STOLEN LIVES

John Scott Jr.

John Scott Jr. was a 41-year-old black man with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, living in Decatur, Alabama. On April 15, 2025, Paulette Tennison, Scott Jr.’s

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John Spirko

John Spirko was a man from Ohio who was convicted in 1984 for the murder of a postal worker named Betty Jane Mottinger. Prosecutors claimed

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John T. Williams

John T. Williams (Seattle, WA: 2011) was a deaf 50-year-old seventh generation Nitinaht carver of the Nuu- chah-nulth First Nations. He was walking down a

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Johnny Pinchback

Johnny Pinchback was a Louisiana man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. In 1985, Pinchback was convicted of

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Jonathan Barr

Jonathan Barr was a Pennsylvania man who was wrongfully convicted in 1990 for arson and murder after a fire killed his daughter at their family

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Jonathan Meister

Jonathan Meister is deaf man who was at a friend’s house in Hawthorne, California, when the police wee called on him because he was mistakenly

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Jordan Gutierrez

Jordan Gutierrez was 21 when his mother called police in Visalia, California, on October 20, 2020, asking for help getting him to a hospital during

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Jose Banda Pichardo

Jose Banda Pichardo, who had been diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and schizophrenia, was booked into the Imperial County Regional Adult Detention Facility in

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Jose Ruiz Canizales

Jose Ruiz Canizales is detained at the California City Detention Facility. He was born Deaf and communicates through American Sign Language. He cannot read lips

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