Surrendering. In a mentally ill prisoner dies in solitary confinement in new yorks Rikers Island. When you put a person in the shu brought to two months, six months, you are breaking this persons mental capacity down to zero. He did something bad, fine. But treat him as a human being, not like an animal. He has rights. We will look at mounting pressure on jails and prisons to reform their use of solitary confinement. We will speak with the psychiatrist who is helping to reduce violence and prisons in the president of the texas correctional employees, the union which represents texas prison guards. They have called for the state to reduce the use of solitary confinement, including on death row, saying solitary confinement makes prisoners more violent. Then we go to the usmexico border where a phoenix man who was deported to mexico will attempt to reunite with his family today by crossing back into the United States. I think they deported me for the Hunger Strike that was happening at ice and all the pressure they were creating. I want to return because i family is there, more than anything else. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The signup deadline for Health Insurance under obamacare closed monday with a surge in enrollment nationwide. Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the federal website as well as local offices in multiple states. The Obama Administration says it expects to will surpass its original goal of 7 million enrollees. At the white house, press secretary jay carney said the program had overcome the botched rollout of six months ago. There has been a remarkable story since the dark days of october and november, which has resulted in a situation where here on the last day of enrollment, we are looking at numbers substantially larger than 6 million. Id hear say there are few people in this room, including some of the folks who work in the white house, would have predicted that we would get to that number. The federal website stopped working for several hours monday after software glitch. The deadline has been extended until mid april for those who tried to sign up, but were unable to complete their in roman. Some estimates have put the number of previously uninsured receiving coverage under obamacare at as high as nine. 5 million. The Program Marks the nations largest expansion of Health Coverage since the creation of medicare and medicaid in 1965. Leaked details of a still classified Senate Report on bush era torture and edition show the cia misled the public and the extent of its prisoner abuses in the intelligence gained as result. According to the washington post, Senate Investigators have concluded that cias torture produced no information on top al qaeda leaders, including any information that led to the discovery and killing of osama bin laden. One u. S. Official said in certain cases, cia operatives continued to torture prisoners even after it was decided they had no more information to provide. The report also exposes previously undisclosed torture tactics, including repeatedly dunking prisoners in tanks of ice water. The report has set off a public clash between the cia and the Senate Intelligence committee, with accusations of cias spying on the panels work. The Intelligence Committee is set to vote this week on whether to recommend to classifying the report summary and key findings. Motorso giant general faces congressional hearings today on the safety scandal behind at least 12 and possibly hundreds of deaths. Gm has recalled millions of cars after a knology and faulty ignition switches shut down engines and disabled airbags. Documents released over the past several weeks show gm mess misled victims families, despite being made aware of its vehicles flaws. Federal regulators also took no action despite the findings of its own investigators. Ahead of todays hearing, or christian, the mother of a 16yearold gm crash victim, spoke out to reporters. I talk to gm again. I simply wanted to give them my Contact Information to the other families, the other victims families, the hope to get us all together and maybe hell a little bit. But they pretty much have refused to do that. Apparently, the only thing that would listen to are things that affect their bottom line. It is just a shame that corporations like gm feel that they might be large enough to hide the truth from the public, but in this day and age, there are many people like me who will seek to uncover that information. There is no more hiding. Her 16yearold daughter amber died after crashing her 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt in july of that year, month after gm had internally recognized the models to effective ignition switch. On monday, another 1. 5 million cars were recalled, this time over power steering column. Around 6 million gm cars of nubbin recalled this year. Secretary of state john kerry visited israel and the occupied territories on monday in a bid to prevent the collapse of u. S. Brokered peace talks. Some 26 palestinian prisoners were due for release over the weekend, but israel says it will now only release them at the Palestinian Authority agrees to extend the talks beyond next months deadline. Israelffort to convince to follow through on its pledge, the Obama Administration is reportedly considering an Early Release for the jailed spy jonathan pollard. Pollard is a former u. S. Intelligence officer convicted of passing u. S. Secrets onto israel. He is due for release next year, but could be freed under a rumored agreement to salvage the peace talks. At the white house, press secretary jay carney declined to deny that pollard did see an Early Release. Could see an Early Release. On the release of prisoners, this is a complicated issue that is being worked through with the parties. Im not going to get into details about that. With regards to mr. Pollard, he is a person convicted of espionage and serving his sentence, and i dont have any update on the situation. Russia has begun what it calls a partial withdrawal of forces from its eastern border with ukraine. Around 500 troops are said to a pullback so far. The buildup of Russian Forces has emerged as a key point of contention between russia and nato countries in the aftermath of last months annexation of crimea. Nato countries are meeting a brussels today to discuss additional measures in response to the standoff with russia. The world court has ordered japan to stop whaling in the antarctic, rejecting claims of scientific research. Shepherd Conservation Society welcomed the ruling. I did not know if japan would proceed with their whaling. They may find it for graham in the future. But at the moment, i feel that they should fulfill their obligations. [indiscernible] three al jazeera journalist appeared in an Egyptian Court on monday where they were allowed to testify for the First Time Since being detained at last year. Peter greste and two others are accused of a longing to orating the Muslim Brotherhood deemed by the government a terrorist organization. In brief testimony, the three denied having ties to the brotherhood them and cited her longtime work as journalists. The trial is been adjourned until next week. A death row prisoner several execution of mississippi has won a new trial. Michelle by room was convicted of killing her husband, even though her son confessed to the crime. Her execution was slated for last week. On monday, the Mississippi Supreme Court said she is entitled to a new trial before a new judge. A wealthy heir to the du pont family chemical fortune has avoided prison, despite been convicted of raping his threeyearold daughter. The delaware superior judge jan sparedsaid he should be jail time because he would not fare well behind bars. He ruled the treatment exceeds the need for punishment. A reasoning almost never used in the case of child rape is. He is the greatgrandson of billionaire family patriarch. The case has drawn comparisons to last her sentencing of a wealthy texas teenager who avoided jail time for killing four people while driving drunk after claiming he suffered from affluenza. The u. S. Is facing renewed pressure on financing climate aid for poor countries in the aftermath of the human report running of Global Warming has impact. They said on monday would have dire consequences for the worlds poorest countries and urged rich countries most responsible for greenhouse emissions to help them adapt. The report cited a World Bank Study calling on rich countries to provide climate aid of as ,uch as 100 billion per year of which the u. S. Would be responsible for up to 30 billion. The panel chair said Climate Change is becoming an issue of global security. There is a reason for the thed not really neglecting findings of this report, because they are profound. Let me repeat once again, we have said categorically in this report the implications for human security, we have reasons to believe that the world doesnt do anything about mitigating the emissions and the extent of Climate Change theinues to increase, than very social stability of Human Systems could be at stake. And the malaysian human rights activist orang fernandez has died at the age of 67. Fernandez faced government persecution for her devotion to championing the rights of women, migrants, and a mystic workers. She endured malaysias longest ever trial on charges of spreading false news after criticizing the treatment of migrant workers. After 13cquittal years. She was awarded the right livelihood award in 2005 for her outstanding and courageous work to stop violence against women and abuses of migrant and poor workers. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with renee feltz. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. We begin todays show in albuquerque, new mexico, where hundreds marched over the weekend to protest the spate of Deadly Police shootings. The march began peacefully, lasting at least eight hours. It ended when police fired tear gas at demonstrators who blocked traffic. Albuquerque is one of the highest per capita rates of Fatal Police Shootings in the country. In the latest incident, Police Killed a homeless man named jens boyd who appeared to be surrendering to them at a campsite where he was sleeping. Video from a Police Helmet camera shows boyd picking up his belongings and turning away from the police when the officers deployed a flash grenade and fire six live shots at him from yards away after he picks of his belongings and appears to turn away. Elyse fired bean bags and let loose a police dog is boyd lay on the ground, still alive, pleading with officers not to hurt him and saying he could not move. This is a clip from the Albuquerque Police video of their encounter with james boyd. Boyd died from his injuries the next day. After footage of the Police Shooting him with viral, the Hacker Group Anonymous called on people in albuquerque to protest. Has beenly, a video released to the public which shows albuquerque Police Officers murdering a man in cold blood for illegally camping. This man, which was schizophrenic, had no intention of hurting these Police Officers. On the contrary, this man looked as if he is simply attempting to protect himself from militarized thugs. We drastically need to address the growing police that has occupied our country. When will we say no more . How many more citizens will be murdered . Naturally, the police will look to label anonymous as a Tourist Organization for our demands of justice. The question has to be asked, who do we terrorize . Is it not a growing police state that terrorizes its own citizens . Claimednday, anonymous responsibility for taking down the Albuquerque Police departments website for several hours. The department has come under federal scrutiny for being sinceed in 37 shootings 2010 23 of them fatal. This week the fbi confirmed its investigating the killing of james boyd, and the Justice Department has already been investigating the citys Police Shootings for more than the year. We invited a spokesperson from the Albuquerque Police department to join us on our program, but we did not get a response. For more we go to albuquerque, new mexico, where were joined by two guests. Russell contreras as reporter for the Associated Press who was tear gas while covering sundays protest and is been following the Police Shootings. Nora tachiasanaya is a social justice activist whose nephew, george levy tachias, was fatally shot by police while he was driving in albuquerque in 1988. She is a member of the october 22 coalition to stop police brutality. We welcome you both to democracy now russell contreras, talked about the protest of the last few days and the particular Police Incident that sparked these latest protest. The Group Reported to be anonymous released a video calling for activists to take to the streets on sunday and also bound to hack the Police Website the same day. On sunday around a few hundred protesters showed up in downtown, marching to miles away to the university of new mexico, at which time over the course of 10 to 12 hours a marched back and forth. Police, overall, the protest was pretty peaceful. As night progressed, demonstrators got more aggressive. One particular person climbed a street pole and attempted to take it down. People were angry. They were all over the place in terms of demand. At which time later in the evening or the Afternoon Police in riot gear showed up. In the evening, there were some tear gas canisters fired a protesters by the university of new mexico. And again in downtown albuquerque when protesters showed up at police headquarters. Over that course, it was generally peaceful, but there were interactions with demonstrators and Police Officers at certain spots. For the most part, police did not do much until the end. What we found out later is there was never a 911 there were a number of 911 calls from residents. It seems overall the demonstration was peaceful. Protest e a number of ers that have family members or had friends that were shot by and experienced Excessive Force. One of them is requiring officers to wear lapel cameras in all interactions with the public. This has put the police under more scrutiny because now we are seeing Police Action in front of us, that they often now release video of various shootings and interactions with the public. Now the public is seeing how police work is done. That is astounding because ed is a video that weve been showing and it is gone viral of the Police Shooting of james boyd. Helmet of the the Police Officer, one of the Police Officers involved in this killing. Last week, police chief gordon even said the shooting was justified after james boyd threatened as officers with knives. It albuquerque mayor Richard Berry ejected the chiefs assessment. He is new in this position, but that is no excuse. You should not of said that. But we all need to do on a horrific situation like this is thoroughly and copper easily go through the process. , can youl contreras talk about the reaction to the shooting from the police chief and from the mayor . The police chief is new, correct . He was recently selected from a nationwide search . Roughly a is been the month. This was his first incident involving a Police Shooting. Airing his press conference, myself and another reporter asked during his press conference, myself and another reporter asked if it was testified. He said yes. She recanted after the mayor said he spoke too soon. The investigation was still ongoing. After the remarks, the fbi announced they were going to look into the shooting more closely. This comes as the department itself is under a Justice Department investigation for more than a year over alleged cases of Excessive Force and a number of shootings. I think this comes at a time because we have this video and it generated so much anger and , that theiticism public is responding. Nora, i want to bring you into this conversation, nora tachiasanaya, youre at the meeting last night of Community Members responded to the shooting and to all of the shootings, really. Can you talk about what people were discussing last night, the reaction, and possible next