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DEMONSTRATE--6PM, MAY 13, 2002, BERKELEY MARINA
PROTEST GOVERNOR DAVIS' FAILURE TO ADDRESS HEALTH NEEDS OF WOMEN PRISONERS AND THE ABUSES OF WOMEN IN THE SKILLED NURSING FACILITY AT THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S FACILITY.
Governor Davis has proclaimed May 2002 as Women's Health Month in California. On May 13 the Dept. of Health Services (the agency that oversees licensing of the SNF at CCWF) is hosting an inaugural event to "celebrate" Governor Davis' proclamation.
Join us in demonstrating to make sure Governor Davis and the Dept. of Health Services knows women prisoners deserve health care too.
Demand an end to the abominable conditions in the Skilled Nursing Facility at CCWF.
Women in the SNF are being locked down in their cells 22 hours per day, isolated from other women, and abandoned until their condition deteriorates.
Demand:
* Release for seriously ill prisoners
* Allow Peer Educators into the SNF
* Open the SNF to outside investigation
WHEN? MAY 13, 6PM
WHERE? RADISON HOTEL, BERKELEY MARINA (200 Marina Blvd, Berkeley)
Organized by Justice Now, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, HIV in Prison Committee, & California Prison Focus. For Information: (510) 839-7654, ext. 1.
Join us in demonstrating to make sure Governor Davis and the Dept. of Health Services knows women prisoners deserve health care too.
Demand an end to the abominable conditions in the Skilled Nursing Facility at CCWF.
Women in the SNF are being locked down in their cells 22 hours per day, isolated from other women, and abandoned until their condition deteriorates.
Demand:
* Release for seriously ill prisoners
* Allow Peer Educators into the SNF
* Open the SNF to outside investigation
WHEN? MAY 13, 6PM
WHERE? RADISON HOTEL, BERKELEY MARINA (200 Marina Blvd, Berkeley)
Organized by Justice Now, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, HIV in Prison Committee, & California Prison Focus. For Information: (510) 839-7654, ext. 1.
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no excuses...
this is cruel and unusual punishment.
Don't be a criminal and you won't have these problems.
I agree with Joe. These people made their own choices and can live with them. These women should be glad they live in the US. Many other countries have much harsher prison environments and punishments for criminals.
If you take someone's freedom away, if you accept that you are going to separate them from society for society's and their own good, then you owe them and society a certain level of humanity in caring for them.
As it stands, the way these women and men are being treated, CCWF and the rest of the prison system is saying anyone and everyone is guarenteed a death sentence, no matter what the crime, no matter how unjust the law is they were convicted under. If you send someone to prison for a $5 rock of crack, the way it is now, really why not just kill them?
That's not acceptable to anyone who has an ounce of human dignity and a sense of right and wrong. This is only acceptable to armchair serial killers and the most bloodthirsty of apologetic criminal psychopaths.
I know Joe and the other posters wouldn't accept that for their own family, not unless they are completely dehumanized and emotionally numb.
But we don't know what they are capable of, crouching behind their computers, safely typing away in their dark rooms or daytime cubicles their prescriptions for bloodshed and torture. Perhaps they are the real criminals, because they have called for the torture of their neighbors. Like the Bundy's of the world, so, so, completely and seemingly rational in their bloodthirst. So convincing of themselves to themselves of the "normal" fascade the monster who stares back from the mirror, that sits at the monitor is; who really is so thrilled in the chase of not being caught, of being completely free to don pseudo war paint and dance around the fire and slaughter the innocent beast; so fragile, helpless, and brittle that any illumination of their dark core could shatter them into weeping, broken, and devastated shells of what once was someone's naive child.
To you and them, I say:
First we will free the prisoners, then we will free those who imprison themselves.
As it stands, the way these women and men are being treated, CCWF and the rest of the prison system is saying anyone and everyone is guarenteed a death sentence, no matter what the crime, no matter how unjust the law is they were convicted under. If you send someone to prison for a $5 rock of crack, the way it is now, really why not just kill them?
That's not acceptable to anyone who has an ounce of human dignity and a sense of right and wrong. This is only acceptable to armchair serial killers and the most bloodthirsty of apologetic criminal psychopaths.
I know Joe and the other posters wouldn't accept that for their own family, not unless they are completely dehumanized and emotionally numb.
But we don't know what they are capable of, crouching behind their computers, safely typing away in their dark rooms or daytime cubicles their prescriptions for bloodshed and torture. Perhaps they are the real criminals, because they have called for the torture of their neighbors. Like the Bundy's of the world, so, so, completely and seemingly rational in their bloodthirst. So convincing of themselves to themselves of the "normal" fascade the monster who stares back from the mirror, that sits at the monitor is; who really is so thrilled in the chase of not being caught, of being completely free to don pseudo war paint and dance around the fire and slaughter the innocent beast; so fragile, helpless, and brittle that any illumination of their dark core could shatter them into weeping, broken, and devastated shells of what once was someone's naive child.
To you and them, I say:
First we will free the prisoners, then we will free those who imprison themselves.
I like the "Women In Chains" movies. Angie Dickenson was especially hot. Lots of T&A. Music in the movies had a good beat and you could dance to it. I give it an 8.
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