My prior domestic exile, where Virginia prison officials had me bounced from one state prison system to another in retaliation for and in efforts to suppress my political work and publicizing and resisting abuses, lasted nearly a decade (from Feb
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On Apr 5, 2021, a call to action went out to supporters about officials here at Wabash Valley Corruption Facility (WVCF) shutting off my phone access, because I made several calls bringing outside attention to an assault by guards on
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There are a certain character and caliber of “professionals” who live off prisons and lack any real incentive to use their skills to better others’ lives and society. While they may have specialized skills, they apply them at the most
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I want you to wrap your mind around this story if you will…or rather if you can.
A prisoner, a small-framed man about 150 pounds and around 5’6″ is inside a locked
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In the Sept 2020 issue of the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, and on the paper’s website, an “Urgent Call to Action” was made on my behalf, following events at Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility, where I was thrown in solitary
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A lot of people may not remember the torture scandal that exposed the US military back in 2004, when, during the illegal invasion of Iraq, photos surfaced of soldiers humiliating and torturing civilians detained at Iraq’s
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Update: Rashid has been placed in longterm disciplinary segregation (solitary confinement) which is reserved for prisoners who have been found guilty and have received a sentence of solidarity confinement of a year or more. In Rashid’s situation given that there
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As ‘unthinkable’ as it may be, and as much as many may like to dismiss the notion as an implausible ‘conspiracy theory,’ US officials have a long and well-documented history of using prisoners as medical test subjects
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Since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the U.S., officials have demonstrated incompetence and indifference in response to the growing pandemic.
The situation inside American prisons is even worse where officials are deliberately facilitating the spread of the
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Indiana is the fifth state in which I’ve been imprisoned since 2012. Over this eight year period, I’ve been bounced from Virginia to Oregon, then Texas to Florida, back to Virginia, and now to Indiana. All
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