MIM(Prisons) is a cell of revolutionaries serving the oppressed masses inside U.$. prisons, guided by the communist ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
www.prisoncensorship.info is a media institution run by the Maoist Internationalist Ministry of Prisons. Here we collect and publicize reports of conditions behind the bars in U.$. prisons. Information about these incidents rarely makes it out of the prison, and when it does it is extremely rare that the reports are taken seriously and published. This historical record is important for documenting patterns of abuse, and also for informing people on the streets about what goes on behind the bars.
05/05/2017 – I don’t know what prisons people are talking about when
they say that they don’t make a profit, because here the furniture
factory is almost all profit. The wood is donated from the free world on
a tax write off, they buy glue, paint, nails, etc. And the state pays
the guards. The electricity is paid on a scale. They pay a set price no
matter how much they use because they couldn’t afford to pay for all
that they use.
The bus shop where they rebuild buses in the free world is almost all
profit because the freeworld people pay $5 to bring it in to get fixed.
They pay only for materials and the prison furnishes free labor.
We have thousands of acres of land where we grow our own food plus
prisons ship stuff back and forth to other prisons. We have hogs,
chickens, cows and slaughter houses so our prisons in Texas are pretty
self-sufficient in food. So cost is the guards, the rest is profit here
in Texas. The little things like fuel, tractors and such is cost which
they are all paid for.
Here’s some more examples from Prison Legal News:
“Rep Alan Powell of Georgia says the state gets better results out of a
prisoner in 12 months hard labor than sitting in a cell. If the tax
payers pay to build roads or pick up trash, they let the prisoners do
it. In keeping with that philosophy, Georgia’s Department of
Transportation is using parole violators to clean up trash on highways
statewide. It costs the department millions of dollars every year to
pick up litter along Georgia’s 20,000 miles of state and federal roads.
…
“In October 2011, Camden County, Georgia considered a proposal to place
two prisoners in each of the county’s three firehouses. The prisoners
would respond to calls alongside firefighters, who would be responsible
for supervising them. It was hoped that using prisoners convicted of
non-violent offenses rather than hiring more firemen would save the
county $500,000 annually. The prisoners would not receive any pay but
would be eligible to be hired as firefighters five years after their
release….”
“In Washington, with a $1.5 billion apple crop at risk, state officials
ordered prisoners into the orchards in November 2011.”
I’ve been to prison 7 times in 4 states and I have 20 years done. I’m on
this side where you can actually see this kind of stuff happening from
day to day. They do illegal stuff all the time to cover up stuff, and
freeworld people never hear this because they try to keep it all on this
side of the fence.
“Colorado has used prison labor on private farms since 2005, when the
state enacted stricter immigration laws. Around 100 female prisoners
from La Vista Correctional Facility are employed weeding, picking and
packing onions and pumpkins under the supervision of prison guards. The
prisoners receive $9.60 an hour, of which about $5.60 goes to the state.
At least 10 Colorado farmers use prison labor….
“In Arizona, Wilcox-based Eurofresh Farms employs around 400 prisoners
through an Arizona Corrections Industries program. The prisoners are
paid close to minimum wage. …
“Florida is another state that has put its prisoners to work on farms,
including a program that began in 2009 which uses work crews from the
Berrydale Forestry Camp on a 650-acre publicly-funded farm at the
University of Florida’s West Florida Research and Education Center. The
prisoners grow collards, cabbage and turnips in the winter, while the
spring crop yields snap peas, corn and tomatoes.
“The arrangement provides the University with agricultural research and
supplies vegetables for prisoners’ meals. In 2010 the farm program
resulted in $192,000 in food cost savings at the prison and saved the
University $75,000 money that otherwise would have been spent on paid
staff.”
MIM(Prisons) responds: This letter is interesting in that it
provides an array of examples of what prisoners are doing in their jobs.
Just looking at agriculture, the examples from Texas and Florida involve
prisoners producing of the food they eat. This is not economic
exploitation. But what are the conditions that they have to work under?
We would support prisoners fighting for proper sun protection and water
breaks at such a job, but do not see a good economic reason to oppose
working to produce food for one’s own population.
In the other scenarios, the prisoners are producing food for private
companies, who are profiting off the sale of their product. In the
Colorado example prisoners are being “paid” $9.60, which is well over
the U.$. minimum wage, and well over the global average value of
labor.(2) So if the prisoner actually received all that money, ey would
be participating in the exploitation of the Third World proletariat,
receiving superwages. This becomes more true when you consider that the
prisoner has food and housing provided.
In reality, the Colorado prisoners receive less than half of the wage,
which is less than minimum wage. Arizona prisoners also receive minimum
wage. This puts them near the average value of labor. If they were paid,
say, $2 per hour, then we could say they are clearly making less than
the average value of their labor and being economically exploited.
By virtue of being in the heart of empire, we are all benefiting from
the economic system of imperialism. Even to some extent most U.$.
prisoners are better off, compared to life in the Third World. It is
this reality that makes battles over wages and labor organizing in
general rarely a progressive battle in this country. It is only when
talking about populations who do not enjoy full citizenship rights, such
as prisoners and migrants, that we can even consider progressive wage
battles.
I am still here in TDCJ doing time. I’m still locked in administrative
segregation and the living conditions here are still not good. It’s
better now in this unit than it was 2 years ago, and I believe this is
because we have a new dept. warden here in high security and because of
all the inmates filing lawsuits.
The main issue that makes it so hard is the excessiveness of force. The
officers are slamming inmates to the floor and beating them senseless
for something as small as cussing them out.
Getting medical care is a hard thing to do, because the nurses and
doctors won’t treat us. Receiving medical care here in TDCJ is not easy
to do, it’s a system-wide problem for everybody involved.
Everybody that works for TDCJ is corrupt in one way or another, and I
believe this corruption goes all the way to the governor of Texas.
I am writing to inform you that this unit no longer allows us to mail
out SASE so that people like you can mail information back in that we
request. I don’t know if this is being done system wide or just this
unit. But I do believe that this move is being made to hinder prisoners
being able to get outside help because they know that most people will
only send us information to help us legally fight back if we send a
SASE. No SASE, no information…because most people can’t pay to send
every prisoner what they request. They don’t want us to be educated to
resist by using that mighty ink pen and paper. I just wanted to let you
all know what was going on in case you start getting more requests but
no stamped envelopes to help with postage.
I’m just reading your info pack for the first time in 9 flat years. This
is the first time I’ve seen it. I’d like to get involved in your program
and get on your mailing list.
What’s started all this is this unit we’re on, C.T. Terrell only returns
20% of the grievances we send in. This grievance system on this ifs
totally broke down.
Another thing that got me started on this is that I got issued a case
for contraband, i.e. a sewing needle. This guy in the craft shop sold
some needles and they told him if he got them back nobody would get a
case.
So this guy started going all over this trusty camp gathering up the
needles. This craft shop officer was standing at the front desk trying
to write down the cubicles he was going to. So she wrote all these cases
that half of them were frivolous, so they tore them up and wrote some
more and my name came up on the second batch of cases.
They come to my work and read me the case and took my statement. The
first thing I noticed was the wording of the case on the second thing
& noticed our sgt.’s name stamped on the bottom. I asked this sgt.
about this case she wrote and she told me “I did not write any of these
cases!” She told me the craft shop officer wrote all these cases and
stamped her name on them.
They got all the needles back and the guy that sold all the needles only
got a level 3 case when everybody else got a level 2 contraband case. So
I’m 99% sure I’ll get the contraband case stuck on me. But I am going
all out on the craft shop officer for PD-22-10, pg 6 for falsification
of records.
This is really the straw that broke my back with this system. The
grievance system on this unit anyway is completely broke down. If we
write our grievances to the ombdudsman’s office they just send them
straight back to this warden. I just saw in your Texas Pack A RRM
Division Administrator. Who that is I have no idea, but I want to find
out all I can because I am going all out. I want to educate myself as
much as I can before I start writing letters on stuff I have no idea
what I’m talking about. I think with y’all’s help, I can educate myself
in standing up to these people.
An I60 is a form used throughout Texas Prisons as a means of paper
communication. On the Wynne Unit, and perhaps other units, an “Escape
I60” is supposedly an I60 written by another inmate claiming that an
inmate is planning to escape. The I60 is unsigned.
An “Escape I60” is used to “lock up” inmates in a segregation cell,
a.k.a., PHD. An “investigation” is supposed to occur usually, a few
inmates are called out in the middle of the night to sign statements
that they have not heard of anyone looking to escape.
There are sometimes other reasons that are used to “lock up” an inmate.
On 5/9/18 I was called out and told an “Escape I60” was written on me.
It stated that I was planning to escape and had stolen an officer’s ID.
Questions:
Wouldn’t you immediately check to see if an officer’s ID was
missing?
If not, wouldn’t that indicate that the I60 was BOGUS?
The officers who took my statement as to how false this was, also asked
if I possibly knew who wrote it. I said that I have a new cell mate but
have no proof that he or any other inmate wrote it. Later I remembered
that the officers also said the I60 stated I intended to harm Nurse
Jackie Fisher.
On 4/3/18 when I incured a urinary tract obstruction and was taken to
medical, I was refused medical care. It took almost 26 hours for the
obstruction to clear at which time my urination was painful and had
blood. The nurse who refused me was Jackie Fisher. The officer who took
me to medical and told me that Jackie Fisher had refused medical care,
was the same officer interviewing me.
COINCIDENCE?
I also realized that I had told NO inmate this. I had only conveyed this
in letters and grievances. Something only officers/staff have access to.
I recently filed 6 grievances.
Inmates say that only a few “Escape I60s” are written by other inmates.
Most believe that a majority of “Escape I60s” are written by officers
looking to lock inmates up–retaliation?
One inmate was locked up for almost 30 days because an I60 claimed he
intended to assassinate Warden Strong. Warden Strong actually came to
see this inmate.
If officers on the Wynne unit “truly” beleived that someone was planning
to assassinate Warden Strong, why didn’t they alert local law
enforcement or the FBI?
For a while now I’ve wondered why all the conflict between anarchists
and socialists/Marxists/Maoists. I mean, we are two revolutionary forces
who are committed to the abolishment of capitalism, imperialism and all
forms of oppression. We have that in common and that is what’s
important. I understand that our strategies and ideologies are a bit
different, but what’s preventing us from getting together in solidarity,
agreeing to disagree and focus our energies on the revolution combining
our strengths and common ground? Why can’t we cease to tear each other
down? I don’t know about anyone else, but this bothers me! The energy
used to tear one another down, discrediting one another, could be used
to gain some real headway by picking up arms together to combat
oppression. Of course there are more experienced and more politicized
people than me that may wish to give me some feedback and critique. I
welcome critique, feedback and criticism.
MIM(Prisons) responds: This is a good question, especially for
building a united movement against imperialism. There are many reasons
to build unity with all who can be united. Maoists advocate a united
front against imperialism because this format of organizing allows all
organizations to freely build their own movements and push their own
ideologies, but come together against a common enemy.
At the same time, we do believe there are some very good reasons to
refuse to unite with some organizations. Just because a group calls
itself “socialist” or “anarchist” doesn’t mean it is automatically on
the right side of the struggle. In the extreme, we have the national
socialists who are really fascists, as an obvious example. But even
among those claiming to be progressive revolutionaries there are some
organizations that have taken up such wrongheaded and dangerous
political lines that we consider them to be more use to the fascists
than to the revolutionaries.
In the case of anarchists in general, we do not see them as enemies. In
fact we believe that anarchists have the same end goal as communists: a
society where no people have power over other people. But anarchists
don’t have a strong history of success in progress towards that goal. We
see their approach of jumping right from imperialism to anarchism as
idealist, because it hasn’t played out in real life at even a comparable
scale to the socialist experiment.
It’s just not realistic to overthrow the imperialists and keep them
overthrown, without a period of proletarian state power. We have too
long of a history of class, nation and gender oppression for that to
happen. The bourgeois classes will need to be forcibly repressed, and
culture will need to be radically altered on a mass scale. It might take
generations before humyns evolve to live peacefully with no oppression.
As MIM write in MIM Theory 8: “Communists know that it takes
power to destroy power, whereas anarchists see power itself, independent
of conditions, as the enemy of the people.”
In the First World, in particular, there are some anarchist (in addition
to socialist) groups which are doing work that actively supports
imperialism. It’s important that organizations clearly work out what are
the most important questions of political line that we face today. For
instance, we have, in this country, a bought-off class of people who are
clearly economically and ideologically in support of imperialism. Yet
some so-called socialist and anarchist organizations see these people as
their mass base, and call on them to rally for even higher wages and a
bigger piece of the imperialist pie. That’s not progressive, that’s a
call to fascism! And so we can’t unite with such political stances. In
fact if that group calls itself “socialist” or “anarchist” or even
“Maoist,” we think that’s more dangerous than if they openly organized
for fascism, because it is misleading people about what is the communist
struggle.
I would like to ask your staff a question. I recently received ULK
60 and it made a statement that solitary confinement was abolished
in Texas in 2017. When I seen that, it floored me. I say that because
i’m writing this letter FROM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. So did I miss
something? And if so, how can I fight from here to rectify the
situation?
I let others read that and we all was stunned. I mean stunned. Are we
reading this statement in your newsletter wrong?
Also we would like to know what is the Texas Pack and how can I obtain
one? Your newsletter has shed light on a lot of things that are helpful
for us in this place, and I just would like to say thank you and keep up
the good work.
MIM(Prisons) responds: In September 2017, TDCJ announced it would
no longer use solitary confinement for punishment, or as a method to
encourage good behavior. It would “only” use “Administrative
Segregation” (totally different from solitary confinement, right?) for
“gang members, those at risk of escape, and those who are likely to
attack other inmates.”(1) That month, 4,000 people were still held in
isolation on these grounds. Consider that only 75 prisoners were
actually released from solitary confinement after this policy change.
We appreciate that this writer spoke up, because this is a very common
practice. The Department says “we’re not using it for punishment,” while
holding many, many people in isolation. The claim of gangs and security
threats is often cited as the justification for the “exception” to their
superficially-humanitarian publicity stunt.
Some examples include the Tier 2 program in Georgia, and the indefinite
solitary confinement in California prisons that led to the hunger
strikes in 2011-2013 and the Ashker settlement.
No matter what you call it, or what “justifications” are given for why
it’s used, solitary confinement is always torture, and
never necessary. We have no doubts that solitary confinement can
and should be ended, for everyone, today.
As for the Texas Pack, we are still updating and mailing this out. It’s
one of our more expensive projects, so we’re asking for subscribers to
send a donation of $2.50, or work-trade, to get the Texas Pack. This
packet contains all our campaign info relevant to TDCJ, including on the
grievance process, medical copay, and indigent mail restrictions. Send
your donation to the address on p. 1, and tell us first if you want to
send a check or M.O. so we can send instructions.
I am writing with concerns pertaining to the (SRG) gang issue that’s
been hindering so many individuals in the North Carolina prison
institutions. Guilty by association has been at the forefront of
bestowing gang affiliation. I feel a person should only be labeled if
caught in the act of any malicious behavior with a gang member.
One thing that stands out from this whole ordeal the most is how the
gang intelligence officers use confidential information to gain a guilty
verdict against you with the hearing examiner.
How are you supposed to face your accuser when you don’t know anything
about the source from which it came? It’s a violation of your
constitutional rights no matter what type of label is placed upon you. I
feel the situation should be taken seriously due to the fact that, as a
human being, it puts restrictions on one’s life, as well as scrutiny in
the public eye.
I am currently going through these circumstances and it is very
frustrating knowing that you have to be accountable for someone else’s
actions even when the evidence speaks for itself. I fully overstand that
being black in amerikkka is an everyday struggle, especially when it
comes to judging an entire race. My mindset is to overcome these
obstacles and maintain a sense of focus on being successful.
I will tell you about this prison conditions in this state jail because
the prison system in Texas has created a state jail (to squeeze more
money from the honest taxpayers). The state jail runs this place in all
kinds of ways except the right way.
For example: one of the federal stipulations in the cases of Wolf vs
McDonald (in California) and Ruiz vs Estelle (in TX). The federal courts
passed a new rule that states when the prison system conducts a
disciplinary court, they must have a tape recorder. This state jail does
not have one tape recorder. Never has.
Más de 2 millones de personas se encuentran encerradas en prisiones y
cárceles en los Estado$ Unido$. Estos encarcelamientos representan sólo
1% de la población. Casi 7 millones de personas han estado bajo la
supervisión del Sistema Correccional para Adultos (incluyendo libertad
condicional y probación) a finales del 2015. (1) Y en el 2012, los
últimos datos disponibles del Departamento de Justicia de E.E.U.U., el
total de la cantidad de dinero gastado en el sistema de Injusticia
Criminal entre los gobiernos Federal, Estatal y local fue de
$265,160,340,000. Estas prisiones son responsables de $80,791,046,000.
2) Estas prisiones son increíblemente costosas para el estado y estos
prisiones cuestan mucho más que lo que producen. 3) La pregunta es,
porqué el gobierno, en todos los niveles, continúa gastando tanto dinero
para mantener tanta gente encerrada? Y porqué los Estados Unidos tienen
la tasa de encarcelamiento más alta que en cualquier otro país del
mundo?.
El mito del complejo industrial de prisiones
El meme del complejo de la Industria de Prisiones (PIC) se ha convertido
efectivamente popular en Estados Unidos. Detrás del concepto del PIC
está la creencia que hay grandes intereses de parte de grandes
corporaciones y por eso hay encarcelamiento masivo en los Estados
Unidos. Esto representa la política Amerikana que aparenta ser
“anti-corporativa”, mientras niega la estructura de clase de un país que
está formado casi completamente de una clase de gente que sigue siendo
explotada.
Mientras que si hay algunas corporaciones están, ciertamente, ganando
dinero gracias a estas prisiones, la mayoría de las prisiones son
operaciones que hacen perder dinero al gobierno. Básicamente, el
gobierno subsidia las ganancias e ingresos de varias corporaciones y
muchos de los así llamados “trabajadores” individuales (vea el artículo
de Costos de encarcelamiento). Si nosotros examinamos las estadísticas
de las prisiones, ondas económicas, prisiones privadas y la “diversidad”
de la población de prisioneros, entonces si nos queda claro que las
prisiones son fundamentalmente para el control social sobre naciones
opresoras dentro de las Kkkulebras Unidas (Estado$ Unido$). Esto nos
lleva a unas conclusiones importantes sobre cómo funciona el sistema de
prisiones y cómo debemos de luchar contra estas.
Baja la tasa de encarcelamiento
En general, la población en las prisiones y cárceles en los Estado$
Unido$ ha estado disminuyendo en estos años recientes, junto con el
ritmo de encarcelamiento. El número total de gente en prisión y cárceles
empezó a caer en el año 2009, después de décadas de incrementos estables
prisión y cárceles empezó a caer en el año 2009, después de décadas de
incrementos estables.
En realidad los incrementos en el año 2008 no pudieron mantenerse con el
incremento de la población en los Estado$ Unido$, puesto que el nivel en
el año 2007 estaba con 1 en cada 31 personas estando bajo alguna
supervisión correccional (incluyendo cárceles, prisiones, libertad
condicional y periodo de prueba-probación). La población en las
prisiones tuvo su pico en el 2006-2008 con un 1% de la población adulta
encerrados tras las rejas. Esto cayó al .87% al final del 2015. (4)
La crisis financiera reciente se alinea con la caída de encarcelamiento
empezando desde el año 2008. Parece ser que el gobierno de Estado$
Unido$ sí tiene límites en su voluntad de gastar dinero en un sistema
criminal injusto. Si encarcelar a gente fuese una manera de aumentar las
ganancias, entonces el número de prisioneros aumentaría cuando hubiese
una crisis financiera, no descendería.
Prisiones Privadas
El desarrollo de prisiones privadas en el sistema criminal injusto de
Amerika son un peligro. Estas prisiones son operadas y son propiedad de
corporaciones con fines lucrativos. Estas prisiones privadas toman
posesión de cualquier reo de cualquier Estado que les page por su
servicio. En los Estados donde hay sobre población, mandar gente a una
prisión lucrativa es una buena opción de negocio. Estas corporaciones
también tratan de vender sus servicios como más baratos y eficientes,
básicamente reduciendo los servicios de nivel ya peligrosamente bajo a
los prisioneros, a fin de ahorrarse en costos, porque como hemos visto,
las prisiones son extremadamente costosas de mantener.
A los finales del 2105, El Buro de Prisiones Federales y 18 Estados
estaban saturadas o excedían la capacidad máxima de las instalaciones de
las prisiones.(5) Hay que esperar esos contratos de parte de prisiones
hacia prisiones privadas. Pero el actual porcentaje de prisioneros en
prisiones privadas es relativamente bajo. En el 2015, solamente el 8% de
prisioneros estatales y Federales ocupaban complejos privados. Y este
número bajo 4% desde el 2014. 6) Esta caída es mayor que la disminución
del 2.2% en cantidad de presos entre los años 2014 y 2015.
Si las prisiones privadas fueran tan exitosas, entonces deberíamos ver
estos números aumentar, y no disminuir. Y si fueran tan influyentes con
los políticos, entonces tendrían un mayor valor en el mercado.
Claramente, las prisiones privadas no son la parte principal de algunos
“complejos de prisiones industriales.” Hasta ahora, las corporaciones no
han descifrado cómo generar ganancias, de forma exitosa, de las
prisiones, aparte del bajo subsidio limosnero que reciben de parte del
gobierno y la comisaria. Y además de todo esto, los gobiernos estatales
y federales están perdiendo dinero al tener que pagar por prisiones.
Hay mucho activismo opuesto a las prisioneras privadas. Esto
generalmente viene de gente que entiende que la privatización de una
institución usualmente no tiene un buen resultado para los oprimidos. El
activismo influye al gobierno. Es posible que las voces en contra de
prisiones privadas ayudó a empujar a la administración de Obama para que
implementara las pólizas de facetas fuera de las prisiones privadas para
reos Federales. La administración de Trump ha repelado esa política
desde entonces.
Pero no creemos que esta pregunta sea políticamente partidista. El
gobierno de E.U. ha mostrado que no parará hasta implementar políticas
que empujen ganancias industriales capitalistas. Los ataques violentos
contra activistas que protestaban por la destrucción de la Línea de
Tubería de Acceso de Dakota es un buen ejemplo. Esto no es una lucha
contra corporaciones capitalistas, esto es un debate sobre qué grupo de
gente recibe un subsidio del gobierno: corporaciones de prisiones
privadas, o empleados de prisiones públicas. Alejarse de las prisiones
privadas no es doloroso para el gobierno, porque esto no requiere una
disminución de prisiones, sólo un cambio hacia donde se va el dinero.
Opresión Nacional
Entonces, si no para ganancia de dinero, porque Estados Unidos encierra
tanta gente? La repuesta a esta pregunta es obvio cuando vemos a los
presos y al el historial de encarcelamiento en este país. Es imposible
hablar de prisiones sin mencionar la tremenda desigualdad en que el
sistema de injusticia criminal trata a Chican@s, Primeras Naciones, y
Nuevos Afrikanos, dentro de las fronteras de Estados Unido$. La tasa de
encarcelamiento es ridículamente alta, particularmente para los hombres
de estas naciones mencionados, es la desigualdad más obvia.
Aproximadamente el 12-13% de la población de Estados Unidos son
Afrikanos Nuevos, pero los Nuevos Afrikanos hacen alrededor del 35% de
prisioneros. (7). La tasa de encarcelamiento de las Primeras Naciones
también esta desproporcionadamente alta. En Dakota del Sur, por ejemplo,
la población Indígena forma el 8% de la población en ese Estado, pero
forman el 22% de la población masculina, y el 35% de la población
femenina en prisiones de ese estado. Mientras, que las Chican@s son
encarcelados a una escala mayor que los Euro-Amerikkkanos.
Cualquier estudio del sistema de injusticia revela la misma evidencia:
La mayoría de prisioneros son de naciones oprimidas. Aunque la realidad
es que hay más Euro-Amerikkanos en E.E.U.U. que todas las naciones
oprimidas combinadas.
La desigualdad empieza en las calles con los policías encargándose de
las comunidades oprimidas, y continúa en las cortes con sentencias
desproporcionadas, representación legal inadecuada, y un jurado sin
conciencia o con consciencia pero prejuiciosa. Para cuando llegamos a la
prisión, podemos ver con claridad el resultado de la opresión
sistematizada nacional en las tasas de encarcelamiento.
El uso agresivo de prisiones que se utilizan como herramientas sociales
de control empezó en Estados Unidos en respuesta a las organizaciones
nacionalistas revolucionarios que ganaron una tremenda popularidad a
finales de 1960s y 1970s. Y para mantener control de las masas de este
movimiento revolucionario, Estados Unidos optó por utilizar policías y
prisiones.
Entre los años 1961 y 1968, la población de reos disminuyó al punto más
bajo desde los años 1920s. Del 1968 al 1972 el ritmo de encarcelamiento
subió despacio. Sin embargo, a principios de 1974 después del punto más
alto de la organización revolucionaria en este país, hubo un aumento
increíble en las tasas de encarcelamiento. COINTELPRO fue dirigida
contra las organizaciones revolucionarias, como lo son las Panteras
Negras (Black Panther Party) y los Estado Unidos empezó sistemáticamente
a encerrar o a asesinar a gente que trataba de pelear en contra de la
opresión. Casi 150,000 personas fueron encarceladas en sólo 8 años –
esto demuestra que el gobierno teme a los revolucionarios.(10)
Al mismo tiempo, hubo un movimiento anti prisión que crecía y el
gobierno se aseguró de erradicar y desaparecerlo. El libro “Soledad
Brother”, de George Jackson, que salió en el año 1970 fue un gran
acusación en contra de la opresión hacia las colonias internas. Al
siguiente año fue asesinado.
El arresto desproporcionado, el encarcelamiento y persecución de las
naciones oprimidas no paró en los años 1970s. Hoy continua. Las semi
colonias internas están posicionadas para sostener su estado de
subyugación. Y es cuando las naciones oprimidas se juntan y se organizan
el gobierno Amerikkkano ataca como un perro rabioso.
Lecciones Para nuestro trabajo
Entender el sistema de injusticia es de mucha importancia para
desarrollar un método y la estructura para resistir la red de prisiones.
Por eso, es tan necesario entender que las prisiones son operaciones de
pérdida de dinero para el gobierno, y localizar la política de
encarcelamiento en masa, sólo para poder controlar a las naciones
opresas.
Si, nos enfocamos en el rol de las prisiones para tener control social,
podremos darnos cuenta de la verdadera razón del porqué existe el vasto
sistema de injusticia criminal Amerikkkano. El exponer esta información
ayuda a que la gente entienda que tan desesperado estaba el gobierno de
U.$. en los años 1970s cuando encaraban el gran movimiento nación
revolucionario. Y el gobierno aún le teme a alejarse de esta solución de
encarcelamiento.
Esto nos dice que aún le temen a las naciones oprimidas, y que no les
importa llevarse entre las patas a cuanta gente blanca, en esta locura
de encarcelamientos.
Como el control social está manejando el sistema de prisiones
Amerikkkanas, deberíamos enfocarnos en organizar nuestro trabajo
exactamente alrededor de lo que el gobierno teme::Organizar a los que
están siendo controlados. Hay que escoger nuestras batallas para exponer
las partes del sistema que sabemos que son vulnerables: le temen a la
educación revolucionaria (censura, prohibición de grupos de estudio), le
temen a la organización (reglas en contra de grupos), y le temen a la
unión pacifica más que todo (por eso provocan peleas, grupos en contra
de grupos). Nosotros podemos construir esta unión propagando nuestro
análisis sobre la raíz y meta del sistema de injusticias criminal. Todos
esos que somos el objetivo del control social deberíamos inspirarnos y
juntarnos para ir en contra de este sistema.