There's been so much research lately. I'm almost finished with a report on exonerees and mostly quit the media coverage aspect and focused more on official misconduct. Police and state officials lie and pressure others to lie. A lot. THis leads to perjury, false accusations, and false confessions. It's really awful. It makes you wonder how many closed cases need to be reopened. Police State Rhetoric
I had a conference call with one of Leonard Peltier's lawyers and it seems that Mr. Peltier is going to help our cause with religious freedoms for incarcerated individuals, even though he is working for clemency. If all goes well for our cause it will help move him out of max security in Florida to a medium level security prison much closer to his family, friends, and home. That's really good news. It's cool because his lawyers responded pretty quickly to my letter. I hope that this case will be in our favor as Holt vs. Hobbs, the case of an incarcerated individual not allowed to grow a beard for religious practice inside an Arkansas prison, was ruled in favor of the prisoner 9-0 in the supreme court.
The move on Native healthcare is slooooooooow. We've been working hard on getting names from people who have used the services of IHS but their filing system is largely unregulated and unrecorded. The information is out there, but it is an on going investigation to find the right person to fit our needs for a plaintiff. And legally we can't ask someone to be our plaintiff so being careful with our words is necessary.
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