tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24928358099147476862012-02-16T19:49:43.255-06:00The Jeff Dicks Coalition is a non profit human rights organization dedicated to the protection of everyone who finds themselves in prison We believe human rights should be applied to all human beings, and that prisoners are sent to prison to serve their time, and not to be abused.shirley Dickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03658071907386132748noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492835809914747686.post-27317497818778697422008-11-22T08:30:00.002-06:002008-11-22T08:37:07.024-06:00

Most prisoners in the system are non-violent criminals and yet, they are receiving a death sentence by being sent to prison. How can this happen in the US where we pride ourselves on being the watchdog of human violations? If the public were to know what is going on inside our prisons they wouldn’t believe it. And it’s not just isolated cases, but hundreds and thousands of them all over America.

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Amid trail of errors in prisons, families left with questions Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> Fifteen inmates in three years have committed suicide in Massachusetts state prisons -- a death spike that has pushed the suicide rate to roughly three times the rate in other states. For the families of suicide victims, getting all the facts on the

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Trevor Dicks "I was eleven years old when I heard the judge exclaim, "Jeffrey Dicks, you are to be executed by electrocution until you are pronounced dead! Dead, Dead!" It was at that moment, life as I knew it would never be the same..." My first eleven years started in the peaceful New England village of Concord, NH in 1967. I am the youngest of four children. I have two older sisters, Tina

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Abu Ghraib "does not reflect the nature of the American people?”By Shirley Dicks<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> The news is filled with stories and photos of prisoners that have been abused overseas. The world is talking aboutthe treatment and abuses prisoners have been shown while in custody. President Bush was on foreign televisionsaying that the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib "does not

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A Mothers TormentProlouge Greeneville, Tennessee Courthouse 1979I had just been allowed back in the courtroom during my son’s murder trial, and as I listened to the lies the Prosecution was saying, I jumped up in my seat and screamed,""He’s innocent and you know it. You lie. You know he didn’t do it. He wouldn’t have come back if he were guilty." THE COURT: Sheriff, take the Jurors

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How far would you go to save your child’s life? Would you write hot checks to pay attorney fees, sell your home, attempt a-jail break as a last resort and, - be on the run for a year with two young children? This mother did. Fighting the system while running from the law, living on the lam with her

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