This petition is in response to the California State Prison San Quentin Condemned Adjustment Center Collective's good faith Request, by Warden Chappell to end their peaceful hunger strike. This good faith showing to end their hunger strike was soley made upon Warden Chappells promise to implement by the end of the year. (A) Behavior based program. (B)Cease Indeterminate Status in the AC. (C) Implement more privileges for ALL AC inmates. (D) Proper Due Process during the validation process, ie: sent to Sacramento not I.c.c. (E) Integrated Yard. (F)Grade B no longer be of a double standard (G) AC Condemned will be given an equal oppurtunity to gain their Grade A after 4 years of good behavior retroactive. (H) Honoring all the privileges and rights all C.D.C.R inmates are equally entitled.

The citizens of Bernalillo County have lived in fear of APD for too long and APD must answer for their actions at Ms. Han's death scene. Signing this petition will help convene a Grand Jury investigation into the wrong doings of APD.

The citizens of Bernalillo County have lived in fear of APD for too long and APD must answer for their actions at Ms. Han's death scene

Victor deserves to be with his family. Accidents happen - second chances should be given. UPDATE: Victor has been released to his family. The petition is now about getting the charges dropped.

MY NIECE, MEGHAN POWELL, WAS ONLY 16 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE WAS PRESSURED INTO A "PLEA BARGAIN" FROM VERY INEFFECTIVE COUNSEL WHO TOLD HER THAT SIGNING THE "BARGAIN" WAS THE BEST THING SHE COULD DO. SHE WAS LOCKED UP WITH NO ACCESS TO A PHONE AND MEDICATED. ITS JUST NOT RIGHT WHAT OUR SYSTEM DOES TO CHILDREN! ITS BEEN TEN YEARS. THE FEMALE PRISONS ARE OVERCROWDED AND RELEASING INMATES. MEGHAN WOULD NOT BE ANY TROUBLE TO OUR SOCIETY. IN FACT, SHE PLANS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN A POSITIVE WAY TO THE JUVENILE COMMUNITY.

The Pathway from the lungs to all parts of the body was discovered and the chemicals are focused to any part that the harassers wants to disable. It is very important that this behavior is stopped. My friends and I are harassed by people who have access to these chemicals that gets into the Respiratory System to the Nervous System causing excruciating pain and disability plus difficulty breathing and raising of high blood pressure. These chemicals have the symptoms of the Nervous Systems plus these toxic fumes get into the Vital Organs to disable causing death to those who are vulnerable. By reading Dr. Raymond Singer's. article on RECOGNIZING NEUROTOXICITY, I realized that These chemicals are dangerous to all life including animals and it was getting in the Nervous System to cause excruciating pain plus people were dying and the chemicals were focusing on the disabled Vital Organs of their bodies. Thus, the research shows that the chemicals are affecting all life plus the authorities have discovered that these chemicals are sprayed everywhere and it needs to be Investigated and stopped immediately.

Pennsylvania nurse and loving daughter Barbara Mancini faces up to 10 years in prison for allegedly "assisting suicide" in the death of her 93-year-old, terminally ill father, Joe Yourshaw. Joe was receiving hospice care because he wanted to die peacefully at home. Barbara was caring for her father in his living room when he took morphine to relieve his severe pain. An ambulance took Joe to the hospital, and a police captain arrested Barbara. This is a chilling example of government authorities criminalizing a family’s most intimate, personal decision. Would you want them to question yours? Sign our petition and stand with Barbara.

Recently 18 yr old grafitti artist , Israel Hernandez , was apprehended after being chased by over 20 police officers for painting graffiti on an abandoned building in Miami Beach, Fl. Upon being apprehended a taser gun was excessively and irresponsibly applied, that resulted in the DEATH and KILLING of this young man. We deplore any more excessive use of force and police BRUTALITY in our country .

After more than 30 years as host and producer of The Prison Show on KPFT I have covered the criminal justice beat nationally.

CDCR (CA Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation) has launched a STG (Security Threat Group) program to be codified into the Title 15. It allows, among many things, long term indefinite isolation of inmates at great expense to the State. It lays the foundation for no one to be allowed out of SHU (Security Housing Unit) and into a SDP (Step Down Program) without agreeing, before entering, the SDP to snitch on others for the CDCR, while in SDP, at great risk to their families and their own safety. You can not simply disavow yourself of gang activity and work toward rehabilitation goals. You must agree to be a confidential informant. It also has a broad brush struck of who can be labeled an STG. It can done on a "suspicion" by a guard, with no proof. There are ways beside the use of SHU's to isolate active gang members from general population without the expense and inhumane treatment of SHU's.

In 2004, a 16 year old runaway named Cyntoia Brown was picked up in Nashville, Tennessee, by a forty-three year old man who planned to have sex with her in exchange for money. At the time, Cyntoia was living in a motel room with an adult male pimp, Cut-throat, who had been prostituting her and violently abusing her sexually, mentally, and physically, while also providing her with drugs. Late that night, as Cyntoia was lying naked in the bed with the man who had picked her up for sex, her paranoia growing from the drugs and abuse she had suffered, Cyntoia became convinced that the man intended to cause her bodily harm. She fired one bullet at the man, killing him. She then picked up some items to bring back to her pimp so she would not be beaten. She drove the man's car to a Wal-Mart parking lot and walked back to her pimp's motel room. Cyntoia was quickly arrested, charged as an adult, and convicted of first degree murder. She was sentenced to a life sentence (60 years in prison), and will be required to serve 51 calendar years before she can be considered for parole. Since 2004, Cyntoia has been working diligently to make amends for her crime. Today, Cyntoia is an incredibly intelligent, compassionate, and resilient young woman. She recently graduated with an Associates of Arts degree with a GPA of 4.0 from Lipscomb University's LIFE Program (Lipscomb Initiative For Education), and she will soon earn her Bachelor's degree from Lipscomb. As she has progressed in her rehabilitation, Cyntoia has served as a beacon of light in the prison environment. She has helped other inmates earn their GEDs, worked in various meaningful jobs, and encouraged those around her to be their best selves. She has maintained meaningful relationships with positive mentors in the community, many of whom feel that they have become better people through their friendship with Cyntoia. Watch this video clip: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/sentencing-children-cyntoias-story/

Three times I have been called and informed that a friend has been lost to heroin. Two out of three of these did not have to end in death - the other person or people doing the drugs with them failed to call for help in a timely manner when my friends overdosed. In one of these instances they waited for HOURS. Why were they not arrested at once? Why is an investigation needed? The doctor said this friend would have lived if help was sought after immediately. It seems pretty cut and dry.... intentional negligence is claiming lives when these people could have been saved. It is happening all the time, and those who are not impacted don't even know it. Those who stand by and do nothing should be automatically detained on pending manslaughter charges, and if a homicide investigation is warranted they can sit in custody while the detectives complete that. Stop letting them get away with this. Parents are losing children, children are losing their parents, and we are losing friends, while people who had an opportunity to seek help roam freely.