I would like to help build the "Serve the People Prisoner Re-Lease on Life Program." The first way we can provide for people when they get out of prison is send them to organizations that provide ex-offenders with job placements or build an organization that does such, and how to go about making resumes, filling out applications. In fact I suggest you tell brothers to get updated copies of a book called "Connections to the Job Search," the guide for ex-inmates to information sources in NYC. It's free to all inmates and ex-offenders by writing to:
New York Public Library
455 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
That's the address to write to get that book. It has a lot of resources and info for ex-offenders going back into society. Also we can do the same and all we want when we go home is a stable 9 to 5 job to help pay for food, clothing and shelter. Once you give a brother or sister that opportunity and keep them comfortable then we can start getting them active into our movement. Those are some suggestions I came up with, but we must guide brothers and sisters that are coming from the belly of the beast on the right track, give them a nice paying job and get them involved with our struggle for liberation. Oh yeah, enclosed is a $10.00 check that I will donate to MIM. Every month or so I will try to donate money to the movement because I know money is needed to buy certain materials that's needed in our movement for liberation. So please let me know if you receive that check okay.
Now about your local campaigns to shut down SHU's, Control Units, Ad Seg and Supermax's across the country. Listen comrades, I'm presently in one of their new SHU's called Upstate S-blocks where you are double-bunked with another inmate whom you don't know from nowhere, you get your shower in your cell and your rec pen is at the back of your cell, so there is no movement out the cell or contact with no C.O. at all unless you got to go to a visit or medical or other than that you are in your cell 24 hours. Imagine locking yourself in your bathroom for months without coming out or years! It's inhumane and cruel, then the facility is at least 8 to 9 hours away from NYC and when visitors do get here it's no contact. We are separated by a fence as if I'm a threat to my visitor...
-- A NY Prisoner, January 2004