Why are you willing to be arrested?
Harry Caulder [prisoner number 129]: Because I want out of the nursing home.
Mike Bachhuber [prisoner number unavailable]: Because the system sucks and needs to change.
Tammi Diaz [prisoner number 20]: Because I think it is a crime for people to be locked up in nursing homes, drugged and treated like animals.
Nancy Salandra [prisoner number unavailable]: Because we have waited long enough. They don’t get it; 13 years is a long time.
Steve Verriden [prisoner number 2]: I am tired of their lies and broken promises.
Teresa VanGrol [prisoner number unavailable]: Because people in prison have no voice and people in that prison [nursing home] are dying.
Gayle Hafner [prisoner number 14]: I am willing to do whatever it takes. I want to change the bankrupt, immoral long-term care system.
Jamie Wolf [prisoner number unavailable]: Because the threat of a nursing home is there. We can’t live like second class citizens anymore.
Brenda Stinebuck (Director of a CIL) [prisoner number unavailable]: Because so many people are dying in nursing homes.
Bobby Coward [prisoner number 6]: I believe in fighting for my rights. It is what defines your existence; what is important to you. To live where and how I choose defines me.
Little John [prisoner number 16]: Because I don’t want to be trapped in a nursing home and be unable to get out.
Mike Ervin [prisoner number 25]: It is that important we have to have hearings and we have to get this moving. We can do this or go away … and going away is not an option.
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