Davontae Sanford-684070 Ionia Maximum Correctional Facility 1576 W. Blue Water Highway Ionia, MI 48846
Now that Davontae has turned 19, he has been moved to the Michigan Reformatory Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan. Taminko has asked that people write Davontae if they can. Please, let's show him that he is not alone in this terrible situation and that there are many of us out here who know and care. This would be a good time to include Davontae on your Valentine's Day card mailing list.
January 18, 2012 - Seattle City Council's Public Safety, Civil Rights & Technology Committee Meeting -- First meeting after U.S. DOJ report found pattern or practice of excessive force by Seattle Police, Urban Youth Justice Director Ernest Saadiq Morris chastises SPD tactics and puts the discriminatory policing of Youth of Color and the school to prison pipeline on the police reform agenda. Effective advocacy for Youth even within a short time limit, and the only civil rights advocate to show up to this important meeting!
Peasintheirpods Children On February 12th we will have Sara's friend Kim on our blogtalkradio show. Sara Jessimy Kruzan (born January 8, 1978), convicted of first degree murder, is a victim of human trafficking and inmate of Central California Women's Facility, Chowchilla. In 1994, at the age of 16, she was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole after being convicted of murdering her alleged pimp, George Gilbert Howard. On January 2, 2011, Kruzan was granted clemency by outgoing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who commuted her sentence to 25 years with the possibility of parole. http://www.freesarakruzan.org http://www.facebook.com/freesarakruzan www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-sara-kruzan/ https://twitter.com/#!/FreeSaraKruzan www.peasintheirpods.com
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Caught and Arrested! Helpless Asian Attacked for No Reason at all. Reports say Raymond Palomino 17 is the only one of the seven being charged as an adult in the attack according to reports. He faces charges of robbery and aggravated battery, both felonies, and is due in bond court later Wednesday.Reports say the rest of the youths including two 16-year-old boys, three 15-year-old boys and one 15-year-old girl, have all been cited on the same charges and turned over to the juvenile detention center reports say. Most of them live in Chicago the other is from Arlington Heights.The attack took place around 4 p.m. Sunday in an alley behind James Ward Elementary School.The 17-year-old victim, a Curie High School senior, being punched in the face and kicked repeatedly by a group of attackers while being taunted with racial slurs over the course of more than three minutes. His attackers also robbed the victim of $180 in cash, in addition to his sneakers.
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Jan 2012. Santorum's Strange Ties to Sandusky, Penn State, Second Mile Childrens Charity, + Larger Child Predator Network. Wayne Madsen Report. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, along with 2 other former U.S. Senate Republicans who WMR identified as using their Senate offices to farm out young male staffers to House Republican members, received donations for their failed re-election bids in 2006 from Senator Larry Craig, the Idaho Republican. The 3 senators were Santorum, Virginia's George Allen (who is currently running to regain his old seat), + Missouri's Jim Talent. Craig was arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in June 2007 for soliciting sex from an undercover police officer in the men's toilet. Like Santorum, Craig was generous in his support for "troubled youth" diversion programs, having donated thousands of dollars to the Idaho Youth Ranch. Santorum nominated accused serial pedophile, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, for the Congressional Angels in Adoption Award in 2002. "In 2002, Sandusky had been witnessed by graduate assistant Mike McQueary engaged in anal sex with a young boy in the university's athletic center's shower. Sandusky was also alleged to have committed sex acts with minors at least four times before the 2002 incident. Last summer, MS-NBC hired former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell as a commentator. Rendell, along with former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, + current Governor Tom Corbett, the commonwealth's former Attorney General, have been accused of conspiring to cover up the pedophile scandal at Penn State. In addition, Rendell, according to news reports in Pennsylvania, covered up an underage prostitution scandal in Harrisburg involving not only the Supreme Court but his own executive office of governor. Pennsylvania investigative journalist Bill Keisling doggedly pursued top-level corruption + sex scandals in the Ed Rendell administration in Harrisburg + within the state's court system. He also investigated the murder of Assistant U.S. Attorney for Maryland Jonathan Luna. In retaliation, Keisling was hit with a series of politically-motivated law suits. On December 27, 2011, the National Memo website carried a story about how out of all the possible offices then-Senator Santorum could have chosen for his constituent office in Scranton, he decided to locate his office at 527 Linden Street, conveniently located one door away from the Silhouette Lounge, a gay leather bar in a blue collar city not known for a preponderance of gay bars. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre was also the location of the infamous "kids-for-cash" scandal involving two state judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan. The judges were sentencing juveniles convicted of even minor infractions to long terms at two for-profit juvenile centers in return for cash kickbacks. There were charges that some of the youth sentenced to the facilities were sexually abused during their incarceration. In 2005, Santorum defended the Catholic Church amid the pedophile scandal in the Boston archdiocese. http://copytaste.com/a713 + http://www.bloomandsteele.com/lenny/Shock_Talk_YOUTUBE.html
Busted: Behind the Sandusky arrest. Narcotics agent nabs Jerry Sandusky. 'Tom didn't want to do it'. Steroids? by Bill Keisling IV, Jan 11, 2011. http://www.yardbird.com/busted_narcotics_agent_nabs_sandusky.htm
Original Alex Jones Interview of Wayne Madsen, Full Interview. "Santorum's Strange Ties to Sandusky/Penn State Scandal" Part 1/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzh-jpCRUyE Part 2/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67ET6Z6ft8
Penn State Scandal: Jerry Sandusky Rumored To Have Pimped Boys To Rich Donors. Wayne Madsen Report. Dec 11, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/penn-state-scandal-rumors-sandusky-p...
Media Ignores Santorum's Support For Accused Child Molester Sandusky. Jan 9, 2012, Paul Joseph Watson, http://www.prisonplanet.com/media-ignores-santorums-support-for-accused-child... + http://www.infowars.com/media-ignores-santorums-support-for-accused-child-mol...
YDR Opinion: Paterno Excuse Doesn't Cut It. 1-18-2012. http://www.ydr.com/ci_19765189? The board of trustees made the right decision in ending his career, and the Paterno apologists and the angry alumni should just stop with the "due process" garbage. It took a decade for some of the alleged victims to start getting their due process - also known as justice. That process might have started much sooner and prevented other victims .
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The US is the only country in the world that pursues life imprisonment without parole against children, even as young as 11. Christi Cheramie of Louisiana was one of these children.
At age 16, Christi Cheramie was sentenced in 1994 to life in prison without parole. Now 33, she has spent more than half of her life in prison. It’s a violation of international law to sentence anyone to life in prison without the possibility of parole who was under the age of 18 at the time of the crime.
The Louisiana Board of Pardons will soon decide whether or not to hear her clemency application, and Governor Jindal has the power to influence this decision. Please call on them to grant her clemency.
Christi's warden says she's "worthy of a second chance." This month a decision will be made which could change her life -- and she needs your help. Read More »
published: 12th January 2012 The unlawful use of restraint was widespread in privately run child jails in Britain for at least a decade, a high court judge has ruled for the first time. Mr Justice Foskett said statutory agencies had failed to take action to stop the unlawful use of force against the large numbers of children held in the network of secure training centres run by G4S and Serco.
He singles out the youth justice board for its “apparent active promotion” until 2007 of restraint techniques which were subsequently banned.
The high court judge stops short of legally ordering the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, to inform hundreds, if not thousands, of potential victims of their right to claim compensation. But he does say that ministers need “to consider whether something ought to be done”. In a damning ruling, Mr Justice Foskett, said: “The children and young persons sent to [secure training centres] were sent there because they had acted unlawfully and to learn to obey the law, yet many of them were subject to unlawful actions during their detention. I need, I think, say no more.” The judicial review case was brought by the Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) to challenge Clarke’s refusal to contact former detainees dating back to 1998 when the first privately run secure training centre opened in England. Read full article > http://4wardeveruk.org/2012/01/unlawful-restraint-widespread-in-child-jails-for-a-decade-says-judge/
Almost 90 percent of the city's incarcerated youth are re-arrested by the time they're 28, and the local prisons have proven to be much more successful at teaching criminal behavior than classroom subjects. Gabrielle Prisco of the Juvenile Justice Project at the Correctional Association of New York speaks to NY1.
a group of juvenile delinquents and their 3 hour session with actual convicts. Filmed at Rahway State Prison, a group of inmates known as the "lifers" berate, scream at, and terrify the young offenders in an attempt to scare them so that those teenagers will avoid prison life. motherfucka
Is it constitutional to sentence a juvenile offender who commits an offense at age 13 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Scott Drake talks with University of Miami Law Adjunct Professor Stephen K. Harper. He is the co-coordinator of the Capital Litigation Unit in the Miami-Dade Public Defenders Office.
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Amber Riley was a normal teenage girl who just turned 16. She was working , attending school and hanging out with her friends and dog . Her nightmare began when a friend, Jason Harris murdered another friend of hers Terry Ray Taylor in a stabbing back in 2003, San Bernardino, California. Amber was also charged with the murder of Taylor. It was a crime that received much media attention due to the fact that the two allegedly recited the words of a song by heavy metal band, SlipKnot called "Disasterpiece" which has lyrics resembling the nature of the murder. More can be read here Amber stated she never liked this kind of music and that Jason was the one who listened to SlipKnot.
Amber claims she had no part in the murder and her codefendant Harris, who had already been sentenced to 50 years acted solely alone. She claims her being interrogated for long hours, alone without a lawyer, or her parents present, landed her in prison awaiting trial for nearly six years. She was coerced into signing away her rights for a speedy trial. The interrogating police lied, coerced, frightened, induced sleep depravation and hunger all to get a confession, whether it be true or not. Doctors stated at one point to Amber's parents that "she was not capable of murder" and one detective told her parents "he knew this was not her crime but she would have to convince a jury".
Amber's mother states she and her husband were never allowed to see her, and were never given details about why their daughter was being detained and arrested for murder. They were told they should go home, despite the fact that Amber had asked for her parents throughout the interrogation. Both parents were detained in their own living room and not allowed to place or receive calls keeping them separated from Amber while she was interrogated for hours. According to page 5 of the police report the interrogating officer stated at 6:08 PM Amber said "she felt like killing herself." He stated "she is a danger to herself and others, and is a gravely disabled minor," and thinking this he had her sign a Miranda waiver at 7:10 PM, just one hour later.
Amber's mother claims after 8 hours of interrogation Amber was admitted to Ward B at Arrowhead Medical center where she was then handcuffed to a chair in the hallway, and left there all night and denied the use of a phone to call her parents. She was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress disorder and in shock. She was placed in San Bernardino Juvenile hall without knowledge of her parents. Her father searched and found her 3 days later. Amber's mother stated an intake worker told her and her husband "she entered juvenile hall in worse shape of any kid they have ever seen." Amber was given what her mother calls "dangerous psychotic drugs" that caused nightmares and hallucination.
Amber's rights were clearly violated, and she should never have signed away her rights to a speedy trial. Her ignorance of the law, and manipulation by her interrogators have changed her life into a six year nightmare. Our hopes are that someone will read her story and help her in her fight for freedom.
According to Amber's mother, when Amber was first picked up by the police, and taken into custody she was never allowed her two completed phone calls, within an hour. (seeCalifornia Welfare & Institutions Code 627) . Her 14th Amendment Rights were violated when she was denied counsel during questioning. ( See Welfare & Institutions Code 30.23). Other issues include her mental condition was very important, since Amber had a history of depression and "separation anxiety" from her parents. A young scared girl was alone with adult male police detectives which infringed on her 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments of the Constitution concerning due process. (See Wikipedia on The Constitution)
Amber's mother also states that failure of telling Amber her father was at the place of interrogation was a direct violation of The Welfare & Institutions Code 30.11 . Other violations include she was deprived of rights and privileges and US Code 1414la was violated. Amber's mother also claims when Amber could not understand the Public Defender the Judge would not allow him to be replaced which was a violation of rule #1.14 in the rules of professional conduct, but one month later the Public Defender was asked to be taken off the case due to a conflict of interest that was never explained to them. She states that Amber was tried as an adult with no psychological witnesses, no juvenile hall witnesses, no defense witnesses, and no character witnesses. Amber was asked by the Public defender to sign papers she did not understand, and her parents never saw. Minors are not allowed to sign legal contracts and documents, yet a young girls legal rights were taken away from her in a matter of hours. She is a loving and caring young woman who will always be scarred by the events that happened in her life. She has already served almost 8 years for a crime she maintains she never committed. But that the police coerced her into confessioning to.
In consideration of the above errors and violation of Amber Riley rights, Amber and her parent are requesting that the case be reviewed for multiple errors and reconsidered for a new trial or early release from prison.
On Friday, December 2nd, Blade was in an altercation with another boy, with whom he has had trouble with in the past. This other boy threatened Blade with a Locksock, and then lunged at him with it. Blade of course, tried to defend himself. Blade did throw some punches, but only in self defense, and trying to protect himself from a severe beating or potential severe injury. After the altercation was broken up, both Blade and the other boy were written up and placed on lockdown until a hearing were to take place, deciding the appropriate punishment for the offenses. Due to Blade's previous write-ups, there was a strong possibility that he could have been sent to solitary confinement once again, even though he was not the instigator of the above incident. Today I found out that he was not going to be sent to CCU once again, but had some stringent sanctions placed upon him. If Blade gets any more conduct related write-ups, he will be sent back to segregation, and he would have to serve out all previous amount of time that he had been placed before and new time. Blade had been in the CCU until April of 2011, and if had been made to spend the total accrued time he was sent there for, he would have been in Solitary until June of 2013.
I am somewhat relieved,as he was not sent back to solitary this time but also still concerned over Blade, as I find these sanctions unreasonable to say the least. Blade is being held to a standard to that of a normal child, not one who is developmentally disabled. To hold him to this standard, shows a complete lack of understanding and empathy of Blade's emotional afflictions. Also with these sanctions, they are setting him up to fail, not succeed.
With the prisons "No Tolerance" policies, simply raising your fists to defend yourself, can be considered an aggressive act, and of course, subject to write ups and or other punishments. I find that grossly unfair, and simply another way to destroy childrens lives who were never meant to be in the prison system anyway.
We need your financial help, with Attorney's fees for Blade. Please consider a tax deductable donation at http://redemptionforkids.org or
Blade Reed UGMA P.O. Box 742 Spring Green, Wi. 53588
Please take a minute and send Cristian a card for his 13th birthday. It is on January 14th and he is able to receive cards showing support. Sending a card would give him a lot of comfort and hope. It's such an easy thing to do in a situation that leaves a lot of us feeling really helpless. Cristian Fernandez Duval Regional Detention Center 1241 East 8th Street Jacksonville, FL 32206-4099
Michigan has a new attorney general and with him there is new hope that justice may be served in this state.
We are asking that supporters contact Attorney General Bill Schuette's office requesting that he open an investigation into the corruption which put an innocent 14 year old child behind bars for killings known to have been carried out by a contract murder ring.
The Attorney General can be contacted at the following address and phone numbers:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Attorney General Bill Schuette G. Mennen William Building, 7th Floor 525 W. Ottawa St. P.O. Box 30212 Lansing, MI 48909 (517) 373-1110 Facsimile (517) 373-3042
Detroit Office: Cadillac Place, 10th Floor 3030 W. Grand Blvd., Suite 10-200 Detroit, MI 48202 (313) 456-0240 Facsimile (313) 456-0241
CRIMINAL JUSTICE BUREAU
Attorney General Bill Schuette G. Mennen Williams Building, 3rd Floor 525 W. Ottawa Street P.O. Box 30758 Lansing, MI 48909 (517) 241-9809 Facsimile (517) 373-0979
Civil Rights Division Cadillac Place, 10th Floor 3030 W. Grand Blvd., Suite 10-650 Detroit, MI 48202 (313) 456-0200 Facsimile (313) 456-0061
CRIMINAL DIVISION *Complaints against prosecuting attorneys *RICO investigations & prosecutions
Criminal Division G. Mennen Williams Building, 3rd Floor 525 W. Ottawa St. P.O. Box 30758 Lansing, MI 48909 (517) 241-6565 Facsimile (517) 241-6568
Detroit Office: Cadillac Place, 10th Floor 3030 W. Grand Blvd., Suite 10-350 Detroit, MI 48202 (313) 456-0180 Facsimile (313) 456-0181
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 Time08:00 until 18:00 Call (916) 445-2841
January 11, 2012 National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and we hope you'll take a just a few moments of your time to help lend a voice to Sara Kruzan, a human trafficking victim who has been in prison for the last 17 years after she killed the man who raped her at age 11 and forced her into prostitution at age 13. At only 16 years old Sara was tried as an adult, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On Wednesday, January 11, Sara needs your help. Please call Governor Brown and ask him to grant Sara time served. Here’s what to do:
1) Call Governor Brown (916) 445-2841.
http://www.facebook.com/events/139188056197351/ 2) Express your support for granting of clemency to Sara Kruzan. Feel free to personalize your message and share your own story if you have one — the more personal, the better.
If you are calling from California:
Hello, my name is _________ from _________, CA and I would like to urge you to publicly support clemency for Sara Kruzan. She is a human trafficking victim imprisoned without the possibility of parole at the age of 16 after killing the man who had sexually abused her since she was 11 years old and prostituted her since she was 13 years old. She has spent the last 17 years of her life in prison and during that time she has earned a college degree and earned the recognition of the corrections officers. Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and I hope you’ll use your power to grant her freedom. Thank you for your time.
If you are calling from outside California:
Hello, my name is _________ and I would like to urge you to publicly support clemency for Sara Kruzan. She is a human trafficking victim imprisoned without the possibility of parole at the age of 16 after killing the man who had sexually abused her since she was 11 years old and prostituted her since she was 13 years old. She has spent the last 17 years of her life in prison and during that time she has earned a college degree and earned the recognition of the corrections officers. Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day and I hope you’ll use your power to grant her freedom. Thank you for your time.
You can also help by tweeting about Sara.
@JerryBrownGov Please grant time served to #humantrafficking victim Sara Kruzan. 17 years in prison is long enough. #FreeSara
@JerryBrownGov Sara Kruzan is a #humantrafficking victim. Please grant time served on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. #FreeSara
