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<DIV align=center> <FONT face=Verdana>Please come out to support real public safety<BR><STRONG><FONT size=4>STOP DOC AND GUARD BRUTALITY</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face=Tahoma>Guards and staff slipping prisoners razor blades? Taunting them to commit suicide? Parading “non-cooperative" individuals on suicide watch unclothed down the cell block? Placing vulnerable individuals in sensory deprivation, known to exacerbate reactions termed mental illness? Imposing sensory deprivation for helping a sick cell mate, filing a grievance, or exhibiting symptoms of "mental illness"? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face=Verdana><FONT face=Tahoma>All this and more is paid for by you, the taxpayer.</FONT> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><BR><FONT face=Verdana>State House, Room B-1<BR></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG>Hearing on Prison Suicides<BR></STRONG>Tuesday, May 1st, 2007<BR>1:00 p.m. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>The Joint Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse and the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security will convene the hearing to “take a closer look at prison suicides and the prevalence of mental illness in our prison system.”</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>The 29 recommendations of the Hayes report on suicide prevention focus on prohibiting DOC prisoners from committing suicide barely addressing the conditions which drive them and those in county custody to it. Those few focused on guards and staff in no way acknowledge the "culture of viciousness" inside MA jails and prisons. In some measure sensible, the recommendations do not address the despair of benign and malicious neglect and abuse, including rape, and will allow the DOC and guards to control ever more of the dollars desperately needed for community services. The report ignores the need for public oversight to stop human rights abuse and hold the abusers accountable.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Join us so that everyone is represented at this hearing and not just the "experts" and insiders. Our loved ones have told us what needs to be done. We will carry their voices to the State House. Let’s show our government that it must address the root causes of the deaths behind bars, not just the symptoms of a sick system.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>For Justice,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>SHaRC<BR>Massachusetts Statewide Harm Reduction Coalition<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.massdecarcerate.org/"><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG>http://www.MassDecarcerate.org/</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana>Support HB1723 for a moratorium on jail and prison construction/expansion<BR>Read the bill, sign the petition: </FONT><A href="http://www.massdecarcerate.org/"><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG>http://www.MassDecarcerate.org/</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><BR><FONT face="Century Gothic"><STRONG>WE DEMAND: QUALITY SCHOOLS--not jails. HOUSING--not jails. JOBS--not jails. HEALTH CARE--not jails. MONEY FOR DRUG TREATMENT--not jails. A LIVING WAGE--not jails. AFFORDABLE HIGHER EDUCATION--not jails. AN END TO CORI--not jails!</STRONG></FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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