Log in

View Full Version : Help bring Lynne Stewart home for the holidays: A Life and Death Appeal



ckaihatsu
9th December 2013, 21:22
HELP BRING LYNNE STEWART HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS: A Life and Death Appeal


HELP BRING ME HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS a life and death appeal from renowned peoples attorney Lynne Stewart.

I need to ask once again for your assistance in forcing the Bureau of Prisons to grant my Compassionate Release. They have been stonewalling since August and my life expectancy, as per my cancer doctor, is down to 12 months. They know that I am fully qualified and that over 40,000 people have signed on to force them to do the right thing, which is to let me go home to my family and to receive advanced care in New York City.

Yet they refuse to act. While this is entirely within the range of their politics and their cruelty to hold political prisoners until we have days to live before releasing us witness Herman Wallace of Angola and Marilyn Buck we are fighting not to permit this and call for a BIG push.

Lynne Stewart, FMC Carswell

Take Action between now and the New Year. Telephone and send emails or other messages to Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles E. Samuels, Jr. and Attorney General Eric Holder.

CHARLES E. SAMUELS, Jr., Director Federal Bureau of Prisons
(202) 307-3250 or 3062; [email protected]

ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER, U.S. Department of Justice
(202) 353-1555; [email protected]

Contact U.S. Embassies and Consulates in nations throughout the world

LET US CREATE A TIDAL WAVE OF EFFORT INTERNATIONALLY. Together, we can prevent the bureaucratic murder of Lynne Stewart.

Notes:

In a new 237-page report entitled A Living Death, the American Civil Liberties Union documents unconstitutional practices permeating federal and state prisons in the United States.

Focused on life imprisonment without parole for minor offenses, the ACLU details conditions of 3,278 individual prisoners whose denial of release is deemed a flagrant violation of the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment occurring on an increasing scale.

The ACLU labels the deliberate stonewalling as willful, a touchstone of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice flagrant violation of the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

These conclusions corroborate the findings of Human Rights Watch in 2012: The Answer is No: Too Little Compassionate Release in U.S. Prisons.

The Report is definitive in exposing arbitrary and illegal conduct that infuses every facet of the treatment accorded Lynne Stewart.

the Bureau has usurped the role of the courts. In fact, it is fair to say the jailers are acting as judges. Congress intended the sentencing judge, not the BOP to determine whether a prisoner should receive a sentence reduction.

Lynne Stewarts medical findings show less than twelve months to live as stipulated by her oncologist at FMC Carswell.

The Federal Bureau Prisons has failed to file the legally required motion declaring solely that the matter is with the Department of Justice.


This message was sent by Ralph Poynter using the Change.org system. You received this email because you signed a petition started by Ralph Poynter on Change.org: "NEW Petition to Free Lynne Stewart: Support Compassionate Release." Change.org does not endorse contents of this message.

View the petition (http://www.change.org/petitions/new-petition-to-free-lynne-stewart-support-compassionate-release?utm_source=supporter_message&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_message_notice)

Unsubscribe from updates about this petition


---


Update about 'Petition to Free Lynne Stewart: Save Her Life - Release Her Now!' on Change.org


HELP BRING ME HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS a life and death appeal from renowned peoples attorney Lynne Stewart.

I need to ask once again for your assistance in forcing the Bureau of Prisons to grant my Compassionate Release. They have been stonewalling since August and my life expectancy, as per my cancer doctor, is down to 12 months. They know that I am fully qualified and that over 40,000 people have signed on to force them to do the right thing, which is to let me go home to my family and to receive advanced care in New York City.

Yet they refuse to act. While this is entirely within the range of their politics and their cruelty to hold political prisoners until we have days to live before releasing us witness Herman Wallace of Angola and Marilyn Buck we are fighting not to permit this and call for a BIG push.

Lynne Stewart, FMC Carswell

Take Action between now and the New Year. Telephone and send emails or other messages to Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles E. Samuels, Jr. and Attorney General Eric Holder.

CHARLES E. SAMUELS, Jr., Director Federal Bureau of Prisons
(202) 307-3250 or 3062; [email protected]

ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER, U.S. Department of Justice
(202) 353-1555; [email protected]

Contact U.S. Embassies and Consulates in nations throughout the world

LET US CREATE A TIDAL WAVE OF EFFORT INTERNATIONALLY. Together, we can prevent the bureaucratic murder of Lynne Stewart.

Notes:

In a new 237-page report entitled A Living Death, the American Civil Liberties Union documents unconstitutional practices permeating federal and state prisons in the United States.

Focused on life imprisonment without parole for minor offenses, the ACLU details conditions of 3,278 individual prisoners whose denial of release is deemed a flagrant violation of the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment occurring on an increasing scale.

The ACLU labels the deliberate stonewalling as willful, a touchstone of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice flagrant violation of the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

These conclusions corroborate the findings of Human Rights Watch in 2012: The Answer is No: Too Little Compassionate Release in U.S. Prisons.

The Report is definitive in exposing arbitrary and illegal conduct that infuses every facet of the treatment accorded Lynne Stewart.

the Bureau has usurped the role of the courts. In fact, it is fair to say the jailers are acting as judges. Congress intended the sentencing judge, not the BOP to determine whether a prisoner should receive a sentence reduction.

Lynne Stewarts medical findings show less than twelve months to live as stipulated by her oncologist at FMC Carswell.

The Federal Bureau Prisons has failed to file the legally required motion declaring solely that the matter is with the Department of Justice.


This message was sent by Ralph Poynter using the Change.org system. You received this email because you signed a petition started by Ralph Poynter on Change.org: "Petition to Free Lynne Stewart: Save Her Life - Release Her Now!." Change.org does not endorse contents of this message.

View the petition (http://www.change.org/petitions/petition-to-free-lynne-stewart-save-her-life-release-her-now-2?utm_source=supporter_message&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_message_notice)

Unsubscribe from updates about this petition

blake 3:17
31st December 2013, 20:14
U.S. Asks Judge to Free Dying Lawyer Convicted of Aiding Terrorism
By BENJAMIN WEISER
Published: December 31, 2013


The federal government asked a judge in Manhattan on Tuesday to grant a “compassionate release” to Lynne F. Stewart, the former defense lawyer convicted in 2005 for assisting terrorism who is dying from cancer in a federal prison in Texas.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/nyregion/us-asks-judge-to-free-dying-lawyer.html

blake 3:17
1st January 2014, 07:54
CNN) -- A federal judge ordered the "compassionate release" Tuesday of a former defense lawyer imprisoned for aiding a convicted terrorist's communication from prison to his terrorist group.
U.S. District Judge John Koeltl granted a motion filed by federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reduce the sentence of outspoken lawyer Lynne Stewart, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2010.
Stewart's "terminal medical condition and very limited life expectancy constitute extraordinary and compelling reasons that warrant the requested reduction," Koeltl wrote in his order.
"...It is further ordered that the defendant shall be released from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons as soon as her medical condition permits, the release plan is implemented and travel arrangements can be made."
Stewart, who is 74 years old and has breast cancer, was known for representing poor and sometimes unpopular clients as a defense attorney. In 1995, she represented the blind cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted of a long list of terrorist activities, including his part in a plot to blow up American military installations.
Abdel-Rahman is serving life in prison.
The motion filed Tuesday asked the court to release Stewart from a Texas prison because her cancer has metastasized to the lung and bone, and oncologists estimate her life expectancy to be less than 18 months. The filing said her medical condition was "terminal and incurable" and cited the "relatively limited risk" of recidivism and danger to the community from her release.
Jill Shellow, Stewart's attorney, told CNN her client's supporters were "overjoyed that she will spend her remaining days with her family." Stewart would live with her son in Brooklyn.