Protest at CYA Youth Prison

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“No More Lost Lives” Memorial Sept. 5, 2005

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.
We are marking this horrific event and honoring Dyron’s life with a mass memorial
and march. 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.

The cause of Dyron’s death is unknown. Dyron was in CYA on a technical parole
violation. He was 24 years old. Dyron was the fourth young person to die in CYA
last year. Durrell Feaster, Dion Whitfield, and Roberto Lombana also lost their
lives inside CYA’s youth prisons in 2004.

We are joining together to make sure these young lives are not lost in vain. Their
deaths are the ultimate horrific result of a system of violence, abuse, and neglect.
It’s time to close the CYA’s youth prisons and build a new system of rehabilitation
and support – a system these young people deserved but never received. It is
beneath the dignity of all Californians to do anything less.

“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.

To find out more information, get involved, or volunteer please email or call David
Kahn at [e-mail], or 510-428-3939 x 243.

Many thanks,
Lenore Anderson
Books Not Bars

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day, Sep. 01, 2005 at 11:07 PM

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


LOCATION AND RIDE INFO

Meeting location in Stockton at 12pm: Transworld Drive and Quantas Lane, Stockton

Meeting location to get a ride from Oakland at 9am (sharp!): 344 4Oth Street, Oakland

Meeting location to get a ride from Fresno at 9am (sharp!): 4500 West Shaw, Fresno (Costco parking lot)

YOU MUST RSVP TO GET A RIDE FROM OAKLAND OR FRESNO. Please RSVP with David by email or phone: [phone] 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
www.booksnotbars.org