 

"AIMI-HumanRights" blog at
http://aimi-humanrights.blogspot.com/ 
or Dog Justice for Mentally Ill blog at 
http://DogJusticeforHumanRights.blogspot.com/
Leave your email address and/or phone number, and AIMI contact you. 

Despite the illegal interference, this matter will go before to the International Court in 2015. Mentally ill people and drug/alcohol addicts who are poor or middle class deserve treatment, not torturous incarceration in long-term solitary confinement, denied visits and phone calls sometimes for years. We, the families and next friends of mentally ill people in the USA, will demand restitution for negligence, police brutality, prisoner torture, and wrongful deaths in the United Nations and request that body to mandate appropriate changes in the United States to respect the human rights of mentally ill persons, drug/alcohol dependent people, and their families. Up 100 families from both classes will be accepted. The closing date to enter "AIMI vs. USA" lawsuit in International Court will be in the summer of 2015, so please share this announcement. 


Change is happening. 

"Los Angeles to Offer Treatment Instead of Jail for Mentally Ill Offenders" 
http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/about-us/our-blog/69-no-state/2637-los-angeles-to-offer-treatment-instead-of-jail-for-mentally-ill-offenders

Thank you for participating and being a change-maker. If your church, temple, civic or social group is willing to help notify the public about this International Court legal action to compensate people who endure or have endured long-term homelessness, brutality under the color of law, and wrongful deaths, please contact Mary Neal for flyers to be distributed at your meetings, and please share the link at http://aimi-humanrights.blogspot.com.

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Thank you for joining AIMI's fight to decriminalize mental illness in the 
United States of America.
Mary Neal, Director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI")
Phone: (678)531.0262 or (571)335-1741
Wrongful Death of Larry Neal 
MaryLovesJustice Articles and Radio Broadcasts
Mary Neal is also known as "MaryLovesJustice"

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog in deadly restraint for control. That happens to mentally ill people routinely in the nation's correctional facilities. What happened to Larry Neal?


Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. Please advocate for your congresspersons to pass H.R.3717 - The "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." Try to elect people who support human rights and justice for all, not prison investors who have a conflict of interest in voting to decriminalize mental illness in the United States of America, an equal opportunity nation.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Guantanamo Is Less Abusive Than U.S. Prisons and Jails

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How bad are American prisons and jails?  A Washington Independent reporter suggests our prison conditions are so bad that Guantanamo detainees are better off in War on Terror camps than if they were incarcerated within the United States.





The Washington Independent article below reminds us that if Guantanamo prisoners were interned within the U.S.A., they would be held in solitary prison torture and subjected to other cruelty that American inmates endure. For now, the suspected terrorists are being spared such torture as you can see on the video at the link below. It shows the horrible conditions of some U.S. correctional facilities. Keep in mind that many children are tried and sentenced as adults and that 1/2 of those in prison in this country are mentally ill - people who should be treated, not punished, for mental illness. Also, be cognizant of the fact that 2/3 of prisoners were arrested for non-violent offenses. Too bad the inmates' incarceration is not non-violent like them.
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(Beware - violence, profanity, nudity, and death):
Torture in American Prisons -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWxpQ87C4t4 

See more about the abuses in American correctional facilities INSIDE America at this link - but only the comments.  The actual article is MISSING.

Human Rights for Prisoners March, by Mary Neal
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/human-rights-prisoners-march-was-postponed-weather

The article that was at the link above is now missing at NowPublic.com, AGAIN.  See the HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS article at the link below.  When you read it, you might understand why there is so much censorship attached thereto.   http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1282678
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U.S. Prison Conditions Far Worse Than Guantanamo’s

By DAPHNE EVIATAR 10/5/09

By refusing to allow Guantanamo detainees to be transferred anywhere in the United States, including its supermax prisons, those representatives in Congress eagerly fighting to keep the prison in Cuba open may unintentionally be easing the lives of terror suspects.

Last Thursday, the House of Representatives voted 258-163 to refuse to allow detainees now held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to enter the United States. Even a supermax prison facility isn’t safe enough to contain them, they decided, in a nonbinding resolution.

But Peter Finn at the Washington Post noted on Sunday that conditions at the United States’ most secure federal prisons are actually far more draconian than they are at Guantanamo Bay.

“For up to four hours a day, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, can sit outside in the Caribbean sun and chat through a chain-link fence with the detainee in the neighboring exercise yard at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,” writes Finn. By contrast, terror suspects in U.S. prisons are usually kept in complete isolation, allowed only one hour a day outside, and never get to speak to anyone.

The federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado is home to such notorious convicted terrorists as 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef; Teodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber; and Terry Nichols, convicted of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.

The conditions at Florence are supposedly so bad that terror suspects in Britain appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to prevent their extradition to the United States, arguing that the prison conditions constitute cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. In fact, studies have found that such extreme isolation can cause or exacerbate mental illness.

At Gitmo, meanwhile, KSM gets to work out on the gym’s elliptical machines and stationery bikes, choose his own movies to watch in the media room, read newspapers and books, and play handheld electronic games, reports Finn.

Washington Independent link:
http://washingtonindependent.com/62313/u-s-prison-conditions-far-worse-than-guantanamos

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Guantanamo Bay prisoners sit outside four hours per day, whereas U.S. acute mental patients, who should be in hospitals or treated in their communities rot in solitary confinement, are frequently deprived of exercise and doctors' visits. If they cry out in their distress, they are gassed, placed in deadly restraint devices, Tasered, and some are advised by guards to commit suicide. http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1124844

At least if they kill prisoners in Guantanamo, The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm won't be on hand to defraud their grieving mothers, plus the Red Cross might actually investigate the prisoners' demise.  If the prisoners in Guantanamo go "missing," I believe the Red Cross or another organization would investigate that.  This never happened for my brother, Larry Neal, a lifelong mentally ill heart patient.  He was reported "missing" in mid-July 2003 when he failed to return to his Memphis, Tennessee care home.  Police lied about having Larry incarcerated for weeks, but Larry was returned to his family in a body bag without any explanation, records, or investigation.  Thanks to The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm Fraud, six years later, Larry's family is still without any information about his arrest and demise.    http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD? (See COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD videos 1 and 2 at YouTube). Take a poll at the link below, please:

http://www.votingcentral.com/VotingCentral/displayPoll.do?pollId=123e0a31-e544-163d-b520-055afffffff0
The Neals have sued The Cochran Firm twice for defrauding my 80-yr-old mom after the secret arrest and wrongful death of her handicapped son, Larry. The Cochran Firm worked for jail behind our backs by holding the lawsuit inactive while the statute of limitations ran. Strange rulings by judges followed. Sue again?



WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON U.S. JAILS AND PRISONS?  ARE THEY WORSE THAN GUANTANAMO?  WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON CRIMINALIZING MENTAL ILLNESS, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, EXCESSIVE SENTENCING, WITHHOLDING DNA TESTS FOR INMATES WHO ARE DENIED THE TEST TO PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE? 
Give your opinion Sundays on the Rev. Pinkney Blogtalk Radio Show.

I was a guest on Rev. Pinkney's show on Sunday, Oct. 11 at 5:00 p.m. EST and again on Oct. 18.  You and I are invited to listen and call in with comments regarding prisoner concerns and other human rights issues.  The program can be accessed online by using this link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Rev-Pinkney  or the CALL-IN NUMBER 347-994-3644.

Rev. Pinkney understands how important it is to have a forum to speak out about injustices.  He is the only minister in the history of the United States to be imprisoned for quoting the Bible. 

Censorship is really strong around prisoner issues.  The criminal justice system would probably prefer not to have media coverage on such problems as the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal and the abusive incarceration of Frank Horton.  Horton's story is at the link below:

TORTURE OF MENTALLY ILL MAN - 9 MO. SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN FILTH NAKED
http://www.nowpublic.com/health/torture-mentally-ill-9-mo-solitary-confinement-filth-naked

Fred Horton, a mentally ill inmate, nearly died while interned in a Nashville prison.  Horton was held in dark solitary confinement for 9 months while deprived of baths, exercise, or doctor's care.  Luckily, a guard at the correctional facility was a Good Samaritan.  He reported his employer, CCA Prison Corp., to Health and Human Services in time to spare Horton's life. 

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