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Cuomo’s Justice Center Covering-Up Mass Deaths

Governor Andrew Cuomo is the kingpin of the corruption and he has ensured that almost all deaths of the disabled within his agencies disappear

Astronomical numbers of deaths of the disabled are being covered-up by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s agency wrongfully titled the Justice Center

Instead of protecting our most vulnerable, Gov. Cuomo has chosen to ensure that those that take the life of a disabled person within his mental health agencies are protected from criminal prosecution.”
— Michael Carey - Civil Rights & Disability Rights Advocate

ALBANY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, August 27, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Jonathan Carey Foundation has uncovered Governor Andrew Cuomo’s scheme to hide and conceal countless deaths of children and adults with disabilities from local authorities. Instead of protecting our most vulnerable, Gov. Cuomo has chosen to ensure that those that take the life of a disabled person within his mental health agencies are protected from criminal prosecution. It does not get uglier than this; 11-13 people with disabilities are dying every day in Cuomo’s agencies and a sizable percentage are due to criminal negligence.

Evidence obtained through Freedom of Information law (FOIL) reveal wide-scale deaths and cover-ups of epic proportion. Governor Cuomo has directed deaths of the disabled to be called into his abuse hotline, instead of 911. Cuomo has directed deaths of the disabled to be called into again his abuse hotline, under a different phone number, and in almost all cases the provider agencies are directed to investigate the deaths occurring within their own agencies.

http://www.justicecenter.ny.gov/sites/default/files/documents/JusticeCenterDeathReportingClarification12-17-15.pdf

Everyone knows that the county medical examiner or coroner are supposed to be investigating all of these deaths, as well as local police, yet most deaths of people with disabilities in New York State are never reported to the police or the medical examiner or coroner. This injustice and discrimination is no different than what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought against, but for an entire different group of people. There is no other way to describe what is going on other than these are civil rights and human rights atrocities. Countless deaths are being covered-up internally as a State agency craftily called the Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs (Justice Center) ensures that there is no justice for the now dead person with special needs or their families.

In some ways what is occurring is likened to a mini-holocaust and I will explain. New York State’s mental health has been known to be extremely dangerous and deadly for decades. Governor Andrew Cuomo has refused to take multiple basic steps to stop or prevent most of these deaths which internally are called “untimely” deaths, but in all reality vast numbers are criminally negligent homicides.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/10/opinion/protecting-the-most-vulnerable.html

Here are just some of the direct reasons and causes for many of these “untimely” deaths;

• Staff directed not to call 911 for medical emergencies, staff not calling 911
• Purposeful hiring of unqualified and untrained staff
• Choking deaths, staff not being there or providing unsafe food to residents
• Bowel management, staff not taking resident for emergency medical attention when backed up - sepsis deaths.
• Restraint deaths, staff sitting on resident and restricting breathing -suffocation deaths
• Drowning deaths, staff leaving resident unattended in bathtubs
• Over-medication deaths, Staff using extremely strong meds to punish residents or put them to sleep for certain behaviors. Facilities call them PRN’s
• Under-medication deaths, staff not providing residents needed meds, in many cases staff are stealing meds to use personally or to sell
• Gross mismanagement and lack of direct supervisors, especially on even and overnight shifts and weekends.
• Lack of the strongest tools to prevent abuse, neglect and deaths, surveillance cameras
• Hardly any oversight and accountability, rare inspections and pre-notification by the State of facility inspections
• Staff sleeping or nowhere to be found such as excessive smoke breaks or watching TV instead of disabled resident
• Radon gas poisoning, the lack of basic radon testing of facilities and group homes

There are more reasons as well, but you get the general idea of why so many of our most vulnerable residents lives are cut short while living in these dangerous facilities and group homes.
Here are some important investigative news reports as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/nyregion/ny-state-settles-jonathan-carey-wrongful-death-lawsuits.html

https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000000849083/a-failure-to-protect.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/nyregion/at-state-homes-simple-tasks-and-fatal-results.html

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Justice-Center-New-York-Investigation-Deaths-Oversight-380120141.html

http://rpslawgroup.com/abc-news-agency-sent-reports-suspicious-deaths-abandoned-email/

https://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/mar17/030717.htm

Michael Carey
The Jonathan Carey Foundation
(518) 852-9377
email us here

The incredible life and tragic preventable death of Jonathan Carey, who was disabled, had autism, was non-verbal & only 13 when he was killed by his caregivers

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