HOMES NOT PRISONS!!!
ARIZONA PRISON NEWS:
HOMES NOT PRISONS!!!
Abolish the PRISONS
DBA Press/Center for Media and Democracy Report (May 20, 2013)
PHOTO: PHX PD riot cop motorcycles at an Occupy Phoenix protest of Freeport MacMoran, February 2012. Chalk art and digitally rendered image by suspected anarchist/possible terrorist Margaret J Plews.
Abolish the PRISONS!
FIRE CHUCK RYAN!!!
PARSONS v RYAN is a certified CLASS ACTION!
As many of you know, under the current administration of Governor Jan Brewer the suicide and homicide rates among state prisoners doubled almost immediately, and has persisted over the course of the past four years, on the watch of Arizona Department of Corrections' Director Charles Ryan. On March 6, 2013,
"Parsons v Ryan" , the civil rights lawsuit filed last year by the ACLU and Prison Law Office, among others, against Ryan and AZ DOC Health Services Director Richard Pratt on behalf of 14 state prisoners was
certified as a CLASS ACTION!!!! That means every prisoner in the state is now a litigant.
Thank you not only to all the legal staff who brought it this far, but also to Wendy Halloran, KPNX, and the families who have
survived the horrors of prison violence in this state with a resolve to make sure that the gross indifference to human life at the AZ DOC kills no more.
ABOLISH THE PRISONS!
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AZ Prison Watch BLOG POSTS:
May 22, 2013:
On Loving to Hate Jodi Arias...
This is to all you visitors “enjoying” reading about Jodi Arias' future in my blogs, which I write largely for those who have lost loved ones in az prisons or are fighting to keep them alive through their sentences:
It is clear that your desire for vengeance is far greater than any yearning for true justice to prevail in the world, for you are celebrating the suffering of others. Please remember how happy you were that Jodi Arias would be miserable next time a young women who was sexually abused by a guard hangs herself in that prison, and know you had something to do with creating the culture of dehumanization and vindictiveness that makes that so likely to happen these days.
Perryville prison has killed many women through abuse and neglect, sometimes quite hideously – Google Marcia Powell, for one. No one deserves that kind of death. Most women there are mentally ill and survivors of trauma and shouldn’t even be in prison but for Arizona’s grossly inadequate mental health system, the right wing's contempt of the poor and people of color, and this overall fascist police state we live under.
In any case, by saying that it’s okay for the killers among them to be condemned to less-than-constitutional conditions of confinement, you lower the chances of survival of other women warehoused at Perryville as well. So, to those of you who truly care about “justice” – please just think on that before you pat the AZ DOC on the back for hurting and killing their prisoners as they do.
Joseph Venegas, 29, died on April 25, 2012 of unknown causes. He was a
prisoner at ASPC-Yuma/Cheyenne. If anyone has any information about his
life or death, please contact me (prisonabolitionist@gmail.com).
Condolences to his loved ones.
There was an apparent homicide at the ASPC-Winslow/Kaibab unit on April 20, 2012. If anyone has any further information about this man's life or death to fill out Shon's story, please contact me. I was unable to find any obituaries or remembrances on the
internet, but this was left in the comments following the brief article
about his death that was posted on ABC15's site:
Christine:
"I
really hope they do investigate. Regardless of what he did he didn't
deserve to die. Shon was a good guy and just made bad choices. I've
known Shon for years along with being engaged to him. He was sweet and
kind. He will be missed by those of us who loved him. R.I.P Shon"
Condolences to Christine and Shon's other loved ones.
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