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Justice for Mary Neal Petition to Combat Terrorism & Censorship

Another of my articles was stuck behind the edit screen (Iron Curtain) at NowPublic today.  I assume from the ongoing censorship that parties to my censorship and terrorism still...

Memphis Mayor Herenton Resigns; USDOJ Response to Neals Is Due

MEMPHIS MAYOR WILLIE HERENTON announced today that he is resigning effective July 11.  The Neal family wonders if Mayor Herenton's resignation has anything to do with the secret arrest and...

Is America's Prison System Legalized Slavery?

IS SLAVERY REALLY OVER in America, or was the privilege to enslave human beings and enforce their labor simply relegated to the nation's prison system?  The Fifth Amendment of the...

Torture Mentally Ill~ 9 mo. Solitary Confinement in Filth, Naked

This report includes a shocking VIDEO of an alleged prison torture in Metro Nashville Detention Facility, which is operated by the for-profit Corrections Corporation of America.  This...

Oregon Man Murders His Sister

One day during the first week of November, Joseph F. Rockwood killed his adoring sister, Theresa.  He stabbed her to death.  Theresa's body was found in Joseph's apartment on November 7, after a...

Another Mental Patient Killed on Video - No More Censorship to Protect Prison...

This writer uses the symbol of two dogs on her articles because they represent Larry Morris Neal and Mary Neal.  EVER HEARD OF CENSORSHIP?  Ours is the most censored...

Survey Results Published: "Prisons or Hospitals for Mentally Ill Offenders?"

CITIZENS' OPINIONS were collected on whether acute mental patients should be imprisoned or hospitalized if their mental dysfunctions cause them to violate laws.  The survey closed today, and I would like...

Suicide: Taser Death of Mental Patient Leads NY Police Officer to Choose Death

The NYPD officer who gave the command to Taser psychiatric patient, Inman Morales, is dead.  Shortly before 6:00 a.m. on Thursday, police Lt. Michael Pigott shot himself with a 9-millimeter Glock....

More Hate Crimes - Cruelty to Mentally Disabled Persons

The abuse and wrongful deaths of mentally dysfunctional persons did not end with the Larry Neal's secret arrest and death in Memphis/Shelby County Jail in 2003.  Neither did such atrocities end with the death...

Congress Passed Mental Health Parity - Famous People w/ Mental Health Issues

American Psychological Association announced that Americans have reason to be optimistic about achieving mental health insurance equity.  This is exciting news for all mental health care advocates, as well as...

Mental Health Parity Is Now Law of the Land

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER (TAC)Monday, October 6, 2008 Mental Health Parity is Now Law After more than 10 years in the making, the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and...

Detroit police lab closed: Audit found serious errors in many cases

Detroit officials are to be commended for not trying to cover up problems in its justice system.  My family would have preferred if our own justice struggle had been met with such open disclosure. ...

Mentally Disturbed? Taser coming right up!

TASERING is becoming as usual as handcuffs for police officers when they encounter mentally dysfunctional citizens in America.  Sometimes mental patients are killed by gunshot, even when they...

Brain Dead Inmate Denied Early Release

AMERICA IMPRISONS approximately 2.3 million of its citizens.  Incarceration is certainly one of those situations that my grandma used to refer to, saying, "It's heaps easier gettin' in trouble...

The BIG 'D': Depression.

I publish this because depression is often a hidden illness. If liberals are a bit too quick to call ’sadness ‘depression, conservatives often see it as a flag of convenience for people who are really just...

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