GA prisoner is target of further repression

I have been imprisoned in the Highmax Unit at Georgia State Prison since July 26, 2001, and I have seen my fellow prisoners coming back from recreation, sick call, general population, routine movements in handcuffs with swollen eyes, busted skulls and bleeding profusely from head, nose, etc. All were jumped by the pigs, both black and white, male and female, while in handcuffs behind the back.

Recently, I have received information from fellow comrades that a pig who holds the rank of Lieutenant has made threats that he was gonna hurt me bad and has been waiting on the right opportunity to have me leave my cell in handcuffs and be taken in a remote area of the prisons to be assaulted with gloved fists, kicked and beaten with sticks.

This Lt. is notorious for cursing, beating inmates in handcuffs and allowing other prisoners who are "snitches" to carry out assaults on prisoners such as myself who file grievances against these fascist, racist, coward pigs down here in Tatnall county, which is a former slave trading post and now a modern day plantation.

Also, since my arrival at this prison, I have had to continuously battle with my ink pen and paper in an attempt to force mailroom officials to turn over MIM Notes and/or notify me with proper paperwork of their arrival.

Any prisoner here at G.S.P. who attempts to file grievances, pass MIM literature around or show signs of political organizing and leadership, becomes an immediate target by administration officials and mail inspectors, who hold MIM literature for weeks or months and place all your mail on a "censor list" to search.

However, I have seen progress albeit slow, and have been receiving MIM from August, Sept., etc., and this is because of my continuous notification of staff members that MIM cannot be simply rejected because it talks negatively about prisons or pigs, and this continuous effort that has forced this prison to allow MIM literature to slowly enter Georgia State Prison.

--a Georgia prisoner, December 2002