AIMI Progress Report

Wonderful news! Because of our unity and advocacy at Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill for people with serious mental illness, and thanks to their families' steadfast support, the following positive changes occurred:

1)  Fred Hayes' son Damion was moved to a correctional facility closer to his family, and Fred was allowed to visit Damion for the first time in five years last week.
2) Gemma Pena was allowed to visit her son Kristopher for the first time in two years.
3) Heather Chapman has now had seven visits with her son, Nikko Albanese. Before our advocacy, she had not been allowed to see her son in two years.
4) Gina Burns' son, Jeremy Smith, faced a 25 years to LIFE sentence in California when he was accused of "making terrorist threats to guards." Our advocacy has made juries more aware of mentally ill people being unfairly penalized, and Smith's case resulted in a hung jury. Smith will not be tried again on those charges.

AIMI plans a radio broadcast for these parents to thank decision makers, including you, for the opportunity to visit with their mentally ill children. They will also urge you to continue advocating to decriminalize mental illness and urging officials to allow more families to visit their imprisoned relatives who are treated like criminals because of behavior caused by untreated mental illness. They will request your help making assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs available nationwide. The "AIMI vs. USA" conference today centered on the need for AOT programs. Our guest was Heather Chapman. Hear the recording for May 2 at the url http://fccdl.in/6lawqMtfA

AOT programs provide subsistence assistance and mandatory psychiatric treatment to people who have serious mental illnesses. AOT programs were certified by the U.S. Department of Justice years ago, but no funds were allocated to implement the programs nationwide, which is vital. AOT programs promote community safety and cause serious reductions in prison costs, because so few mentally ill people in AOT programs get arrested. In New York, people who participated in treatment and subsistence assistance under the Kendra's Law program experienced better than 85 percent reduction in future homelessness, hospitalization, arrests, and incarcerations. That translates into at least 85 percent fewer crimes that would have led to arrests. AOT programs save taxpayers' money, promote community safety, and most importantly, AOT programs help save and restore lives.

All of the families with whom we work at Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill promote using AOT programs for people with serious mental illness who exit correctional facilities and mental hospitals in order to reduce or eliminate recidivism and crises that lead to re-hospitalization.

Americans feel sad and frustrated when they see news reports about mentally ill people shot by police officers conducting lunacy arrests. We are greatly disturbed whenever we read articles reporting the brutality and murders of vulnerable, sick people in the nation's correctional facilities. We insist on Medicaid being resumed for psychiatric inpatients and AOT programs being used for persons with mental disabilities. AOT programs help patients stay on track with their psychiatric appointments and medications and avoid unnecessary crises that could negatively impact their entire community.

The four AIMI families discussed in this article are pictured above. Read articles about them at "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com

AIMI's advocacy for mentally ill Americans experiences online opposition, but we have good experiences with the following companies:

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*AIMI uses FreeConferenceCall.com for our "AIMI vs. USA" phone conferences on the first consecutive Saturday and Sunday of each month. Our delivery is always as clear as it was during the May 2 conference at the url http://fccdl.in/6lawqMtfA . The conference service is free, but paid memberships are also available. Recorded conferences are archived at the site where they are assigned a url. They can also be downloaded and saved as mp3 files. FreeConferenceCall has excellent customer service, great security, and many optional services. Try it today >> https://www.freeconferencecall.com/

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First paragraph repeated: Wonderful news! Because of our unity and advocacy at Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill for people with serious mental illness, and thanks to their families' steadfast support, the following positive changes occurred:

MaryLovesJustice Neal
Director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI")
AIMI vs. USA
http://AIMI-HumanRights.blogspot.com
Website: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com
Email Addresses
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Phone 678.531.0262 or (571)335-1741
Eugenicists enforced sterilization for "undesirables": blacks, poor whites, and the mentally ill. See "Margaret Sanger, a racist eugenicist, is/was being considered for the $20 bill: Bravo!"
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/margaret-sanger-on-us-money-bravo.html

Pre-Crime Arrests Approved in USA

Indefinite Detention Without Crimes

How do you feel about people in the USA being detained based on police suppositions that they have a high likelihood for future crimes? INDEFINITE DETENTION WITHOUT CRIMES, CRIMINAL CHARGES, OR DEFENSE IN ARIZONA ~It all begins with the mentally ill. Arizona is the latest to begin using pre-crime models to supposedly thwart attacks by those who are “near the breaking point.”

The video embedded below highlights how mental health police units look to harvest everything from medical records to gun purchases to online posts. Citing the crimes of Jared Loughner and Elliot Rodger, these units are being given the green light with new legislation to involuntarily detain those who are flagged.

The video is at YouTube url http://youtu.be/NjT4Q16s5kQ

As long as police use this power only to detain people in mental distress, it has the potential to benefit persons experiencing mental health crisis as well as their families and communities. People who have mental illnesses are usually denied treatment. Stringent restrictions ordinarily prevent families from involuntarily committing their members who need psychiatric treatment. In fact, mental hospitals have closed or downsized throughout the country to the point that inpatient treatment is nearly impossible even for voluntary commitments. Since Medicaid insurance was withdrawn for psychiatric inpatients in the 1970s, taxpayers have paid billions of dollars each year to warehouse mentally challenged people in the nation's jails and prisons rather than using much less money to improve community care and make hospitalization available for short-term and long-term psychiatric treatment.

Prison profiteering is spreading throughout America like an airborne disease. Care must be given to avoid civil and human rights abuses under this new psychiatric law. Psychological research studies have proved repeatedly that police perceive black youths as being perspective criminals. In the absence of stringent oversight, the new police powers to detain people who are not suspected of having done any crime whatsoever could be misused against minority populations and poor people.

Consider what happened to a police officer in New York when he reported corruption in the New York Police Department. This could also happen in other places to other people: "NYPD Officer Sent To Psych Ward By Superiors After Reporting Corruption"
http://gawker.com/5892115/nypd-officer-sent-to-psych-ward-by-superiors-after-reporting-corruption

According to the news video above, people who are detained under this law in Arizona are taken for psychological evaluations and not to jails or prisons, where 1.25 million mentally ill Americans wrongly endure incarceration as criminals. The law should state that at no point will people be jailed in the absence of crime. Pre-crime arrests are immoral and illegal according to the U.S. Constitution and Human Rights Law.

Reference: TheDailySheeple.com
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/pre-crime-police-target-mental-health_062014

Mary Neal, Director
Human Rights for Prisoners March
http://HumanRightsforPrisonersMarch.blogspot.com