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.We_an/ planning changes for this news prisoners to inspire other communities to '-"Road~I'ocks ~ to organizing mental faculties, so what some can stand lettecWe hope they will begin to transform build a movement capable of providing up to, others can't. What some are ignorant it from five pieces of printed paper into a solidarity and support in times of need. We faced by poor blacks to, others aren't. What some understand, useful tool for prison abolition and social will be reading, discussing, and acting along This is a question that was asked by a others won't. It doesn't take a white-coated liberation. with our imprisoned brothers and sisters. friend who wished to know my view on a scientist to understand that phenomenon. Editorials will become regular features In orde; to turn each issue of Off the particular subject. Please understand that Ignorance can keep an entire ethnic group of Off the Hook . They will give us a chance Hook into an organized tool for prisoner my answer was based on what I've seen and unconsciously oppressed because if they to share our thoughts and ideas and con support and prison abolition, we will pose still see. It doesn't reflect the totality of my have no knowledge that there is someplace tribute to the discussion on prison aboli a few questions that are related to a specific character. higher than the hole they live in - or know tion. We welcome any feedback, positive topic. We hope these questions will inspire Question: Name (what you can) the but have no idea how to get there - they'll and critical. submissions that will unify the content of characteristics of the poor that affect their never put forth the effort to escape it. We want this newsletter to be a forum each issue. We will still print all submis ability to organize. In answering this ques 2.) Disoriented, Confused: loss of bear for prisoners and abolitionists on the sions that pertain to the topic of prison tion, you will only deal with characteristics ings, displaced from normal position or outside to discuss strategies and tactics for abolition, but a more organized analysis of that describe the characters of poor "black" relationship. Also to cause to lose sense of the prison industrial complex will help all improving prison conditions and abolish people. time, place, or identity. ing the prison industrial complex. Prison of us in our efforts to bring about change. My Answer: Explanation: Since the day the first environments inhibit the ability of the Because any political or social move slaves were said to have set foot on 1.) Ignorant, unaware, uninformed: incarcerated to organize active resistance, ment must be self-critical to be able to offer Western soil, the process of stripping the destitute of knowledge or education. Also teach cruelty, hostility, and selfishness, and valuable criticism and analysis of society, true identity of blacks, from blacks, has lacking knowledge or comprehension of break the will and spirit of human beings. our next issue will focus inward and address been as efficient and widespread as AIDs, the thing specified. Any act that opposes the prison environ the relationship of the Missouri Prison- with similar results. When dealing with ment is worthy of our support, so we are ers' Labor Union to our personal struggles Explanation: Because "poor blacks" lack a group of people who don't have a clue looking for submissions of examples and within the prison industrial complex and its the means of effective currency, the inevita who they really are, the will to strive for discussions about group and self-educa relationship to the prison abolition move ble need to survive - by any means neces an alternative to poverty and shame will tion, mutual aid, and acts of resistance ment as a whole. sary - comes into play. And when there is slowly diminish because there is no present in addition to submissions about daily What is the MPLU? What have been its a need to survive - by any means necessary psychological driving force. This results in life in prison. We want your ideas about greatest successes and failures? What forces - because of a lack of money and formal scattered disorganization and a concurrent how to proceed toward a better world and limit the MPLU, and what can be done schooling, the attention isn't placed on form of animosity amongst themselves that accounts of daring successes and ambitious about them? How has the MPLU affected much education about self, worldly events, leads to inevitable loss. failures. politics, and economics or culture or on you on a personal level? How could the From a "poor black's" perspective, the the spread of knowledge from generation 'l1lrough future issues of the newsletter, MPLU better help you take part in prison only identities they have are the ones they to generation. The main objective becomes we hope to offer a catalog of literature. The abolition? allow themselves to have but honestly don't "survive by any means necessary:' literature will help individual prisoners and We ask these questions so we can learn want. Because they've been taken away study groups in their self-education efforts from their answers and make a more There are many organizations and indi from their original strength, the essence of and help make their actions as informed organized, better equipped movement. viduals who attend to the media and pres the black race in America has been placed and prepared as possible. Further down the We want responses that are honest and ent a washed concern while simultaneously among the grains of sand in the Sahara that road, we will offer a correspondence course complete, but we do not want to see Off the saying each individual - no matter what shift with the winds. Who has the eye to on journalistic writing, which could help Hook devolve into a collection of inflam background they stand in front of -has the find it? prisoners air their grievances. same opportunities to become educated matory insults or defensive grandstanding. 3.) Culture Shocked: A sense of confusion and succeed in life. Those kinds of state In order to be effective, any struggle We want prison abolition; we want social and uncertainty, sometimes with feelings ments damage the potential empathy that waged inside the prison walls must be liberation, and we're looking for the tools of anxiety, that may affect people exposed can be shown toward the problem. Every carried out on the other side of the walls as to get there. to an alien culture or environment without - the OtH Editorial Collective child wasn't born with the same parents or well. We ainl to use the voices of struggling adequate preparation. 1 2 Off the Hook. Issue 12 Letters
~~~-o-ooc<::t-OO~-c;)o~~~~ Explanation: Every day, a large number Explanation: "Poor blacks" have the As a black man, I have to understand speaking up for them, talking to them and of poor black youth willingly choose to fall tendency to become content with their also why it was so hard for me to unify ask them to help us understand their way victim to what some might call a Western positions and advertently or inadvertently with my people, become organized and oflife so we can build a bridge of commu ized mentality. That number increases give up on the struggle to rise above mental fight for a positive cause. The problem is nication and a defense for them from the on an annual basis due their sponge-like and physical oppression. This doesn't apply inside of us - humanity as a whole. The accusation that they are a menace to soci minds soaking up everything that appears to all, but the numbers who are content are complications inside and outside of this ety. They are being excluded from enjoying to be meaningful in society. much higher than those country are escalating because the culture their dreams here in America. We hand 1his sudden acceptance, " who are ambitious. From a that once kept us strong and able to show them up as a sacrifice to the Government which is actually brought Ignorance can keep practical point of view, the compassion for life is completely vanishing without a fight because our nightmares are about by a subliminal prov an entire ethnic group percentage of those who from the world. 1he spiritual beliefs that recognized through the flesh of those we ocation, penetrates and are content is the number made us the wealthiest people on this earth call our enemies. unconsciously oppressed that will be placed in the sickens an already vulner have been traded for materialistic items, We should not allow this situation to because if they have no national and international able group. Westernized lust, and fantasy-island escapades. This is get any worse. Look at the population of spotlight. There will never thought has taken over knowledge that there is my synopsis. the United States' juvenile facilities and the be organization when those rural and urban ghettos someplace higher than As-Salaamu Alaikum, prison population. It reflects our children who are needed to produce and caused a decrease in the hole they live in--or Nu'Man Raheem Sal'aam more and more. We are allowing others energy for the masses to African and true cultural to think of us as people who put their know but have no idea feed off of have been psy Mr. Adrian M. Dunn #400765 values. Their unity has been children in the hands of the system that how to get there--they'll chologically made to stay Louisiana State Penitentiary replaced by "every man for steered us into our current system and in place at the coercion of Camp J Shark 3/2 cell #14 himself' Fidelity has been never put forth the effort make it their surrogate parents. One of the history by what they see on Angola, LA 70712 replaced by divorce, adul to escape it:' reasons we do this is because we have been television (past riots where tery, and abuse. Morality conditioned to dismiss our children as just blacks were beaten and Youth who are rebelling has been replaced by homosexuality, pros another scene in the tragedy that affects killed), what they see in their communi titution, pedophilia, and now common, against society and why all of our lives. It is because of the illusory pleasurable but unnatural sex acts. Faith in ties (corrupt law enforcement, gangs, and Many of our children are born realities we believe in that we are doing God has been replaced by Atheism, faith in confidential informants), and what they've oppressed in this world and are being good and getting better or that the plight currency, individual abilities, politicians, lost because of this - strength. deprived of opportunities to develop into of our children does not bother us. The so-called religiOUS leaders, activists, and Now, these are only a few of the responsible adults. 1lley are being singled reality is that we are validating our own governments who supply these ghettos with characteristics that can fall under the title out and separated by a process designed to oppressive state by ignoring the needs of the drugs and guns that inhabitants use to "poor blacks" when analyzing and trying to make them self-destruct and simultane those that are trying to improve themselves strengthen the reality of ignorance. understand why it is so hard for the group ously become a menace to society. Many and the quality oflife for all people of color of people to unify and organize a team that Truth of self was replaced by an image people say that our youth's behavior is here in America. that the oppressors have been trying to will focus on fighting mental and physi- the cause of toughening crime laws and We have forced our children to choose get the world to see since the capture and cal oppression. I could be writing for days the growing prison population. If this is their own paths toward self-empowerment, sale of people from various parts of the because I study this kind of crisis. But I'm true, it could be concluded that we adults but we are not looking at the reality of African continent. That miseducation has not a black nationalist or a racist - this are as much to blame for the laws and the whether our children can reach empower made them susceptible to unhealthy foods, isn't about blacks being dominated by increase in prison population. It could ment relying only on themselves. We must materialism, monopolization, oppression, whites because a lot of blacks are their own be said that we just don't understand our help them choose the right path. This is a envy, hatred, politics, divide-and-conquer oppressors. I hate no one regardless of what I know. I'm only answering a question that youth or we just don't care about the grow process of personal development as well as tactics, immorality, infidelity, distrust, ing numbers of them that are left alone to was asked. The truth speaks boldly, which behavior. biased and racially motivated laws, and fend for themselves and be engulfed by the most of all, manipulation. is why some individuals are so afraid of it If we investigated the reality of what and often take offense after they've been situation that is threatening a large portion 'self-empowerment' is for people of color, 4.) Content: to appease the desires of. Also: of our youth population. then we would come to the conclusion to limit (oneself) in requirements, desires rightly accused by it. Society's focus should be to save the that we have to deconstruct their and our or actions. future of our youth. It's time for us to start current mindsets. We have to reconstruct
3 4 Off the Hook. Issue 12 Letters ~~~~~~~~oo~~~OO~~~~~KXX>~O'~ a mindset focused on getting the building generation cried out for help by commit has been designed to destroy us physically, Slave-breaking: part one process started. Lastly, we must construct ting destructive behavior and crime, it was mentally, spiritually, and economically. Prison is slavery. Plain and simple. a constant elevation of self-empowerment done so because it lacked social and politi The world climate of past generations for all to embrace without any having to cal educations. The community ignored was much different than that faced by this The Emancipation Proclamation sacrifice anyone. them until they started to effect the econ- generation. Tbose who lead this country openly ended ancient (chattel) slavery but Our children are not bad people. They 0my and the social elite, which has always understand how this scenario developed secretly instituted modern-day slavery. In have simply never been taught how to con manipulated our community through and use it to keep themselves in power. February 1865, the U.$. Congress wrote trol their behavior and get the best out of THEIR media. They have typecast us all as But our generation has a strong will and and voted to adopt the 13th Amendment life with less bumps and bruises. We must aggressive people and gangbangers. This the determination to be successful. Our to the Constitution, which said, "Neither take into account that they, especially those has kept the generations before from enti- downfall hasn't been in the desire for self slavery nor involuntary servitude, except who never received nur- " tling us human compas empowerment but in the choices made to as a punishment for crime whereof the turing guidance from their sion. It is not strange to see act upon it. party shall have been duly convicted, shall parents or other adults, We must encourage our today's generation calling exist within the United $tates, or any place each other niggas, dogs, We must encourage our youth to subject to their jurisdiction:' may develop psychologi youth to choose well and choose well and help them understand the cal problems as adults that thugs, hoodrats, chicken For this reason, I appropriately refer to help them understand the heads, and other previously choices they have made. If we would take are caused by cultural, psy more of a collective interest in each other, an inmate or prisoner by his or her proper cho-emotional, and socio choices they have made. If derogatory descriptions. name: a slave. Most of this generation has this would be more valuable to us than all political factors. All of us we would take more of a the schools the United States has to offer. One of the most common and widely not received an education adults must take the time to collective interest in each used forms of the endless tactics of psy that fosters a higher degree It is time for us to come together and help raise our children. America chological warfare that I see visited upon other, this would be more of understanding and this generation by giving them a better is the only nation of peo us slaves is drugs. 'Ibe irony is that scores valuable to us than all the produces a higher destiny sense of direction and the abilty to be a ple that does not take the of gullible slaves are condemned to slavery for themselves that isn't positive influence on others of their gen appropriate time to raise schools the United States for possessing and using drugs that were defined and dictated by the eration. It is time to start giving them our our children. Our commu has to offer:' injected into our community, but once oppressors we live under. time so they will understand how much nities have been seduced their time means to us. we're in slavery we're forced to take drugs. into assuming that our children can survive Far too many of our youths are not In fact, before the mid-1950s, drugs on their own. 'Ibis type of thinking has been learning this easy lesson until they reach an We need the next generation to be were not used widely in therapy for the cause of our children's development of age where they can only imagine what they better than this generation, and so on with psychological disorders because the only anti-social values that keep them at odds could have accomplished with their youth. each generation to follow. If we do not start available sedatives induced sleep as well as with every structure here in America. Why is it that trillions of tax dollars are doing what we can, then we could become calm. Then, the major tranquilizers reser diverted away from this future generation's the problem we are trying to address, and Outside of life at home, both parents pine and the phenotiazines were intro education and social service budget? This one day we all will be faced with the same and children are subjected to an engineer duced. The drug that I see most commonly generation has been cut off, and it is only problems from the generation that we ing that fosters scorn of each other, without used on slaves is phenothiazine (trade causing more and more dysfunctional refused to help. a heart for helping each other correct name: thorazine). ourselves. Our love and concern for each behavior and creating a class doomed to Sheik Mark S. Moore EL #990115 In addition to alleviating anxiety and other has been misplaced. During olden incarceration or an early death. H.U. 6A-216 aggressive behavior, the drug reduces times, the love and concern we had for This is the form of persecution that is Eastern Reception Diagnostic Center psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations each other helped us correct our behavior. being used to kill the spirit and the body of 2727 Highway K and delusions. It is called an anti-psychotic It created a mode of behavior in which we this generation and all future generations. Bonne Terre, MO 63628 drug. What I see done with this drug is the are only loved by our families. These values But what is killing this generation even manipulation of slaves. TIley are tricked were passed on to other generations, and more is that as bad as our enemies may into believing they have a psychological the process was repeated. be, they are not as bad as we are to each disorder (because they are told by a certi other. We keep falling for the same tricks. TIle older generation was not bad, it was fied psychologist or psychiatrist known as just in need of community education on We have very little self-control, and we have been remade through an image that a mental health counselor), and they are social and political issues. When the older forced to take this medicine. 'TIle effect 5 6 -
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begins as the slave becomes symptoms, what is the permanently pacified. But " outcome? 'if then a problem develops. The irony is that scores In my own case, I was JOUr:O list jailed as grand Activists and lawyers supporting Wolf It is a problem for the slave, have contended that this grand jury is an of gullible slaves are young and going through juries target activists but an accomplishment for the various mental institu attempt to avoid California's strict Reporter the oppressor. The slave condemned to slavery tions and clinical sessions SAN FRANCISCO - Independent jour Shield Law, which protects journalists' files becomes drug-dependent. for possessing and using that I did, and I was given a nalist Josh Wolf was jailed Aug. 1, 2006, and notes. They are made zombies in drugs that were injected drug called Ritalin. Ritalin for refusing to provide video footage to a "Local police could be investigating that form. They are compli into our community, but is a psychostimulant. It federal grand jury convened in January. this incident, but they're not;' continued ant. They drift to the explic U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup once we're in slavery we're is supposed to heighten Hermes. "The federal government absurdly it command and order of alertness and arousal. It denied Wolf's First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth asserts that this incident rises to the level the institution. The drug forced to take drugs. and other psychostimu- Amendment arguments, found him in civil of a federal crime because SFPD receives dependency compels the lants were commonly used contempt, and ordered him immediately federal funds." institution to give us social, occupational, jailed. Wolf, 24, was taken to the Dublin to treat children with attention defIcit Although similar shield laws exist in a or recreational activities. federal detention center, and could have hyperactivity disorder. But it was found majority of the states, no federal shield law remained there for the duration of the Also, continued use of the substance that, "strangely, in these cases, they have exists to protect reporters. in the face of ongoing or recurring physi a calming effect rather than a stimulating grand jury until July 2007. He was released cal or psychological problems is likely to effect:' Other drugs aren't exempt from the at the beginning of September. Judge Alsup denied Wolf's request for bail. Alsup also denied a motion by Wolf's make the problems worse (as many times characteristics of Ritalin or the side effects. Wolf was present at and reporting on a attorney, Jose Luis Fuentes, to stay the is the case). It is also proven that some protest on July 8, 2005, in San Francisco's That's one way to break a slave. incarceration until an attempt to overturn drugs have the opposite effect of what was Mission District against the Group of Keyono Cook #118795 the contempt ruling could be heard by the intended. Say a person without anxiety Eight, which was meeting in Scotland at Maximum Security Unit U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. and aggressive behavior is given thorazine, the time. Numerous witnesses at the dem 2501 State Farm Rd. a drug that is supposed to alleviate those onstration reported that a police vehicle Also on Aug. 1, the San Francisco Tucker, AZ 72168-9503 was driven into the crowd of protesters. Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution This action was followed by two police introduced by Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi officers exiting the vehicle and violently and Tom Ammiano that would resist JOiAUs.Today · . assaulting multiple people on the street. the federal government's intervention in Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Finigan the City and County of San Francisco's There are more than 2 million people in U.S. prisons today. The was supposedly seeking video footage for investigation of the G8 protest and express Missouri Prisoners' Labor Union is reaching out to prisoners what the government claims was attempted support for the California Shield Law. The Supervisors charged that using the grand everywhere as we strive to build an international prisoner's labor arson on a San Francisco Police Depart ment vehicle. However, no damage has jury is an attempt to circumvent the local movement. We are encouraging prisoners all over the world and their ever been reported by SFPD. judicial system, and they opposed federal government intervention in this matter. families to join us in the fight against the prison industrial complex. "It's outrageous that the court is com We seek to build a world free of prisons. We seek to build a world pelled to jail someone, let alone a jour Wolf's experience with the federal without racism and borders. We seek to build a world where people no nalist, over an incident that involved no government and this grand jury is not property damage or harm to anyone;' said isolated and comes as dozens of journalists longer wonder where the next meal will come from or if they will be Kris Hermes of the Grand Jury Resistance and activists across the country are being left homeless or be abandoned if they get sick in their old age. We seek Project, a coalition in support of Wolf and threatened with indictments and jail time. to build a world where people hold society's resources together. If you activists being harassed by the government. "The U.S. government's harassment of wish to learn more or be more involved, you should contact us. See the "Wolf's incarceration has an undeniable Josh Wolf is part of a broader, renewed use chilling effect on his work, the work of of the federal grand jury to suppress dis inside cover for contact information. other journalists, and people wanting to sent;' said Samantha Levens of the G JRP. speak out against U.S. policies:'
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D • OtH: What, if anything, was gained by prisons that house California's massive the protest? prisoner population, Corcoran State Prison M~s_sQJlH prisoners protest cooked in another prison in Bonne Terre, Nothing has changed yet, but things are. stands out for its abusive guards and brutal conditions. food quality Mo, then transported to the surrounding still up in the air. institutions. 'Ihis happens three times a From its inception in the 80s and OtR: What could have been done better The following interview was conducted day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year. through the 90s, Corcoran lead the nation to make the protest more effective? between a prisoner in the state of Mis Once the food arrives here, it is placed in a in the number of prisoners shot by prison souri and a member of the Off The Hook warmer and then served to us. When this The protest was fairly spontaneous. We officials. Seven prisoners were killed and Editorial Collective. We have concealed process is finally finished, the food tastes could and should have been more orga 43 were wounded by gunfire in the exercise the identity of the person involved in the really bad. nized and prepared. yards of the Security Housing Units. Mem interview to protect him or her from fur bers of rival gangs had been put together OtR: For how long has the food been like OtR: What lessons can be taken away ther punishment at the hands of the prison in the exercise yard, which lead to many this? from this action for the future? authorities. fights. The shootings were justified under This has been going on since the very We have learned that we can bring about It is our belief that the conditions of the a California law that granted guards the beginning of the opening of this prison. some positive change by thinking things right to use lethal ammunition to break up prison system in the U.S. will not change through and then taking well-organized fights between prisoners, and no one was without a concerted, prolonged effort by OtR: Row does the food you are served direct action. people both inside and outside of prison affect your daily life? held responsible for the practice of mixing OtR: What can people in society outside members of rival gangs. walls. Furthermore, we believe that in The bad food forces us to go hungry. As a of prisons do to support future protests order to establish a society that no longer diabetic, I am not getting the proper nutri Conditions at the prison did not against the conditions in prison? What has the need for policing and imprison tion and nourishment. We are forced into improve even after the state law that justi are some practical ways that we can show ment, dramatic changes must take place buying high-priced food from the prison fied the shooting was revoked and national solidarity with prisoner initiatives? in the basic fabric of our society. Such canteen. If a prisoner didn't have the funds, attention was directed at the abuses of Corcoran State Prison. Prisoner's contin a transformation could neither happen then they would often continue to live the The people out there in society can support ued to be beaten by guards in black masks overnight nor be created by small and life of crime and gang violence. us and support future protests by collec isolated actions. But we feel that it is vital tively coordinating protests on the outside. during cell searches, forced into cells with for everyone concerned with prison reform OtR: Ras anyone ever protested the food Protests regarding the prison conditions the infamous "booty bandit;' and assigned and prison abolition to begin opening conditions in the past? and the issues surrounding imprisonment to the SHU for arbitrary infractions. TIus up space for others to analyze, critique, Nobody has ever protested the poor food at can help to make the people more aware last injustice was enough to inspire 300 and act. With that in mind, we offer this this prison before. of the reality of prisons in America. People prisoners to organize a hunger strike on interview as a beginning, a small example can also address these issues through their Nov. 30, 2005. OtH: What did the protest you took part of prisoners attempting to instigate change elected state officials and by building a The Security Housing Units continue in consist of? in the conditions of their lives through col legitimate power base that can affect the to be a setting of violence and abuse for lective action. The protest consisted of a group of us outcome of state and local elections. Col Corcoran prisoners, especially for Black The specific topic of this interview is a refusing to eat until something is done lective action comes in many shapes and and Latino inmates. Off the Hook has been protest over the food served to inmates in about the food we are being served here. forms. in communication with Damon Harrison, the institutions of the Missouri Depart [Note: It is unclear from the response a prisoner incarcerated in the SHU of ment of Corrections. We welcome submis whether this is an ongoing hunger strike.] Corcoran State Prison, an Corcoran. He has requested the opportu nity to speak out about the injustices he has sions of similar stories of resistance and OtR: Row many people took part in the abusive environment had to bear and bear witness to. collective action for future issues of OjTlhe protest? Hook. California has the fastest growing About 50 prisoners took part in the hunger prison population in the world. The state OtR: How long have you been incarcer OtR: What are the conditions of the food strike. holds more than 160,000 prisoners, as ated at Corcoran State Prison? you are served in the prison cafeteria? many as the countries of France, Great DH: I've been confined to the Security The food we are served is extremely bad Britan, Germany, Japan, Singapore and Housing Unit for one year and six months and poorly prepared. The prison food is the Netherlands combined. Of the 33 state for assault and battery of a peace officer. 12 11
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Off the Hook. Issue 12 ~~~OQQQOG~~~ooOQ~~~~~oooo~ to become active in her balling, stalking people in Capitalism has always relied on duties or just tries to stay " a crime. busy, she gets intimidated As for outside support, Sexual harassment, in all its slavery. In the begining, it was the by male COs to sit down we don't have any. No forms, needs to be stopped. somewhere like a child in Its side effects include Africansand Indigenous populations time out. This is a form one's pushing for us severe depression, low self of pimping; it's just not and helping address the esteem, and poor work that labored in captivity. Later, the money motivated like issues affecting our lives habits that promote sexual urban and rural poor, and today's most pimping. It's sexually while in prison. As long thoughts and actions while motivated by men who at work. It's a fire once work long hours away from as this stays the same, started that will never be slaves are the government's home and feel like female the department of cor put out. It's like feeding COs owe them something. rections will continue a cockroach; they gonna prisoners. The modern plantation is Sick way of thinking, isn't manufacturing madness bring it with them to the a so-called center for corrections. it? Due to their sexual amongst prisoners:' next job!! Does society frustration, they inflict know about this? You bet emotional sanctions upon they don't, and that's why it working ~ class women. 'Ihis is insane! Bot- is still going Oil. The BUP can make a dif tom line!! ference. As long as we push, other people Another example of sexual harassment: If will push with us. a female ofticer works is any building, she Love, Peace and Hair Grease! is not allowed to work. They make her sit Mr. Damon Harrison #P144S0 in an office while they breathe on her like C.S.P S.H.U hounds [or her whole shifl. If she refuses PObox 3476 to stay in time out, male officers will follow Corcoran, CA 93212 her around until she decides it would be Note: Your Interview letter was received by wiser to take a seat. Inmates get written up the prison on Aug. 16, but I didn't get it till if they try to report any suspected sexual Aug. 30. Now you see the games first hand. conduct [between officers]. Reckless eye- Juveniles: children face same dangers as adults in prison
Continued from page 10 report if he spotted a police car while they committed the shooting. have no prior criminal record. Also, 7 percent are locked up for nonhomicide Once children are convicted and related convictions. In South Carolina, a thrown into adult prison, there are sexual 16-year-old received LWOP for burglary assaults, beatings by staff and fellow pris and larceny under the state's "Two Strikes oners, and far higher rates of suicide as the Law:' norm. Why do we do this? Of the 93 percent of cases where LWOP Resources: was used against juveniles in a homicide Jacob Ind, who received LWOP at age 15, case, many were convicted of "felony mur imprisoned in Colorado. der" meaning that they were not the "trig Mary Ellen Johnson, Executive Director of ger person:' A lS-year-old Hispanic child The Pendulum Foundation. received LWOP when adult gang members www.pendulumfoundation.com persuaded him to ride his bike around and 15