George Hill Jr., death, the 13th in Valdosta-Lowndes county Jail!

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

GEORGE HILL JR., AGE 21, DIED 23 JUNE 2006
IN THE LOWNDES COUNTY JAIL Valdosta,
Lowndes County Georiga

Dear Editors, concerned citizens, Christians, Muslims, Jews, and others who seek to love their neighbor as they love themselves and their own children!

SUBJECT: GEORGE HILL JR., The 13TH known dead in the Lowndes County Jail on June 23, 2006, for whatever reason!

LOWNDES INMATES DIES SUDDENLY JUNE 25, 2006

http://www.walb.com/global/story.asp?s=5076277&ClientType=Printable
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INMATE DEATH RAISE QUESTIONS JUNE 27, 2006:
http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=5086359

LOWNDES JAIL INMATE DIES OF APPARENT SEIZURE

http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/homepage/local_story_177233814.html?keyword=topstory
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Recently the Valdosta City Mayor and Council appointed a special committee to study renaming Barber Park from its segregated and shameful past. This park is located in a community that is 97 percent Black. And on May 5, 2005 the Mayor and Council had fifteen citizens arrested for allegedly disrupting a public meeting (City Council Meeting).
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Moreover, they were held in the Lowndes County Jail for twenty-four hours without bond. The Rev. Floyd E. Rose an elderly minister was placed in solitary confinement away from others arrested with him.

Then in April 2006, the Georgia Supreme Courts ruled the arrest unconstitutional.
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PUBLIC MEETING STATUE RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND VAGUE http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/siteSearch/apstorysection/local_story_351111202

GEORGIA SUPREME COURT RULES DISRUPTING PUBLIC MEETING:

http://www.ourvaldosta.org/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=121&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=191&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoptionfiltered=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1519&hn=ourvaldosta&he=.org

It seems strange that city officials would arrest fifteen law-abiding citizens for trying to rid the city of its segregated and shameful past in the same manner an 1860 Valdosta City Charter was removed in 2004 from Valdosta City Hall that led into the Municipal Court room that read:

(Para 100, (Section XI), “THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL SHALL PASS ALL PROPER AND NECESSARY LAWS OR ORDINANCES FOR THE CONTROL OF SLAVES, AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR IN SAID TOWN AND SUPRESS, AND ABATE ALL NUISANCES ARRIVING FROM HOGS, DOGS, HORSES, OR OTHER STOCK STRAYING AT LARGE IN SAID TOWN, OR FROM OTHER CAUSES."

MAYOR LETTER RECEIVED/RHYNES RESPONDS BEFORE COUNCIL ON THE 1860 CITY CHARTER IN 2004:
http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1079069241

On June 23, 2006, George Hill Jr. became the thirteenth known death in or surrounding the Lowndes County Jail for whatever reason. While local elected officials seem to have turned deaf ear to this seventeen-year-old problem (4 deaths in nine months) in Valdosta and Lowndes County Georgia.

Many of these deceased inmates were American Veterans. But the city, county, state of Georgia, and the United States Department of Justice have not investigated or put a stop to this continuing trend.

A WHITE WOMAN TELLS OF HER EXPERIENCES WHILE IN THE LOWNDES COUNTY JAIL MAY 9, 2005: http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1115689535

However, the Mayor and Council seem happy to use tax dollars to arrest fifteen citizens for addressing their elected officials on a civil rights issue. As the hip-hop generation would say, so what’s up with that?

I retired from the United States Air force in 1991. And never have I seen local elected officials, and the South Georgia Media so happy to see citizens arrested. While inmates continue to die without an investigation or investigative reporting by anyone. While for our elected representatives sit down, say noting and do nothing to stop this trend is a moral disgrace.

LOWNDES COUNTY COMMISSIOINERS IGNORED INMATES: GEORGE RHYNES SPEAKS BEFORE THE BOARD: APRIL 2004

http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1081988382

JAIL CONDITIONS DIDN’T DEVELOP OVERNIGHT: (TO VALDOSTA DAILY TIMES) AUGUST 2003: http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1060304072

105 VIOLATIONS IDENTIFIED BY THE HONORABLE JUDGE HUGH LAWSON OF THE U.S. DISTRICT COURTS OF THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA VALDOSTA DIVISION NEARLY TWO DECADES AGO: A MUST SEE:

http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1120072845

George Boston Rhynes and other civil rights organizations over the years have documented the following deaths. However, inmates informed citizens on 5 May 05 that the list is not complete: (Some inmates were released from jail and died at home).
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1-Willie McFarland, age 38,

2-Willie Lee Gaye, age 39, died 23 October 1995,

3-Willie James Williams, age 49, died 2 September 1998,

STRANGE JUSTICE IN A SOUTH GEORGIA TOWN AUGUST 2003
23:32:44http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1060486364

THE PEOPLES TRIBUNAL RESEARCH, INJURIES FROM A FALL OF WILLIE JAMES WILLIAMS AND MUCH, MUCH MORE:

http://www.geocities.com/altpptla/pTribunal/index.html

4-Ronzie Sonny Graham, age 48, died 13 July 2000,

5-Rosemary King, Age 40, died 20 July 2001,

6-Richard William Oakley, age 27, died April 2002,

7-Sandra J. Wallace, age 39, died 31 August 2002,

8-Lisa Sanders, age 38, died 2003,

9-John Henry Dejonghe, age 49, died 21 June 2004,

10-Amaruy Quinones, age 34, died 2 September 2005,

11-Esavious Wright, age 29, died, 16 February 2006,

WRIGHT WANTS MEDICAL EXAMINER: Following Esavious Wrights Death
http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/siteSearch/apstorysection/local_story_069232515.html

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A LOOK AT THE SIMILARITIES AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN A MEDICAL EXAMINER AND A CORONER. http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/siteSearch/apstorysection/local_story_089235825.html
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COUNCILMAN WRIGHT ASKS COUNTY TO REPLACE CORONER
http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/siteSearch/apstorysection/local_story_087225158.html

LOWNDES COUNTY CORONER RESIGNS:
http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/siteSearch/apstorysection/local_story_093165203.html

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12-Bobby Stanford, age 55, died 23 March 2006,

http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/local/local_story_082234802.html?keyword=topstory

13. George Hill Jr., age 21, died 23 June 2006,

http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/homepage/local_story_177233814.html?keyword=topstory

http://www.walb.com/global/story.asp?s=5076277&ClientType=Printable

DEATH OF ANOTHER INMATE BUT WHERE IS THE NEWS COVERAGE? 2004 http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1089920935

The Honorable Judge Hugh Lawson of the Middle District of Georgia Valdosta Division ruled in 1997 for Lowndes County to fix the 105 violations in the jail within two years. This action came from several plaintiffs in the late eighties. CA #89-54-VAL:

The Honorable Judge Hugh Lawson Court Order and Consent Decree 1997. Civil Action 89-54-VAL.

http://2true4u.blogspot.com/2006/04/judge-hugh-lawsonlowndes-county.html

However, no local, state or federal agency has provided information as to who were remotely responsible for complying with the court order. This includes the Lowndes County District Attorney, Local State Representatives, Senators, a sitting Grand Jury, Valdosta City Mayor and Council, County Government, and other state agencies.
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GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES TAKES INMATES REQUEST TO THE LOCAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR ANSWERS: MAY 2004
http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1084324506

15 PEOPLE ARRESTED, LOCAL PRESS, DEPARTMENT HEADS, AND THE DEAD: SEPTEMBER 2005

http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1127841492

GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES SPEAKS UP AGAIN FOR 11 JAILED INMATES IGNORED BY THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS: MARCH 2004

http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1079792506

IRAQI PRISONERS NEED JUSTICE! BUT WHAT ABOUT LOWNDES COUNTY INMATES AND THEIR PARENTS, AND CHILDREN: MAY 2004
http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1084080586

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More than 2500 of our sons and daughters have died in Iraq supposedly for spreading democracy to the people of Iraq. But our elected officials, news media, and so-called patriots seem to have buried their head in the sand like the legend concerning the ostrich concerning these American deaths.

It seems that Judge Hugh Lawson Court Order did not mean much to Valdosta, and Lowndes County Governmental agencies.

JUDGE HUGH LAWSON DECREE WITH 105 VIOLATIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS: ASK WHO INSURED IT WAS EVER COMPLIED WITH. USE YOUR OWN HEAD….

http://2true4u.blogspot.com/2006/04/judge-hugh-lawsonlowndes-county.html

So in 2006, the question must be asked. How many more American Veterans (inmates) must die for whatever reason in the Lowndes County Jail. While the city, county, state, and other agencies do the Ostrich-Head-Duck.

Judge Hugh Lawson Decree1997:

LETTER TO ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES/CRYSTAL M. ROBERTS ON ILL TREATMENT OF INMATES: SEE CIVIL ACTION 89-54-VAL http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1127842774

IN MARCH 2006, GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES ASKED: HOW MANY MORE CITIZENS MUST DIE FOR WHATEVER REASON IN OUR COMMUNITY:
http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1141194854

GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES

President, Valdosta-Lowndes County Branch NAAACP
Retired United States Air Force Veteran (Active Duty)

A concerned citizen and brother of humanity

DIST: Georgia State Conference NAACP President

Operation PUSH (Chicago and Atlanta)

SCLC, (Atlanta)
United States Department of Justice (Ms Crystal)

The Peoples Agenda (Atlanta)

Peoples Tribunal (Valdosta, Georgia)

US Department of Justice

Valdosta, City Mayor and Council

Lowndes County Board of Commissioners

Moultrie Crime Lab
South Georgia Medical Center

My favorite Congresswoman

People, people, people,

I received several calls from jailed inmates about the latest death. They said more deaths would occur because of the extreme heat, unsanitary, abusive, and practically no valid complaint system for jailed inmates.

In truth, I believe there is a GOD of Righteousness. Therefore, those who fail to respect God's children cannot be honored with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

SHERIFFS DEPUTY CLEARED ON EARTH: BUT THE ETERNAL JUDGE OUT IN HEAVEN: AUGUST 2003, CONCERNING THE DEATH OF WILLIE JAMES WILLIAMS http://members.hostedscripts.com/board.cgi?user=philadelphia&a=read&read=1060304871

So though we suffer, and though we die. By the BLOOD of the LAMB we shall overcome. Because when truth comes falsehood must vanish, and falsehood have always been a vanishing thing. Therefore, it cannot dwell in the house of the hereafter! Be, it known that the possessors of the moral flame were present when God said, let there be light and there was light.

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FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE ON JULY 1^ST 2006, SATURDAY AT 1:00 PM IN TIFTON GEORGIA AT FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH NEXT TO SOLOMON NICKELSON FUNERAL HOME....FAMILY MEMBERS PHONE NUMBER: 229-339-0152. 229-549-8410,
SPOKES PERSON FOR FAMILY: 305-300-8617

*ANOTHER KEY PLAYER IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE IN VALDOSTA-LOWNDES COUNTY GEORGIA AND BEYOND IS REV. FLOYD ROSE 229-241-1288, CELL 229-444-1938