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Thank you for coming together again to support all the long-term anarchist prisoners. Your support and encouragement are the life breath for anyone trying to keep heart and soul together while spending so many years away from the inspiration and motivation that our committed communities of resistance provide. It seems like the longer I am away, the more those memories seem necessary to me, feeding my spirit with the knowledge that a new world is possible.

I want to wish my comrades in the Earth First!, IWW, animal rights and native sovereignty movements many victories, as well as to extend my love and hope to the good friends struggling for queer and trans rights. My blood pumps still because you live and fight. I want to send a wild wolf howl to all the anarchist buddies and friends yet to be met who have sent me their stories, their love and their vision describing a world without hierarchy. I see through your eyes and dream with you.

My life is small here, though still bigger than it was in my old constricted Unit. I have met many, many wonderful people and so many new trans friends. Yet I have such limited capacity and I have been feeling my age and some age-related health problems….but I continue to advocate for my request to complete my medical transition. I am discouraged that the TEC (which decides cases like mine for the BOP) has NOT met yet, though I had been told by staff here that my case would be heard this past week. I will keep our community informed as to how that process continues to unfold. It is a long arc towards justice, but with your help and support..surely, all trans prisoners asking for medical relief will be vindicated.

I feel like it is so hard now to contribute meaningfully to creating the world that we dream of so passionately. I find that it is difficult to follow the news of our campaigns in the free world to defend the water, to protect our animal brothers and sisters, to demand a society that is not built on hate and exclusion but rather built on love and inclusion…..But I am committed to supporting my fellow prisoners here, and try to do that work with integrity, offering comfort and support in both their day to day hurts and troubles and in their/our long-term goals for dignity and ultimately – freedom. I am so much stronger because I know that you are with us, helping us to persist until that day of freedom comes. You have my ever-lasting gratitude for carrying me through these long seasons of waiting.
I am forever in your debt. Stay strong, do right, be brave..I am so proud to call you my family.

Love and solidarity,

Marius Mason

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Call-in Requests from Indiana Prisoners

Posted on June 8, 2018 by KLR

A request through IDOC Watch:

“Khalfani Malik Khaldun (Leonard McQuay #874304) is under attack at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility (WVCF)! In the past weeks, staff at the facility have made two attempts to intimidate him. First, his cell was raided and torn apart early in the morning, as officers searched for weapons and phones that Khalfani and his cellmate knew nothing about. Then, on June 6, counselor Brian Mifflin approached other inmates and made comments to them that suggested that Bro. Khalfani had been giving information to the staff, which he has not, tarnishing his reputation and putting his life in danger. Counselor Mifflin’s conduct is a direct violation of the DOC’s Information and Standards of Conduct Policy for DOC staff, which forbids staff from fraternizing with prisoners with the intent of harming other prisoners.

Please call WVCF Warden Richard Brown at (812) 398-5050, ext 2 and demand that Counselor Brian Mifflin be reprimanded and apologise to Leonard McQuay for his violation of the Information and Standards of Conduct for DOC Staff policy”

and also from IDOC Watch, who write:

“Kwame Shakur(Michael Joyner) has suffered yet another assault from staff at Pendleton Correctional Facility. We believe that Kwame’s medical condition is urgent and that he may have suffered traumatic injury to the head.

The assault comes shortly after Shakur was dismissed from a medical examination after insisting he be treated for an auto-immune condition caused by a TB outbreak in Pendleton. It also follows the most recent assault on him during a punitive shake down in retaliation for his political activity.

Pendleton has made Kwame Shakur a primary target in their suppression of inmate struggle and if they are not stopped, the violence against Shakur will only escalate. Pendleton was most recently in the news for the arrest of three corrections officers caught on tape severely beating an unarmed inmate. Warden Dushan Zatecky assured the public that their arrest was proof of Pendleton’s commitment to inmate safety. Yet assaults on inmates, of which Kwame Shakur is just the most recent is a constant occurrence at Pendleton.

If you can, please Call:

IDOC Commissioner Robert E. Carter
(317) 232-5711, press 0 for operator and ask for the commissioner, leave a message if no one answers.

Ask for the commissioner but you will likely speak to a secretary with whom you can leave a message.

Potential script:
“I am calling because I am concerned about the safety of Michael Joyner #149677 of Pendleton Correctional Facility. Yesterday he was assaulted by staff and likely has a severe injury to the head. I would like to know his whereabouts and request an investigation into the incident.”

You do not have to say more than that. Expect lies and dodges. Nor do you have to give any more information about yourself.”

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A request through IDOC Watch:

and also from IDOC Watch, who write:

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