STOP THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE

 

TO WORLD CONFERENCE OF MAYORS

HISTORIC BLACK TOWNS AND

SETTLEMENT ALLIANCE, and

FRIENDS OF THE AFRICAN UNION

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This country was founded by wealthy white men to establish Justice, insure

domestic Tranquility, promote general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty

to ourselves and our Posterity. That all men are created equal. These white men stated ALL MEN, not all white men. Black men and women

were in the Colonies since 1619.

Issue 1. The School to Prison Pipeline,

Black students' underperformance rates are at 81% in CCSD       Charleston County School Superintendent  Kennedy Charleston has 51%  of all 3rd through 8th graders reading below grade level.      

60 % of inmate populations are black. This is due to this school-to-prison pipeline    Students must see the practical application of Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and  Science in a career-oriented education system.  Those that came here as slaves must see the tremendous contributions they brought to the colonies. The Gullah Geechee from West Africa brought agriculture, cooking, fishing, and ecology to the Colonies yet suffered brutality and equality in direct neglect of the Constitution. Indigenous peoples helped the colonists survive yet saw their

land taken from them, their people killed, and the government denied them

their Constitutional rights.

ALL MEN (AND WOMEN) WERE CREATED EQUAL.- 

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ISSUE 2 City Leaders Faith Leaders, Educators, Chambers

of Commerce must meet monthly to identify Problems

and develop solutions

                   

ISSUE 4. inmates with Civil Rights and Healthcarehttps://howiecomen.blogspot.com/2022/05/america-africa-way-forward-pr-oblem.html

Lack of Investigation by Defense Attorneys (a U.S. Supreme Court violation)

Defense Attorney Required to Follow Through on Appeal

In Anders v. California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that counsel appointed

to represent a criminal defendant must "support his client's appeal to the best

of his ability." The court finds that this constitutional obligation was violated

when the defense counsel appointed to represent the defendant on appeal

simply submitted a letter to the court expressing his opinion that the appeal

had no merit and withdrew from the case. The court ruled that the defense

the attorney had a duty to fully investigate the case's merits and fully justify his

reasons for refusing to file an appeal. In addition, the defendant should have

an opportunity to rebut the attorney's arguments and the appeals court should

have the leeway to reject the attorney's arguments, permit the appeal, and to

appoint new counsel. 

Our case involves a Syrian-born American citizen charged and

convicted of rape. His case was not investigated. I am now investigating it,

looking for a loophole to get him a new trial. I feel I can prove his innocence.

My client was Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's bodyguard, driver, and interpreter

while the secretary was in Iraq.

S.C. Judge Rules for Better Conditions For Inmates with Serious

Mental Health Issues Contact: Gloria Prevost, Executive

Director Protection & Advocacy for People with Disabilities,

Inc. Phone: 866-275-7273 Columbia 803-782-0639

prevost@pandasc.org Joy Jay, Executive Director Mental

Health America of South Carolina (803) 779-5363

jjay@mha-sc.org COLUMBIA, SC – The S.C. Department of

Corrections mental health program is "inherently flawed and

systemically deficient in all major areas," and prison officials

should address the constitutional deficiencies and provide more

humane treatment of prison inmates with serious mental health

illnesses, a circuit court judge ruled today. Circuit Judge Michael

Baxley said in his ruling that the five-week trial of T.R., P.R.,

K.W., et al. v. South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al.

was the most troubling of the 70,000 cases to come before him in

the past 14 years. "The evidence, in this case, has proved that

inmates have died in the South Carolina Department of

Corrections for lack of basic mental health care, and hundreds

more remain substantially at risk for serious physical injury,

mental decompensation, and profound, permanent mental illness.

As a society, and as citizens jurors and judges make decisions

that send people to prison, we have the reasonable expectation

that those in prison – even though it is a prison – will have their

basic health needs met by the state that imprisons them. And

this includes mental health. The evidence, in this case, has

shown that expectation to be misplaced in many instances,

" Baxley wrote. The judge's order requires the corrections

department to remedy constitutional violations by submitting a

remedial plan within six months including the development of

screening and mental health treatment programs; a plan to

employ sufficient mental health professionals; a plan to maintain

treatment records and administers psychotropic medication with

appropriate supervision and periodic evaluation; and a program

to identify, treat and supervise inmates at risk for suicide.

Protection and Advocacy for People with Disabilities, Inc., on

behalf of inmates with serious mental health needs filed a

a class-action lawsuit in June 2005 alleging inadequate mental

health treatment for prisoners held statewide by S.C.

Department of Corrections

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