The SCU: Indiana’s New Regime of Oppression
by Leon Benson
American prisoners are nothing but micro-reflections of the larger
government and social structure. Hence, if the larger society and government is
oppressive to the people through quasi-sociopolitical sanctions such as the
PATRIOT ACT, HOME GROWN TERRORIST ACT, and the like, then those same neo-fascist
ideologies that create these quasi-sociopolitical sanctions will drizzle onto
lower branches of bureaucracy. This expression can be engrossingly observed in
the inhumane practices of prisoncrats nationwide, specifically their nefarious
practices are intensified toward prisoners in isolation units for administrative
reasons.
Over here in Carlisle, Indiana, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility has
the state’s notorious Security Housing Unit (SHU), which was built in 1994.
It’s architecture was directly modeled after California’s wicked Pelican Bay
SHU, which was built in 1989.
Similar to the Pelican bay SHU, the SHU at WVCF also has endured
mountains of litigations filed against it by mostly prisoners of the harsh
confinement conditions since its inception. Despite all the social and legal
outcry over the past decade, the SHU remains Indiana’s most restrictively
oppressive isolation unit. Prisoners are locked down 23-24 hours per day,
granted one 20-minute phone call a week. Non-contact visits are held on a video
monitor. And prisoners are escorted around with a dog leash attached to hand
cuffs like an animal, etc. All of which creates a psychological nightmare for
any person confined in such an environment for prolonged periods.
However, a sense of social justice emerged, when, in 2005, the Indiana
American Civil Liberties Union stepped up to assist prisoners in a class action
law suit against the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) for the ongoing
conditions of the SHU. One year later, they gained the most notable legal
victory against the SHU.
In 2006, in the case Mast v. Donahue (no. 2:05-cv-037 LJM-WGH), the
Southern District of Indiana ruled that the SHU confinement conditions were
toxic, but only harmed the 6th, 8th, and 4th Amendment rights of all mentally
ill prisoners. Thus, all mentally ill prisoners were “ordered” to be
immediately removed from the SHU on or after April 1, 2006.
Indeed, that case was a huge win against the SHU. But put away the
confetti and cigars, because the Southern District of Indiana failed to condemn
the confinement of “all prisoners” in the SHU. Ironically, 15 years earlier,
in 1991, the Northern District of California ruled exactly the same way—that
is, in only ordering the removal of all mentally ill prisoners from Pelican Bay
SHU. Moreover, Judge Henderson, of the California ruling, acknowledged
“...extreme social isolation...found in Pelican Bay SHU will likely inflict
some degree of psychological trauma upon most inmates confined there more than
brief periods.”
Judge McKinney, of the Indiana District Court, expressed the same
sentiments in 2006—as did Judge Henderson from California—of the
psychopathology that affects all prisoners confined in the SHU and units the
like. And McKinney, too, refused to find the conditions in the WVCF SHU were per
se in violation of the 6th, 8th, 14th Amendments with respect to all prisoners
confined there.
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REFORMATION STRATEGEM
As a result of the Indiana District Court order, more than half of the
SHU cells were left empty. This only exposes prisoncrats’ practice of gaining
government funding at the expense of mentally ill prisoners they threw into the
SHU. The removal of these prisoners cripple the justification of the SHU
operations cost.
WVCF houses a total of 2,050 prisoners. The entire facility costs $40
million a year to operate. This does not include education, substance abuse,
recreation and the other program fundings. Nonetheless, the SHU houses a total
of 288 prisoners, which is 14% of WVCF population and of operations cost—which
is $5.6 million. Logically, one can conclude that half of the $5.6 million in
operations cost of the SHU was put in peril by the removal of the mentally ill
prisoners.
For these reasons and more, prisoncrats acted meticulous and swiftly to
preserve government funding for the SHU. On May 21, 2006, the name of the SHU
was changed into another bureaucratic title: Special Housing Unit (SCU). The
name change was a play to somehow mitigate the psychologically destructive
nature of the unit’s condition.
In addition, the administrative segregation section of the SCU—which
was only then made up A-East ranges 1,2,3 and 4—was re-modified into what
prisoncrats call “Department Wide Administrative Segregation (DWAS). The new
policies following the establishment of this new regime enabled prisoncrats to
snatch up prisoners from any facility’s population from around the state and
place them on DWAS in the SCU without a conduct infraction for an undetermined
period.
DWAS became a dream-come-true for prisoncrats for two important reasons.
First, it allowed them to systematically refill the empty SCU cells with
prisoners on a long-term basis to keep the $5.6 million funding quota coming.
Secondly, the DWAS criteria allows them to confine prisoners in the SCU on mere
speculation of wrongdoing, hearsay from prison snitches, the nature of the crime
upon which one was sent to prison, ten years past conduct history, history of
hostile behavior toward guards and others, pending investigation, awaiting
trial, or classified reasons.
Unsurprisingly, a majority of Black prisoners have been placed on DWAS
due to their political beliefs, leadership qualities, litigation expertise,
anti-snitch attitude, freedom campaigning, or allegiance to any religion
that’s considered non-American. Basically, Indiana prisoncrats have modified
the SCU into a domestic Guantanamo Bay, through their DWAS criteria-policy,
which can be seen as a Penal PATRIOTS ACT. It’s bad for any Afrocentric or
conscious prisoner here in Indiana State.
Presently, in 2008, there are 12 DWAS ranges on the SCU occupying pods
A-EAST and A-WEST> This was a drastic increase from 2006 of the prisoners
held in the SCU for administrative reasons: from 48 prisoners to 114.
Once prisoners are sucked into this vacuum of DWASW of the SCU, it is
nearly impossible for them to escape. Prisoncrats don’t afford us opportunity
to properly challenge the due process violations that occur when they place us
on DWAS. The DWAS placement criteria is too vast for any prisoner to avoid.
Additionally, upon the establishment of DWAS, IDOC commissioner J. David
Donahue created and gave the Southern Regional Director (SRD) the power to place
prisoners on DWAS in SCU upon a recommendation from any of the superintendents
through the state’s 24 prisons.
The only way prisoners can be released from DWAS is by the SRD or
commissioner’s approval—only after the prisoner has submitted a “request
for release from administrative segregation” to a delegate board made up of
six WVCF employees (i.e., SCU unit team manager, custody manager, case worker,
manager, counselor, asst. supt., and superintendent), who will each vote to
recommend or not recommend the prisoner’s release. If even one of the six
delegates vote non-release for whatever reason (usually for past-conduct
history), then the recommendation will not be submitted to the SRD. The prisoner
would then have to wait another six months to submit another request for release
from the WVCF delegate board.
However, if the recommendation makes it from the delegate board to the
SRD but he denies release, then the prisoner will have to wait another six
months to start the process all over again as well.
It would seem like this process of getting released from DWAS
is less bias than if a superintendent had total power to decide from the
initial facility the prisoner came. However, due to corporate interests of top
prisoncrats to preserve the status quo of the SCU. The explained release
delegation and process is a total “sham.”
i only called WVCF staff a delegate board for sake of labeling it
something logical. But there is no formal name for this delegate board. However,
upon close social observation, their modus operandi bears
undeniable semblance to the federal government’s Combatant Status Review
Tribunal (CSRT), which was established through executive order in the MILITARY
COMMISSIONS ACT to determine whether detainees held at Guantanamo Bay were
“properly detained” as “enemy combatants.”
Much like the WVCF delegate board consists of bias, IDOC employees and
the way it considers information to decide on releasing us from DWAS, the CSRT
consists of panels of their own military officers who can consider any
information that is hearsay, classified, or that has been obtained under torture
or other ill-treatment, in making their determinations. The detainee—held
thousands of miles from his homeland and virtually cut off from the outside
world—does not have access to a lawyer or to classified evidence used against
him.
The WVCF delegate board and SRD functions much like the CSRT. Which is a
due process sham that oppresses detainees and
DWAS prisoners and the like. However, SCU prisoners’ conditions by far
aren’t as extreme as the detainees’. But, if nothing is done to stop these
prisoncrats “reformation stratagem,” the SCU will be exactly like Guantanamo
Bay, and this wouldn't be the design of pious prisoncrats, but, instead, in
apathetic corporate interest to amass astronomical wealth at the expense of
incarcerating free society. We must never forget: the Prison Industrial Complex
is one of the world’s largest corporations.
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QUAASI-ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT
For those of you who are not familiar with the term “quasi-contract,”
it means: an obligation of one party to another imposed by law, independently of
an agreement between the parties.
My point of presenting this term is to further expose more deception
perpetuated by these prisoncrats. In July, 2006, commissioner Donahue directed
the WVCF administration to pitch a program to DWAS prisoners. The program is
called “A.C.T.”—which is an acronym of “Actions, Consequences, and
Treatment” program. The program is designed around behavioral modification
aims toward segregated prisoners.
The program is provided by the SCU staff through six phases of work
lessons for prisoners to complete in writing while they remain in the cell. The
program runs for 18 months. The last two phases, or six months, can be spent in
WVCF population, in G-Housing Unit.
But there are several catches in the “contract” prisoners have to
sign before participating in the program. First, the prisoner must admit to
anti-social, thinking, and behavioral problems alleged by prisoncrats, even if
it doesn’t exist on record. This is like signing a plea bargain for a crime
you know you didn’t commit. Second, the prisoner is guaranteeing his
commitment to the program for 18 months as well as his DWAS confinement in the
SCU, when he could have been released within that same time frame by going
before the SRD and delegate board every six months. Third, there is no guarantee
that every prisoner who completes the program will be released from SCU into
population.
Despite the mentioned contractual contradictions, DWAS prisoners have
continued to sign up for this program. The ACT program officially started in
December, 2006 with only 4 range on A-EAST Pod. Now, ranges 2,3,4,5 and 6 are
ACT Program. Rumor has it that, by the end of 2008, at least ten out of the
twelve ranges on A-EAST and A-WEST pods will be ACTS Program.
Only six DWAS prisoners have been released to population through the ACT
program. This program offers more opportunities for disciplinary segregated
(d/s) prisoners in the SCU than those on DWAS. While on d/s, prisoners are
disallowed state wages or to buy extra food and hygiene products from WVCF’s
commissary. However, while participating in the ACT program, it provides them
the privileges to receive an $11 state wage each month and to purchase extra
commissary items. Also, d/s prisoners can bypass segregation sentences up to 5
years in the SCU they received for misconduct and be placed in population upon
completion of the program. This is a win-win situation for d/s prisoners.
You would think that more d/s prisoners would be in the ACT program than
those on DWAS. However, this is not the case, despite excessive demands from d/s
prisoners to sign up. There are three reasons for the increase of DWAS prisoners
signing a quasi-contract to participate in a program that has no guarantees for
their release:
1. The SCU staff and the South Regional Director have misled DWAS
prisoners. By repeatedly telling them that the only way they can be released
from the SCU is to sign up and complete the ACT program. However, there
doesn’t exist a law, policy, memorandum, or directive that says: “prisoners
must complete the ACT program in order to be released from the SCU under DWAS
status.” Over 20 DWAS prisoners have been released without joining the ACT.
2. On Jan, 1, 2007, prisoncrats issued an executive directive (#06-56)
which presented policy 02-01-100 that discontinued state wages of $11 per month
to any prisoner placed on administrative segregation throughout Indiana.
Therefore, prisoners without outside financial support are left to languish in
the SCU at the mercy of prisoncrats’ unsatisfactory food and hygiene handouts,
thus increasing distress and the likelihood that DWAS prisoners will sign up for
the ACT program for the state-wage incentive.
3. Specifically, prisoncrats are forcing DWAS prisoners to sign a
“quasi-administrative contract” through many forms of calculated oppression,
mainly the threat of continued subjection to the documented psychopathological
conditions of the SCU, which all plays to guarantee that a SCU cell remains
occupied for 18 months with the prisoners’ contractual consent.
The ACT program is a “quasi-administrative contract”—an obligation forced
on DWAS prisoners while they are under threat, stress, and duress of SCU
conditions, impeded by prisoncrats, independently of an agreement of actual law
legislated through the state and federal governments.
Therefore, the ACT program is a bureaucratic scam at the expense of
systematically distressed DWAS prisoners.
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A TARGET OF OPPRESSION
It is no secret that Indiana State has a long history of racism,
particularly an intimate relationship with the terrorist group Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
The state is also known for legal lynchings. The most notable and literal legal
lynching occurred in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930, when two Black teens,
Thomas Ship and Abram Smith were dragged from the county jail and lynched on
mere speculation that they raped a white woman.
This overtly violent racism that occurred in Marion, Indiana and
throughout America during the Jim Crow era was discontinued in 1954. However, a
new strand of the racism disease emerged throughout legal, economical,
sociopolitical, and educational institutions. Many sociologists have described
this strand as “institutional racism” or “invisible racism”...but i’ve
come to describe this strand as “tacit racism” and define it as follows: (1)
Sociology,
the understood racism or ethnocentricism among majority groups or groups holding
sociopolitical and economical power in any society or situation, toward the
minority group(s) without a verbal or direct statement being made. (2) Psychology,
conscious or subconscious pathological behavior of racial or cultural groups,
who maneuvers to maintain or gain superior position in their socio-relationship
with other racial or cultural groups, while denying such maneuvers.
Through this strand of racism, legal lynchings are now perpetuated in
American courts under the guise of equal law. i became the victim of such a
legal lynching when, in an Indianapolis, Indiana courtroom on July 8, 1999, I
was falsely convicted for the shooting death of a white upper-class male and
later sentenced to 60 years in prison.
What made me a target for such a historical attack from an Indiana
judicial system?
Unfortunately, i was a 22-year-old Black drug dealer, from Flint,
Michigan, identified by a white person of killing another white person in cold
blood while in Indiana. And the visceral nature of
“tacit racism” clouded the jurors’ consideration of the
overwhelming evidence of my innocence. Not to mention, my own attorney was in
collusion to convict me.
Sept. 22, 1999, i arrived at WVCF to serve my sentence. That’s when i
became a target of prisoncrats due to the racial politics of my case. Pigs
approached me several times, questioning me about details of my criminal case.
Because i boldly maintained my innocence, there were intense confrontations that
nearly erupted in physical violence between me and pigs.
In Jan. of 2000, Alan Finnan, the then head of the facility’s Security
Threat group (STG) task force tried to bait me into an unauthorized
interrogation with an Indianapolis homicide detective. i took a strong stance
against Finnan by indignantly denying to participate in such a “snitch
meeting” with a detective at the expense of my innocence and integrity.
Obviously, Finnan thought i was guilty of murdering one of his fellow white
Hoosiers; therefore, he had the evil eye toward me after this encounter. Since
STG dealt with the matters concerning street and prison gangs, Finnan had no
reason to keep harassing me because i’m not affiliated nor share a history of
gang activity.
Then, on Aug. 20, 2001, a prison riot erupted in the yard and in the
cell-house I was in. Three pigs were beat up. i had absolutely no involvement in
the riot, not even a whisper of sedition, though i believe all three pigs got
what they deserved. During the spontaneous violence, i was taking a shower in
the cell-house, at least 100 feet away from the nearest drama. Even if i were
close enough, i wouldn’t have gotten involved, because my assistance wasn’t
needed, Plus, i didn’t wanna jeopardize my upcoming college classes. And my
expectations were too good of my pending appeal to be caught up in prison
politics. However, i never foresaw this incident being the opportunity
prisoncrats would use to send me to solitary confinement for years.
All prisoners suspected to be involved in the riot were immediately taken
from population and placed in the SHU, pending investigation. However,
unexpectedly, on Nov. 6, 2001, more than 2 months after the incident, i was
approached by pigs, restrained, and taken directly to the SHU. It was later
discovered that a lying-prisoner-snitch claimed he saw me participate in the
assault of an old pig named Danny Cooper. This was bullshit, especially when i
received a statement from Cooper identifying that a white prisoner with long
hair and tattoos assaulted him—not a Black prisoner like myself.
However, Dec. 12. 2001, i was found guilty before bias Disciplinary
Hearing Board members, despite the blatant evidence of my non-involvement in the
riot. Altogether, there were 6 white, 4 Hispanic, and 4 Black prisoners. We were
each given a 1-yeay sentence on disciplinary segregation (d/s) in the SHU.
During my d/s time, i experienced the denial of my court appeal, deaths
of 3 family members, and the loss of all my saved finances in society. Not to
mention the boiling mental and emotional distress of being falsely in prison and
falsely in the SHU. After a year of enduring this madness, things got worse. On
Nov. 6, 2002, the date of my release to population, instead, pigs escorted me to
an administrative SHU range in A-EAST pod.
And i’ve been on the same range ever since. i’ve continued to fight
for my exoneration and release from the SHU. Now, after nearly seven years of
confinement in the SHU, i ’m the only prisoner that remains here out of the
(14) allegedly involved in the riot. THIS IS NO COINCIDENCE. i’ve been made
into a target of oppression by prisoncrats due to the racial politics of my
criminal case.
i’ve maintained a clean conduct history for many years. And i’ve done
my best to remain low-key. On July 29, 2007, i was recommended by the WVCF
delegate board for release to the South Regional Director (SRD). However, Aug.
16, 2007, the SRD denied my release due to the same alleged riot involvement in
2001.
At the beginning of 2008, the SCU’s counselor, case worker, manager,
and unit team manager were replaced. Therefore, i was confronted with new
personalities of control, yet “atavistic mentalities that were completely
dependent on rote to perform the simplest functions,” particularly the new UTM
Leohr.
All my submissions requesting release from DWAS were purposefully ignored
from February until June 17, 2008. When UTM Leohr requested my presence in his
SCU office for an administrative segregation review. Upon entering his office by
the escort of pigs while i was handcuffed with a dog leash attached to them,
there sat the fat white man they called Leohr sitting behind his desk. Also the
case worker (CM) was present.
Leohr let me know before i could speak that he, the superintendent, and
asst. supt. all denied my release request. Instantly, i made my case: “How can
yall deny my recommendation when you’ve already approved me once before? Plus,
everyone else has been released who were part of this same riot case, except
me!”
“Hey! If i were in charge when those prisoners were released, i would
have denied all those sons-of-bitches too! i was in population in 2001 when that
riot occurred in G-cell-house. it was bad. C/O Cooper died two years ago, but
not due to injuries from the riot. i just thought i’d tell you this,” Leohr
said with spiteful facial expressions.
“Man, please! Y’all know, for a fact, that i was not involved in that
riot! You know this! Where’s the logic in the WVCF recommending my release but
now denying me, when i’ve had no misconduct and i’ve been in this place
nearly 7 years now?” i snapped back at him while feeling like a slave,
handcuffed and shackled, standing in this office.
Nearly jumping from behind his desk, Leorh declared, “This is a new
regime now and i’m running it!”
i just stood there thinking things i don't care to mention. The CM,
Kramer, looked at me blankly. Then i asked Leohr, “Do you believe in
humanity?”
“Not really!” he replied coldly.
“Do you believe in change?”
“i don’t have much faith in that either!”
“You know what they say?”
“What’s that?”
“Well, when a person can’t see humanity or change in others, it’s
only because they can’t see it in themselves!” i said with a smile before
walking out the office.
The next day, a screening officer delivered two conduct reports to me in
the SCU cell. One conduct report was written up by the WVCF mailroom staff
alleging i received a booklet in the mail entitled “For Change” from Keith
Anderson that detailed how money can be sent to my prison account, which was a
class B-240 rule violation: Attempting to receive anything of value.
The second report was written by Leohr against me alleging the following:
“On 6/12/08 at approximately 10:30 AM. i received a letter from Offender Leon
Benson #995256. The letter was addressed to Mesha-Mongue-Irizarry c/o Idriss
Stelly Foundation, Red Stone Building Suite #209, 2940 16th St., SF, CA 94110.
The envelope contained fund raising and advertisement information. The letter
discussed fundraising through Ms. Monge-Irizarry’s organization. Offender
Benson states in the letter, “...you only have one fundraising director that
works 8 hours a week—huh? Well, we’ll have to stick to online fundraising
then.’ Based on the evidence and attached excerpt from Indiana Code:
11-8-6-1, ‘Prohibited Activities’ section 1(4). Offender Benson has been
charged with an A-111/100: Attempt/violation of any federal, state, or local
criminal law, Prohibited Activities, solicitation.”
Basically, after ignoring my written requests for release the past four
months, the only reason Leohr requested my presence at the hearing (June 17) was
to gloat at me because he’d wrote me up without my knowledge. What a
coward—huh?
Also, the reports expose other reasons why prisoncrats have made me a
target of oppression: they see me relentlessly fighting for my exoneration no
matter what they throw in my way. They can’t kill my spirit. From his new song
“No Matter What,” hip-hop artist T.I. couldn’t have said it better: “I
ain’t dead, I ain’t done/I ain’t scared, I ain’t run/Still I stand/No
matter what, here I am.”
The mail that was confiscated and the letters that i was wrote up for
merely illustrated my written communication of organizing the network’ and
unity between Holly Rodriguez, Keith Andersom, Mesha Mongue-Irizarry and Leesa
Taylor, who are all individual supporters of my freedom fight. The tyrants here
in The SCU despise my undying morale and ambition to have developed the ability
to touch society through my writings. Therefore, they’re harassing me as a
play to discourage my activism, freedom strive, and to taint my clean conduct to
justify keeping me isolated.
June 24, 2008, i went before the makeshift disciplinary hearing board in
the SCU. The hearing was conducted in the hallway corridor of A-EAST pod.
Therefore, all the pigs working that day gathered around as the hearing
proceeded while i stood tall despite my hands cuffed and feet shackled. Long
story short, i beat out the class B(240) “attempt to receive anything of
value” because a unique supported named Lee Bently 448 wrote the “For
Change” fundraiser booklet without my consent. It’s outside the jurisdiction
of WVCF power to hold me responsible for what people in society do on my behalf.
Unfortunately, i was found guilty of the class A(111/100) “solicitation
or soliciting funds.” i lost my phone use for 2 months, 90 days good credit
time, and suspended d/s time.
A virtue. This bad situation became the perfect opportunity for me to
rightfully retaliate against Leohr and his personal bias against my release from
the SCU. Therefore, i wrote him up for violating IDOC policy 02-01-103 sections
(10 and 14) and of my 1st Amendment rights of free speech. This results from his
unauthorized role of tampering with my outgoing mail. He’s not mailroom staff.
i finally got this mouse-booty under the lion paws of my pen poke. And i won’t
let up.
The sad thing is i’m only trying to get out of prison within all
legality. But the prisoncrats are trying to purposefully undermine my attempts
from the inside. My Post Conviction Relief hearing is quickly closing in at Feb.
19, 2009. They will stop at nothing to keep me falsely in prison. Yet, they
don’t understand that i’m a practitioner of many arts and disciplines of
engagement. Therefore, i’m in full warrior mode. How could i be any other way?
With Alan Finnan, the former head of STG is currently superintendent of
WVCF and UTM Leohr both having it in for me, everything i write is considered seditious
libel here. Therefore, as
long as i’m held in this “new regime” of the SCU, i will be a favorite
target of these prisoncrats’ oppression. i need to be transferred out of this
death camp and any other isolation unit altogether and placed in general
population at another facility.
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STRIKE NOW: THERE IS A LOT YOU CAN DO
As of June 24, 2008, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniel accepted the resignation
of IDOC Commissioner J. David Donahue. Although it’s said Donahue was
compelled by family considerations to return to his home state of Kentucky to be
warden of Kentucky State Reformatory, rumors throughout IDOC say sexual
harassment forced his resignation.
Donahue led the reformation stratagem of the SCU by adding extra
restrictions and establishing DWAS. He is a green-blooded prisoncrat to the
core. He felt like keeping prisoners locked up was keeping score. “When i
accepted this assignment, the governor challenged me to ‘measure up and follow
up,’ because, as he says, ‘if you aren’t keeping score, you’re only
practicing.’ i think my most important impact on the department has been that
concept in our culture,” explained Donahue.
The governor has found a replacement already. On August 1, 2008, Edwin
Buss became the new IDOC commissioner. What’s known about Buss is that he was
once the warden of Indiana State Prison of Michigan City. And he provided the
prisoners with a lot of rehabilitative options. Although Buss still has a
twisted prisoncrat mentality, since he is taking the new position, it is a damn
good chance that he’ll listen to us.
Help us expose the unconstitutional procedural practices and dehumanizing
conditions amid this “New Regime of Oppression.” STRIKE NOW! There is no
effort from you in society that the prisoncrats will ignore. They’ll respond
to your demands for change and for the release of DWAS prisoners into
population, specifically brothers like myself who have been here too many years
already.
If me and a few other prisoners here continue to speak out alone, we will
continue to suffer repression from prisoncrats. They will keep us further
isolated from our loved ones and from the free world altogether.
However, the only effective challenge to these prisoncrats in Indiana is
one that is broad enough from you. No matter if you send a single line message
saying, “RELEASE ALL PRISONERS FROM DEPARTMENT WIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SEGREGATION
IMMEDIATELY!”
Send all protest calls, letters, emails, or faxes to the following:
· Superintendent
Alan Finnan, WVCF, 6908 S. Old U.S. HWY 41, PO Box 500, Carlisle, IN 47838-0500.
(812) 398-5050, email afinnan@idoc.IN.gov.
· Southern
Regional Director, Stanley Knight, IDOC, IGC-South, 302 W. Washington St.,
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2738, (317) 232-5711, fax (317) 232-6798, email SKnight@idoc.IN.gov.
· Commissioner
Edwin Buss, IGC-South, 302 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204-2738, (317)
232-5711, fax (317) 232-6798, email EBuss@idoc.IN.gov.
· Governor
Mitch Daniels, Office of the Governor, State House, Room 206, 200 W. Washington
St., Indianapolis, IN 46204-2738, (317) 232-4567, fax (317) 232-6798, www.in.gov/indocorrection.
Due to Leon’s sudden transfer to a Northern Indiana isolation
unit—specifically on behalf of his release efforts to population—please
contact the Northern Regional, Rondle Anderson, IDOC, IGS-South, 302 W.
Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204-2738. (317) 232-5711, fax (317) 232-6748,
email RAnderson@idoc.IN.gov.
i, like many other brothers here are at battle in a war of mind, body and
soul that society can’t see. i only provided you with a peak into this
windowless death camp. Please join us in fully exposing this bureaucratic
tyranny that’s occurring in the SCU here and in other units the like across
America. The REAL POWER IS IN A POPLE WHO CAN UNIFY FOR A HUMANE CAUSE. Stay
keen and blessed by the Divine. Your brother, LB: “Fighting 2 the bitter
end!”
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Write Brother Leon Benson #995256, Westville Control Unit (WCU), 5501 South 1100 West, Westville, IN 46391. He was transferred to WCU, another isolation unit, soon after writing this article. This move can be seen as a step closer to getting Leon released back to population. So, your outside support is needed even more in order to accomplish this goal. For more info on Leon’s freedom fight and to become a supporter, then visit www.freeleon.com and www.adspread.com/leonflyer.htm, or email your thoughts to hrodriguez68@yahoo.com
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