Red Tail Alliance -- preserving and practicing our Traditional Native American spiritual beliefs

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In Memory Of Loved Ones Lost - Remembered with Respect for their Courage

                                     "Absolute Power, Corrupts Absolutely"
                                                                     Lord Acton 1887

Sadly, since the passing of our Chief, many have shared with RTA their own stories of the loss of loved ones due to unspeakable violations of human rights by the Department of Correction and/or flagrant medical indifference by health "care" personnel.

What strikes my heart is the pain these family members feel and carry with them every single day. To have knowledge of the suffering inflicted upon a loved one by medical and correctional personnel in the United States of America, to forever carry the disillusionment with one's country, to hear with bitterness the words of our country's pledge of allegiance --- how does one live with these feelings for the rest of their life?

What I need to live the rest of my life carrying this burden, is to know that the ones who have been wronged are not forgotten.  That their lives are remembered and that the manner of their deaths becomes a public indictment of a "correctional system" where the helpless are tortured behind an ironwall closed to the scrutiny of its citizens.

And so, this page is dedicated to the men and women who died in prisons all across the U.S. at the hands of correctional personnel or correctional health care personnel.

If you would like to have your loved one remembered here, send their name, date of passing and which state they were imprisoned in. Out of respect for family, please, if the person was not a relative but you want them honored, use their first name only with the initial of their last name. The purpose is to honor and remember those passed, not to embarrass anyone living.

Send the information to either: Red Tail Alliance, 157 Emery Rd, Starks, Maine 04911    OR redtailai@peoplepc.com

May the Creator give comfort to you all. Aho.

Massachusetts DOC/UMass Correctional Health Care

Big Ed T.
died January 6, 2009

Michael W. Besson
April 5, 1975 - May 14, 2003

Ray Two Thunders Gauthier
August 31, 1948 - January 22, 2010

Tony G.
May 10, 1960 - June 20, 2006

Michael C.
59 years old
died March 29, 2010