Police beat up teen and kick him in the head.

http://92q.com/videos/konan/police-beat-up-teen-and-kick-him-in-head/

Man wins ok to sue over rat bite in Nassau County Jail

A man who says a rat bit him on the penis while he was being held in a Long Island jail can sue Nassau County, a federal judge ruled on January 13, 2011.

Peter Solomon claims a rat or "similar rodent" bit him when he was jailed in East Meadow in 2007.  He filed suit the next year.

The judge said the suit raised enough issues about pest control for it to proceed.

The Associated Press

Juvenile Justice Counselor sexually assaults those he is employed to help.

A troubled teen recounted in X-rated detail on January 13, 2011 how a JUVENILE JUSTICE COUNSELOR allegedly shoved his hands in her pants at MANHATTAN FAMILY COURT.

Tony Simmons, who is charged with sexually preying on three girls who were in his care, played the movie "Meet the Browns" for the girl and offered her cookies shortly before making his move from behind, the 18-year old girl said.

"I turned around to look at him and that's when he started kissing me," she said of her July 2008 encountered with Simmons, 47.

"He asked for my number."

The $37,000 a year DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE EMPLOYEE previously admitted raping a 15-year old in a COURTHOUSE elevator and forcing a 16-year old togive him oral sex, in addition to the sexual assault on the Bronx teen.

"He was a man with AUTHORITY, a man with a BADGE," prosecutor Evan Krutoy said in his opening statement.

A MANHATTAN JUDGE VOIDED Simmons' earlier guilty pleas, which came with a promise of NO JAIL TIME, that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vanve blasted as "outrageously lenient."

A lawyer for Simmons said the allegations were "made up" by "out-of control" girls.

"They were desperate to try to get out of custody," lawyer Gregory Watford said.  "Tthey said whatever it took to change their situation."

Reported by Jose Martinez, New York Daily News.  January 14, 2011.

True Vine Christian Academy Prison Ministry Outreach

True Vine Christian Academy, where Minister Michele Quick is the founder and visionary, currently offers free bible studies to incarcerated souls, and various aftercare services.  The prison ministry department will reach out to other prison ministries in order to build a network of re-entry resources in every state.

Resources will include services that will benefit:

·         The incarcerated

·         The Children of the Incarcerated

·         Loved Ones of the Incarcerated

·         Corrections Staff

The department will outreach to each area with heavy concentration to the Children of the Incarcerated.  Our theme for the year is Save The Children.  The goal of the Save The Children Campaign is to assist in breaking the generational curse of incarceration.  Spoken Word will be one of the methods used to evangelize the Youth.  Outreach to the youth is critical because we are in a time where the youth are losing hope at an alarming rate.  We are in a time where God is becoming irrelevant to the youth and many youth do not have a knowledge of who Jesus is.  As in any relationship, how can one build a relationship with someone they do not know.  The Save The Children Campaign will teach the youth how to pray.

A sample listing of the workshops the Department will offer for the year include:

·         The Impact of HIV on the Incarcerated and Their Families

·         Parenting

·         The Connection between Educational Disabilities and Behavior Problems and the Incarcerated

·         Impact of Substance Abuse and Incarceration (Criminal & Addictive Brain Similarities)

·         Stress Management

·         Anger Management

·         Empowerment Through Education

·         Cleaning Up Your Rap Sheet

·         God is Love Prayer Breakfast

The department will have weekly meetings to fellowship, network and host prison ministry resource workshops.

The department has created a prison ministry blog and would appreciate your support.  The website is

http://tvcaprisonministry.blogspot.com/

The department has identified several camps that offer free camp to Children of the Incarcerated.  Registration information will be shared on the blog so that others can share this information to families with Children of the Incarcerated.

Instead of an Angel Tree program, True Vine Christian Academy Prison Ministry extends Nia’s Blessings.  Each January,  the ministry extends expressions and gifts of purpose, hope, faith & good cheer to family members of the incarcerated.  The ministry also sponsors a Clothing & Book Giveaway  Programs.

For more information, please contact tvcacademy@yahoo.com or 718-574-4221.

Medical Neglect Stalks Georgia Prisons

Medical Neglect Stalks Georgia Prisons

by Bruce A. Dixon

Arnold Porter was serious, and seriously worried. He was dizzy and short of breath, he told Dr. William Sightler, with a crushing, tightening sensation in his chest with pain shooting up once side of his neck. “Maybe I have a clogged artery. This is not my normal health,” he told Dr. Sightler. “Please help. I need something fast done.”

Slow motion heart attacks, in which symptoms leading up to full cardiac arrest build and worsen gradually over weeks or months are quite common. Porter should have been a lucky man, being able to bring his heart attack symptoms into in a physician's office, except for one thing. Porter was a prisoner at Georgia's Wheeler Correctional facility, operated by the notorious Corrections Corporation of America. And William Slighter was their doctor, not his.

According to a complaint filed in US District Court in Dublin Ga, Porter repeatedly and insistently sought medical aid throughout the month of December 2006, informing Dr. Sightler and a prison nurse of his symptoms, and urgently requesting some kind, any kind of diagnostic treatment for his chest pain, shortness of breath, profuse sweating and the other classic markers of cardiac disease. By December 29, the complaint states, Porter's symptoms were well documented in his file, but the first appointment with Dr. Sightler was delayed a full 35 days. It was at this appointment that Porter stated he thought he might have a clogged artery, and asked for help.

Dr. Sightler, Nurse Newcurt, and the prison's Director of Nursing Carolyn White, the complaint alleges, did nothing. Wheeler is a privatized prison, run by a highly profitable corporation. Private prisons, as well as publicly-run prisons with privatized medical care have built-in reasons to skimp on diagnostic testing and all kinds of care. Medical care costs money, and they're in business to make it, not to spend it.

On October 16, 2007 Arnold Porter went into full cardiac arrest. He died. His pulse and breathing stopped, he had to be brought back with a combination of electric shock and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Porter is lucky to be alive today. He's a long way from being well, but has made it far enough back to draft and file his own complaint against CCA, the state of Georgia, and the doctors and nurses who refused to treat him till he reached the point of death.

Porter's sister Vondra told Black Agenda Report that “My brother says 'they've already tried to kill me, I don't know what more they can do.'” So Porter is doing what he can do, acting as a jailhouse lawyer, researching and assisting with the pleas and motions of other prisoners at Coffee Correctional facility, where he is now held.

Some other Georgia prisoners are not so fortunate. Terrance Dean, who was brutally beaten by officials at Macon State Prison in mid-December, around the same time as the visit of a Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoners Rights fact-finding team, finally got a visit from his sister on Sunday, January 2.

“He's got a long way to go,” said Wendy Johnson of Atlanta. “He's in a wheelchair, his speech is slurred, and he seems to have partial paralysis in his arm and leg on one side. He can't walk without help... he is very fearful...” According to Johnson, the last time he saw his mother in November, he was in normal physical condition with no complaints.

Dean was transferred in apparent secrecy to an Atlanta hospital more than 130 miles away from the prison. His family was not informed at all by state authorities of either his injury or his transfer. They had to find out by other means. And although Johnson spoke to Steve Franklin of CBS Atlanta on Friday, the story appears to have received little or no on-air coverage, and cannot be found on the station's web site.

“We're going to do everything we can to find out what happened to Terrance Dean, and everything we can to make sure justice is served,” pledged Rev. Kenny Glasgow of The Ordinary Peoples Society.”

At Smith Prison, where another fact-finding visit occurred, there was at least one incident which may be another case of official retaliation for the prison strike. The wife of another prisoner at that institution spoke to corporate media reporters just before New Years about her husband, whose nose was broken and not reset, and who had other injuries. Again, the story has seen little light, The family has retained an attorney and is looking into its legal options.

The Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoner Rights expects to hold a press conference in Atlanta tomorrow at 10:30 in downtown Atlanta. We'll be there.

Bruce A. Dixon is managing editor at Black Agenda Report, and based in Marietta GA. He's also a member of the GA Green Party's state committee.

 

Peanut Butter and Jelly Time

New York city jails are cutting back on jelly.  Inmates can now only put one ounce on sandwiches, not two.  The Correction Department made the change to match the recently announced reduction in sliced bread from eight slices to six per day per inmate.  Jail officials report that the cut is expected to save $1.5 million next year.

Weed on Rikers

Correction officers discovered a 270-gram bag of weed inside of an inmate's cell on December 17, 2010.  According to news reports, jail officials believe an officier smuggled the pot to the inmate, who is doing life for murder.

The case has been referred to the city's Department of Investigation by the Correction Department.  The Department of Investigation oversees cases against corrupt city workers.

According to news reports, several jail insiders blamed Deputy Warden Anthony Toulon and Warden Emmanuel Bailey for the lax security inside the facility.