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Spring 2011-2 Turning Point The Newsletter of Missouri CURE Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants Missouri CURE ♦ P.O. Box 1245 ♦ Cape Girardeau MO 63702 63006 [email protected] phone 877-525-CURE (2873) www.mocure.org From the Board by Hedy Harden Spring 2011 Amnesty International Calls for End to Missouri CURE Officers: Decades of Torture in Louisiana Michelle Dodson, Chair Hedy (Edna) Harden, Vice Chair hirty-nine years ago, three young has ever been found linking the men to the T black men were placed in solitary guard’s murder. DNA evidence that might Becky Williams, Secretary confinement at Louisiana State Prison exonerate them has been lost. Their trial was Maria Rubin, Treasurer in Angola. Two of them remain in isolation characterized by faulty evidence, manufac- to this day. Together the tured testimony, bribed witnesses, Turning Point Editor: three men have spent inadequate legal representation, Hedy Harden more than 100 years in and discriminatory jury selection. supermax lockdown. Robert King, pic- uadalupe Marengo, CURE Advisory Board: tured here, was released G Deputy Director of Nelson Hopkins Sr. from Angola in 2001 Amnesty International for after 29 years in solitary the Americas, said, "The treatment Allen X McCarter when a judge overturned to which Albert Woodfox and Her- Dolores Owen his conviction. man Wallace have been subjected Albert Woodfox and for the past four decades is cruel Jamala Rogers Herman Wallace remain and inhumane and a Paula Skillicorn in solitary after 39 years. violation of the US’s obligations Both suffer from serious under international law." Marengo Jon Marc Taylor health problems either called the treatment of these men caused or made worse by by the State of Louisiana “a clear Inside this issue: their long years of close breach of US commitment to hu- Robert King of the Registry Update 2 confinement. Locked Angola Three man rights.” down for 23 hours daily, During the International Support Webb bill 2 they have had no opportunity for work or CURE conference held in Baton Rouge in NAACP Report 2 education. May, we viewed the film, “In the Land of the Originally imprisoned for armed rob- Free: The Angola Three.” Some Louisiana Prisoners Fight Flooding 3 bery, the men had helped found a Black CURE members present had served decades Legislative Update 3 Panther chapter at Angola to fight for better in Angola themselves. After the film we conditions. In 1972 they were convicted of were greeted by Wilbert Rideau, who spent Prisoner wins PEN Awards 3 killing a prison guard. No physical evidence 44 years at Angola, some of them on death row, before finally being freed in 2005. The NAFI Project 3 International Conference In this setting the film took on added Fighting Execution in Montana 4 Held in Baton Rouge meaning and was a sobering experience. Mumia Sentence Overturned 4 Hedy Harden represented Missouri at CURE’s international board meeting and ”I suspect that all the crimes Geriatric Parole 5 conference held in Baton Rouge Louisiana committed by all the jailed May 20-24. About 25 chapters attended Lethal Cocktail 5 criminals do not equal in total from the United States and Africa. social damage that of the crimes MO CURE Annual Conference 6 The next such conference will be held in Washington DC in the autumn of 2012, committed against them.” commemorating 40 years since CURE Join CURE 6 Karl Menninger: began in Texas in 1972. The Crime of Punishment Page 2 Turning Point Registry Update by Becky Williams his is a follow-up to my article autumn, I wrote about proposed legislation lower risk levels) would not be public. T in the Autumn 2010 newsletter that would bring Missouri in compliance After moving testimony was heard entitled “Change is Coming” with SORNA. This legislation was never from citizens and members of MCR, the regarding the Missouri Sex Offender addressed by the House or Senate this House Crime Prevention and Public Safety Registry. session. The deadline for all states to Committee approved the bill. It was then In 2006 Congress enacted become compliant is July 27, sent to the full House where it was over- the Adam Walsh Child Protec- 2011. whelmingly approved – 126 to 16. tion and Safety Act of which This year progress Unfortunately the session ended before SORNA (Sex Offender Regis- was made in the Missouri this bill could be heard in the Senate. It will tration and Notification Act) is legislature that gives hope to be resubmitted next year and we are a part. The Walsh Act provides the thousands of Missourians hopeful that it will be passed. There are still a comprehensive set of stan- who have been caught up in some areas we would like to see changed – dards for registrants and the harsh and unfair require- for example, addition of an individual risk notification in the United ments of SORNA. Missouri assessment. States. The requirements are Citizens for Reform (MCR) MCR meets monthly in St. Charles retroactive, which has led to considerable hired a lobbyist and found a sponsor for County. If this issue affects you or your litigation. HB 999 which seeks to reform the SORNA family, contact MCR at P.O. Box 265 , St. A fundamental problem with SORNA laws. Peters MO 63376; you may email them at is that it lumps all offenders into one group There would still be a tier system, but [email protected] ; website is regardless of the offense. In the article last on this proposed bill, Tier 1 and Tier II (the www.missouricitizensforreform.com . Support Federal Webb Bill n February 8, 2011, U.S. Senator governments’ criminal justice costs, prac- ♦ Four times as many mentally ill people O Jim Webb of Virginia introduced tices, and policies.” Upon completion of are in prisons as in mental health hospitals. S. 306 to establish the National the review, the Commission is to publish, ♦ Approximately 1 million gang mem- Criminal Justice Commission. Senator “recommendations for changes in over- bers reside in the U.S., many of them for- Claire McCaskill of Missouri is a co- sight, policies, practices, and laws eign-based, and Mexican cartels operate in sponsor. An identical bill introduced in designed to prevent, deter, and reduce 230+ communities across the country. 2009 died when the Senate took no action. crime and violence, reduce recidivism, ♦ Post-incarceration re-entry programs The Commission would conduct a improve cost-effectiveness, and ensure the are haphazard and of- comprehensive 18-month review “of all interests of justice at every step of the ten nonexistent, under- areas of the criminal justice system, criminal justice system.” mining public safety including Federal, State, local, and tribal The last comprehensive review of and making it ex- the nation’s criminal justice system tremely difficult for ex- was conducted by President Johnson’s NAACP Report offenders to become Commission on Law Enforcement and full, contributing In a recent report, “Misplaced Administration of Justice established members of society. Priorities: Over Incarcerate, Under in 1965. That commission made 200 ♦ There is concern as Educate,” the NAACP explores the specific recommendations, many of regards the over- overfunding of prisons and under- which are still in place today. federalization of crime. funding of education in the U.S. A In addition to the 22 co-sponsors There are an estimated correlation was found between low of S. 306, the bill has received support 4,500 separate federal school performance and high im- from the Fraternal Order of Police, the criminal statutes prisonment rates in six major urban NAACP, the National Sheriffs' scattered throughout the federal code areas. In the last 20 years prison Association, the International Association without any coherent organization. spending grew at six times the rate of Chiefs of Police, and the American Bar ♦ Few would disagree that extensive of higher education funding. Association. racial and ethnic disparities exist in the The NAACP urges improve- Supporters point to the following American criminal justice system. ment in sentencing and drug policy factors: and supports the efforts of the ♦ With only 5% of the world population, he Webb bill would authorize $14 Webb bill (S.306) to create a our country now houses 25% of the million to support the work of the commission that will conduct T world's reported prisoners. Commission. Please urge U.S.. systematic reviews of the criminal ♦ The number of incarcerated drug Senator Roy Blunt and your U.S. Con- justice system. gressperson to support this legislation. offenders has soared 1200% since 1980. Spring 2011 Page 3 Prisoners Fight Back Against Flooding en from four Missouri prisons took part in efforts omen from Chillicothe Correctional Center have M to save imperiled communities from raging flood- W been battling the flooding of the Missouri River in waters during April and May in Southeast Mis- St. Joseph as well. The women were among hun- souri. dreds of volunteers who filled 250,000 Prisoners from SECC sandbags during a week in early June. (Charleston), Potosi, Farmington Moving faster than any other volun- and ERDCC (Bonne Terre) teers, the women prisoners even out- toiled for many hours in the rain paced the National Guard. and mud to protect the lives and Missouri prisoners also take homes of Missourians threatened part in a wide variety of restorative by this spring’s historic flood. justice projects inside prison, assisting The men labored to fill and victims, children, the elderly and vet- stack sandbags, building erans as well as poor and disabled in- temporary levees. Crews of 12 dividuals. to 40 prisoners filled more than Many prisoners welcome 55,000 sandbags during the peak Prisoners from Charleston build opportunities to give back to the com- period of April 30-May 4.
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