Robert "Cotton" Kirkland: Boulder County Jail Abuse

Above is a photo of Robert "Cotton" Kirkland upon his release from Boulder Co. Jail, Colorado. His right leg was broken and his left ankle was badly sprained. He must return to court in Boulder County on February 20, 2014, for a probation violation hearing. Kirkland invites concerned people to meet him there and report back if he is again arrested in the jail where he nearly died of shock after abuse but was denied medical treatment. Robert has filed a federal lawsuit against his arresting officers. The U.S. veteran did not take money out of his measly $600/mo income to pay probation fees related to the plea deal he agreed to sign in order to get released from jail and finally get medical attention for the injuries he suffered during his arrest. Robert said he was held eight days without medical care for his legs, which were hurt when he was arrested for making excessive noise.

You can read about Robert's abuse and Boulder County Jail in these two articles
1. Lawsuit: Boulder County Jail Deputies Broke Inmate's Leg
http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_21263958/lawsuit-boulder-county-jail-deputies-broke-inmates-leg

Former inmates report that Boulder County Jail maintains a "torture room" where inmates are placed in a restraint chair. There was no camera in that room until former inmates fought for it.

2. The Chair and the Camera www.boulderweekly.com/article-10477-the-chair-and-the-camera.html

RADIO INTERVIEWS WITH VICTIMS - Robert Kirkland and Joshua David Johnson, another former inmate at Boulder County Jail, appeared on the "Human Rights for Prisoners March" Blogtalkradio program twice in February 2014. These men and Holly Alston, mother of a Pennsylvania inmate Terrell Scott, discussed torturous incarceration and enforced plea bargaining. The broadcasts are at the two links below:

Human Rights for Prisoners March (on "Human Rights Demand" channel) Sunday, Feb. 16
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/02/16/human-rights-for-prisoners-march
Human Rights for Prisoners March (on NNIA1 channel) on Monday, Feb. 17
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/02/18/human-rights-for-prisoners-march

Joshua David Johnson reported that at least 14 inmates died in recent years in Boulder County Jail, 13 of whom died under the present jail administration. Naturally, Kirkland is concerned about the possibility of being arrested again in Boulder County Jail after having filed a lawsuit against police officers for his brutal treatment. Joshua manages a Facebook site called "Torture in Boulder County Jail."

See entertainer Sean Levert being killed in a restraint chair like the one Boulder County Jail uses in the video embedded below and at YouTube
http://youtu.be/U50gOUGQzLk



MaryLovesJustice
MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
(678)531.0262

Please listen to "Human Rights for Prisoners March" on Blogtalkradio every Monday night at 9pm PST at the National Network in Action (NNIA1) channel. Comments are invited on the radio shows, at this article, and at all the articles in this blog. See the index listing the articles on your upper-right margin. Articles and radio shows are published to inspire prison reform and better police oversight. You are invited to TRY to "follow" us at Blogtalkradio and at our "Human Rights for Prisoners" blog.

Justice for Juan Rojas: Release the Innocent

Announcing a new Blogtalkradio channel: HUMAN RIGHTS DEMAND. Our Saturday shows are entitled "Release the Innocent" and feature wrongful convictions.

Janice Howe invites help for her wrongfully convicted cousin, Juan Rojas. She and Juan's mother, Sharlene Rojas Howe, his uncle and sister were guests on our first "Release the Innocent" broadcast on February 8, 2014. "Human Rights Demand" BlogTalkRadio channel presents testimony that was never heard in trial. We hope that an attorney or innocence project and prisoner activist organization will contact Rojas's cousin, Janice Howe, and offer help. Contact Janice Howe at mzjadrian@gmail.com or Mary Neal at MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com if you want justice for Juan Rojas. Everyone can help by sharing the link to this radio broadcast with your friends and online organizations.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/02/08/release-the-innocent

Juan Rojas is pictured below with some of his family members. He is wearing brown.

Thousands of innocent people are released from incarceration every year. Most of them are released because they served their sentences. Between 5k and 10k people are wrongfully convicted each year. The Univ. of Mich. Law School Innocence Clinic says most wrongful convictions are caused by:

Eyewitness Misidentification - This is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide.
Junk Science - Many forensic testing methods are applied with little or no scientific validation and with inadequate assessments of their significance or reliability.
False Confessions - Innocent defendants sometimes make incriminating statements, deliver outright confessions, or plead guilty.
Government Misconduct - Sometimes government officials take steps to ensure that a defendant is convicted despite weak evidence or even clear proof of innocence.
Snitches - Often, statements from people with incentives to testify help convict the innocent.
Bad Lawyering - The failure of overworked or corrupt lawyers to investigate, call witnesses, or prepare for trial.

The U.S. Supreme Court has not determined that actually innocent people have a right to have their post-conviction evidence considered by courts. We will consider it on this show and make a human rights demand to "Release the Innocent" every Saturday at 3:00pm EST. Contact MaryLovesJustice Neal to discuss a wrongful conviction for an inmate who you care about.

The family set up a defense fund for Juan Rojas. Please send even a few dollars. It all adds up!
Juan Rojas Defense Fund
P.O. Box 818
Oahe Federal Credit Union
Pierre, SD 57501

Please listen to our first broadcast of "Release the Innocent" on "Human Rights Demand" at the link below, and share the link with your family, friends, and social networks.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/02/08/release-the-innocent

Also on the "Human Rights Demand" channel, please hear "Law Enforcement and Corrections with Integrity" every Thursday at 1:00pm EST. The host, Britton Mosley, is a veteran, a former police officer and prison guard. His guests are persons with a background in law enforcement and corrections, or persons with re-entry programs, and former inmates. Britton.Mosley@gmail.com is his email address.

First paragraph repeated: Announcing a new Blogtalkradio channel: HUMAN RIGHTS DEMAND. Our Saturday shows are entitled "Release the Innocent" and feature wrongful convictions. 
MaryLovesJustice Neal

email MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com / Phone (678)531-0262

Human Rights Demand - Release the Innocent

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand

Human Rights for Prisoners March

http://humanrightsforprisonersmarch.blogspot.com

NDAA for Blacks in USA

"Blacks 4 Cash"

We all heard of "Kids 4 Cash," when Pennsylvania judges sold children to private prisons for kickbacks, but many people do not know about the "Blacks 4 Cash" deal. Mentally challenged black people are arrested on false charges, then kept indefinitely detained unless and until they plea bargain. Their Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated by officers of the court to coerce false confessions. We congratulate Terrell Scott for holding out against terrorists for so long. It took Scott nearly 5 years, a rape, a brutal beating that robbed him of his hearing in one ear and eyesight in one eye, possible HIV infection from being spat upon by an AIDS patient, and solitary confinement, but Pennsylvania finally won. Terrell Scott agreed to lie on himself if only Pennsylvania would release him from prison. But the joke is on him, because today he was sentenced to remain in prison for another year. During that time, there is no telling what they will do to him.

"Blacks 4 Cash" is not limited to Pennsylvania. Shannon Nyamodi, 19, has been indefinitely detained without trial for 16 months in Franklin, Co., NC on charges the prosecutor cannot prove. He, too, is being offered plea deals instead of trial dates. Shannon's oppression increased recently when the jail refused his right to phone calls and visitors. Will North Carolina hold Shannon five years without trial like Pennsylvania did to Terrell? Will the People allow this to happen to him, too?

"Blacks 4 Cash" is the new prison investors' scheme. Black people are arrested on false charges and illegally denied trials until they agree to lie on themselves, even if it takes years and years at taxpayers' expense. This works best on the very young, like Shannon, or the mentally ill, like Terrell. False confessions from children and mentally ill people account for 25% of the wrongful convictions in America, where it has been estimated that between five thousand and ten thousand innocent people are imprisoned every year. Read about how they did it to Terrell Scott at the link below.

"Pennsylvania: Black Mental Patients 4 Cash"
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/01/pennsylvania-black-mental-patients-4.html

See how they're working on Shannon Nyamodi at the link below:
"Shannon Nyamodi: Good Samaritan Imprisoned"
http://humanrightsforprisonersmarch.blogspot.com/2013/12/shannon-nyamodi-good-samaritan.html

If you know of other people who were/are indefinitely detained with trials denied in order to force a false confession and plea deal, please TRY to contact me:

MaryLovesJustice Neal, director

Human Rights for Prisoners March

MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com

678.531.0262

Prejudice Against Injustice

People are suddenly so racist that the president's approval rating is at 39%. I'm so prejudice against black officials (although I am black) that I think my brother's secret arrest and jailhouse lynching should be handled like any other murder, not covered up by the federal government. I do not believe any survivors should be targeted for Internet censorship and in-person stalking to keep a government murder secret. I believe no Freedom of Information Act requests should receive lies in response, particularly not from the Civil Rights Div. of the USDOJ, in order to protect murderous police officers. Google "Wrongful Death of Larry Neal."

I'm so prejudice against black officials that I object to drone planes, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, indefinite detention in concentration camps for Americans under NDAA, NSA spying and CENSORSHIP, continuous wars, and economic deprivation of Americans, especially African Americans, whose teens experience 92% unemployment. I believe the Fair Sentencing Act should have been applied to ALL inmates retroactively, and that the judge's order to apply the Fair Sentencing Act retroactively should not have been appealed by the USDOJ. The USDOJ won its appeal, which kept hundreds of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders imprisoned under a sentencing law that the government admits was racist. But apparently, I only object to these injustices because I'm prejudice against blacks in office.  

http://www.caintv.com/obama-my-poll-numbers-are-tank

Regarding the secret arrest for 18 days and murder of Larry Neal, the USA refuses to release any information, records or things related to his secret lynching in 2003. The USDOJ pretends to have NO RECORDS of its overview of Memphis Shelby County Jail, although the USDOJ was placed in direct overview of the jail after lawsuit against the "correctional" facility was filed by the USA due to inmate abuses. I asked for the jail's reports to the USDOJ, which were Ordered to be submitted routinely under the terms of the jail's Agreement with the USA. I asked for records of the USA's release hearings for the jail - hearings wherein Larry Neal's secret arrest and murder were deliberately omitted in a conspiracy to defraud the USA. The cover-up regarding Larry Neal's murder continues. It is effected in part by censorship, intimidation, and financial persecution against my family, and cooperation by media, public officials, police departments, and gangstalkers. See proof at http://JusticeGagged.blogspot.com and http://youtube.com/jkempp703 ~ A copy of my response to a Freedom of Information Act request is below:

NDH:TGC:SC
13-00388-F

June 27, 2013

Dear Ms. Neal

This is in response to your electronic communication directed to the White House seeking access to Shelby County "fatality report" regarding the death of Larry Neal. We received your note dated June 27, 2013.

The Freedom of Information Act provides access to federal agency records only and does not provide a means of access to any "fatality reports" that might have been generated by a local jail. The State of Tennessee may have a statue similar to the federal access statute that would enable you to seek access to a copy of any reports that might have been generated. If you are aware that there might have been a specific investigation, you may wish to contact State of Tennessee authorities to see what records might be available within State files, if any. Accordingly, we are providing you with the following address:

Department of Corrections
320 Sixth Avenue, North, 6th Floor
Nashville, TN 37243

On receiving a copy of your note from the White House, the office conducted an extensive searching once again to see there might have been any federally generated records pertaining to a specific investigation regarding Larry Neal. As a result of that search, I have determined that the Civil Rights Division has NO RECORDS RESPONSIVE TO YOUR FOIA REQUEST.

It is apparent that the Executive Office for the United States has also conducted a search for records in response to your request to the Department of Justice component. Accordingly, it appears that the United States Attorneys office was also unable to locate any information responsive to your request. As you are probably aware, the Department of Justice, in a given year will receive thousands of civil rights complaints and requests to conduct investigations under the criminal civil rights statutes. Consequently, the Department of Justice does not investigate every complaint that it receives.

Should you wish to appeal my response to your request, you may do so by writing to the Director, Office of Information Policy (OIP), United States Department of Justice, 1425 New York Avenue, N.W. Building, Suite 11050, Washington, D.C. 20530. Your appeal must be timely. The envelope should be marked "FOI/PA Appeal." You may also submit your appeal via OIP's electronic portal (at http://www.justice.gov/oip/efoia-portal.html). Following review by the Department, judicial review of the decision of the Attorney General is available in the United States District Court in the judicial district in which you reside, in which you have your principal place of business, or in the District of Columbia.

I hope the Civil Rights Division has been of some assistance to you in this matter

Sincerely,
Nelson D. Hermilla, Chief
Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts Branch
Civil Rights Division

USA vs. Corrupt Prosecutors and Forensic Labs

Former judge Ken Anderson, a psychopath

Huffington Post reported on November 8, 2013, that for the first time ever, a corrupt prosecutor was going to jail. "Today in Texas, former prosecutor and judge Ken Anderson plead guilty to intentionally failing to disclose evidence in a case that sent an innocent man, Michael Morton, to prison for the murder of his wife. When trying the case as a prosecutor, Anderson possessed evidence that may have cleared Morton, including statements from the crime's only eyewitness that Morton wasn't the culprit. Anderson sat on this evidence, and then watched Morton get convicted. While Morton remained in prison for the next 25 years, Anderson's career flourished, and he eventually became a judge."

Anderson defrauded Texas taxpayers of approximately $782,150, the approximate cost for Morton's incarceration (the Vera Institute of Justice released a study in 2012 that found the average taxpayer cost in the 40 states it assessed was $31,286 per inmate per year). Although the former judge and prosecutor was sentenced to merely 10 days behind bars for his crime, he was fined $500 and must do 500 hours of community service. Most importantly, Anderson lost his law license. One might assume that Anderson will now face a lawsuit by Morton. See photographs and a thorough explanation of the case in an article that features the entire Morton legal team at "Legal Victories" blog where we report positive legal news
http://legalvictories.blogspot.com/2014/01/anderson-v-justice-for-morton.html

In addition to unethical prosecutors, some forensic labs are responsible for wrongful convictions. FilmingCops.com reports that 180,000 cases will require review, because of one government chemists' deception and another chemist's corruption at Hinton laboratory in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The Annie Dookhan deception continues to unfold. Dookhan was a government chemist who tampered with thousands of cases, creating fake “evidence” that caused the imprisonment of countless innocent Americans. Dookhan worked as a chemist for the State of Massachusetts, and she had close relationships with prosecutors. These prosecutors were able to successfully convict innocent Americans because Dookhan would taint the evidence, resulting in career boosts for the prosecutors while innocent men and women were torn from their families and locked in cells.  Kate Corbett, who worked in the same lab as Dookhan, claimed that she had a “chemistry degree” from Merrimack College, but she did not. (See two FilmingCops.com urls below that lead to reports about this tragedy.)

So many inmates have proved their innocence and been released from prison that prison investors in Government decided to stop levying criminal charges. Concentration camps are being prepared now for possibly millions of Americans to be warehoused without any criminal charges or opportunities for defense. Indefinite detention without trials in the United States was authorized under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) - approved by Congress in November 2011 and signed by President Obama on New Year's Eve that same year.

Even without NDAA, tens of thousands of innocent people are in prison, because the Supreme Court never recognized Americans' right to have post-conviction DNA tests or new trials on late-arriving evidence. In fact, there is no obligation for prisoners to be released because they present evidence of "actual innocence." Innocent inmates are released now and then just to give the impression of fairness, but most inmates serve their sentences whether innocent or guilty.

Some have not considered that people are in custody from the time a police officer says, "Halt." Many prisoners never make it to a jail cell but are killed during arrests. Those deaths are usually excused altogether or ruled "justified" upon investigation, regardless of the circumstances. There is no information available about how many of the police victims each year are black, white, middle class, poor, healthy, or mentally ill (police do not shoot wealthy people). Most Americans do not know that inmates in the United States are subject to brutality and murders behind bars with no accountability demanded.

It surprises plenty of people to learn that over half of the country's inmates are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses such as possession of small amounts of illegal drugs. Most people are unaware that the U.S.A. has 1.25 million mentally ill inmates. The mentally ill in America used to be treated in mental hospitals or community care programs until the rise of the private prison industry. Now people with brain disorders are warehoused in prisons after denying them psychiatric treatment, and they comprise 60% of inmates in solitary confinement torture.

Some never considered that America has more prisoners than any nation in world history at a staggering cost. The federal government and states spend over $74 billion per year to incarcerate 2.3 million people (roughly $200 billion when including collateral costs: police investigations, prosecution, and indigent defense). Added to that tax money is the cost of caring for minor children and aging parents prisoners must leave behind. The high prison population also causes unemployment among "free" people. Americans were never told that many of their jobs that were "downsized" never left the country but were outsourced to prison labor projects. Over a million inmates work up to 72 hours a week without job benefits for pennies a day or for free.

It has been estimated that between 5,000 and 10,000 wrongful convictions happen in America each year http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm . Some of the innocent people are on death row and others are in solitary confinement today - years after their imprisonment. Most Americans care about security but object to wrongful convictions and wrongful executions. We certainly oppose psychopathic district attorneys and corrupt forensic labs railroading innocent people into prison to increase private prison profits and advance legal careers. Since it is understood that most Americans would object to enslaving innocent people, this information is largely censored.

Americans' mass ignorance about its justice system is no accident. Mainstream media does not fully inform about these situations, and millions of people do not use the Internet, or they do not use it to become knowledgeable about these matters. American officials have been accused of working with corporate executives against the interests of the People. The truth is that America itself is a corporation, and its elected and appointed officials are her "executives." I am greatly censored to prevent spread of the truth: America is still a penal colony, and all working class and poor people are essentially her prisoners.

Most of this country's officials do not seem to care if prisoners are innocent or guilty of doing anything illegal or immoral. It may not matter whether the nation's prisons are behind bars or have "work permits" like you do. We must serve the empire either as taxpayers, military personnel, or prisoners. The officials' job is simply to manage the penal colony we know as America, contain dissent, and continue to move people from the slave pool into active slavery through the legal system. If possible, officials try to prevent the People from knowing that we are all, in fact, considered property. The People are distracted from this truth partly by oppressors who encourage disunity through classism, racism and politics. The concentration camps under NDAA are for the day when misinformation becomes ineffective and distraction becomes impossible.

For the First Time Ever, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting an Innocent Man

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-godsey/for-the-first-time-ever-a_b_4221000.html

10,000 Wrongfully Convicted People Per Year, Study Estimates
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm

City’s Annual Cost Per Inmate Is $168,000, Study [by Vera Institute of Justice] Finds

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/nyregion/citys-annual-cost-per-inmate-is-nearly-168000-study-says.html

The Price of Prison in Texas
http://www.vera.org/files/price-of-prisons-texas-fact-sheet.pdf

How much does it cost to keep someone in prison (Wiki Answers)
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_money_does_it_cost_to_keep_someone_in_prison

"NDAA 2014," by Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/ndaa-2014

GOVERNMENT CHEMIST TAMPERED WITH 40,000 CASES, LOCKING COUNTLESS INNOCENT AMERICANS IN PRISON
http://filmingcops.com/corrupt-government-chemist-tampered-with-40000-cases-locking-countless-innocent-americans-in-prison/

BREAKING: ANOTHER GOVERNMENT CHEMIST ACCUSED OF DECEPTION, OVER 180,000 CASES NOW NEED REVIEW
http://filmingcops.com/breaking-another-government-chemist-accused-of-deception-over-180000-cases-now-need-review/

MaryLovesJustice

MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com or (678) 531.0262

Do Parolees Have Self-Defense Rights?

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled cops have NO DUTY to protect citizens ~Not many people have experienced calling 911 for police help that never arrived, but it happened to me. In fact, police have no constitutional responsibility to protect citizens at all. People think that if they experience difficulty in their homes, all they need to do is call police. Most people do not know police have no duty to respond. That leaves homes where felons live particularly vulnerable to robbers, rapists, and other intruders. Households that have no guns are defenseless since police do not have to protect and serve citizens although we pay their salaries. Their sworn duty is to keep the peace. Years ago, the system upgraded many misdemeanor offenses to felonies. I feel this was done in part to deprive certain Americans of voting rights and gun ownership. What do you think about that? Read about the court rulings that allow police to ignore our calls for help and stories about some of the people police abandoned at
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/courtrulingsonpoliceprotection.php
Let's discuss it at 9pm Monday, January 6, 2014, on the "Human Rights for Prisoners March" on Blogtalkradio. Join us at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/ - Call-in at (818)572.2947 before 9:30 p.m. Pacific to speak on the broadcast. If you miss the live broadcast, please listen to the archived tape at Blogtalkradio, and share the url with your friends and online groups.

Who is accountable to protect homes where felons live who have no right to own guns? I believe that self-defense is a human right, and this topic is worthy of discussion. Join us to give your opinion on the radio, or enter a comment below at this article. You can always try to call or email me using the contact information below. If I am allowed to receive your voice mail or email, I promise to respond within 48 hours.

MaryLovesJustice Neal
MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
(678)531.0262