Water for the Hurt

Drug Addicts Punished In New York Prisons

Jeannesparkscarreker — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:03:40 GMT

Drug offenders get “the box” instead of treatment.

The common practice of placing drug addicts in “disciplinary segregation” for drug use violations in New York state prisons has drawn fire from Human Rights Watch. The international human rights group issued a report condemning the practice of placing addicts in “the box” and denying them treatment for their drug dependence, calling it “cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.”

In the report, entitled “Barred from Treatment: Punishment of Drug Users in New York State Prisons,” Human Rights Watch notes that even addicts who are allowed to seek treatment face major delays “because treatment programs are filled to capacity.” New York State Assemblyman Jeff Aubry, chair of the State Committee on Corrections, told the investigators: “Denying treatment to inmates who suffer from a drug dependency is illogical and counterproductive to the goal of rehabilitation.”

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Starvation?

Jeannesparkscarreker — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:30:04 GMT

Just Click It Away!!

If there were a way to feed the hungry simply by clicking on a link or playing a quick game of trivia, would you do it? Get your clicker ready, folks, below are the websites to do just that!!

It only cost me about ten minutes on a boring Tuesday night to feed and water four whole families on the other side of the globe. I figure, if that movie I was planning to take in this weekend isn't all that great, I'll turn off the tv and click a little while.

It's about the poor needing your help. It's easy. It costs nothing but your time. And if your time is all that expensive, then you have the kind of dough to write a huge check to send instead (smile).

=Staple Foods=
http://www.freerice.com - Free Rice
http://www.freeflour.com - Free Bread

=Free Water=
http://www.freepoverty.com - Lots of free water!
http://www.helpthirst.com - Free water
http://www.savetheworldwithmusic.com

=Free Meals=
http://www.pajacyk.pl - Click the green button!
http://www.ripple.org/give.php?p=food - Just Click!
http://www.porloschicos.com/PorLosChicos.NET/index_english.htm
Click the blue button!
http://www.feedsa.com - Click the white button!
http://www.hungerfighters.com - Click the green box!
http://www.povertyfighters.com/ - Click the blue box!
http://www.thehungersite.com - Click the yellow box!
http://www.okruszek.org.pl - Click the Bread button!
http://www.chintai.net/contribution/index.html Click the blue box!
http://www.kct-uk.org/click Just visit the site!
http://www.accse.net/delvalle/delvalle.html - Click on 'Donar'
http://www.straatkind.nl/ - Click on the small red ball.
http://www.worldhunger.org/contributefood.htm - Just click!

The Incarceration Cure?

Jeannesparkscarreker — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:47:32 GMT

Locking Up The Chemically Dependant

Example
The gavel lifts and slams, papers are shuffled, signed, placed in a folder, and a bailiff instructs a twenty-two year old African American male who is seated temporarily in the juror box with other Jefferson County inmates awaiting a hearing in Circuit Court.

Having pled guilty to a possession charge, Roy listens to the bailiff explain the process of entering the Alabama Department of Corrections' Processing Location, Kilby Correctional Facility. Serving a year and a day actually becomes around three months when tallying time off for good behavior, and is defined as "you'll be there for a minute," by those handcuffed to each of Roy's hands.

Roy's mother is in the courtroom, self-conscious about the tears streaming down her cheeks, watching the judge with a desperate look. It's as if she is waiting for the judge to suddenly pull back the papers he has just signed that will send her son to hell with monsters. Maybe he will rewind everything, and even take back what he said to her son that had shaken her to the very core: "Well, obviously you don't like getting up and making a sandwich whenever you want, Son - I guess you just don't like freedom. You didn't even try to go to support group meetings, did you? I don't really think you can be helped. And Alabama wants you off its streets."

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Drug Law Reform:

Jeannesparkscarreker — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:26:34 GMT

Perils of the Afflicted

ALABAMA COURTROOM-A Caucasian female living in a major city in the south is arrested late one night for unknowingly selling a gram of methamphetamine to an undercover officer. This isn't her first rodeo, however, due to the fact that she had been picked up a few times before on possession charges. Every time, she had been court ordered into an alternative sentencing program which demanded frequent urine samples on a random basis, as well as her compliance with rehabilitative treatment. Her name is Jane.

For whatever reason, be it her unwillingness to comply with the court-ordered abstinence from her DOC (drug of choice), or non-compliance with the treatment program's orders, Jane failed to meet the courts' demands. Warrants were issued for her arrest and her probation was revoked.

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