MENTAL PATIENT DETERIORATING FAST IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN CALIF.

++++Please Note This story is from 2009 & the petition is out dated* The Abuse taking place in our county & state facilities is not! It is taking place every day and could happen to someone you love:>> Gelly*
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MENTAL PATIENT DETERIORATING FAST IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN CALIF.


Jeremy Smith is a mentally ill young man who is suffering solitary confinement in California Prison System, and the Chief Psychologist reported to his mother that he is deteriorating rapidly. Please help remove Jeremy from solitary confinement in prison and into a mental hospital where he belongs! e-Mail Gov. Schwarzenegger http://gov.ca. gov/interact



Justice4Jeremy Peition: http://www.thepetit ionsite.com/ 1/JusticeForJere my

PLEASE, WILL SOMEONE HELP THIS FAMILY?

Letter from Gina, Jeremy Smith's Mother

Gina B.
March 17, 2009

Hello Mary and AIMI members,

Jeremy is in "Segregated Housing Unit" "Shu", is Solitary confinement for eight years, he as been there for a year now. I had been calling the Cal prison "CSP, SAC" to inquirer about my son, since I haven't heard from him in over 6 months, and never received any return calls. I did receive a call from the Head Chief Psychologist Mrs Kelly, I told her my concerns about my son. She said that she would call me back once she found out about my son Jeremy, well she did call me back in a couple of days and told me that she was unable to locate any consent forms allowing me to receive any information concerning my son, but she was able to tell me that he wasn't doing good, I was crying asking her if my son was dying she said no, that he was in good health, so in said I take it that mentally in he was in a mental crisis and that's why I hadn't heard from him.

She replied that that was a very good assumption. The prison is responsible to give him mental health care and he is not receiving it!

Please help us!

Gina
mentalunderstanding @yahoo.com

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TAKE A LOOK, GINA. MAYBE SOMEONE WILL HELP YOU!! JEREMY'S PETITION IS ON THE HOME PAGE OF THE SENATE SELECT COMMUNITY COMMITTEE ON CALIFORNIA'S CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM! http://ssccccs. org/

LOOK, AIMI MEMBERS! YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE! Our link is on the SSCCCCS homepage as well!

Gina, please write to the SSCCCCS and let them know of your terrible news about Jeremy.

If there is anyone at all in a position of authority who gives a damn about this young mental patient suffering solitary confinement and deterioriating every day, PLEASE HELP!

Will everyone please sign Jeremy Smith's petition now? He is deteriorating, and California has him locked in solitary confinement - a schizophrenic young man who was reportedly sentenced to prison for eight (8) years for merely hitting another mental patient at a mental health facility, but he caused no lasting damage to the other patient. Some people did not get eight years sentences for manslaughter, or stealing government money. Read Jeremy's petition in itilacs below:

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Justice4Jeremy Peition: http://www.thepetit ionsite.com/ 1/JusticeForJere my
Justice for Jeremy and Other Mentally Ill Prisoners


Target: Governor Schwarzenegger
Sponsored by: Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

GINA CRIES HERSELF TO SLEEP most nights and spends her off days trying to get our justice system to do justice for her son, Jeremy. Jeremy Smith suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and has an IQ between 50 and 70. Gina has her son's power of attorney, but when Jeremy was charged with a crime, the prosecutor talked Jeremy into signing a plea deal sentencing him to eight years in prison. His crime? He hit another patient at a mental hospital, but caused no lasting injury.

The sad truth is that sick U.S. citizens like Jeremy are used to boost profits for private prisons. Each inmate in the general prison population costs taxpayers about $50,000 per year to warehouse, although 2/3 of them are non-violent offenders. Prison labor programs use these inmates to manufacture goods the prison owners sell and trade on Wall Street. Mentally ill and dying inmates are even more lucrative for private prison owners. Taxpayers pay about $100 thousand per year, per patient to warehouse 1.25 million mental patients usually under cruel living conditions without adequate medical or psychiatric care.

Jeremy has been in prison before for hitting someone. In fact, Jeremy spent FOUR YEARS in "the hole," a space no larger than a closet where he lived naked in solitary confinement 23 hours per day. When released from the hole, Jeremy had lost about 60 pounds, was too weak to stand on his own, and could not speak a complete sentence. Jeremy was so malnourished and traumatized after his torture that Gina thought he might die. After being stabilized in the mental hospital, Jeremy was transferred to a facility nearer to his mother. As the new kid on the block, Jeremy was targeted by aggressive psychiatric patients. Jeremy again hit someone, and that is why he is now back in prison and he may be already back in "the hole," as scheduled. Gina has not heard from Jeremy in over a month, and the prison refuses to tell her how her son is doing or allow Gina to see him.

Seven inmates reportedly died in this year in California prisons from tooth decay. Infection from their rotten teeth entered their bloodstreams and killed them. Gina knows that Jeremy is unlikely to receive proper psychiatric treatment while imprisoned.

1. The undersigned petitioners demand that the plea bargain Jeremy Smith signed that was used to condemn him to eight years in prison must be revoked because of his borderline retardation and acute mental illness. The power of attorney Gina has for her son must be fully honored.

2. We demand that mentally ill people be treated as hospital inpatients, not prison inmates. Sick people cannot be punished into a state of mental health.

3. We demand that since taxpayers are charged significantly more for the care of sick inmates, they must actually receive health care. Torture is not a part of their sentencing.

Thank you.

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Please sign Jeremy's petition and email the governor and send to your friends and groups. Not everyone is shot down like Oscar Grant. Many people die slow deaths, out of sight, deprived of medical care and oversight in prison.

Please call and write Governor Schwarzenegger on behalf of Jeremy Smith and other mental patients locked in dungeons like the Dark Ages!

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 in Nashville, TN's CCA prison 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!


Mary Neal
Website: http://wrongfuldeat hoflarryneal. com

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
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