On July 12, 2021 I was transferred from the Indiana prison system to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (sic!). This was my sixth interstate prison system transfer in nine years. For a state
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08/06/2021
STATEMENT BY THE RIBPP, RIWPO & PSO ON THE RETALIATORY TRANSFER OF AND SUBSEQUENT RACIST THREATS BY SOUTHERN OHIO CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OFFICIALS TOWARDS POLITICAL PRISONER, KEVIN “RASHID” JOHNSON
All Power to the People!
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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Some behavioral theorists believe that children who torture animals (those who pull the wings off flies for example), display early pathological tendencies and will likely become sociopaths or violent psychotics as they age.
What does this
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Black August is a month designated to pay tribute to the true heroes, martyrs, and history of New Afrikan (Black) people in our struggle for liberation against the over 400 years of violent repression, suffering, and exploitation that we’ve endured
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The Panther Solidarity Movement (PSM) is a continuation of the original Rainbow Coalition started on April 4, 1969 by Chairman Fred Hampton of the Chicago Chapter of the BPP.
Many efforts have been made to form Rainbow Coalitions, most often
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The police murder of George Floyd during the summer of 2020 was a lynching. The act differed little from the routine public murders of Black people by mob and police violence that has punctuated centuries of Black existence
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How often have the millions of us who’ve suffered the tortured abuse of U.S. imprisonment, heard officials self-righteously sermonize that we must accept responsibility for our accused crimes? Well, so too must they.
We call on everyone, especially young people,
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I have spent nearly two decades writing about the abuses of U.S. prisons. There are very few people who do this. Outside journalists have basically no inside access to prisons and few prisoners are willing to speak out as witnesses
… Read the restEveryone is familiar with the game so-called “law enforcement” officials play of creating or using pretexts to justify criminal abuse. Whether it’s the unarmed person of color gunned down for holding a cell
… Read the restU.S. officials are quick to condemn other countries for human rights abuses, standards that they don’t apply to themselves. It’s the motto of the dictator: “Do as I say, not as I do!”
Take for example the
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Now available in two formats — click here to download Main Line #7 in small print, appropriate for mailing in a single regular envelope, or click here to download Main Line #7 in larger print, easier to read.
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On August 27, 2021 I received my recently purchased Jpay prison tablet, which can be used to correspond with the outside, send out articles, that sort of thing. Officials here at Southern Ohio Correctional (sic!) Facility aka Lucasville prison, know
… Read the restOn July 12 Kevin “Rashid” Johnson was transferred from Wabash Valley prison in Indiana to the custody of the Ohio Department of Corrections, being brought directly to their intake center in Orient. He would remain there for less than three
… Read the restIf in 1921 Greenwood was a ‘hood,
They’d dismiss what happened as gentrification;
“Black Wall Street,” a phenomenal feat,
So historians erased it.
How the burning aimed to depopulate it,
A thriving Black community, although segregated.
White mobs massacred hundreds,
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The Panther Solidarity Organization (PSO) is a democratic mass organization that operates under the leadership of the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party (RIBPP). It is an organization composed of the people to
… Read the restThe Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party, even though most of it’s membership is on the outside, has not forgotten its prison based roots. Three of our five Central Committee members are incarcerated and we take our comrades behind bars’ well
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Now available in two formats — click here to download Main Line #6 in small print, appropriate for mailing in a single regular envelope, or click here to download Main Line #6 in larger print, easier to read.
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