Free Anthony Gay — Chigo Alliance Agast Racist and Polil Reprsn

Contents:

• ANTHONY GAY APPEALS FOR HELP OM FERAL PRISON
• JUDGE SENTENC ANTHONY GAY TO 7 YEARS OF TORTURE; ANTHONY’S FIGHT NTU
• ANTHONY GAY, PETNER V. ILLOIS
• ANTHONY GAY’S S SOLARY NFEMENT LED TO SELF-MUTILATN. NOW A PROPOSED LAW TO LIM PRISONER ISOLATN ILLOIS IS NAMED HIS HONOR.
• ANGELA DAVIS ISSUES STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE AGAINST RACIST AND POLITICAL REPRESSION ON THE WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF ANTHONY GAY IN FEDERAL COURT
• STATEMENT OM THE NATNAL ALLIANCE AGAST RACIST AND POLIL REPRSN: FREE ANTHONY GAY NOW!

ANTHONY GAY APPEALS FOR HELP OM FERAL PRISON

Fay members and supporters of Anthony Gay outsi the U. Peoria, IL - Activists, fay members and supporters of Anthony Gay rallied outsi the U.

Members of the Chigo Alliance Agast Racist and Polil Reprsn led the group chantg, “Free, ee Anthony Gay” and “The people uned will never be feated” before enterg the urthoe for Anthony’s sentencg hearg. Anthony Gay is a polil prisoner. Gay fought to get himself ee 2018 alongsi his lawyer, Jennifer Soble om the Illois Prison Project.

JUDGE SENTENC ANTHONY GAY TO 7 YEARS OF TORTURE; ANTHONY’S FIGHT NTU

Durg this legislative battle 2020 Gay was arrted a ame-up by the Rock Island Police Department for posssn of a firearm and ammunn, which he was barred om bee of a felony on his rerd. Sce this nvictn the sprg of 2022, Gay was transferred to Feral Correctnal Complex (FCC) – Butner, North Carola, where he was meant to unrgo psychologil evaluatn.

Ross opened her remarks explag that she was not an MD, and that her role was to evaluate and not to treat Gay.

Anthony’s fense lawyer, Jennifer Soble, later noted that his five months at FCC-Butner, Gay spent 90 days on suici watch, engaged self-harm 20 tim, and unrwent 12 surgeri. At one pot, Gay was transferred to the medil si of the plex, FMC-Butner, where his treatment plan clud beg nied soap and boxers when he exhibed symptoms of his mental illns, and where he ntued to be placed on suici watch.

ANTHONY GAY, PETNER V. ILLOIS

He scribed his vis to Tamms durg Gay’s time there, where the floors of the cells were built slanted to make easier to wash out blood and other bodily fluids. On the send day of the hearg, the prosecutn claimed that Gay’s mental illns should be taken as an “aggravatg factor” the sentencg, meang a reason to lengthen his sentence. They claimed that Gay is a danger to the muny based on his history of crimal charg.

The fense poted out that the majory of the charg were aggravated battery charg brought agast Anthony durg his rceratn, when Gay was equently punished for exhibg symptoms of his mental illns.

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

Soble explaed when she met Gay, his seven-year sentence had been stacked to an over 100-year sentence.

But spe the judge that se agreeg to make Anthony’s sentence ncurrent, those charg are still clud the lculatn of Gay’s crimal history, which was the basis of the prosecutn’s arguments.

ANGELA DAVIS ISSUES STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE AGAINST RACIST AND POLITICAL REPRESSION ON THE WRONGFUL CONVICTION OF ANTHONY GAY IN FEDERAL COURT

Acrdg to the lculatns, Gay uld be sentenced to anywhere om 84 to 105 months.

She ced experts solary nfement, official polici on the treatment of the mentally ill, doctors who had treated Gay prevly, none of whom shared Dr. She ced rerds of an cint where Anthony’s “mate pann” asked for psychologil and medil assistance multiple tim throughout the day and no one me, spe Gay’s ser juri. She ma the argument that the feral Bure of Prisons is not f to hoe or treat Gay, based on their track rerd of subjectg him to isolatn.

She poted out the role Gay was able to play his muny while on supervised release, and the support he has on the outsi.

STATEMENT OM THE NATNAL ALLIANCE AGAST RACIST AND POLIL REPRSN: FREE ANTHONY GAY NOW!

She argued that Gay’s mental illns should be taken as a migatg and not an aggravatg factor, and that g his illns to jtify a lengthier sentence may be a vlatn of the Amerins wh Disabili act. After a brief recs, Judge Jam Shadid returned to the bench, and opened his remarks sayg that Anthony’s mental illns is “both an aggravatg and a migatg factor, ” but that he agre wh the prosecutn that Gay is a danger to his muny.

” He issued Gay a sentence of 84 months, wh three years of supervised release after the fact.

In rponse to this sentencg, Gay said, “My nvictn and sentence is unjt. 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 awag a mental health evaluatn before his September 20 sentencg. Gay was nvicted by an all-whe feral jury.