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Struggle and study in Massachusetts

Clenched fist salute! I am writing to let people know about the struggle I am involved in daily as a young revolutionary - in Plymouth, Massachusetts. There are approximately 500 of us state prisoners being held hostage in the Plymouth County Correctional Facility due to overcrowding in the system. That this is a privately owned facility only in operation to make money is obvious in everything that happens here. Dietary insufficiency, extortionate prices at the canteen, forgery, useless and spiteful caseworkers, and a blatant disregard for even their own rules and regulations are all things used to cut corners to increase the profit margin at our expense. That it is located in a rural area of Massachusetts, and most of the staff are from this area, which with its low percentage of minorities makes for a lot of tension between the staff and us who are doing time. . .

During my many trips to the hole I have started a kind of informal study group, to which anyone with a legitimately revolutionary attitude or a real desire to learn about the issues that really matter is welcome. Most of us are "hole regulars" because the COs will always find a way to segregate politically minded prisoners. We pick an issue in the morning at breakfast and take all day to write or think about it, and the opinions and ideas all get shared after 10 p.m. head count because that's when it gets quieter. The only drawback to this is that the COs and the racist inmates use our meetings to mark for retribution those who dare to express ideas contrary to their own. Whether it be the COs taking our one hour of recreation or another prisoner trying to throw feces into our cells, we stay united and strong.

In closing, I would like to let all the revolutionary prisoners out there, who are being persecuted for their views, know that they are not alone and it is necessary to keep up the struggle for "each one to teach one."

--a prisoner in Massachusetts, September 2003