I’m sad to report that I was attacked and beaten by clansman as Black guards watched. I sent out a report on this but left out info I felt would cause the message to be banned, delayed or thrown away. This attack was in response to my November Bay View piece that circulated around the prison like wildfire. Until I don’t have hands to write and eyes to see and a tongue to speak, I will continue to expose such…
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, or however the saying goes, which is how the District Attorney’s Office in Dallas County, Dallas, Texas has been operating from the early 1990s up to today. It’s highly possible that these same corrupt tactics have been used way before what I’m about to describe, but I choose to focus on the documented events I was able to witness and research. This includes an outright wrongful conviction campaign by D.A. Jason January, who tried to coax…
The value of having support beyond these prison walls is invaluable. The prison administration knows this as well, which is why they set rules and guidelines that can only be fought and petitioned outside of their protracted prisoner grievance and appeal procedures. If they are individually challenged from within, staff of all ranks can and will use each other’s “written-in-stone” integrity to escape punishment. One example of this is the grievance procedures. During the investigation of our complaint, a sergeant,…
One of the most important ways that a tiny 0.01 percent of the population controls all of society is through its police, military and prisons. These are some of the fascist institutions within capitalism that, through its control of mass media, can shape and mold how the contradictions between the capitalist class and working class are viewed. These views never expose the truth about how capitalism is a predatory system that has to be destroyed entirely if the working class…
After spending over seven years in solitary confinement, I was finally given the opportunity to go back to the general population through a re-entry program. But this opportunity came at a price. On Oct. 30, 2017, I was awakened by Officer Graham during business hours and was told to pack one bag of property. I was being transferred. The rest of my property, I was told, would be packed later and sent to me. Whether they send everything or not…
Mainstream media, the outside public, and the average layperson have no idea what goes on in the prison system that they support. America’s prisons are strategically placed in desolate, uninhabitable and rural parts of the U.S., which makes it hard for the abused prisoner to effectively reach out to a community that cares. Even then, if one was to draw attention, a prisoner’s integrity is so hoodwinked that the guard’s story of what may have happened reigns primacy and never…
Understanding revolutionary intercommunalism in the New Afrikan Black Panther PartyPrison Chapter is not only a necessity, but its practical application is a requirement. As comrade Huey P. Newton once said, “If we do nothing we are accepting the situation and allowing ourselves to die.” Well our party refuses to let the people or ourselves die off, so revolutionary intercommunalism has to be effectively applied in order to even look towards a communist world. This isn’t something that Huey just came…
After spending over five years in solitary confinement, I have finally come to realize that solitary confinement is known torture — and the prisoners aren’t the only ones who know this. There have been extensive studies that have shown that lengthy periods of isolation can cause a number of mental and psychological setbacks. In a report concerning CIA torture, expert of sensory deprivation, Dr. Albert Biderman, reported: “the effect of isolation on the brain function of the prisoner is much like that…