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8-31-2005, Another Young Man Dies In CYA's Brutal Youth Prison CHAD
A third young man died at the California Youth Authorit's brutal Chaderjian facility last night. Joseph Daniel Maldonado, 18, of Sacramento, hanged himself at 6:30 PM last night. In the last year two other young men died at Chad - one death is still unsolved, the other was the result of poisoning.
September 5, 2005 marks the one-year anniversary of the still unsolved death of Dyron Brewer in the California Youth Authority’s brutal Chad youth prison. Join Books Not Bars and allies from throughout the state to commemorate Dyron’s death.
Stand with us and say: NO MORE LOST LIVES - CLOSE CYA PRISONS. California can do better for our kids.
MONDAY, SEMPTEMBER 5
12-3pm
STOCKTON, CA
PLEASE WEAR ALL WHITE
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Meeting location in Stockton at 12pm: Transworld Drive and Quantas Lane, Stockton
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YOU MUST RSVP TO GET A RIDE FROM OAKLAND OR FRESNO. Please RSVP with David by email or phone: 510-435-5843 x243.
Forwarded from Laura Talkington:
From: laura at caswellbell.com
Subject: It Breaks My Heart to Report This "Yesterday, 8-31-2005, Another Young Man Dies In CYA's Brutal Youth Prison CHAD"
Date: September 1, 2005 5:32:16 PM PDT
YET ANOTHER YOUNG MAN DIES IN CYA'S
NOTORIOUS CHAD PRISON
THIRD IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS AT INFAMOUS FACILITY
ADVOCATES CALL FOR IMMEDIATE CLOSURE OF STATE'S MOST BRUTAL
YOUTH LOCKUP
A third young man died at the California Youth Authorit's brutal Chaderjian facility last night. Joseph Daniel Maldonado, 18, of Sacramento, hanged himself at 6:30 PM last night. In the last year two other young men died at Chad - one death is still unsolved, the other was the result of poisoning.
Books Not Bars, the statewide grassroots campaign to shutter the CYA's prison, called for an immediate closure of the state's most brutal kid prison.
"This young man's death was a tragic, and tragically foreseeable, consequence of the CYA's stubborn insistence on keeping young people locked up in a doomed and brutal prison," said Lenore Anderson, Director of Books Not Bars. "There is a statewide consensus that Chad is the most dangerous of the CYA's abysmally violent prisons, and the Governor must shut it down immediately."
Maldonado was sentenced to CYA in March 2004 and was transferred to Chad in April 2005. His family is not available for comment at this time.
FOR IMMEDIATE COMMENT CALL BOOKS NOT BARS DIRECTOR LENORE ANDERSON AT 510.593.7667
TELEVISION APPEARANCES POSSIBLE AT 5PM IN SACRAMENTO, 7PM IN THE BAY AREA
Belinda Griswold
Media Director
Books Not Bars
344 40th Street
Oakland, CA 94609
510.428.3939 x. 233
c. 415.902.2397
http://www.booksnotbars.org
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Dear Friends,
We write with deeply sad news. On Wednesday night, around 6:30 PM, Joseph
Daniel Maldonado died in his cell in the Chad youth prison. Officials
described the death as a suicide by hanging. Joseph was 18 years old. He
was from the Sacramento area.
We are overwhelmed with grief for Joseph, his family, and loved ones. If
ever there was a time to close the Chad youth prison, it is certainly now.
It is beneath the dignity of everyone in the state to keep this youth
prison open. Joseph was the third youth to die in Chad in the last 18
months (two other youth died at the Preston youth prison during the same
time period).
As you know, we are holding a mass memorial this Monday (Labor Day) in
honor of Dyron Brewer who died in Chad one year ago. In light of Joseph's
death we think it is that much more important for everyone to come out and
show their support for the families of all the youth who have lost their
lives in California's youth prisons.
Please join us for this very important memorial event. Help us make sure
Roberto, Durrell, Deon, Dyron -- and Joseph -- do not die in vain. Let
there be No More Lost Lives: Close Chad Now.
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NO MORE LOST LIVES MEMORIAL -- SEPTEMBER 5, 2005
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http://www.booksnotbars.org
This Labor Day, please join us for a very important and special memorial
event. Last year, on September 5, 2004, Dyron Brewer died in the CYA’s Chad
youth prison. The "No More Lost Lives" memorial event will be held in
Stockton (home of the Chad prison) on Monday, September 5, 2005 from 12 PM
to 3 PM. "No More Lost Lives" will be a day of music, poetry, speeches,
honoring, and prayer. Please join us to show support for the Brewer family
and send a message to state decision-makers that the time for action is
now.
For directions and more information, go to http://www.booksnotbars.org or contact
David Kahn by email (david [at] ellabakercenter.org) or phone: 510-428-3939 x
243.
To find out about other upcoming events and all of the ways you can get
involved in our campaign, please visit our website today.
http://www.booksnotbars.org
Many thanks,
Lenore Anderson
Books Not Bars
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moment to support us today. Donate here:
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this really breaks my heart to see yet another boy die within the CYA facilities. Just early last year my brother(deon whitfield), suppsedly hang himself with his bed-sheet. I don't believe any of it. I know for a fact that my brother didn't commit suicide and neither Joseph, of Durrell. We need to put a STOP to this madness!
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