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Civil Rights

Creative Police Tactics -- a.k.a. Lying

Unfettered Government Power

NINTH CIRCUIT FEDERAL COURT OF APPEALS
HAMMERS CDC APPEALS COORDINATORS.
 

Free Exercise Rights Violated



Parole

Separation of Powers and California Parole

Technical Parole Violations - The Great Prison Population Control Secret



Politics

Real Victim of Three-Strikes Law is the Taxpayer

Hate and the Three-Strikes Law



Prisons

The California Prison System: A Design for Disaster

From Parole to Civil Commitment

Retaliation In Prisons

Prison Violence, The Classificaton System, But No Incentives

Control of Prison Inmates --Rehabilitation or Oppression

The Monster

Comments on Visiting and Mail



Prison Appeals System
 

Part 1: Fear of Retaliation Discourages Prisoners
From Filing Appeals and Other Problems

 Part 2: Alternative Methods and Problems,
Complaints Through the Mens' Advisory Council

 Part 3: The Citizen's Complaint

Part 4: Case Examples of a Failed System


Public Defense

Complaint Against Attorney Elliot D. Burick

Discipline of State Bar Against Elliot D. Burick


Offender

Comments on November 2003 Department of Justice, BJS, Report:
"Recidivism of Sex Offeners Released from Prison in 1994"

The Effects of Foucha v. Louisiana on SVPA
Civil Commitments and Equal Protection

Treatment Program Disclosures



Shasta Injustice

Truth, Justice And the American Way - Shasta County Style

Almeda False Imprisonment

 It Was Meningitis—Not Shaken Baby Syndrome

Charles P. Peterson - Statement of Facts

Big Brother Really Is Here!



Shasta Jail

Power Corruption Causes Prisoner Complaints
To Go Unresolved at the Shasta County Jail

 Shasta County Jail's Punitive Mind Set
of Confiscating Books undermines Goals of Rehabilitation

Obtaining Photocopies of Legal Documents in Shasta Jail

Shasta County Jail Inmate ID Fiasco

TB II, In Its Latest Gaffe,
The Shasta County Jail Negligently Fails to Contain A Tuberculosis Outbreak

Shasta Jail Ignored Tuberculosis

What's The Problem? The Shasta County Jail's Solution!

Shasta County Jail Pestilence

The Solution to Shasta County Jail's Problems

Suicide Attempt - Latest Blunder for Shasta County Jail

Shasta Jail in Denial

Shaver Gate -- Another Gaffe for the Shasta County Jail

Alleged Guard Brutality at the  Troubled Shasta County Jail

Evans Suicide Attempts

A Day in the Life of the Oppressed & The Plan
 


Shasta Police

Excessive or Justified Force - Or - Was it Retaliation by
Shasta County Jail Officers?

Alleged Police Brutality by the Redding Police Department

A Double Dose of Excessive Force in Shasta County

More Information and Update on Double Dose of Excessive Force



SVP Civil commitment

 Civil Commitment: An Expensive Program - Part 1

 ABA Standards of Defense Attorneys

 Review of People v. Hurtado

 Comments on People v. Hurtado

U.S. Supreme Court Vacates and Remands Yet Another Civil Commitment

More Civil Commitment Cases - Illinois and Arizona

Civil Commitment - Comments on Ghilotti Case

Equal Protection - Sex Offenders Must Now Be Treated the Same

Review of People v. Superior Court (Ghilotti)

Probable Cause Hearing Standards - Cooley v. Superior Court (Marentez)

FEDERAL APPEALS COURT BLASTS CALIFORNIA OVER ABUSIVE
CONDITIONS FOR CIVIL DETAINEES IN COUNTY JAILS

Information Package for those facing Civil Commitment in Califoria



Atascadero State Hospital

Part 1
THE SVP PROGRAM, AS IT PRESENTLY EXISTS,
COSTS THE TAXPAYERS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR NOTHING

Part 2
A DAY IN THE MENTAL -- AND THE TAXPAYERS
PAY HUNDREDS OF MILLION DOLLARS FOR THIS!

  Atascadero Medical Care
 

Coalinga State Hospital

 Coalinga State Hospital + Published Articles

Patients Demonstrate at Coalinga State Hospital

  Strike by Patients at Coalinga State Hospital Nets Promises of Change

 DMH Bureaucrats Can't Solve Minor Problems
 

IS THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION
PREPARING TO SEND ITS INMATES TO
OTHER STATES TO HELP EASE OVERCROWDING?
 

DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH'S WHITE ELEPHANT AT COALINGA
 

ARE CALIFORNIA'S GOVERNMENT AGENCIES' PROBLEMS THE RESULT OF CALIFORNIA'S BUREAUCRATS BEING THE BIGGEST BULLIES ON THE BLOCK?
 

STATE POLICE BULLIES VICTIMIZE BLACK PATIENTS
AT COALINGA STATE HOSPITAL
 

Lack of Licensing and Oversight Leads to
Abuses at Coalinga State Hospital
 

Overcrowding at Coalinga State Hospital
 

IN A SITUATION ANALOGOUS TO RATS ABANDONING A SINKING SHIP:
ADMINISTRATORS AND STAFF FLEE COALINGA STATE HOSPITAL!
 

SCHWARZENEGGER'S RELIANCE ON A $7.9 BILLION
PRISON CONSTRUCTION MEASURE TO CURE PRISON SYSTEM PROBLEMS
IS NOTHING BUT SMOKE AND MIRRORS

OVERCROWDING COUPLED WITH STAFF SHORTAGES AT COALINGA STATE HOSPITAL CONTINUE TO ENDANGER PATIENTS' LIVES

PATIENTS STRIKE AT COALINGA STATE HOSPITAL
 

COALINGA STATE HOSPITAL PATIENT STRIKE UPDATE (8-22-07)

Poisonous Spider Bite and Lack of Prompt and
Adequate Medical Care At Coalinga State Hospital endangers Patient's Life

COALINGA STATE HOSPITAL PATIENT STRIKE UPDATE (8/29/07)

Patients at Coalinga State Hospital Resort to HUNGER-STRIKE

Mycobacterium Avium Complex Outbreak
at Coalinga State Hospital

No Emergency Services Available at Coalinga State Hospital
 

California State Contract SVPA Evaluators

Releases By County 1, 2

Released or Discharged From California SVP Custody

Coalinga State Hospital Targeted for
Public Protest March 2, 2008
 

USING SLEIGHT-OF-HAND TACTIC, DMH DIVERTS CSH ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVE
FROM BEING DECLARED "UNDERGROUND REGULATION


2009

The Amenities – Smoke and Mirrors


 
 
On March 23, 2009, the California DMH announced on its website that it would promulgate new SVP evaluation rules and posted a hearing schedule. The three documents from the DMH are attached hereto. This is the latest attempt by the DMH to clean up its mess with the Evaluator Handbook and contains the same language as the Emergency Regulations on the same subject announced previously. Please circulate these documents and encourage that public comments be made.

It appears that the DMH will promulgate these two very generic sections that allow the evaluators to utilize current professional standards. That part is fine. However, the fear is that the DMH will not leave it at that and will next attempt to control the actions of the state evaluators through memorandum, letters, guidelines, etc. That would not be good, as it would again allow the DMH to dictate results of the evaluation process. We need to lay the groundwork, through public comments, to prevent DMH evaluator manipulation through regulation by memorandum, letters, guidelines, etc., which have not been legally promulgated.

 ASVP Notice

 ASVP Rehab Language

 SVP Initial Statement

 THE WITCH HUNT CONTINUES


Thomas B. Watson, Charges Dropped and Released on 
June 2, 2008!!!

Tom Watson Finally Released: But With No Legal Identification Papers

Defense for SVP - Home



Updated April 14, 2009

For additional information on this and other related topics go to links below:

 Judicial Terror in Shasta County

 Atascadero State Hospital - Articles

Sex Gulag.org

 Retribution - Index

 Thee Strikes Legal - Index


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