MIM(Prisons) is a cell of revolutionaries serving the oppressed masses inside U.$. prisons, guided by the communist ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
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Stiles went down on its annual oppressive lockdown on the 9th of
September. Still no mail pick up (it’s Sat the 17th!) and only
one official shower given on the 14th. Most of the guards (99.9%) are A)
Nigerian citizens on work visas, or B) African-American females with
little education, marketable job skills, or energy. Either way, the
levels of adherence to the rules of confinement per TDJC Guidelines in
Huntsville is laughable, and most paper work is pencil-whipped.
I yelled out to D-2 Asst. Warden Fisher on Tues the 13th that “4
building D-wing” has not received a shower yet, and she yelled back
“That’s not what the paperwork says!”
Policy posted on the dayroom window on Day 1, Week 1 of this lockdown
says showers will be allowed 3 times per week on M-W-F, with a 10 degree
hygiene spend in the 2nd week. Good Luck
No mail pick up, no law library, no showers, and most meals consist
of a “Johnny sack”– a paper sack with a PB+Syrup sandwich on cheap
donated white bread, and a teaspoon of spicy hamburger meat an another 2
slices of bread. No access to cold water. I’m up on 3 row where
the heat collects and my Vaseline turns liquid by 10 A.M.
I’m writing this to express my concern about the treatment of inmates
with heat related disabilities, and their treatment, and lack of propper
medical care. Since I have been on this farm there has been five deaths
that I know of. One before i got here when an inmate burned to death in
his cell while staff stood by and did nothing, the second was found
hanging in a cell, that had been there so long, rigor mortus had set in.
The third, was made to look like a suicide but turned out to be a
murder, fourth a man just had health issues and died in his cell, and
the fifth was on the way back from the hospital in Galveston, now that’s
just prisoners. We’ve had one T.D.C.J. Captain blew his brains out while
at work, for what reason is still unknown as well as the other five
deaths.
Now all of this has taken place over a span of around 5 months. And
this is just on this farm, I wonder what happens at other farms. The
question is has Texas prisons turned into internment/death camps. To me
it seems like T.D.C.J. is doing its best to take all the things away
from prisoners that they were awarded in the Ruiz V. Estelle,
and Ruiz V. Johnson. Now if we do not educate ourselves against
this type of oppression and push for more people to ease some of the
over-crowding. What part of justice is served when a man or womyn serves
30 years flat. That’s a lifetime, that time stood still for them, if
they were 30 years old now they are a 60-year-old crippled old man or
woman, let them go spend what time they have left with any family they
might have. To keep them locked up any longer is just cruel.
[Responding to “What did you disagree with?” when studying “Where Do
Correct Ideas Come From?”]
I disagreed with the basis of idealism not being action. To think is
action. Thought can be provoked by stimuli collected by the body’s
sensors, which is more reactionary. Or you can create a thought or an
idea, but this is action. Mental action nonetheless but action
all-in-all. And it must be understood physical action comes from mental
action. As I write this I understand the materialist method is physical
action. Well I guess I don’t have a disagreement but rather a question,
is ideas placed on paper in book format considered materialism?
Wiawimawo of MIM(Prisons) responds: As comrade Melo X
explains, we can have thoughts that are reactions to physical stimuli,
or we can create thoughts. But this “creation” of thoughts is also a
response to the physical world. What we might call reason, abstracts
concepts based on our experience with real phenomena, or physical things
we can interact with.
“the faculty of understanding is not a ‘thing in and of itself,’
because it becomes real only in contact with some object.”(1)
Dietzgen explained how the idealists see the mind as separate from
the sense perceptions of the material world. So Melo X is correct to see
the unity between them. The comrade also distinguishes creating thoughts
from more passive perception. This realization demonstrates the role of
reason in developing scientific understanding from our perception of the
physical world around us.
We also agree that our thoughts impact our actions. Hence we stress
class consciousness as an educational process that is a product of our
interactions with the class system.
So, are ideas in a book part of the materialist method? Well, it
depends on what ideas. A book can promote contemplative reasoning.
Bourgeois books will promote bourgeois thinking that harbors much
idealistic reasoning in order to deny the contradictions inherent to the
capitalist system. All that said, 99% of our materialist understanding
of the world is based in history, and therefore must come from books (or
other historical record). If we discarded books in our scientific
pursuits we could not continue to build on the knowledge of the past,
but would be stuck relearning the same things with each generation.
It is a crass form of materialism that says everything must come from
persynal experience and direct interaction with the physical world.
Rather we must learn from the actions of the people who came before us,
and as we develop new theories they must be tested by us in practice
through action and not just tested in our contemplative, subjective
minds. Another way to look at this is that books are recorded practice
and direct experiences of other people. Frederick Douglas’ writings are
from eir practice with chattel slavery, and Lenin’s writings are from
eir practice with the first proletarian revolution. When we say that all
knowledge is 99% history, we’re not saying we should spend all our time
learning using books but to see it as a starting point so we can make
new practice in the future.
Notes: 1. Joseph Dietzgen, The Nature of Human Brain
Work: An Introduction to Dialectics, PM Press, 2010,
p.58.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Mark W. Stiles Unit has
been operating for most of 2022 so short of staff that it is placing the
public’s safety at risk. For instance buildings 3, 4 and 7 house up to
432 each and on most days operate with one officer at the building
control desk, 3 officers assigned to the 3 control pickets and one rover
per building. That is 5 officers per 432 prisoners. The 3 buildings
mentioned above not to mention buildings 11,12,18 and 19 (of which I
have no personal knowledge of the number of prisoners housed in those
buildings) that is a total of 15 officers for 1,296 prisoners. The
officers are over-worked and have short tempers. They are tired and the
rovers are only giving the prisoners an ingress/egress to and from the
cells every 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours causing tension levels to be extremely
high.
LAW AND FACTS
Mission statement: The Mission of the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice is to provide Public safety, promote positive change in
offender behavior, reintegrate offenders into society and assist victims
of crime.
TDCJ Administrative Directive (A.D.)-s.40 clearly states: Offenders
will be afforded at least hourly ingress tom and egress from their cells
during dayroom hours. Post Order 7.023 (1) The cell block officer shall
call for an ingress/egress on the hour, from the dayroom to cells and
from cells to dayroom, (2) The cellblock officer shall give offenders
returning to cellblock from assigned jobs, school, commissary, or other
unit activities opportunity to return directly to their cells.
TDCJ’s failure to follow its own procedural rules and regulations is
an independent violation of due process. This holds true even if the
rules and regulations provide protections beyond those which are
constitutionally required. The existence of rules creates the expectancy
that they will be followed… except to create an illusionary semblance of
compliance… The legislatures failure to appropriate funds sufficient to
increase significantly the security staff does not absolve the TDCJ of
liability for any unconstitutional shortcomings in the area of security
(see Ruiz V. Seator, 359 U.S. 535 (1959)).
2021 Texas legislative House Bill 3157 by Ron Reynolds. This New Law
increases the penalty for violating a person in custody’s civil rights
from a class A misdemeanor to a third-degree felony.
I recently had two items confiscated from MIM(prisons); a letter and
newspaper. The reasons for confiscation are as follows: Denied II STG
Folk Nation Nazi; and denied II 5 PT Star All Seeing Eye “5”. II is the
abbreviation for Internal Investigations.
I also wanted to make MIM(prisons) aware of an on going issue we are
facing at this facility. There have been several days the past couple
months when we were on restricted movement due to (this is what we are
told) “Short of staff.” When we are on restricted movements, school and
rehabilitation programming are canceled for the day. They said “Short of
staff” has also caused in-person visitations from family and friends to
be canceled as well, religious services included.
I did not receive much information about the said confiscated mail. I
received a copy of an envelope post marked 6 August 2022.
Thank you for the attempted correspondence and being a voice for the
struggles we face in prison.
MIM(Prisons) responds: This is the latest in a rash of
censorship in Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana. We have sent
this comrade our censorship guide and appealed this decision with the
Indiana Department of Corrections. They provided page numbers and
specific reasons for the censorship, but we could not find anything on
those pages corresponding to what they describe above.
I am a dialysis patient at the Estelle High Security Unit. Our
Warden and Major are Having a Very Hard time getting us just across the
street to get our dialysis. One day they used a tractor and trailer to
get us there. All of us in High Security are Heat Restricted and a lot
of us are in wheelchairs. They have put us in a transport Van Ford F-350
and put us 8 in the back and 3 in the middle with wheelchairs in or on
top of them. There is a small cage in the van. This is a copy of a
grievance I just sent them:
ON 8-15-22 at 5:45pm-7:10pm 11 Dialysis patients were put in a van
with NO Rear A/C. We got to the rear gate of high security at 6:10pm our
officer driving the van told Lt. Phillips:
“Hey there’s Dialysis in the van and it’s hot for them,”
Lt. Phillips said ,
“I don’t give a fuck I’m crossing my kitchen crew to the main
building. They can fucken wait,”
It was about 90 outside. Our officer driving the van told her
again,
“They just got off dialysis,”
Lt Phillips said,
“They’ll be fine.”
Lt. Phillips, Sgt. Stovall, Sgt. Sabasi, Sgt. Perillo were all out
there. Not one came to check on us at all for the hour we were in the
van. They were in a hurry to go home. We were at risk of Heat Stroke or
worse. When we did pull in to High Security parking one of our dialysis
patients fell out from his blood pressure being low from the heat from
behind the van. Sgt. Stovall and Sgt. Sabasi were there to see it. Are
we not Heat Restricted? Why are we put in a Hot Van? TDCJ says the vans
are in working order. Blowing hot air does not mean its working.
Now I Sent it out on 8-15-22 I’m waiting for it to come back. When I
got it back I will tell you the response.
I want to make a few reports pertaining to conditions at Pocahontas
State Correctional Center in Pocahontas, Virginia. the first issue I
want to report is that since the arrival of the new warden, Tikki Hicks,
that instances of discrimination have skyrocketed. Staff are flagrantly
targeting prisoners of minority ethnicity, religion, and nationality, as
well as homosexuals and gender variant prisoners. Prisoners who receive
the kosher diet are being given spoiled meals, rotten fruits and
vegetables, and foods that have gone beyond their expiration date.
Prisoners of majority religions, ethnicity, etc. are fed much better and
with larger portions. Since the arrival of the new warden this prison
has become little more than a cleverly disguised concentration camp.
Warden Hicks, a woman of color, either condones this repugnant behavior
or she is impotent and unable to control her staff. All of our
complaints have fallen on deaf ears or have simply vanished.
The next issue pertains to introduction of Covid-19 into the prison.
Infractions and outbreaks consistently began with inmate kitchen workers
who contracted the infection from kitchen staff. There is no means to
detect illness or to prevent it from entering the facility. Inmate
kitchen workers are not permitted to leave their jobs under threat of
disciplinary action and must go to work or risk an increase in sentence
length. Prisoners at this prison must risk their health and even their
lives just to get a meal. Once again our complaints fall on deaf ears or
are simply lost.
The final issue pertains to prisoner education. The security officer
in the education department is aggressive, verbally abusive,
threatening, and harassing. Prisoners simply do not want to go to the
educational department because of this officer – Frank D. Kimble. Many
GED students are willing to give up their education and force
disciplinary action rather than be terrorized daily by this officer. And
again, our complaints fall on deaf ears and are ignored or lost.
As a first time writer for MIM(Prisons) I must confess that, it’s
absolutely a blessing to have found such a space/medium to expose what’s
currently taking place within the Georgia Department of Corrections
(G.D.C), hereinafter “Georgia industrial slave complex”. Because
honestly, with every issue of Under Lock & Key, I thirst to
develop a political cadre, in order to establish a vanguard party among
the (lumpen) prisoner class.
Here at Telfair State plantation, there’s no real sense of political
consciousness among the masses nor is there any form of unity among the
street tribes, whom all proclaim to have been birthed out of Black
struggle to combat against oppression from a political perspective to
protect their community. To which I ask, isn’t the slave plantation
environment currently their community? Then why is it that their claims,
tends to seem as though nothing more than “persuasive rhetoric” produced
from the tenets of a force with every form of materialistic/imperialist
reason to divide the common? and yet, it gets worse.
There’s a massive staff shortage at the root of many Georgia
industrial slave sanitation failures and the problems don’t stop there.
It’s beyond the crisis point and something needs to change. Because
there’s a real humanitarian crisis. In which homicide and suicide rates
has already reached “unprecedented levels.” At Least 25 slave prisoners
deaths on plantation compounds in 2020 were suspected homicides, 7 at
Macon State plantation, according to “G.D.C.” and 19 slave prisoners
supposedly killed themselves in 2020, twice the national average.
The “G.D.C.” annual report for fiscal year 2019 (there was a lack of
access for 2020 FY report) reveals constant churn. According to the OF,
78% of the department’s new hires are (overseers) “Corrections
Officers,” and 71% quit before the year ended. Gov. Brian Kemp, just
proposed a 9.1% pay increase for plantation(overseers) guards that would
raise their entry level salary from $27,936 to $30,730. The experienced
staff are leaving as fast as they can to get out of here. What we’re
left with is kids trying to supervise slave prisoners they’re afraid of
and that has a domino effect. Without adequate staffing, the maintenance
begins to suffer, food service suffers. Because they don’t feel safe,
it’s created a circular problem.
Access to healthcare is more limited than ever and mental health
counselors are afraid to come in the dorms. Under-staffing has led to
more slave prisoners being stationed in temporary holding cages, going
extended periods without food, water or even bathroom visits. Often
we’re left in those cages to urinate and defecate on ourselves. If the
situation persists, lives will continue to be at stake. It’s just a
matter of time before we see causalities among the staff and slave
prisoners.
Urban street tribes have filled the power vacuum. The G.D.C.
estimated it housed 15,000 tribe members; nearly a third of it’s total
population. In the five previous years, authorities said tribe members
were responsible for 1,700 assaults in Georgia industrial slave
plantations. The pandemic has only made the situation worse, as COVID-19
continues to spread throughout the slave plantations. Recently 24 slave
prisoners tested positive for the virus; 3,100 have been infected so
far, 88 have died. Another 1,482 staff members have test positive and
two died from the virus, according the the G.D.C Those figures are
likely 10 times below the actual number of infections, according to a
recent study by the Center of Disease Control & Prevention.
I believe (the G.D.C.) is tolerating levels of chaos we have not seen
in the last 20 years. The scale of the problem is so great that federal
interventions is necessary and warranted. (Side note, the Department of
Justice continues investigation into Georgia prisons.)
Please family, friends and those on the inside report on what is
happening inside the walls of Georgia Department of Corrections prisons.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in September a state-wide
civil investigation into conditions at facilities across the state. The
DOJ investigation is focused on determining whether state prisoners are
reasonably safe from physical harm at the hands of other prisoners. DOJ
is also investigating whether the state offers reasonable protections
for LGBTQIA prisoners from sexual abuse by corrections officers and
other prisoners. If you or someone you know has information that could
raise awareness to this cause, submit tips to:
DOJ email community.georgiaDOC@usdoj.gov.
Dept. of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington DC 20530
MIM(Prisons) adds: This comrade’s report echoes what is
being reported
from Alabama from prisoners organizing there. Georgia is one of the
five states with a higher incarceration rate than Alabama, and of course
both are in the Black Belt south. Prison systems across the country are
crumbling and failing. It is our purpose to support those who are trying
to organize for change amongst this chaos. These contradictions create
opportunity for change.
If you did not receive a copy of the JFI petition to the Department
of Justice that we mailed out with Under Lock & Key 78,
write us to get copies and use them to organize a collective voice in
your prison. It is only by independent, collective organizing that we
can stop these unnecessary deaths and abuses.
This year marks the 51-year anniversary for the fallen comrade, BGF
founder/leader, Black Panther General/Field Marshall and Dragon of Ho
Chi Minh. This year also marks the 52 year anniversary of his alter ego,
the man-child, snatched away too soon, Jonathon Jackson, whose brave
revolutionary effort at only the age of 17 to free his older brother
George Jackson from a legal lynching, can only be viewed with awe. Their
stories of determination inspire the question of why the revolution has
been snared, and to seek a newer and more improved method for the
revolution that we new soldiers, guerrillas, and political scientists
plan to usher into the near future.
This month of August (Black August) is dedicated to the fallen
soldiers who bravely gave their lives to improve the quality of living
of not only the Afrikan Amerikans who belong to the original man, but
also to educate ourselves about the correct ways of living that the
history of antiquity has provided us with. It is a time to internalize
those lessons in a way that would help us to bridge the racial gaps and
get us to do away with our class masters and black, brown, red (a
variation of brown), yellow and white could live in a world that is free
from the trifles that have destroyed humanity.
George Jackson was a very strong, intelligent, courageous, and
dedicated brother whom the history books should teach us more about. For
many, George’s career as a shining revolutionary leader ended about as
quickly as it began. However, those exist outside of the mainstream
corporativism politics know well that George lived and existed as a
legend long before the Soledad Brother case that would make him
famous.
George Jackson entered the California penitentiary system in 1960
with an indeterminate sentence of one year to life, for the conviction
of a service station robbery that resulted in the theft of $70.00.
Though the evidence was in his favor, his court appointed attorney
convinced Jackson that if he would only plead guilty to a lesser offense
that he would receive some light county time. However, through a change
of hands, his deal that was promised would result of his conviction and
an indeterminate sentence that then in California would prove often
times volatile because it was up to a parole board if you ever went
home. A system that was heavily racist and extremely dangerous, proved
to be fertile grounds of an indeterminate sentence of one to life,
becoming life or in George’s case the death penalty.
The author of 2 classic pieces of Black literature that could be used
as a treatise of sorts, George laid out the harsh realities of
California’s prison system. The atmosphere was so openly racist that
whites were even working hand in hand to kill Black and Mexican
prisoners, even though ironically enough, just like in Texas some
Mexicans would make alliances with racist organizations and join in
killing Blacks. Through these activities George felt the need to
organize what he called “the chief of staff” and that chief of staff
that organized to combat the killing of Black prisoners would later on
become what is now known as the Black Guerrilla Family, a revolutionary
group that George attempted to align to the revolutionary movements not
only in Amerika, but also in Cuba and other Third World nations. In a
nutshell George agreed with International Communist Solidarity.
An avid reader, George transformed himself from an adolescent,
rebellious street gangster, to a revolutionary leader and prison
activist whose knowledge about history, economics, and politics, would
make college professors marvel at his intellect. But this is also part
of the larger reason why he was never paroled. You see, the sentence
that George had, at the most allowed for a convict to do 2 years and
then be paroled, but it was this political insight at a time were Black
male expression was denied. Not only Black male expression, but at a
time when George found communism, Amerika was trying its best to crush
this red scare. So his knowledge of capitalist Amerika was that great
that prison officials went to the extremes of trying to kill him. Their
line to whites was “kill Jackson it will do you some good.” However as
gifted as he was mentally and intellectually, he was also gifted as a
self-trained guerrilla assassin. George practiced a very special
bastardized style of martial arts and kung-fu called iron palm and he
worked out 6 to 7 hours a day doing 1000 finger tips a day.
Typing laboriously on a prison typewriter, Jackson wrote position
papers that dealt with prison life, economics, and the corrosion of
Amerika’s corporate capitalist culture and circulated these papers
throughout prison walls. For his activities, he was first rewarded with
segregation, often times with a welded lock. Once that proved to not be
enough, he was set up to be killed. But since he was a fierce warrior,
oftentimes even fighting for other prisoners who were the victim of
racial assaults, he would fight single-handedly 5 or 6 prisoners and
come out on top. At this point the white prisoners and officers hated
but feared him.
George was loved and respected by the Black prisoner population and
became their teacher and leader. Even the most racist whites respected
George because to them he was a man who was totally straight. All while
others would murder mouth and sell wolf tickets, George was as good as
his word. If he made a statement of some kind, it would always be
followed by action. George formed a political education class and
through that he gave his comrades the revolutionary platform that would
transform their Black criminality into a Black revolutionary mentality.
He also taught martial arts at a time where martial arts was outlawed in
prison.
His commitment was so great that during a prison protest that led to
some white inmates trying to actually lynch a Black demonstrator under
the order of racist cops, when George saw all of these white guys about
to push this brother off of a 30 ft. tier, he began punching, kicking,
and knocking those guys off the tier. However, for this, he, not the
white inmates, was locked up. It was only later on that prison officials
would admit that he stood up for a brother about to be hung.
In 1969, the California parole board who had been stringing George
along for years, but who had no intentions of ever releasing him, told
him that he was going to be transferred from San Quentin to Soledad and
that if he maintained clean conduct for 6 months he would be granted
parole. Soledad was a racist penitentiary that stoked the flames between
prisoners, and that ignited racial animosity to build to murder. George,
as a “class based” revolutionary always strove to get the convict class
to see that they could easily overcome their oppressors if they would
only unite, because by playing at racism the law would essentially win
since it would only be 2 maniac groups at war.
On 13 January 1970 after months of lockdown due to racial killings, a
new rec yard was opened. A system where Blacks, whites, and Mexicans are
to remain segregated from each other, a so-called “mistake” took place
and 7 Blacks and 8 white were led to the rec yard where predictably a
fight broke out. The officer’s job is to give a warning shot. However,
officer O.G. Miller with a military background, southern upbringing, and
racist attitude shot and killed 3 Black prisoners in cold blood. One of
the dead was George’s close friend and mentor W.L. Nolen. Three days
after these killings the Monterey County Courthouse, over prison radios,
announced that these killings were justifiable homicide. In less that 30
minutes later anger would turn into redemption as 25-year-old officer
Mills was beaten to death and thrown over a 30 ft. tier with a note in
his pocket that said “one down 2 to go.”
In February, George Jackson, John Clutchette, and Fleeta Drumgo would
be formally charged for the officers death even though they had no
evidence outside of their prison files that labeled them as Black
revolutionaries. According to prison officials, George was blamed
because he was the only person who could have done it. Hardly enough in
the area of evidence, it finally gave the state the legal pretext to do
what they had been trying to do quasi-legally for years. If George was
convicted it meant death since he already had life.
When George received visits from his family they would bring his
younger brother Jonathan and the two of them would get off to one side
of the visiting room where George would do his job as an educator and at
the age of 16 Jonathon had a remarkable insight into guerrilla warfare,
communism, and uniterian conduct locally and globally. His love for his
brother made him grow-up. He saw that they never intended to let his
brother go. At a time when most teens are thinking about
self-gratification, Jonathon could only think of George. He said “people
tell me that I’m too involved with the movement and my brother’s case,
but I have one question to ask people who think like this, ‘What would
you do if it was your brother?’”.
George and Angela Davis became somewhat of a power couple and George
appointed Jonathan to be her bodyguard. After being fired from UCLA as a
professor, just because she identified with communism, George feared
that some right-wing nut might feel like a hero by killing her. It was
around this time that the state asserts that Angela Davis provided the
weapons that Jonathan Jackson would use on 7 August 1970 when he took a
bag full of guns to a courthouse in Marin County and passed the out to 3
prisoners on trial. Calm and cold he stated “alright gentlemen I’m
taking over now” and “you can take our pictures, we are the
revolutionaries.” At the young age of 17 Jonathan had sense enough that
the only way he could affirm justice was through a bold act that would
take his life.
A year and 2 weeks later on 21 August 1971 prison authorities would
concoct the most outrageous story ever invented to justify the
assassination of one of our most gifted leaders, George Jackson. The
state “asserts” that after a visit with his attorney Stephen Bingham
that George had a metallic item in his hair that proved to be a gun that
he used to gain control of the Adjustment Center after he said these
chilling words “The dragon has come.” The absurdity is that when they
reenacted this in a court, they affirmed that George’s cell was 50 yards
away from the visiting room at San Quentin, a highly sophisticated,
technological prison. And when they reenacted how it would’ve taken
place they said “the gun wobbled dangerously”, meaning that it couldn’t
have happened that way. At best if George did end up with a weapon he
must have wrestled it away from his assassins.
But the kicker is “they say” George had explosives that he intended
to blow a 20 ft wall away and escape. “They say” that George ran towards
a wall and was shot in his ankle that was immediately shattered, yet
somehow he managed to get up and run again and a second shot was fired
that entered his back and exited his head. However, what “they say”
again proved to be a lie as autopsy proved that the shots that were
fired couldn’t have come from a high position as they assert, but rather
from the ground.
Now why such an outrageous story for this situation? I mean to me,
even though I feel very sorry for Georgia Bea Jackson as she lost 2 sons
within a year, I still can’t help but admit that if he went out as the
state asserts, it even more adds to his legend. Killing 5 people in the
span of 30 seconds (which is impossible) before being killed is
remarkable. But upon investigation, if George would’ve went to trial and
beat his case, he very well may have been released from prison. So
instead of us believing in government created conspiracies, we need to
question the facts. In love and revolution, may George and Jonathon both
rest within the essence, while they continue to live through people like
me and countless others.
I’m attacking the “Heat Sensitivity Scoring (HSS).”
We feel that being classified as “Heat Sensitive”, which requires a
cool-bed housing assignment, is a medical treatment and a medical
diagnosis. A diagnosis that you should be able to choose if you want the
“treatment” or not. We have a right to refuse medical treatment but they
will not let us opt out of this “classification” and will not explain
how this “Heat Score” was calculated.
The best information I’ve gotten on the Cool-bed litigation came from
Nell Gaither at the Trans Pride Initiative PO Box 3982, Dallas, TX 75208
(214) 449-1439, tpride.org. She copied and pasted Document 59-2 from
Sain v. Collier 4:18-CV-4412 and I had her letter entered in my
case. It is a 4 page letter and you can buy it for $0.50 per page from
the Clerk in the Western District, Austin Division @ 501 W. 5th St.,
Suite 1100, Austin, TX 78701.
TDCJ makes First Nation practitioners take a religious knowledge test
before they will approve them for a Designated Native American Unit and
if you can’t pass the test you can’t meet with clergy or attend
ceremonies, etc.
I was shipped off of my Designated Unit and put in High Security in
Allred because I was “Heat Sensitive.” SO they denied me of my religion
due to my health conditions and wouldn’t tell me I had to re-take the
test to re-apply for a Designated Unit (which is unconstitutional).
Anyway, what they’re really doing is shipping [lawsuit/paperwork] filers
off to high security claiming they are “Heat Sensitive.”
If this happens to others, all they need to do is contact the
Chaplain and apply for a transfer to a Designated Unit again. They will
have to take the test again as is TDCJ Religious Policy AD-07.30 policy
number 09.02(rev3)p.1 &2 and policy 09.02(rev2) Attachment A.
We are looking to do away with this unconstitutional religious
discrimination and teach our own religion. TDCJ’s text is based on
Lakota religion and there are no Lakota tribes in Texas, so it is
difficult to get Native Chaplains willing to teach a religion that is
not their own.
People are fired up about ULK 78! I’m going to be ordering
all of my grievances to send to TX Prison Reform. Thank you Triumphant
of T.E.A.M. O.N.E.! for the good info. I’ve already ordered my
grievances, I have 56! You can purchase them from the law library for
$0.10 each.
Note to my Connally Unit comrades: As of 1 August 2022, TDCJ will no
longer make legal copies, which is fucked up! I’m having to send my
original documents through the mail to the court and hope they don’t
steal my mail. Warden Rayford has banned inmate-to-inmate legal visits
and there is no drinking water in the Law Library and no bathroom
breaks. If you need to go to the pisser, your session is over.
No legal copies and legal visits hinders our access to courts, but I
suggest sending an I-60 in and getting a denial on paper even if you
don’t need a jailhouse lawyer. Then, if you loose your case you can say
this was because you didn’t have your “helper.” Johnson v. Avery,
393 U.S. 483, 490(1969) says you have a right to get legal help
from other prisoners unless the prison “provides some reasonable
alternative to assist inmates in the preparation of petitions.” And if
they are still retaliating after that, make sure you got a lot of
witnesses. It is a federal crime for state actors (the prison officials)
to threaten or assault witnesses in federal litigation 18
U.S.C.§1512(a)(2).