Florida - abuse case Virginia Larzelere.

All,

Please pass this to all of your other groups...

We have a serious case of prisoner abuse going on as we speak - a woman. This needs all of our attention, nationwide and worldwide. I suggest that we all write directly to the prisoner - Virginia Larzelere. Please see below.

WRITE TO VIRGINIA

Virginia Larzelere 842556
J Dorm 2201 L
Lowell Correctional Institution
Women's Unit Annex
11120 N.W. Gainesville Road
Ocala , Florida 34482-1479

Please use letterhead of your organizations if you can. For those of you who prefer to send cards, that's fine too....please mention your organization's name in your signature then. Also, please save a copy of your letter. I would like to put them on our website to show the support Virginia is receiving. Actually, you can put them on our website yourself at http://www.patrickcrusade.org/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi?pg=topics if you like :-). Either way is fine with me.

Jan Thomas and Pat Hoover who head up the "Prayer and Fasting Group" (to which many of you belong) will keep us updated so we will be able to watch what they do to Virginia. Please let Virginia know that you are watching to see how she is being treated. Keep in mind that the mail room reads her mail and when they see how many people and "organizations" know that she is being abused, they wouldn't dare retaliate against her. Feel free to cite case law or Constitutional rights and such in your letters to Virginia. These letters are for the benefit of the mail room and other administrators to read. They seem to read more stuff that isn't addressed to them than something that *is* addressed to them. And they can't even send you their standard form letter citing that no one is mistreated in their facility. yadda yadda yadda..... as though that closes the door and supposedly makes everything all right.

Feel free also to send a copy of your letter to any of your local newspapers as well :-).

The below gives you the details of the abuse that must stop now!

Thank you and God bless us all,
Sherry Swiney
www.patrickcrusade.org

TO Southern Center for Human rights:

   I totally appreciate your advocacy for those confined in prison under inhuman conditions of confinement, denial of medical health care etc.
   Virginia Larzelere is the lone woman on Florida's Death row, confined at Lowell Correctional. She has been denied treatment for an arm that may have been broken, she has two cysts that need to be operated on for months now with no date of surgery, she has one lung, a bad heart, upper respiratory problems and recently had the electricity shut off in her cell which brought about the fact she was unable to receive needed treatment.    She has placed many grievances, with no results. Her cell food slot is locked, which has resulted in her not being fed, and not receiving the attention she needs medically as well. She has documentation of all services that were sought and not rendered, and has asked the staff to review video and see she is telling the truth.
   We are trying a letter writing campaign, directly to her, with letter heads of advocacy groups. Just letters of love and encouragement, so the prison will know someone is looking in from the outside. We would appreciate you joining us in this endeavor.
   Her lawyer, from Capital Collertal Representatives of Tampa says he cannot help with the treatment she is receiving [David Hendry "This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it!" ] but has enlisted the help of Susan Cary
"This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it!" but every time she has tried to help, it only lasts for a short time and gets worse. Now she is literally afraid for her life. In fact she wrote me telling me if I hear of her death through suicide, accident or natural causes to investigate because it won't be true.
   We first thought we would do the letter writing and go from there. There have been offers to contact the ACLU but we have not done that as yet.    This situation is getting desperate. We will be grateful for any help you can suggest.
   Plus she had an evidentiary hearing 2 years ago last May, placing evidence of lawyer incompetence at trial as well as the fact the grand jury indictment and the conviction do not match, with many a case law that requires a new trial. We are still waiting for Judge Watson to make a decision.

Virginia 's web site is at:

www.helpvirginia.net

Thanks in advance...
Virginia Larzelere 842556
J Dorm 2201 L
Lowell Correctional Institution
Womens Unit Annex
11120 N.W. Gainesville Road
Ocala, Florida
34482-1479

and Jan Thomas
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