Another CHILD STOLEN for Prison Profit!

 

 

To: President Obama, California Governor Jerry Brown,Attorney General,District Attorney : Familes with children,teens or young adults who lives were stolen.

We, the friends, family and supporters of Christy Phillips, an innocent woman serving Life Without The Possibility of Parole (LWOP), are requesting that Governor Jerry Brown review the merits of her case as it is riddled with numerous Constitutional and Miranda rights violations. 28 year old Christy is entering her 13th year of LWOP which she unjustly received in 2002 at the age of 16 for the murder of an elder woman in San Bernardino, California.  

The conviction was solely based on a coerced false videotaped confession illegally obtained by authorities. The false confession was the only “evidence” the prosecution had.
There was no physical evidence, forensics or DNA linking Christy to the crime.

There were partial fingerprints discovered at crime scene that did not match Christy's but this information was not divulged to the jury.

There was evidence found at crime scene that was never tested for DNA or submitted into evidence.
There was a person at the scene of the crime who was never charged.
Christy received ineffective counsel due to her public defender not raising the issue of the violation of her Miranda Rights which would have required the suppression of the coerced false videotaped confession that was illegally obtained by authorities.

Christy was denied the right to have a parent or legal counsel present during her interrogation.

It is also important to note that Christy was 15 years old at the time of questioning by officers and was suffering from mental disabilities.
During jury instructions, Juror #2, stated that she was good friends with one of the officers who was involved in Christy's case and slated to testify in her trial. The officer and other detectives involved in the case were members of Juror #2's church. This juror should have been dismissed due to conflict of interest. 
The gravity of the legal violations raised in this petition can no longer be ignored. Christy's case warrants serious review. After 13 years of being locked up for a crime she did not commit, it is time that Christy receive justice.
We are requesting she receive clemency or immediate parole.

Sincerely, Family, Friends and Supporters
  by Marion Fulmore-Crawford

 http://www.causes.com/actions/1755829-another-child-stolen-for-prison-profit?recruiter_id=24722879&utm_campaign=own_timeline&utm_medium=wall&utm_source=fb
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New Prisons Are Being Built For YOUR Children

Brand new, million-dollar prisons are springing up across the nation in the midst of massive school closings. What does this mean? Our children are in grave danger. While we’ve been told the new prisons are to protect law-abiding citizens from the influx of “bad guys and girls” and the school closings are just a means of consolidating resources for suffering schools, the truth is you don’t necessarily have to break the law to be labeled a bad guy or girl as an African-American. With this in mind, we must act quickly to save our children from the empty prison cells that await them.
This weekend,  notable academic scholars Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu and Dr. Boyce Watkins have joined forces to bring you the Education Over Incarceration Bundle Package for this weekend only. The package includes:

http://www.yourblackworld.net/educationoverincarceration/

Beyond Scared Straight: Cons Threaten Teens

In this scene from the episode Lake County, FL, inmates give troubled teens a taste of prison life.

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Beyond Scared Straight: Teens Break Down when Confronted by Real Inmates

In this scene from the episode Lake County, FL, a brother and sister break down in tears when confronted by prisoners.

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Bryan Stevenson: Ending the Politics of Fear and Anger

Watch, listen, share, and organize to end the Cradle to Prison Pipeline™. Order this and other sessions from the Children's Defense Fund National Conference in Cincinnati Ohio - now available on DVD http://bit.ly/T1M81D .--

Sentencing Children to Die in Prison in Modern America

COMMENT & DISCUSS at http://www.drugjail.com/

***The following is from the Equal Justice Initiative website***
http://www.eji.org/childrenprison
Across the United States, thousands of children have been sentenced as adults and sent to adult prisons. Nearly 3000 nationwide have been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Children as young as 13 years old have been tried as adults and sentenced to die in prison, typically without any consideration of their age or circumstances of the offense--

The Faces of Juvenile Justice

Video created for the Michigan Council for Crime and Delinquency for the 2013 Michigan Juvenile Justice Summit hosted by the Michigan Juvenile Justice Collaborative.

Juvenile Justice 2013 (X Block)

In their Government class, students learned various aspects of the criminal justice system, with a focus on understanding how Court precedents influence the interpretation of the Constitution. They chose a specific research topic related to issues surrounding Mass Incarceration (the phenomenon where large segments of U.S. society - 2.4 million total - are currently behind bars), such as "Stop & Frisk" policies, Private Prisons, Incarcerated Women, the War on Drugs, Juvenile Justice, and Immigration Detention. After creating individual fliers on their topic, students were grouped together, and given the task of creating a 4-5 minute film.

Beyond Scared Straight: Teens React to the Jail Tour

In this scene from the episode St. Clair County, IL, teens react to the jail tour and talk about what they learned from the experience.

Beyond Scared Straight: A Teen Relates to an Inmate

In this scene from the episode St. Clair County, IL, a teenage girl whose mother was incarcerated relates to an inmate who has a daughter. The inmate urges the teen to forgive her mother.

Pennsylvania Judge Bribed to Send Juveniles To Prison

A Pennsylvania judge has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for sentencing juveniles to time in prison in exchange for bribes from a private prison developer totaling over one million dollars. The for profit prison system is looked at in this conspiracy news clip from Buzzsaw with Tyrel Ventura and Tabetha Wallace.

Beyond Scared Straight: Teens in Virginia See Real Inmates for the First...

In this scene from the episode Western Tidewater Regional Jail, VA, teenagers see real inmates for the first time and get of a taste of what jail is really like.

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Fighting For My Freedom Christy Phillips

I was convicted and sentenced to life in prison based on that coerced confession.
Letter of support:Christy Phillips W-94100 C.C.W.F. P.O.BOX 1508 512-15-2up Chowchilla, Ca. 93610
http://www.change.org/petitions/justice-for-christy-clinton-phillips-cdc-w-94100.
 http://tobtr.com/3046483
http://christyphillips308.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/ChristyPhillip1
https://www.facebook.com/christy.phillips.129
https://www.facebook.com/groups/190341227781152/

Cyntoia Brown Life begins at 16

 
In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for murder. There was no question that a 43-year-old man is dead and that she killed him. What mystified filmmaker Daniel Birman was just how common violence among youth is, and just how rarely we stop to question our assumptions about it. He wondered in this case what led a girl — who grew up in a reasonable home environment — to this tragic end?Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story explores Cyntoia’s history and her future. Without attempting to excuse her crime as youthful indiscretion nor to vilify her as an example of a generation gone off the rails, Birman simply follows Cyntoia through six years of her life after the crime, and searches for answers to persistent questions.The camera first glimpses Cyntoia the week of her arrest at age 16 and follows her for nearly six years. Along the way, nationally renowned juvenile forensic psychiatrist, Dr. William Bernet from Vanderbilt University, assesses her situation. We meet Ellenette Brown, Cyntoia’s adoptive mother who talks about the young girl’s early years. Georgina Mitchell, Cyntoia’s biological mother, meets her for the first time since she gave her up for adoption 14 years earlier. When we meet Cyntoia’s maternal grandmother, Joan Warren, some patterns begin to come into sharp focus.Cyntoia wrestles with her fate. She is stunningly articulate, and spends the time to put the pieces of this puzzle together with us. Cyntoia’s pre-prison lifestyle was nearly indistinguishable from her mother’s at the same age. History — seemingly predestined by biology and circumstance — repeats itself through each generation in this family.Cyntoia is tried as an adult, and the cameras are there when she is convicted and sentenced to life at the Tennessee Prison for Women. After the verdict, Cyntoia calls her mom to tell her the news.In the end, we catch up with Cyntoia as she is adjusting to prison, and struggling with her identity and hope for her future.
Cyntoia Brown did not receive a fair trial. Cyntoia should not have been tried as an adult. She was a child living in an adult world

wrongly convicted as an adult at the age of 16
https://www.change.org/petitions/tennessee-state-attorney-general-department-of-justice-give-cyntoia-brown-a-new-trial
 http://socialawareness2013.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/the-16-year-old-killer-cyntoias-story-full-documentary/
http://cyntoiabrown.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/#!/CyntoiaBrown
http://cyntoiabrown-irishgreeneyes.blogspot.com/?spref=tw
http://www.facebook.com/groups/192470997459888/348915888482064/?notif_t=like
Read Cyntoia Brown – Life begins at 16 on http://paper.li/CyntoiaBrown/1321072241
You can write Cyntoia Brown at
#410593
3881 Stewart’s Lane

P R A Y E R C H A I N ! ! !

 Let's start a massive prayer chain for all survivors of human trafficking for the passage of the Sara Kruzan Bill SB-327 Yee! It's critical Sara's bill becomes L A W ! ! ! ! Sign petition and pass 
P R A Y E R C H A I N ! ! ! http://www.change.org/petitions/petitioning-california-state-senators-representatives-protect-victims-of-human-trafficking-support-sb-327

https://www.facebook.com/forcesforsara 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR7mno6p9iQ 

COLOR OF JUSTICE

"The Color of Justice" http://www.cpbn.org/program/color-jus...

A CPTV original documentary about Connecticut's Juvenile Justice system. Statistics collected over 17 years indicate that minority children are treated more harshly than white children when it comes to sanctions within the Juvenile Justice system.

The documentary looks at the disparities, the causes, and the solutions to this violation of children's rights. And we look at misconceptions within our culture about who is committing the most crime.

© 2013 Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc.

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Cyntoia Brown Life begins at 16

In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for murder. There was no question that a 43-year-old man is dead and that she killed him. What mystified filmmaker Daniel Birman was just how common violence among youth is, and just how rarely we stop to question our assumptions about it. He wondered in this case what led a girl — who grew up in a reasonable home environment — to this tragic end?Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story explores Cyntoia’s history and her future. Without attempting to excuse her crime as youthful indiscretion nor to vilify her as an example of a generation gone off the rails, Birman simply follows Cyntoia through six years of her life after the crime, and searches for answers to persistent questions.The camera first glimpses Cyntoia the week of her arrest at age 16 and follows her for nearly six years. Along the way, nationally renowned juvenile forensic psychiatrist, Dr. William Bernet from Vanderbilt University, assesses her situation. We meet Ellenette Brown, Cyntoia’s adoptive mother who talks about the young girl’s early years. Georgina Mitchell, Cyntoia’s biological mother, meets her for the first time since she gave her up for adoption 14 years earlier. When we meet Cyntoia’s maternal grandmother, Joan Warren, some patterns begin to come into sharp focus.Cyntoia wrestles with her fate. She is stunningly articulate, and spends the time to put the pieces of this puzzle together with us. Cyntoia’s pre-prison lifestyle was nearly indistinguishable from her mother’s at the same age. History — seemingly predestined by biology and circumstance — repeats itself through each generation in this family.Cyntoia is tried as an adult, and the cameras are there when she is convicted and sentenced to life at the Tennessee Prison for Women. After the verdict, Cyntoia calls her mom to tell her the news.In the end, we catch up with Cyntoia as she is adjusting to prison, and struggling with her identity and hope for her future.
Cyntoia Brown did not receive a fair trial. Cyntoia should not have been tried as an adult. She was a child living in an adult world

wrongly convicted as an adult at the age of 16
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/free-cyntoia-brown.html
. Background (Preamble): Cyntoia Brown wrongly tried as an adult to a murder she committed in self defense at 16. She deserves tobe freed as she has served her time for the crime she did not intend to do.
http://cyntoiabrown.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/#!/CyntoiaBrown
http://cyntoiabrown-irishgreeneyes.blogspot.com/?spref=tw
http://www.facebook.com/groups/192470997459888/348915888482064/?notif_t=like
Read Cyntoia Brown – Life begins at 16 on http://paper.li/CyntoiaBrown/1321072241
You can write Cyntoia Brown at
#410593
3881 Stewart’s Lane

Beyond Scared Straight - S02E10

In Maryland, during a four-day intervention experience where at-risk teens witness both jail and their own funeral, a boyfriend and girlfriend turn on each other.

Beyond Scared Straight S02E03

A jail in Virginia is visited. Included: a teen gets into a screaming match with an inmate; and another insults an inmate and pays a price for the abuse.