{"id":2453,"date":"2017-07-26T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2017-07-26T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:02:20","slug":"denied-medicine-location-unknown-urgent-update-on-kevin-rashid-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=2453","title":{"rendered":"Denied Medicine, Location Unknown: Urgent Update on Kevin \u201cRashid\u201d Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rashid-2013-self-portrait1\"<\/a>Rashid was transferred from Reception and Medical Center to Florida State Prison, we learned from a letter written on July 17 and received July 24.<\/p>\n

Rashid was thrown in solitary, called Close Management (CM), accused of being a \u201cgang leader,\u201d in retaliation for his prison writings publicizing prison abuses in Virginia, Oregon, Texas, and Florida. (He details this, including an official memo admitting his writings are the reason he is being\u00a0targeted, in a recent article on his website.<\/a>)\u00a0While waiting for a hearing on this classification at RMC on July 12, he collapsed, and was sent to hospital, dehydrated, with blood pressure problems.<\/p>\n

A second hearing was scheduled for July 14, the main concerns of the prison hearing officers being\u00a0Rashid’s articles about abuses posted on the website and the resulting complaints by the public.
\nThe hearing was held with the officer Polk stating that Rashid had no rights and that public protests made his writings inflammatory! He was ordered to Close Management. He was transferred to Florida State Prison that same night. Rashid\u00a0was not provided his prescribed medications despite being assured by the prison nurse Johnson that he would receive them. He was warned to stop requesting the meds and threatened for asking. From July 14\u00a0through July 17\u00a0he was not given his meds, nor was his\u00a0blood pressure monitored as had been ordered.<\/p>\n

We are once again asking supporters to take a few moments to make some phone calls, to inquire about Rashid\u2019s wellbeing; is he receiving meds; and to demand to know why he\u00a0is being classified as security risk solely on the basis of his writings:<\/p>\n

Call the Barry Reddish, the Warden at Raiford: 904 368-8699<\/strong>
\nCall the Florida office in Tallahassee, Patrick Finan 850 7171-3222<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Who Is Kevin “Rashid” Johnson?<\/h3>\n

Rashid is\u00a0Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter); he\u00a0is a Virginia prisoner organizer and revolutionary communist. As a result of his organizing he has been repeatedly transferred out of state, under a setup called the \u201cInterstate Compact\u201d which is used to remove rebellious prisoners and exile them to locations where they have no friends, support, etc. For the past four years Rashid was being\u00a0held in Texas, where he was\u00a0beaten, threatened, had his property confiscated, \u00a0was set up on bogus infractions, and more \u2014 nonetheless, he used his time there to forge connections with other prisoners and to write a series of powerful expos\u00e9s about\u00a0violence, medical neglect, abuse, and murder in the Texas prison system. (To see these articles:\u00a0http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?tag=texas-prison-conditions<\/a>)<\/p>\n

As a direct result of his writings, he was transferred to Florida on June 23rd. To read his own account of this transfer, see his recent article “I\u2019m Off to Florida and a New Phase of Reprisals for Publicizing Abuses in U.S. Prisons<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Florida has been given the task of silencing Rashid: it is our task to make sure this does not happen!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Writing to Rashid<\/h3>\n

The Close Management (CM) classification means that Rashid doesn\u2019t appear in the Florida inmate locator, although since he writes that he is in Raiford, we can write to him there.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kevin Johnson #158039
\nP.O. Box 800
\nFlorida State Prison
\nRaiford, FL 32083<\/p>\n

We can also write him at the Florida office where they say they\u2019ll forward his mail: A reason for also using the ICC Unit address is that the direct info from Rashid was sent on 7\/17, whereas the FSP warden’s office stated on 7\/24 that he had been sent to an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kevin Johnson\u00a0#158039
\nICC Unit
\n501 S. Calhoun St.
\nTallahassee, FL 32399-2500<\/p>\n

As the situation remains in flux, we recommend sending a\u00a0copy of letters to both places.<\/p>\n

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Rashid was transferred from Reception and Medical Center to Florida State Prison, we learned from a letter written on July 17 and received July 24. Rashid was thrown in solitary, called Close Management (CM), accused of being a \u201cgang leader,\u201d in retaliation for his prison writings publicizing prison abuses in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-florida-prison-conditions","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}