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J.A.I.L. News Journal

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Los Angeles, California

April 12, 2001

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Wake Up Call

For America
What you are about to read is the shocking experience of Sherree
Lowe, the Head JAILer of Florida J.A.I.L. who at this last election
ran for Senate. Her factual account is guaranteed to make your cry,
and will sear into your mind the seriousness of the need for the cause
to which she is totally dedicated to, i.e., JAIL4Judges. We have seen
the below experience played out time and time again in watching homes,
property, cars, businesses and life savings wretched from owners in a
moment of time by raw judicial tyranny of conspiring judges and
lawyers. Folks, you must wake up. There is a systematic goal at play
to deplete everyone of their wealth through the judicial system. Most
everyone of them said before it happened, "This can not happen to me
here in America." Yes, this email is lengthy, so if you're concerned
about a lengthy email, them just press delete now. Otherwise, read on
and take a hard look at the ongoing future of America. It will not
cease on its own. Consider seriously supporting J.A.I.L. while you
have your wealth, and can support it, because tomorrow your wealth
will be gone and you will be asking yourself, "How could this happen
in America?" This is a Wake Up Call! SHERREE LOWE ARRESTED:

On the 10th day of April, I was just getting out of the shower,
getting ready to prepare dinner, because the story of Jesus was going
to be on TV, and I wanted to watch the program. It was ironic that
what happened to me, happened during the week preceding Easter, the
crucifixion of Jesus, our Savior. It will forever have a special
meaning for me.

My daughter called to me from the living room, where she was on the
computer, doing her school work. " Mom, you should come out here" and
I replied " In a minute, I am just getting out of the shower." Within
seconds my room was full of deputies, like when the college kids tried
to see how many could get into a pay phone booth!

I was taken by the arm and told to put some clothes on, that they had
a warrant for my arrest. I said, "Show me the warrant"; they said
"well we don't have a warrant, but we have this paper that says we are
to take you into custody, unless you give us $42,860.06 right now." I
said "This is ridiculous, are you playing some kind of joke on me?"

Then I saw the DCF caseworker, and I spoke to her, and said "Well,
Gina, do you now see what a false abuse call results in? When the
system snatches and runs, many times it is to strip people of their
homes, income, and as vendetta." I watched the tears well up in her
eyes, and I said "Your department allowed my family to fall victim to
the system; you gave my son to the man who killed his mother. (The 17
yr. old boy was my grandson before I adopted him, after my daughters
death.)

Now his lawyer wants my home, and everything I own for attorney fees
these people ran up, taking my son from me, for a lousy small trust
fund I set up, for him to go to college on; a trust fund that was
depleted by the boy, before he was 16 years old, paying fines and
restitution, stealing, damaging other people's property, autos and
tires that got slashed with his knife; airplane tickets and travel
expenses for him to commute between Florida and Oregon, so that he
could visit with his younger brother, living with the people who stole
him from us, who were abusing the court system, not notifying us of
hearings and us losing by default.

After requesting that I be allowed to make a phone call, they said no,
but I grabbed my cell phone, and ran around the dining room table,
calling. I informed them that they were not invited into my home, and
that my property was posted, and until I contacted someone to find out
what was happening I was not leaving my home. They surrounded me and
took me by the arms and carried me from my home. I was placed in a
patrol car, but they had forgotten to take my phone! I continued to
make calls, all the way to the door of the jail.

I will not say that I was abused by the deputies that came to my home.
They did not want to do what they were ordered to do, but it was their
job. They were not rude; they did not hurt me. When I said "take your
hands off me," they said if I did not come, they would have to
forcibly cuff me. By this time I was at the door of the car. However,
my driveway only accommodates three vehicles; there were several
there. My sprinkler heads are broken, my drain field for my septic
system is damaged, and the officers walked into my home without being
invited in.

Upon arriving at Okeechobee County Jail, I was taken in, my phone
taken, and I was told I could wait in the attorney lounge. After an
hour or so, a female deputy called me and I was fingerprinted,
questioned. I refused to answer the questions, I refused to give a
social security number, and I refused to sign anything. Another deputy
was asked to sign for me; he complied. They asked me for medical; I
said my medical was personal, and I in no way would give them
information, or except treatment from anyone other than my personal
physician. I was finger printed, and papers were given to me to sign.
I again refused.

I was then placed into a holding cell. The toilet was leaking; there
was water all over the floor; the sink was stopped up; there was no
toilet paper. The only place to sit was a cold damp stainless
shelving-type thing along the wall, about 18 inches deep and six feet
long. There was a small glass window in the door for the officers to
look in and make sure you were still there, as if you could escape the
concrete and steel cubicle. After a long period of time, I finally
tried to lie down on this shelf. I am not a large person, 5'3" 142
pounds, but I ended up sliding off onto the wet floor. Now I was
tired, hungry, and wet! The room was freezing, but I knew that I was
there for a reason, and that reason would be revealed to me.

At last, I heard keys, and the door being opened. I was told to come
out and follow the female officer who took me into a room. She
instructed me to remove my clothes, handed me a pair of blue pants,
several sizes too large, and a short-sleeved top. I changed my
clothing and put my personal clothes into a milk crate. When I came
out of the changing room, I was instructed to grab a mat from the
pile. This is a well-worn slab of cotton, covered in green plastic
material, about 2 1/2 inches thick at it's good points, a pillow of
the same material, about 1 inch thick. Then, I was told to get a bed
roll, which consisted of a dingy worn-out pillow slip, and two ragged,
ripped sheets, and a scratchy gray blanket. I was handed a small bar
of soap, like you find in a cheap hotel room bath, a small tooth
brush, a sample of toothpaste, and a very small towel, big enough to
wrap around a young child, but would not go around adult hips. I was
then instructed to throw everything on the mat and drag it behind me.

We went through several large steel doors, down a couple of corridors,
and into a cell block. We came to a steel door, the guard opened this
exposing an orange gage, with steel mesh, about the size of chain link
fencing, only about 5 or 6 times as heavy. These walls had a door on
either side, with a sliding gate on each side, which opened to a
common room. There was a stainless table with four round stool-type
seats attached; there was an open shower in the southeast corner.

To the north was a set of stairs which led to the two upper cells. At
the foot of those stairs was a short flight of stairs that led to the
two lower cells. Each cell had a wire mesh door that was locked down
at eleven each night and opened at four A.M. Each cell had a set of
steel orange painted bunks 2x6 feet. There was a toilet/sink
combination in the corner next to the door; these cells were about
6x10 feet. I was instructed that I might prefer to sleep on the floor;
it might be preferable to the top bunk, because it was a long way up
and down, and no step. Also, every time you moved it sounded like two
box cars hitting together, and woke up the whole cell block. I saw
that most of the woman did have their mats on the floor.

It was after eleven; everyone was asleep. So I spread the tattered
sheet down over the mat and then the second sheet and blanket. The
sheet and blanket were not large enough to reach end to end, but I
crawled into this and thought, "so this is jail!" This is the great
food, color TVs, inmate lounges, all for the reasonable rate of two
dollars a day, charged against the inmate. And did I mention the great
medical care, at only 15.53 a visit, to the infirmary, which is a
small room large enough for a desk and chair, and an aspirin, 2 for
5.00.

During the next few hours, I felt the need to use the toilet; made the
mistake of flushing the toilet. It sounded like the roar of a jet
engine! I crawled into the covers and tried to go back to sleep. I
awoke, sometime later, cold and wet. The toilet was leaking; the floor
was wet from the toilet; my covers were soaking up the water. I sat up
and put my head on my knees, and I prayed for courage and
understanding. I had broken no law; I was in there on a commitment
order to Purge.

There was no way to tell time. I had been stripped of everything, down
to my skin, exactly what I came into the world with. Only I was born
free, and with the stroke of a pen, a judge had ordered me locked up,
indefinitely! My freedom was gone; I was gagged like an animal.

At what I now know the time to be, 4 a.m., a voice shouted "chow," and
I heard the lock on the door released between my cell that I shared
with another woman, and the common room. I sat up and pushed myself up
to a standing position, and began to gather the soggy covers. My cell
mate was sitting up and flipped on the light. I saw that she had to
use crutches; her leg was broken and had not been set! She had to put
on a cast from the upper to lower leg. She told me that she had been
in there for eight months and that she had not received medical
attention for the leg! She also had cancer, and could not get
medication, or see a doctor.

We were all told to line up and we were marched to the cafeteria. We
were given a glass of water, coffee, a carton of milk, two cold
pancakes, and a cold piece of sausage. The coffee was rank, the milk
was sour, the pancakes tasted like chalk, and I gagged, and was almost
sick. Little did I know that this would appear like a prime-rib dinner
compared to what I would get at the next jail! We were given 10
minutes to finish eating, clear and stack our trays. We were
instructed that we could talk to those at our table, but it must not
be audible at the next table. We could share food only with those at
our table, and nothing could be taken back to the cells. For three
days, I drank water, because I could not eat the food. I was told that
if I did not eat, I would be force fed! Another guard said "she'll eat
when she gets hungry enough, leave her alone."

I had been arrested at 4:18 the previous day, Tuesday the 10th of
April. It was now Wednesday morning. We were marched back to the
cells, I asked the guard when I was going to see a judge, my order was
to be taken to Palm Beach County. I was told that I would be told when
they wanted me to know something.

In the next hours, I met my cell mates, a nice black woman, who was in
for accessory to murder, because she had given two people a lift to a
residence, where a woman had been killed just prior to dropping off
her passengers. She had given these people a ride, as a favor, which
she often did. She was always trying to help others, and was not a
personal acquaintance of the passengers. They had begged her to give
them a lift, and take them from Miami to Okeechobee. She had dropped
her passengers, thinking this was where they lived, and returned home.
She was arrested a couple weeks later, as an accessory. She had been
locked up five months, and had not seen a judge, or been able to bond
out. She had never been in any trouble before; she spent her days and
nights reading the Bible and praying; she was soft spoken, sweet,
kind, and shared everything with her cell mates. This was the only
hardened criminal I met behind those walls!

Another girl was there because she had gone seeking admission to a
drug treatment program. She had been tested and confirmed HIV
infected. She got jail, no treatment, and could not get released,
because she could not get before a judge. I was to learn how you saw a
judge shortly, for first appearance! I was also to learn why there was
no security at the courthouse!

Nine a.m. -- a guard came and said "Lowe, come on, you are going to
first appearance." I was escorted to a room with about ten other
people. We were told to sit; when our name was called we would move to
the chair that was placed in front of a TV monitor, where the judge's
bench could be seen. We were told that we must not speak unless asked
a question, and then we were to answer yes or no.

After a few minutes, Judge Shirley Brennan came to the bench, and
started calling inmates to the chair. She instructed each one, "you
are not to speak, unless I direct you to. Anything you say will be
used against you." She told each person what their bond would be.
These bonds were 30,000-50,000 for minor infractions; in other
counties the same bonds would be 500 to 1500 dollars, I was horrified!

At last she called my name; I sat in the chair. The judge said
"Sherree Ruth Lowe, you have no bond, do not speak; if you do,
anything you say will be used against you; you have a right to have
contact with your family; you have a right to use the phone; you will
be held until you pay me 42,830.06." The judge then left the bench. So
much for seeing the judge in Palm Beach County, who ordered me
committed.

I was taken back to my cell. Each day for the next five days, I
listened to the screams of women, as they were taken from their cells
and placed into lock up, as they started to cry, to show anger, or
spoke back to a guard in any way other than utmost respect. I looked
into the bleak, drawn, hopeless lost faces, saw the dark circles under
their eyes, listened to the sobs as they cried into the flat pillows,
and said "Sweet Jesus, why are you letting them keep me here?"

One of the guards was giving us Bibles, but they were not the King
James version. The passages in them were totally unfamiliar to me. The
inmates had only those Bibles, one pack of cards that were worn so
badly the color was almost gone and the edges were worn off, and each
other. When someone started to get weak and on the verge of crying,
the other inmates would encourage her to snap out of it.

On my third day, a woman was brought in. She recognized me, and said
she thought I looked exactly like Sherree Lowe that had run for the
Senate. I told her that I was Sherree Lowe, and yes, I had run for the
Senate, and was the running mate of Nancy Grant, who was running for
Governor of Florida, 2002.

After I explained why I was in there, and showed them a copy of my
commitment, they began to assist me getting calls out. They also
started to tell me their stories! None of these woman were guilty of a
crime! They were there because of simple things, that should never
have been an issue.
They had a verbal dispute with someone; a spouse had accused them of
domestic violence in order to get a child away from them; or they had
gone seeking medical help, or rehab services. I was appalled! Some
had been there for months.

I learned that one young man I had been trying to get in to see, had
died of gangrene from a broken leg, sustained in a fall in the shower,
and had not been taken for medical attention; and no one knows what
happened to him! -- only that he died. I wondered why he had stopped
calling me, and why they always said I could not see him because I was
not on his visitation list.

We were not allowed paper, pencils, crossword puzzles, nothing from
the outside. We were allowed to purchase from the canteen, if we had
money sent in by money order deposited to our accounts. My family
deposited for me, but I was not able to use it, and it was not given
to me when I was transferred. My family also brought jogging suits to
myself and other inmates who had no family to contact; those also
remained with Okeechobee Jail. I had a friend deposit to some inmates
accounts, so that they could purchase shampoo and deodorant, stamped
envelopes. The inmates got the money by the time I left, but I do not
know if they got the clothing. I did not get mine.

On the evening of the third day, we were given a peanut butter and
honey sandwich, a bowl of navy bean soup, a cup of Kool-Aid, and a
bologna and cheese sandwich. I was getting hungry; I took a few
spoonfuls of the bean soup, and a couple bites of the bologna
sandwich, before I noticed the green on the bologna. I got up and
emptied my tray into the garbage.

That night I could not sleep, so I borrowed a hoarded pen, used some
of the grievance sheets and made each of the girls an Easter card,
drawing flowers, crosses, and writing Easter blessings, and the Lord's
prayer on them. I do have some artistic talent, and have used it to
earn a living for a number of years.

Day five... Easter Sunday, everyone was excited, hoping for a boiled
egg. Lunch, the main meal, was a hotdog with a small amount of chili,
a bowl of chili, a corn muffin, and soured milk. I was starving; I ate
the hotdog and the small portion of cake with coconut icing, and drank
two glasses of water. Water was precious; we got it three times a day.
If we wanted water any other time, we got it from the shower, cupped
in our hands. I was sick to my stomach all afternoon, and all night. I
threw up, got dry heaves and my stomach was hurting so bad, I was
almost in tears.

Day six.... I stayed on my mat all day. The other girls would come to
talk with me, and I would go to the phone to help them get through to
my home phone, where my daughter would place three way calls, to the
public defenders, who would not take the collect calls, or cell
phones, or neighbors, so the women could reach the outside world. I
napped and when I awoke, I found three of the sweetest hand-made
cards, and I started to cry.

In the afternoon some where around five o'clock, I was summoned to
strip my mat, and bring everything down, and pull it behind me. I was
taken back to the changing room, told to put my clothes on. Then I was
taken to the intake, and cuffed and shackled and taken out and placed
in a bus.
I was helped up into the bus, and told to sit behind this mesh wall,
where a small seat was placed with very little space for your legs. My
head was slammed into the support frame and I was almost knocked
unconscious. I fell over the other two women seated there. I saw there
was, across from where I was sitting, a bunk for the guards to sleep
in. There were three men and one female guard.

Gagged off from the front was the seating area. It was full of men. We
were all in leg and wrist restraints; it was very uncomfortable; and
when the brakes were applied, we women went flying into the mesh wall.
Several times my head hit the framework; the restraints tightened,
because they had not been locked; my wrists began to swell; my ankles
were starting to bleed.

On board were people being transported from all over Florida, with
drop-offs in several states, the last being Colorado. Some of those
people would be in that horrible chained-up position for seven more
days. At the food stop at Burger King, just before my drop-off, one
guard stayed on board. He was nice; he talked to us; he stated that
there were two types of people in the world today, those who worked
for the system, and those who would become victims of the system; the
difference between him and us was the uniform. He said he should have
retired, but he felt that if he continued to work, he could, perhaps
for a while longer, stand between abuse of the transport passengers,
and a small semblance of humane treatment.

We were given a hamburger, fries and a fruit punch. Have you ever
tried to eat a hamburger with your hands tied together at your side,
and between your legs? Let me tell you, it was hard; and to look at
that drink and try to figure out how to drink it without a straw? If
you are hungry enough, you will find a way. We were told to enjoy the
food, because it would be the last decent food we would get, until we
were on the outside again. He was right! The other guard--the one in
charge-- stood up and blew cigarette smoke back toward the men and
taunted them, and jeered, asking if we minded him blowing some smoke
our way!

We pulled into the yard at Palm Beach County Jail. I noticed what
looked like possibly a hundred buses and several vans, all white, with
Florida Department of Corrections on the side in green and gold. I
remembered thinking, "why do they need so many? they could transport
an entire city!"

I was taken off the bus, and walked inside; the cuffs and chains were
removed. I was put into a small room with a glass partition, and told
to remove my clothing. Everyone could see me, male and female
officers. I was strip-searched, and then given another blue,
ill-fitting pair of pants and shirt. It was freezing in that place; my
wrists were hurting; my ankles were raw and sore; my head had knots on
it; and I just tried to hide somewhere inside my mind, to get through
the humiliation.

I was taken and put in another cell that was even colder, about 6x10,
with that same stainless shelve to sit on. There was a young redhead
about 7 1/2 months pregnant, and another young girl about 18, in the
cell. They had been given a peanut-butter and honey sandwich and a
small cup of fruit juice for dinner; both were crying. I asked what
they were there for. The young redhead told me through tears that she
and her husband and small 3- yr.-old son had gone to Bealls to
exchange a couple of outfits her mother had purchased for her, for
maternity clothes. They had made the exchange selections, and were at
the counter to make the exchange, and they were arrested. The child
was turned over to DCF (Department of Children and Families), and they
were brought to the jail. The other young girl said she had been in
Wal-Mart to buy her brother a fishing lure and weights, and when she
went to check out, she was arrested.

About two hours later, a black girl was put in with us. It was getting
a little crowded; two could sit at a time on the bench; two of us on
the floor; the toilet was too nasty to use! The black girl was
arrested and brought in on a ticket from five years prior because she
had paid it two days late! They had forfeited her bond, and issued a
warrant for her-- after five years! Her bond was for 6,000 cash
because she was from Miami.

We were kept in that cell for 12 hours with no water, no toilet paper,
and sitting on the floor. The little redhead was ready to pass out.
She started to have labor pains. I pounded on the door, and got a
guard over. He said, "Oh I forgot about you; you are to be released;
your husband left a couple hours ago. The store made a mistake, and it
wasn't you that was shoplifting! But you still have to pay the 251.00
processing fee." She passed out. They carefully picked her up and I
helped her out and into a chair, and we saw her leaving a short time
later.

A while later, the remaining three of us were taken around the counter
and down a hall where we had to see medical, and be finger printed
again. Once again I refused to sign any thing, and declined their
medical. We were given wrist bands, and then we were placed in another
cell. Another young black girl was brought in. She was also pregnant;
she was brought in for violation of probation. It seems that she had a
ten o'clock curfew and had been ten minutes late returning home! She
was to serve ten days in the stockade.

We stayed in that cell another four hours; then we were taken to a
shower room, told to strip, squat, caught, and submit to internal
search. Then we were put into a shower of cold water, given a towel
and our blues. We were then instructed to grab a bedroll and were
marched down a hall, through corridor after corridor, with heavy steel
doors that they opened with a card and code.

We went up on an elevator and out onto a hall that opened to a cell
block. There were three hospital beds in each cell. The front of the
cells were heavy glass; it was so cold! We went into the cell after
daylight, and we were so tired, we made up the beds that were falling
apart. The formica was peeling off; the springs were warped and laying
at an angle. I picked out the best end to sleep on, and gratefully
crawled under the ragged sheet and rough blanket, and fell asleep.

We were awaken at eleven and let out to eat. One look at that tray and
I got sick. It looked like dog food, and smelled like it too; I
wouldn't have fed it to my dog! I dumped the tray, drank two cups of
water, and went back to the warmth of the blanket. We were told not to
talk; we were too cold to talk; all we wanted was to get warm. We fell
asleep and refused dinner, because we were so cold. The guards had
jackets on.

We were awakened and told to strip our beds. Eighteen women came out
of the cells; they lined us up, and I noticed one girl applying
ointment to sores. She was covered in infantago, and was covering the
sores with Band-Aids. We were being transported to the stockade. I was
confused because I had finally gotten an 8:45 hearing for the next
morning. My children had filed a habeas corpus on my behalf. and an
attorney had been hired for me. The ride to the stockade was
uneventful; the chains were bearable, after we had been twisted and
packed into the van. It was only about a 15 minute ride.

We went inside and found ourselves in a large room full of stainless
tables with four seats attached to the frame. There was a TV hanging
from the ceiling, but we were not allowed to watch it-- it was for the
guards!
The unit was sectioned off into five dorms, each holding ten sets of
the 2x6 bunks, and two singles on the front walls under the glass
partitions.
The same dirty worn ripped bedding was evident, the same two-inch
mats, and flat pillows; the women wearing clothing that hung from
their thin frames and shaggy hair. Some had started to lose their
hair; some had hair pulled up and tied with pieces of socks, or strips
torn from the sheets. Footwear was cheap black flip-flops; there were
two phones mounted on the wall; the bath consisted of two showers with
no privacy, and three toilets-- again no privacy, the guards could see
everyone at all times; there were male and female guards; they spoke
to the inmates like they were smelly garbage!

After selecting an empty upper bunk, my bunk buddy showed me how to
tie the sheets through the holes to keep the mat from sliding off onto
the floor, and gave me instructions on how to climb up. I heard my
name called, and turned around to see this tall woman behind me. She
said "I know you, don't you remember me?" My mouth fell open, as I
realized who she was. Three years earlier, this woman had been a
successful architect, poised, well groomed, and tailored-suit person,
with a home in Lost Tree Village, one of the most prestigious
developments in North Palm Beach, where the movie stars had their
homes.

I asked her what in the world she was doing there. She said that she
had gotten involved in drugs; that she had been arrested; that the
courts had appointed a conservator; and that she had been put here
until she agreed to sign over her home and her firm. She refused and
they were going to keep her there until she did sign!

Tanya then told the other women who I was, and she had kept up on the
election and saw me on TV. She told them I had run for Senate, and how
I had always been such a nice person, taking in teens who ran away
from home, helping them work out problems with parents, sponsoring
softball teams, and how we served on the March of Dimes Committees,
and worked on telethons and walk-a-thons together to raise money for
crippled children. After she finished giving her glowing happy
praises, we all sat down on the floor and I listened to each woman's
story, and the tears came.

Once again, I gave them my phone number, and my daughter began using
both my lines to help these women get calls out to friends and
relatives. I gave them the numbers of the NAACP, ACLU, and told my
daughter to help them contact attorneys the next day. We kept the
phones busy until they shut them down that night. After everyone had
hugged me, and said God had answered prayers when He sent me, I
instructed them that they must pass the word, and keep the chain
going, helping each other; and those who got out must remember those
who were still in and work towards their release. We hugged and hugged
and cried a little, and then we thanked God for my being sent behind
those walls. There were no criminals there, only victims!

After everyone was huddled into the worn tattered bedding in the fetal
position for warmth, I sat on my bunk and looked around that room. A
warmth surrounded me; my anger had subsided; I knew why I had been
sent inside; and I knew that God was directing my path. He had guided
me into this and He would guide me out. I was there because I was
needed there. I felt peace, and even wondered if I should withdraw the
deal I had made for my release because I could comfort and help those
inside those walls. Then I remembered, I had only been behind the
walls of three of these human torture chambers. There were many more,
and I could be of more service on the outside. My freedom was going to
cost me my home and everything I had, but it no longer mattered if I
could help other trapped helpless human beings.

I crawled under the worn blanket and hear April whisper from below,
"You know when the sheriff brings his group [Grand Jurors for
inspection?]here, we get new sheets, blankets, and decent uniforms,
and a decent meal, but then we go back to the old stuff after he
leaves, but he rarely ever comes. And we are never allowed to talk to
him, or we get sent to the hole." I fell asleep and dreamed of these
women, with the dark circles under the eyes gone, with their hair
clean and shiny, free of lice, and flesh back on the gaunt frames, and
dressed in decent clothing, back with a loved one or families.

At five AM we were awakened for breakfast, oatmeal slopped over into a
tray that looked like dog food trays, a couple slices of white bread
and a tiny cup of juice. I took my tray to a table, and sat down, I
looked at the hungry girls, and pushed the tray forward for them to
share the meager food. I knew that I would be able to get food later
on, and they were so hungry.

After breakfast, we went back to the dorm, and we sat around and
talked. I felt like I needed to stay. I also knew that I wouldn't, but
part of my heart would remain with them; and the memories of what I
had been subjected to were nothing compared to the heartache,
suffering, and pain of these locked away, forgotten human beings, held
hostage for the federal dollars the state receives for them-- human
bondage, through the judicial system and the Department of Corrections
and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the gods in black
nighties, and men sworn to defend their rights, who profit from their
suffering, living in their fine homes, driving their fancy cars,
memberships in their clubs, and fancy law firms, the guards who abused
them, and the only difference was the uniform they wore.

At seven, three of us were loaded up and taken to the court house. We
were placed in a holding cell, again that stainless shelf, the toilet,
and the empty hours. My hearing was for 8:45, but I wasn't taken out
of the cell until 9:30. I was told to put my chest against the wall
and instructed to raise my right leg. The cuff was put on so tight I
almost fainted from the pain. I gasped and said "That is too tight."
She simply said "Oh well, judge's order-- raise the other leg." Again
the sharp pain as the cuff closed on that ankle. I was told to turn
around, and my wrists were encased; the same was done with cuffs from
a chain around my waist. I could not walk without tears coming to my
eyes. I said "This is hurting" --again "Oh well, that's the order."

When we reached the floor to the courtroom, I was walked through the
back of the judge's chambers and out into the hall, and prodded down
the hall in my shackles and chains. I saw my grandson, my son, and my
oldest daughter standing there; I saw their faces go white, and the
tears come to their eyes. Then I saw my seventeen-year-old that DCF
had taken and placed with the husband of my dead daughter, after I had
raised him for sixteen and a half years. He was giggling, with his
orange-spiked hair and gold chains, fancy watch, and suit, and the man
who killed my daughter for insurance money, and the woman he married
afterward, and took one of my daughter's sons, using the same method
that had brought me to the court this time, getting hearings, telling
the courts that he had noticed me, but I failed to appear. I did not
appear because my notices always came after the hearings, not before!
The judge enters a default the same day I get my notice, and I have no
recourse except to pay more attorney fees to defend myself. ....

I was told that I was to speak to no one, and look at no one; I was to
keep my head lowered and if I spoke I would be thrown into lock up
till the end of my days. I was pushed across the courtroom and a chair
was pushed under me and I was told to keep my chin on my chest and
eyes on the floor. I prayed for strength and courage, and for the
tears to remain in the tear ducts. I saw several attorneys look at me,
my hair had not been combed for eight days; except that morning I had
washed it with water and tried to brush it with my tooth brush, and
ended up tying it on top my head with a strip of sheet one of the
girls had given me. My teeth were chattering from the cold; I was
trembling from being cold; the goose bumps standing the hair up on my
arms and my knees shaking, my wrists had swollen, my hands were
purple, ankles were bleeding; I could feel the warm blood running into
my shoes.

The judge called the first case. I listened to three cases, lawyers
appointed as trustees to people's trusts and estates, asking for their
fees to be granted from the estates of living people who had been put
away, so the banks, lawyers and conservators could drain the funds
into their own accounts, and a judge granting permission. I was
getting sick; I wanted to jump up and scream, "You are nothing but
crooks!!!!! You are evil, mean, vicious people." Then I remembered,
God said we must pray for those who wrong us, and He will anoint their
heads. So I prayed for calmness, and for Him to stay by my side.

I was told to move to the seat at the table, but not to speak. My
attorney, Dean Wilbur, whom my daughter had gotten for me, and Burke
Culler, who was representing the Thompsons and my seventeen year old,
came and stood side by side. I heard the judge say, "Sherree Lowe, you
are here today to purge, you are to surrender $42,830.06 to the
attorney for the Thompsons, do you agree?" Mr. Wilbur spoke and told
the judge he was representing me, and that I would agree to what had
been worked out, or he would drop out of the case. Judge Mary Lupo
said "Well Mr. Wilbur, you are a very respected person and I will
accept your word, because hers is worthless. I take it you two have
come to an agreement." Mr. Wilbur and Mr. Culler said "Yes, we believe
so, all we have to do is get her signature."
Judge Mary Lupo then said " Shall we return her to lock up and hold
her until payment has been made?" Mr. Wilbur, said "No your honor, I
am requesting that you release her today, after she signs the
paperwork." Judge Mary Lupo said "Do you have the paperwork here?"
Mr. Wilbur said, "No, we will have to go draw it up and get it
ready." Lupo then said,"Well, we will hold her in lockup until it is
signed" and she got up and said she would see them at 1:30. Mr. Wilbur
said, "Yes we want to get this over with as soon as possible, Mr.
Culler wants his attorney fees."

I was shocked. Mr. Wilbur had entered into the record what the
commitment was about! Burke Culler wanted money from me to pay his
fees for representing my son and the Thompsons for suing me for a
trust fund that was not in existence! ....

I was kept seated until everyone else had left the courtroom and lined
up in the hall, and instead of taking me out through the door behind
me and back through the back hallway, I was again prodded out into the
main hall. My grandson started to approach me with his arms out and
tears in his eyes-- I am speaking of my 20-yr.-old grandson, who has
made me a proud great grandmother-- he was told to back up; he
couldn't come near the criminal.

I was then taken through the back after the grand parade, right back
through the judge's offices and down stairs, my heel and ankles
leaving blood drops on her carpet. I stumbled and fell almost at her
feet-- Mary Lupo, I mean. The thought of Jesus as He carried his
Cross, flashed across my mind and made me hold my words back. ....

I sat in that cell for another five hours, and then Mr. Wilbur came
and sat down. He read the papers to me. I was to put my home up for
sale, I had ten days to list it with a broker, whatever proceeds
arrived from the sale, were to be paid to Burke Culler, if the sale
did not provide the total of $42,830.06, I would have to still come up
with the difference by July 15th.

I cried. He said he was sorry; he asked where I would go, and what
would I do. I said God would provide! I signed his paper, which the
judge had already signed, but I signed "under duress" and he took it
to show the guard, and said "Release her, the judge has already signed
the order." He went down the hall and didn't even wave goodbye.

After a while a guard came-- a man. He saw my swollen wrists, and
bloody ankles, and asked, "Who did this to you?" I answered, "It
doesn't matter." He took the cuffs off my feet, and the cuffs on my
wrist were so loose they nearly fell off. He walked slowly with me out
to the van; he helped me in, and transported me to the County Jail
where I was placed in another locked cell until 7:30. Then they
unlocked the door and told me to come sign my release papers. I said
"Sign it for me, I can't write," and showed him my wrist. He scratched
my name on the paper and told me to go down the hall to the restroom
and change my clothes, put the blues into the hamper, and exit through
the door at the end of the hall. I heard the latch release; I pushed
the door open and exited into the fresh air.

I was prepared to walk the seventy five miles back to my 15-yr.-old
that had been here at my computer, trying to tell people to the best
of her knowledge why Sherree Lowe had been arrested. I read the email
from the reporter who said that she received a call from someone 12
hours before I was arrested; that the woman from Okeechobee who ran
for Senate had been arrested for a felony.

So now, as Paul Harvey has said so many times over the years, you know
the rest of the story. Now you know why I am involved in JAIL4judges--
broke and homeless, I will not stop until J.A.I.L. becomes law, and I
will continue to run for public office to fight for the people, if it
means I bathe in public restrooms, and wear clothes from the Salvation
Army.

Now on the bright side: When I walked down that ramp, I saw my
grandson, father of my great-granddaughter, my son Tim, and my son
Patrick, my dearest friend Tennessee, waiting at home, where my
daughters, granddaughter, and I knew that I may have lost another
battle to the corruption of the lawyers and judicial gods who are
committing treason upon the American people, but I have still been
blessed. We can, by the Grace of God, win the war!

When I got home to my computer, I saw the flagged email. I read the
encouraging words from all of you out there. I cried, but I know that
where there is a will, and faith in the Almighty, there will be a way.
And J.A.I.L. will become law, and we will de-throne these gods in
black nighties.

Perhaps after seeing that scene in that courtroom, my son and daughter
will understand why I am involved in J.A.I.L. and my anger at the
system that destroyed my life and loved ones. I have lived my life
giving, and loving, and trying to forgive those who trespassed against
me. But sometimes, we have to stand up and fight back.

I pray for the Thompsons and for the young man they have filled with
so much hatred toward me, for they will be judged by the Lord, as I
will, and for the lawyers who rob us, and for the judges who are a
party to it, and allow it. The young man whom I worked and raised will
soon become a victim to the system, because when he goes behind those
walls, who will be there for him to call? He turned his back on family
for the lust of easy money. Now he has lost everything-- his lawyer
got it all! And the judge who made me sign it away, ridiculed
teenagers. It was another court action to be remembered. May God have
mercy on their souls.

I walked through those halls and sat in the cells where justice is
supposed to live. Those walls, steel doors and security are not there
for justice-- they are there to protect those who are doing injustice
to human beings, where people are treated like dirt --cold steel,
filth, hunger, cold, pain, suffering--and the judges and lawyers get
plush, mahogany, marble, and wealth. They have no heart, no feelings,
no concern for other human beings-- only for the riches derived from
the bondage and suffering of the poor, sick, and helpless.

I have learned there is no justice for the common man in the court
system, and the wicked and corrupt win in our system today. Truth does
not exist!I request that those of you who read this story, if there is
legal help out there, who would help me, or advise me, please contact
me. I have not been able to find it in Palm Beach County, nor
Okeechobee. In fact I question if it exists, but we shall see. Many
thanks and Blessings to all of you! Sherree LoweHead JAILer, Florida
Chaptersherree@okeechobee.com
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