Jason's Prison Journal

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…

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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…

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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…

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