Anthony Gay – The 12th Northeast Media Leracy Conference

Contents:

• ANTHONY GAY
• ANTHONY GAY’S S SOLARY NFEMENT LED TO SELF-MUTILATN. NOW A PROPOSED LAW TO LIM PRISONER ISOLATN ILLOIS IS NAMED HIS HONOR.
• INVOLVG CT FATHERS WH THEIR CHILDREN IS PERSONAL FOR DCF'S ANTHONY GAY
• ANTHONY GAY FOUND 303 PEOPLE GEIA, FLORIDA AND 44 OTHER STAT
• ANTHONY GAY CONNECTICUT
• ANTHONY ERICKSON GAY CONNECTICUT

ANTHONY GAY

Spurred by a Chigo Tribune vtigatn volvg a man who spent two s isolatn after beg nvicted of stealg a hat and a sgle dollar bill, a proposed state law would lim how long an Illois prisoner n stay solary Anthony Gay Isolated Confement Rtrictn Act would bar the Illois Department of Correctns om placg an mate isolatn for more than 10 days a six-month perd. Anthony Gay be emotnal while speakg March 10, 2020, about his years solary nfement.

”The bill is named for Anthony Gay, a Rock Island native who entered prison 1994 as a young man, nvicted of robbery after brawlg wh another teen who told police that Gay took his hat and stole $1. Instead, a fight wh a fellow mate led to Gay’s first stt segregatn, phg him to a downward spiral that rulted 22 years solary nfement.

ANTHONY GAY’S S SOLARY NFEMENT LED TO SELF-MUTILATN. NOW A PROPOSED LAW TO LIM PRISONER ISOLATN ILLOIS IS NAMED HIS HONOR.

Shortly after the isolatn started, Gay began self-mutilatg and attemptg for 23 hours a day and starved for human ntact, Gay took extreme steps to get attentn. Once, he packed a fan motor si a gapg leg wound; another time he cut open his scrotum and serted a are visible on Anthony Gay's arm while he worships at the Church of Peace Rock Island 2018. (Brian Cassella / Chigo Tribune)As his md began to terrate, Gay beme antagonistic toward his guards and ocsnally threw ure or fec at them, unlawful acts of fiance that stretched his origal sentence to more than two s behd Livgston County, where Pontiac Correctnal Center is suated, the state’s attorney’s office lodged a seri of 21 dictments agast Gay between 2000 and 2004 for the many tim he threw his own bodily fluids at guards.

The Illois Department of Correctns would later intify Gay urt filgs as one of a few dozen mat whose mental illns were so acute and dangero that they required full patient re. But a Tribune vtigatn found his psychiatric treatment often nsisted of a therapist shoutg qutns to him through a he reunted how his mental health erod isolatn, the normally stoic Gay broke down tears Tuday durg a news nference promotg the proposed legislatn. If the state had followed through wh s plans, Gay would have spent the rt of his life alone si a cell the size of a parkg space.

INVOLVG CT FATHERS WH THEIR CHILDREN IS PERSONAL FOR DCF'S ANTHONY GAY

”On his darkt days, Gay clung to the ia that he would fd a way to end IDOC’s isolatn polici. While Illois has signifintly rced the number of days juvenile offenrs spend isolatn and no longer segregatn as a punishment for young people as part of a nsent cree between the partment and the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn of Illois, those polici do not extend to the adult has phed unsuccsfully for solary nfement reforms for nearly four years, but he believ the bill has s strongt chanc of passg durg the current legislative ssn given Gay’s volvement.

Anthony Gay wh one of his attorneys, Maggie Filler of the MacArthur Jtice Center, at Cool Beanz Coffee Hoe Rock Island 2018. “Transparency is absolutely a val part of this bill, ” said Gay’s attorney, Nilette Ward of the Romanucci & Bland law firm. ”Gay was released om prison Augt 2018 after his attorneys succsfully petned to have his sentence rtctured.

Anthony Gay speaks about his two s spent solary nfement Illois prisons. 24--If you're lookg for someone to help volve fathers their children's liv, Anthony Gay is your man. A social work supervisor for the state Department of Children and Fai, Gay knows how difficult, and how val, is to be a father who will have a lastg, posive impact on his children.

ANTHONY GAY FOUND 303 PEOPLE GEIA, FLORIDA AND 44 OTHER STAT

Gay, who grew up New Haven and is based DCF's Torrgton office, is leadg the agency's fatherhood engagement efforts, closg the gap between servic offered to fathers and those given to mothers and children. And, vastated by the loss of that son a r crash, Gay has changed his outlook when to his send son. "If a father is illerate, if a father has no math skills, if they show an tert, the child do better amilly, " said Gay.

"Our agency do a relatively good job engagg mothers across the board, " Gay said.

While Gay said DCF still has a ways to go s efforts, is a prry for the partment. His own father, Ossie Gay Sr., while voted to his fay, wasn't able to be there for his son.

ANTHONY GAY CONNECTICUT

Ossie Gay, born Geia and wh only a third-gra tn, worked wh his hands at low-wage jobs, so he wasn't home much. "I lerally saw my father when was time to go to school or was time to go to bed, " Anthony Gay said. Ossie Gay was a chffr for the Veterans Admistratn, cleaned banks and was a matenance man at church.

ANTHONY ERICKSON GAY CONNECTICUT

"He was a real handyman, so he would pick up jobs whenever he uld to make money, " Gay said. But while he was almost always at work, Ossie Gay "was the only father on the block" their Edgewood neighborhood. "So when he was around was a major thg, not only for me but [for] the other kids the neighborhood, " Gay said.

Anthony Gay was a basketball star at what is now Gateway Communy College, srg more than 40 pots a game. On senr night, Ossie Gay fally was able to get to his game, but Anthony felt so much prsure he sred fewer than 20 pots. Gay began to tear up as he said, "Seeg him se jt ma me so happy that I jt uldn't foc.