The District Court Judge has recently responded to my 1983 complaint that was filed against officials at Salinas Valley State Plantation in their individual and official capacities for cruel and unusual punishment e.g. torture and excessive force.
I wanted to sue 8 people but the Judge dismissed my claim that the crooked nurse denied me medical treatment and tried to help the crooked cops cover up their 8th amendment violations.
The Judge gave the other seven defendants 60 days to respond to my complaint. 30 have passed.
I have all the evidence I need to win against these cowards but the struggle is that I'm not an experienced jailhouse lawyer and being in administration segregation (the torture chamber) is the last place you want to be filing a suit. I'm going on my third year in Ad Seg and a lot of these male officers wish I was dead because they see that my fight won't stop and they also see me using smarter tactics such as filing law suits to set them back.
Before I came to ad seg I didn't know anything about filing a 602 appeal or law suit. After realizing the life and death situations my captors had for me, only a fool would not practice his prisoner's rights.
The thing is, if it ain't one thing it's another. From a crooked pig denying you basic human necessities to them putting you in a situation where you'll end up getting seriously hurt or killed. I haven't gone a day that I haven't witnessed an officer here do something foul, e.g. against procedures towards an inmate. These same crooked pigs don't know anything about the law or rights of prisoners because they are poorly trained.
After practicing my prisoners rights on these coward cops they no longer look at me as a mentally ill, dummy inmate. Once the U.S. Marshals serve the complaint and summons on them they feel like dummies for underestimating.
I witnessed inmates get assaulted by pigs, get a rule violation report and SHU time plus a new court case, and just accept it. I was working like that also but the difference from me is that I filed a 602 complaint, a habeas corpus, and a law suit. The pigs hesitate on coming at me like that again. I'm thinking that the defendants are going to file a answer to my complaint. I'm constantly trying to prepare myself for whatever they try to come with. We as prisoners don't have anything to lose but everything to gain. I'm representing the international struggle, from here to Haiti to Iraq, etc.
If anyone who has civil law experience wants to help me seek some justice with my law suit, see case # CD4 5453 (MMC (PR) in the united states district court for the northern district of California.
- a prisoner in California, June 2005