An Illois man is fightg agast so-lled psychologil torture – after a mor probatn vlatn first sent him to prison for seven years, and then a fight behd bars led to a 22-year nightmare solary nfement. Now out, Anthony Gay told CBS 2 Polil Invtigator Dana Kozlov why he is fightg for a law to keep others om endurg the same fate.
Contents:
- ILLOIS’ ANTHONY GAY ISOLATED CONFEMENT REFORM BILL PASS HOE
- ANTHONY GAY APPEALS FOR HELP OM FERAL PRISON
- CHARGED FOR STEALG HAT AND $1, ANTHONY GAY RELEASED AFTER 22 YEARS OF SOLARY NFEMENT
- ANTHONY GAY AWAS FED SENTENCG WHILE PLANNG ANTI-SOLARY NFEMENT EVENT
- THE ANTHONY GAY LAW
- AFTER 22 YEARS OF 'PSYCHOLOGIL TORTURE' IN SOLARY CONFEMENT, ANTHONY GAY FIGHTS FOR STATE LAW RTRICTG ITS USE
ILLOIS’ ANTHONY GAY ISOLATED CONFEMENT REFORM BILL PASS HOE
Once aga behd bars he lls “prsive” for yet another crime he says he did not m, activist Anthony Gay is now a North Carola feral prison * anthony gay bill *
Romanucci & Bland, LLC and Illois State Reprentative LaShawn Ford (D- Chigo, 8th District) together announce that The Anthony Gay Isolated Confement Rtrictn Act, Illois Hoe Bill 3564 (formerly HB 182 2020) was approved by the Hoe of Reprentativ the eveng of April 22.
ANTHONY GAY APPEALS FOR HELP OM FERAL PRISON
“I rapidly terrated,” Gay said. “I stantly terrated, and started experiencg symptoms of mental illns and stead of removg me om the environment, or providg aquate mental health treatment, they punished me for .” * anthony gay bill *
The bill is named for former mate Anthony Gay who was held solary nfement for two s, cludg 15 years of a prolonged sentence as a punishment for behavr rultg om his isolatn.
CHARGED FOR STEALG HAT AND $1, ANTHONY GAY RELEASED AFTER 22 YEARS OF SOLARY NFEMENT
Photo ptn: Anthony Gay and (right set) his self-mutilated arm * anthony gay bill *
Durg his extreme isolatn, he was nied appropriate and necsary mental health treatment which ma impossible for Gay to port wh prison l and regulatns, leadg him to btally mutilate himself untls tim and endure years of mental and physil torture. Most recently, Brian and I ttified together favor of HB 3564, which I’m honored has been named the Anthony Gay Isolated Confement Bill.
ANTHONY GAY AWAS FED SENTENCG WHILE PLANNG ANTI-SOLARY NFEMENT EVENT
"I had no ia that I was about to be tortured for s," Anthony Gay said. * anthony gay bill *
I will keep up my fight for change Brian’s name, ” said Anthony Gay, former solary nfement mate.
“The Anthony Gay Act is signed to protect at a legislative level the nstutnal rights of some of the most vulnerable members of our populatn. The Anthony Gay Isolated Confement Rtrictn Act, would: -Lim a mted person to no more than 10 nsecutive days isolated nfement a 180-day perd.
Anthony Gay was released om prison Augt of 2018 and has filed a feral lawsu agast former Illois Department of Correctns (IDOC) director John Baldw, current IDOC director Rob Jefeys, Wexford Health Sourc, a private pany that provis medil and mental health re to IDOC mat, the warns and assistant warns of stutns at which Anthony Gay was imprisoned, and several employe of IDOC and Wexford.
THE ANTHONY GAY LAW
Chigo, IL - Sce 2018, Anthony Gay has bee a symbol of the stggle agast wrongful nvictns Illois. As a teen 1994 Rock Island... * anthony gay bill *
District Court for the Central District of Illois, charg the Defendants wh torture of Gay, vlatg the Eighth Amendment’s prohibn on cel and unual punishment, the Amerins wh Disabili Act, and the Rehabilatn Act. The State’s treatment of Gay creased his torture and ed him to take erratic and irratnal actns, which clud extensive samplg of repeated and severe self-mutilatn, cludg cuts to the Platiff’s scrotum, arms, legs, and eyelids.
AFTER 22 YEARS OF 'PSYCHOLOGIL TORTURE' IN SOLARY CONFEMENT, ANTHONY GAY FIGHTS FOR STATE LAW RTRICTG ITS USE
Rather than providg the necsary and sential psychiatric re, the State pursued crimal charg agast Gay, which extend his prison sentence for years and ed his mental ndn to terrate a blatant vlatn of his nstutnal rights, the lawsu stat.