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Received Tue, 01 May 2007 13:52:38 -0800 from Nora Callahan <nora [at] november [dot] org>

Ion Drug Detectors and Prison Visitations

Hello Friends:

On Sunday, my 85 year old mother, part blind, two hearing aides, two heart attacks and 17 years of drug war imprisonment (of her only son) behind her—tested positive for illegal drugs at the prison visitation processing center at the federal prison in Seagoville, Texas. My sisters were processed, but my mother is too deaf to understand that she is being told to leave the federal premises entirely. Too old to put up with so much crap and she dissolved emotionally and hunched over, buried her head in her hands, she wandered alone—into the fed parking lot. She really thinks she will never see her son again, and she hadn’t been able to visit for 8 years.

According to reports, prison officials told her to leave—she physically can’t. People, others rejected by the same bogus ION detectors, sold by a military industrial complex of evil corporations -- on junk science—go out and have to circle my poor old mother to keep the guards away from her.

They all could have been given 6 months in federal prison.... Some stay anyway. Thank you to those people, whoever you are. Some, my sisters got to meet. Bless you for helping my mother last Sunday!

Anyhow—there’s a good fight out there and amazing people that do amazing things on a spur of a moment. My mother and sisters gathered with all the victims and they vowed to fight.

My mother has waited her 72 hours and will be tested again on Thursday. Local TV news, perhaps some print reporters will be at the gates to record the events that unfold. I’ve spent a lot of time talking with legislative aides about strategy to stop the harassment of visitors, the needless thousands of extra dollars it costs a family.

I’ve yet to find a movement attorney or scientist to be that expert for the media. If you know one, contact me off list to see if there was any experts on bogus ION drug detectors.

Contact me off list if you are the one!

If you have an ION Scanner story and want to talk to the press -- send me your story in summary right away, and include your phone number and the best time for a reporter to call you. Thank you!

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For more stories see:

Illegal drug deterrent - or deterrent to visitation?

My whole family has tested positive!

Mail call or letters to November’s Editors:

http://www.november.org/razorwire/2006-01/Mail.html

http://www.november.org/razorwire/2006-02/Mail.html

There are more, but that is enough background on this long struggle for now....

In Struggle, Nora

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