Saturday, October 07, 2023

End Solitary Confinement

  


 The problem this blogger is writing about is a statement against solitary confinement not just pertaining to the prison system, juvenile justice systems, foster care, law enforcement techniques, mental health immigration enforcement but especially in light of the pandemic healthcare. The question is does this practice make the situation and the person worse off. In health care the question a person dying alone. And the right of a family member (or just humanitarian) to choose for themselves to put PPE to provide comfort aide. And spiritually taking away that hope is inhumane. I feel that I am against the practice. Lets find better ways.

Furthermore  read these statistics:  "The United States leads the world in its use of solitary confinement, locking away in isolation more of its population than any other country.

Every day, up to 48,000 inmates – or around 4% of the incarcerated population – are locked in some form of solitary confinement in detention centers, jails and prisons across the U.S.

Some spend months – or even years – at a time in isolation, only being allowed out a few times a week for a 10-minute shower or a short exercise period in an outdoor dog run. And it doesn’t only affect prisoners. Up to 20,000 other people are affected as well – working as correctional staff or providing mental health services or other programming."

This is not my fight but in line with a belief systems I aspire to support.

And these beliefs are not attributed to any government entity nor corporation. -A.T. Brooks



Resource:

https://www.aclu.org/report/blueprint-ending-solitary-confinement-federal-government

https://theconversation.com/we-talked-to-100-people-about-their-experiences-in-solitary-confinement-this-is-what-we-learned-190867

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Immigrant Detention Centers - Humane & Ethically ran

 It has come to my attention and concern that a great majority of those being detained are there solely awaiting a "court hearing". They are not being held for a criminal affair. This raises some many questions. 1. Are the operators of these immigrant detentions centers the same privately held or corporately entities which own, manage or operate facilities within the criminal justice system? 2) Is the well being and lives of these detainees paramount to them simply being held for a hearing. With all do respect that can be tracked via various systems, programs and procedures without holding these people.

Let me tell you why I continue to press this issue. There is a recent substantiated reports of abuses, preventable accidents, fires, health related deaths within these centers for non-violet detainees correct? Yes correct. Why in nearly instances was the person just not released due to that conditions, occurrences or error on the "systems" admitting that error, poor conditions, or that an immigrant life would be in better care under at an 'in land' medical care facility (a real emergency room or hospital), their home, or that of a family/friend or relative.

The current system in place in my opinion should not be in review, restructured, or under go Congressional hearings. No! Shut them down due to humanitarian & welfare concerns. Track them in the courts. Track them administratively until a court hearing but release these people. 

I ask ya what is the essence of that statue of Liberty in N.Y. City? How far have "they" those in power strayed from the ideas of freedom which are more inline with American values. - A.T. (Yoda)
Brooks 


Resource:

https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/quickfacts/

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Florida Healthcare data breaches 2022

 

The biggest health care data breaches you should know about in Florida by: 

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"Be aware this still occurs. The industry can work to prevent these incidents" - A.T.B. 

Billion Photos // Shutterstock

It starts with an often-paralyzing attack on computer systems. Doctors scramble to notify patients awaiting surgery that their procedures have been delayed due to a ransomware attack.

Sometimes a single cyberattack can impact hospitals across multiple states, as was the case when hackers targeted CommonSpirit Health in October 2022. Just one reported case of ransomware has allegedly led to the death of a patient. More often, patients’ sensitive information is served up to a market of seedy individuals around the world ready to cash in on someone else’s identity.

Health care institutions are among the most targeted businesses in the world, chiefly because they hold such sensitive information about the patients they serve. Hospitals, home health agencies, and other institutions store patients’ phone numbers, Social Security numbers, addresses, and other things that would allow any would-be criminal to pose as a patient and open new credit cards or bank accounts in their name.

Drata analyzed Department of Health and Human Services data to determine which health care data breaches reported in 2022 affected the most residents in Florida. Breaches that did not include locations were not included in this analysis.

Read on to see which institutions reported data breaches to the federal government in your state and explore the largest across the nation here.

1. Ravkoo other breach
– Type of breach: Hacking/IT Incident
– Individuals affected: 105,000
– Date reported: 01/03/2022

2. WellDyneRx, LLC email breach
– Type of breach: Hacking/IT Incident
– Individuals affected: 43,523
– Date reported: 07/01/2022

3. Jacksonville Spine Center, P.A. network server breach
– Type of breach: Hacking/IT Incident
– Individuals affected: 38,000
– Date reported: 02/10/2022

4. South Walton Fire District network server breach
– Type of breach: Hacking/IT Incident
– Individuals affected: 25,331
– Date reported: 11/15/2022

5. Onehome Health Solutions laptop breach
– Type of breach: Theft
– Individuals affected: 15,401
– Date reported: 04/13/2022

6. Catholic Hospice, Inc. email breach
– Type of breach: Hacking/IT Incident
– Individuals affected: 14,986
– Date reported: 01/31/2022

7. Foundcare, Inc. email breach
– Type of breach: Hacking/IT Incident
– Individuals affected: 14,194
– Date reported: 12/16/2022

8. Santa Rosa County District Schools network server breach
– Type of breach: Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
– Individuals affected: 9,424
– Date reported: 07/25/2022

9. Phoenix Programs of Florida, Inc. email breach
– Type of breach: Hacking/IT Incident
– Individuals affected: 6,594
– Date reported: 10/21/2022

10. NR Florida Associates LLC network server breach
– Type of breach: Hacking/IT Incident
– Individuals affected: 6,250
– Date reported: 12/30/2022


This story originally appeared on Drata and was produced and
distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.

Friday, May 19, 2023

Humane treatment & justice must govern immigrant dentation centers

 Humane treatment & justice must govern immigrant dentation centers



"CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — After migrants in northern Mexico placed mattresses against the bars of their detention cell and set them on fire, guards quickly walked away and made no apparent attempt to release the men before smoke filled the room and killed 38 men, surveillance video showed Tuesday.

Hours after the fire broke out late Monday, rows of bodies were laid out under shimmery silver sheets outside the immigration detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, which is across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas, and a major crossing point for migrants.

Authorities originally reported 40 dead, but later said some may have been counted twice in the confusion. Twenty-eight people were injured and were in “delicate-serious” condition, according to the National Immigration Institute.

At the time of the blaze, 68 men from Central and South America were being held at the facility, the agency said. The institute said almost all were from Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela and El Salvador

In the video, two people dressed as guards rush into the camera frame, and at least one migrant appears by the metal gate on the other side. But the guards did not appear to make any effort to open the cell doors and instead ran away as billowing clouds of smoke filled the structure within seconds

Adán Augusto López, Mexico’s interior secretary, confirmed the authenticity of the video in an interview with local journalist Joaquín López Doriga.

Immigration authorities identified the dead and injured as being from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, according to a statement from the Mexican attorney general’s office.

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported.

“They never imagined that this would cause this terrible misfortune,” López Obrador said.

The deaths forced the government to rent refrigerated trailers to hold the migrants’ bodies, Chihuahua state prosecutor Cesar Jáuregui told reporters.

The detention facility is across the street from Juarez’s city hall.

At a nearby hospital, Viangly Infante Padrón, a 31-year-old Venezuelan migrant seeking asylum in the U.S. with her husband and three children, waited for her husband, who was being treated for smoke inhalation. The previous evening, she was waiting outside the detention center for his release when the fire broke out.



She saw several dead bodies before finding her husband in an ambulance. “I was desperate because I saw a dead body, a body, a body, and I didn’t see him anywhere.”

Earlier, about 100 migrants gathered Tuesday outside the immigration facility’s doors to demand information about relatives.

Katiuska Márquez, a 23-year-old Venezuelan woman with her two children, ages 2 and 4, was seeking her half-brother, Orlando Maldonado, who had been traveling with her.

“We want to know if he is alive or if he’s dead,” she said. She wondered how all the guards who were inside made it out alive and only the migrants died. “How could they not get them out?”

Authorities did not immediately answer that question.

Márquez and Maldonado were detained Monday with the children and about 20 others. They had been in Juarez waiting for an appointment from U.S. authorities to request asylum. They were staying in a rented room where 10 people were living, paying for it with the money they begged in the street.

“I was at a stoplight with a piece of cardboard asking for what I needed for my children, and people were helping me with food,” she said. Suddenly agents came and detained everyone.

Everyone was taken to the immigration facility but only the men were placed in the cells. Three hours later, the women and children were released.

Tensions between authorities and migrants had apparently been running high in recent weeks in Ciudad Juarez, where shelters are full of people waiting for opportunities to cross into the U.S. or for the asylum process to play out.

More than 30 migrant shelters and other advocacy organizations published an open letter March 9 that complained of a criminalization of migrants and asylum seekers in the city. It accused authorities of abusing migrants and using excessive force in rounding them up, including complaints that municipal police questioned people in the street about their immigration status without cause.

The high level of frustration in Ciudad Juarez was evident earlier this month when hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants tried to force their way across one of the international bridges to El Paso, acting on false rumors that the United States would allow them to enter the country. U.S. authorities blocked their attempts.

After that, Juarez Mayor Cruz Pérez Cuellar started campaigning to inform migrants there was room in shelters and no need to beg in the streets. He urged residents not to give money to them and said authorities would remove them from intersections where it was dangerous to beg and allegedly a nuisance to residents.

Migrant advocates who recently denounced more aggressive tactics said Tuesday that the immigration facility was over capacity and that the site of the fire was small and lacked ventilation.

“You could see it coming,” the advocates’ statement said. “Mexico’s immigration policy kills.”

The national immigration agency said Tuesday that it “energetically rejects the actions that led to this tragedy” without any further explanation.

The “extensive use of immigration detention leads to tragedies like this one,” Felipe González Morales, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights of migrants, said via Twitter. In keeping with international law, immigration detention should be an exceptional measure and not generalized, he wrote.

Mexico’s immigration lockups have seen overcrowding, protests and riots from time to time.

In October, a group of mostly Venezuelan migrants rioted inside an immigration center in Tijuana. In November, dozens of migrants rioted in Mexico’s largest detention center in the southern city of Tapachula near the border with Guatemala. No one died in either incident.

Mexico has emerged as the world’s third most popular destination for asylum-seekers, after the United States and Germany. But it is still largely a country that migrants pass through on their way to the U.S.

Asylum-seekers must stay in the state where they apply in Mexico, resulting in large numbers being holed up near the country’s southern border with Guatemala. Tens of thousands are also in border cities.

At a Mass celebrated in memory of the migrants, Bishop Mons. José Guadalupe Torres Campos lamented the sudden grief that had descended upon the migrant community.

“The shout, the cry of everyone is enough, enough of so much pain, enough of so much death,” he said.

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This story has been correct to show the age of Viangly Infante Padrón is 31.

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Verza reported from Mexico City. Associated Press videojournalist Alicia Fernández and writers Guadalupe Peñuelas in Ciudad Juarez, Mark Stevenson in Mexico City, Sonia Pérez D. in Guatemala City and Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report."

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-fire-migrant-facility-dead-eea0b6efafd77f9868ef27ed1cf572b3