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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