Carl Toersbijns - From the Womb to the Tomb: Finding HIGH GROUND For Tony Lester

From the

WOMB

to the

TOMB

Finding HIGH GROUND For Tony Lester

CARL TOERSBIJNS

From the Womb to the Tomb

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07.09.21

Dedicated to those special needs persons -

Some people deserve prison and others deserve jail diversion programs and stay with their family while they get treatment. My book is geared to motivate people to see how these mental health diversion programs can help the person facing a life filled with psychotic episodes and misunderstandings by bringing attention to the horrors, frustrations, stressors and anxieties they suffer inside a prison setting. Some people deserve second chances.

I am not advocating for career criminals. I am talking about the first offenders who needs help - not jail or prison. We have too many people locked up already today who can cope and function better in diversion programs. This phenomena impacts the young, the old, the veterans and the non-veterans. We need to let them know they are still part of the family as well as the community. We are all family~

May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.

Blessed Mother Theresa

CONTENTS

There is no such thing as a weird human being, its just that some people require more understanding than others. ~ Tom Robbins

W RITING THIS BOOK was most difficult for me. It was a challenge to maintain a balance between right and wrong, past and present with a strong focus about tomorrow. The title, From the Womb to the Tomb is about the human race. Its about all of us being bound to others, past and present. Our lives are not our own, we are linked and bonded to each other whether we accept it or not, we are also part of the future.

This book is not about overcoming societys rules, laws or customs. This book is about overcoming cultures and understanding social and political establishments which exist today. Its about boundaries people impose on themselves and others. Boundaries between people and other people that in every aspect of our lives, join us together. Boundaries that serve as nothing but blurred lines.

History tells us people have oppressed other people. There are many true stories of people oppressing other people and what this book writes about is the culture that controls one of societys establishments our prison systems.

There is hope still. Through awareness, education, effective listening and clear communications, people can change their thoughts through learning how things are connected. No one stands alone, no one suffers alone as we are all aware that when people work together, things can get done and make significant changes.

What we need to do is work together. What we need to do is to realize how we are connected to each other and realize we are all members of the human race. There are no exceptions to this rule. There are no excuses, reasons or denials acceptable to ignore the plight of the human race and not do something about it. Its a matter of preservation of life as it is rotting away.

It doesnt have to be obsessive. It does not have to be a radical approach and go off the map. We are intelligent enough to realize we live by our moral code and that code is based on honor, integrity and character. It is this character of the book that appeals to you so may know how one being, a very young man, was struck down in the prime of his life by circumstances that may impact many other families who have family members diagnosed with mental illness.

This tale of lies is about Tonys Voice, a 26 year old young Native American man who died a horrific death inside an Arizona prison. This prisoner, this human being, Anthony Lester, aka Tony, was incarcerated for a serious crime that was hailed to be one of the county prosecutors best efforts to ignore mental health illnesses within the community and the state of Arizona, as these men and women, ignore the mental health laws applicable to protect such vulnerable and disabled persons.

Tony Lester was a mentally ill person. He was convicted, imprisoned and sentenced as a criminal. Nothing that I write or feel will change that. He violated the laws of Maricopa County and was sentenced to serve his time in prison. His presiding judge was Teresa Sanders, a sitting judge who presided over many felony cases in Mesa, Arizona. Someone who meant well, but fell short of her desired intent to protect Tony from further harm.

I have reasons to believe this judge did the best she could, under the circumstances as she amended the sentencing report with a trivial mental health recommendation for the state to consider upon intake in prison. Under current law, this was trivial because it was not enforceable in nature.

Regardless of whatever else is written, I will not defend or make excuses for Tonys acts or mistakes what many have called a major crime. There are however, extenuating circumstances that will be brought to the light so that the entire truth will be told and not just what was printed in the police report or court docket. Tony deserves the truth be told at the very least so his death was not in vain.

Through Tonys Voice, we will describe to the readers how his needs and the needs of many other confined severely mentally ill (SMI) persons were deliberately and indifferently ignored by medical and mental health professionals because of the duress and pressure put on them by corrections administrators. The ACLU class action lawsuit, Parsons versus Ryan, is an important document to read so you can further grasp the horrible and atrocious conditions which existed when Tony died.

Persons who are in positions of power and who sought to save money are or were instrumental in creating this chaos. These individuals set the tone and culture of the prison population and use fearful tools to keep them in line with their own philosophy of cruel and toxic prison management styles that marginalized death and devaluate human beings.

So how this story comes together is articulated in an arrangement of critically sensitive court and investigative documents provided by me through his aunt, Patricia Lester Jones. This is the woman that stood by her sister, Tonys mother Eleanor, and not only took the fight for truth and justice to the media and the courtroom, but shouted it out loud throughout the country.