“Let me direct you to these links for this very revealing information: …”

http://www.heart-intl.org/Home/index.htm

http://www.heart-intl.org/pris/index.htm

http://www.heart-intl.org/NA/Index.htm

http://www.heart-intl.org/pris/113010/Index.htm

The Policy and Politics of Reproductive Health

Arrests of and Forced Interventions on

Pregnant Women in the United States,

1973–2005: Implications for Women’s

Legal Status and Public Health

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist (1821 – 1881)

Class Action: Parsons v Ryan suicide, abuse and neglect

The public is invited to join the survivors of prison violence and others directly affected by prison injustice in building a community mural to remember those who have died in custody beginning at 8:00 am.” by Arizona Prison Watch

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The Governor’s legacy will is one of disastrous consequence to thousands of vulnerable men, women and children in the state of Arizona who were fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, grandfathers and grandmothers whose lives have been destroyed, and hundreds of millions of $$$’s in lawsuits will remain for years in the courts for the taxpayers to clean-up the disaster.

The justice system which feeds the prison system is creating generations of criminals, as people are being warehoused, and breeding ground for serious diseases — a crisis that has been swept under the rug and will erupt when the top elected officials have moved on to lucrative retirement and pensions.

A civil society is measured in how we treat the most vulnerable in our society.

Over 2,000 “new” private prison beds contracts signed with CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) on Friday, after 5:00 pm, August 31, 2012, behind closed doors, on the long Labor Day Holiday week-end, is shameful. Arizona does NOT need new prisons, crime is down. Her friend and state public policy advisor, Chuck Coughlin, as owner of High Ground, lobbyist for CCA, certainly is a conflict of interest.

Also remembered, is the “grabbing” of $50,000,000.00 from the Mortgage Foreclosure settlement intended for homeowners — to give to the PRIVATE prison corporation’s new prisons, creating obscene “riches’ for a handful of profiteers while the taxpayers will be left holding the bag for the boondoggle.

This is taxpayers’ money wasted that could have been spent on education, health care, rehabilitation, job training and building stronger communities.

The out of control broken criminal justice system where people are fed by the prosecutors to the the prison-for-$$$’s-pipeline, is nothing but a shredding machine of human beings lives and innocent families. Over 200,000 felony cases alone (in one term) by disgraced and disbarred former Maricopa County Andrew Thomas and his disbarred, chief charging prosecutor, ex-DCA Lisa Aubuchon. Where is the investigation of these cases for wrongful convictions when new evidence has come forward and exculpatory evidence has been found? 10% innocent = 20,000 inmates; 1% = 2,000. These are conservative estimates for wrongful convictions. Where is the state Conviction Integrity Unit in the face of abuse of power by the MCAO?

Time to end immunity for prosecutors. Time to criminalize prosecutorial misconduct, then wrongful convictions would decrease, along with the $$$’s. Reform Arizona’s draconian mandatory minimum sentencing that is the weapon for “easy” convictions / plea bargains. Trial by plea bargain is NO trial at all. And is certainly NOT fair justice in Arizona.

The destruction of peoples’ lives, families and children in Arizona has been immoral and shameful.