- GEORGIA PRISONERS STRIKE SECOND DAY
Published on Black Agenda Report http://blackagendareport.com
Offices of the wardens at Hay’s, Macon State, Telfair, and Augusta state all referred our inquiries to the Department of Corrections public affairs officer, who so far has declined to return our repeated calls.
The nine specific demands made by Georgia’s striking prisoners in two press releases pointedly reflect many of the systemic failures of the U.S. regime of mass incarceration, and the utter disconnection of U.S. prisons from any notions of protecting or serving the public interest.
Georgia prisoners of all races pray together in special unit at Calhoun State prison; prayer groups not allowed in general pop
The prisoner strike in Georgia is unique, sources among inmates and their families say, because it includes not just black prisoners, but Latinos and whites too, a departure from the usual sharp racial divisions that exist behind prison walls. Inmate families and other sources claim that when thousands of prisoners remained in their cells Thursday, authorities responded with violence and intimidation.
Tactical officers rampaged through Telfair State Prison destroying inmate personal effects and severely beating at least six prisoners. Inmates in Macon State Prison say authorities cut the prisoners’ hot water, and at Telfair the administration shut off heat Thursday when daytime temperatures were in the 30s. Prisoners responded by screening their cells with blankets, keeping prison authorities from performing an accurate count, a crucial aspect of prison operations.
Telfair State Prison, GA
As of Friday, inmates at several prisons say they are committed to continuing the strike. “We are going to ride it,” the inmate press release quotes one, “till the wheels fall off. We want our human rights.”
The peaceful inmate strike is being led from within the prison. Some of those thought to be its leaders have been placed under close confinement.
The nine specific demands made by Georgia’s striking prisoners in two press releases pointedly reflect many of the systemic failures of the U.S. regime of mass incarceration, and the utter disconnection of U.S. prisons from any notions of protecting or serving the public interest. Prisoners are demanding, in their own words, decent living conditions, adequate medical care and nutrition, educational and self-improvement opportunities, just parole decisions, just parole decisions, an end to cruel and unusual punishments, and better access to their families.
Macon State Prison, GA
It’s a fact that Georgia prisons skimp on medical care and nutrition behind the walls, and that in Georgia’s prisons recreational facilities are non-existent, and there are no educational programs available beyond GED, with the exception of a single program that trains inmates to be Baptist ministers. Inmates know that upon their release they will have no more education than they did when they went in, and will be legally excluded from Pell Grants and most kinds of educational assistance, they and their families potentially locked into a disadvantaged economic status for life.
Prisoner Thomas Ross with family Photo from http://prisonnewsblog.com/2009/03/prison-is-hard-on-prison-families/
Despite the single biggest predictor of successful reintegration into society being sustained contact with family and community, Georgia’s prison authorities make visits and family contact needlessly difficult and expensive. Georgia no longer allows families to send funds via US postal money orders to inmates. It requires families to send money through J-Pay, a private company that rakes off nearly ten percent of all transfers.
Telephone conversations between Georgia prisoners and their families are also a profit centers for another prison contractor, Global Tel-Link which extracts about $55 a month for a weekly 15 minute phone call from cash-strapped families. It’s hard to imagine why the state cannot operate reliable payment and phone systems for inmates and their families with public employees at lower cost, except that this would put contractors, who probably make hefty contributions to local politicians out of business.
Georgia maximum security prison
Besides being big business, prisons are public policy. The U.S. has less than five percent of the world’s population, but accounts for almost a quarter of its prisoners. African Americans are one eighth this nation’s population, but make up almost half the locked down. The nation’s prison population increased more than 450% in a generation beginning about 1981. It wasn’t about crime rates, because those went up, and then back down. It wasn’t about rates of drug use, since African Americans have the same rates of drug use as whites and Latinos. Since the 1980s, the nation has undertaken a well-documented policy of mass incarceration, focused primarily though not exclusively on African Americans.
National prison protest movement needed
The good news is that public policies are ultimately the responsibility of the public to alter, to change or do do away with. America’s policy of mass incarceration is overdue for real and sustained public scrutiny. A movement has to be built on both sides of the walls that will demand an end to the prison industry and to the American policy of mass incarceration. That movement will have to be outside the Republican and Democratic parties. Both are responsible for building this system, and both rely on it to sustain their careers. The best Democrats could do on the 100 to 1 crack to powder cocaine disparity this year, with a black president in the White House and thumping majorities in the House and Senate was to reduce it to 18 to 1, and then only by lengthening the sentences for powder cocaine. On this issue, Democrats and Republicans are part of the problem, not the solution.
As this article goes to print Saturday morning, it’s not known whether the strike will continue a third day. With prison officials not talking, and corporate media ignoring prisoners not just this week but every day, outlets like Black Agenda Report and the web site upon which you’re reading this are among the chief means inmates and their families have of communicating with the public.
The prisoners are asking the public to continue to call the Georgia Department of Corrections, and the individual prisons listed below to express concern for the welfare of the prisoners.
Prison is about corruption, power and isolation. You can help break the isolation by calling the wardens’ offices at the prisons. Prisons, naturally , are open Saturdays and Sundays too.
Ed. note: Georgia operates the fifth-largest prison system in the nation, at a cost of $1 billion a year. It ranks ninth in population among all states.
Read New York Times article at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12prison.html
Atlanta Journal-Constitution article at http://www.ajc.com/news/did-state-prisoners-protest-771451.html
REPORT ON FIRST DAY ON STRIKE
Prisoner at Hays State Prison in Trion, GA, maximum security
In an action which is unprecedented on several levels, black, brown and white inmates of Georgia’s notorious state prison system are standing together for a historic one day peaceful strike today, during which they are remaining in their cells, refusing work and other assignments and activities. This is a groundbreaking event not only because inmates are standing up for themselves and their own human rughts, but because prisoners are setting an example by reaching across racial boundaries which, in prisons, have historically been used to pit oppressed communities against each other. PRESS RELEASE BELOW.
The action is taking place today in at least half a dozen of Georgia’s more than one hundred state prisons, correctional facilities, work camps, county prisons and other correctional facilities. We have unconfirmed reports that authorities at Macon State prison have aggressively responded to the strike by sending tactical squads in to rough up and menace inmates.
Smith State Prison GA
Outside calls from concerned citizens and news media will tend to stay the hand of prison authorities who may tend to react with reckless and brutal aggression
. So calls to the warden’s office of the following Georgia State Prisons expressing concern for the welfare of the prisoners during this and the next few days are welcome.
| Macon State Prison is 978-472-3900. | Hays State Prison is at (706) 857-0400 |
| Telfair State prison is 229-868-7721 | Baldwin State Prison is at (478) 445- 5218 |
| Valdosta State Prison is 229-333-7900 | Smith State Prison is at (912) 654-5000 |
| The Georgia Department of Corrections is at http://www.dcor.state.ga.us and their phone number is 478-992-5246 | |
One in every thirteen adults in the state of Georgia is in prison, on parole or probation or some form of court or correctional supervision.
Elaine Brown, former Black Panther Party leader
BIGGEST PRISONER STRIKE IN U.S. HISTORY
Thousands of Georgia Prisoners to Stage Peaceful Protest
December 8, 2010…Atlanta, Georgia
Contacts: Elaine Brown, 404-542 1211, sistaelaine@gmail.com
Valerie Porter, 229-931-5348, lashan123@att.net
Thousands of Georgia prisoners will refuse to work, stop all other activities and remain in their cells in a peaceful, one-day protest for their human rights. The December 9 Strike is projected to be the biggest prisoner protest in the history of the United States.
Baldwin State Prison GA
These thousands of men, from Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith and Telfair State Prisons, among others, state they are striking to press the Georgia Department of Corrections (“DOC”) to stop treating them like animals and slaves and institute programs that address their basic human rights. They have set forth the following demands:
· A LIVING WAGE FOR WORK: In violation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude, the DOC demands prisoners work for free.
· EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: For the great majority of prisoners, the DOC denies all opportunities for education beyond the GED, despite the benefit to both prisoners and society.
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· DECENT HEALTH CARE: In violation of the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, the DOC denies adequate medical care to prisoners, charges excessive fees for the most minimal care and is responsible for extraordinary pain and suffering.
· AN END TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS: In further violation of the 8th Amendment, the DOC is responsible for cruel prisoner punishments for minor infractions of rules.
· DECENT LIVING CONDITIONS: Georgia prisoners are confined in over-crowded, substandard conditions, with little heat in winter and oppressive heat in summer.
· NUTRITIONAL MEALS: Vegetables and fruit are in short supply in DOC facilities while starches and fatty foods are plentiful.
· VOCATIONAL AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES: The DOC has stripped its facilities of all opportunities for skills training, self-improvement and proper exercise.
· ACCESS TO FAMILIES: The DOC has disconnected thousands of prisoners from their families by imposing excessive telephone charges and innumerable barriers to visitation.
· JUST PAROLE DECISIONS: The Parole Board capriciously and regularly denies parole to the majority of prisoners despite evidence of eligibility.
Prisoner leaders issued the following call: “No more slavery. Injustice in one place is injustice to all. Inform your family to support our cause. Lock down for liberty!”
I think the state of georgia should be investigaited all the way,how many inmates are from other states? georgia is not only denying the inmates of their rights but the state of georgia is rapeing the families of these inmates from other states.where is all the money going?not on careing and housing the inmates thats for sure,two meals a day is what smith inmates are getting ,if the families can’t afford to pay j-pay then our looved ones go hungry ,the dogs in the pound get better treatment than these human inmates ,what is wrong with the judicial system in georgia?open your mouth to open the eys of others!
there are children in prison, they get in when they are 16 years old and all of them get
life sentencing in GA, they are beeing abused X2 by the puplic and the system because
of who they are (people of color) . the US send money all over the planet but can’t feed
the prisoners, those condition are worse than in a 3th world country. It is WAREHOUSING the nation young people. needless to say when you call the parole board in GA you are beeing told, well just let them sit there. the question arise ” how did this person get this JOB to talk like that?
State prison systems in the United States are the evolution of the Plantations in the South during slavery.
When North Carolina was re-admitted to the Union 12 years after the end of the Civil War, with a new state constitution, this new Constitution contained an article recognizing the states ability to impose indentured servitude upon those incarcerated in its prisons. Every state in the Union has since followed suit–either through constitutional amendments or by statute. Prisoners are considered slaves of the state and thus its people.
This is slavery–only elevated to a more institutionalized form–and run by government.
It is a multi billion dollar scam upon the American People.
Only convicted violent offenders should see incarceration.
Drug laws are nothing more than an avenue for the rich to enslave the poor.
“Felony” today describes a law enacted to strip Americans of their right to possess a firearm for committing what is nothing more than a misdemeanor, or no crime at all, under common law.
The Repubs and Demos have lost their minds.
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I forgot to mention–I am a white 47 year old male. I live in North Carolina where our prison population is more than 50% African-American. Yet Whites commit most crimes.
What’s up with that?
I have no idea where you believe more whites commit crimes in NC than blacks. I am a 62 year old white man, Vietnam Vet, and have served time in the NC Prison system. I speak of first hand knowledge. Everyone I met in prison deserved to be there and most were black. We were treated fairly, fed well and our medical needs addressed. But we were there because we gave up our rights and the state owned us for our sentence. We were paid $1 a day for our labor but we volunteered for that labor, we were not forced to work. We had a good, safe place to live, comfort, heat/air conditioning, three meals a day (not great, but no worse than in the military). I was in several different jails and three different prisons and they all were well staffed and the prisoners were treated very well. Of course we had to obey the correction officers and we had to clean the cells, do the laundry etc. as part of our incarceration. We all knew that we caused our own problems in the system. We did the crime so we had to do the time. But clearly the largest group in there was the blacks and mostly young men. But they were all criminals and did bad things – what did they expect? Here in NC many more blacks commit crimes than whites or other minorities. And that is why so many more blacks are locked up. Not that us white folk don’t commit crimes and get caught and go to prison – we do! Now, prisoners rioting and refusing to work – they need to be punished for that!
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I have experienced Calhoun State Prison Correction Officer’s are very disrespectful to the family members. A lady named SGT Stephens told me one day that if I did not like the decision that she made I could leave and come back another day. Just because I had confronted her about everytime we come to visit my brother they would sit us up front where the people in the hole are suppose to sit. And they would make comments to my brother like put your feet in front of you, situp and any little thing as well as stand over us. I also thing that the correction officers should check out who is related to who that works there because a few of them are related in some way or another I beleive this is a conflict of interest for the imates. Because if you write one of the guards up for doing something the other one that is related also now hates you for trying to do whats right and writing someone up that violated your rights. I beleive that all the prison’s are there serving their time for what they did and they need to be treated like people. The Correctional Officers that are out of line need to be written up for their actions. Listen to what the family’s have to say and investigate your staff. Education should be one of the top priorities in Correctional Facilities but it is not.
hello to you im reading what you saying about the abuse and unreal things thats going on in calhoun state prison..i have a love one there now and the things ive heard from him is un-justice..i want to stand-up in the honor of not just him but everyone in calhoun state prison!!im making contacts with strong leaders and listeners i wont sit down until my voice is heard or something gives!!ive contacted DR leroy gillam,and looking for leaders..its breaking my heart knowing they are hungry and cold..im pissed off!!!!
hello 2 all the ppl who are reading this including my friends in prison. I have heard and seen all the bad that has gone in this world. I tell you that i pray for all of them how could these ppl do this 2 them. Do they nt think or know they are human. Why do they act or treat them like animals? Do they nt ever think what if it waz there relative. Well all i have 2 say 2 them is pray they never go threw what we are going threw. God is big and he is seeing how we all are, and guess what ? He see what they are doing 2 our familiy and friends
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The only way the inmates are going to get justice is to ban together. Any and all of their concerns can be excused away, explained or dismissed for some reason or another. During the lockdown at Hancock, some inmates chose to leave their dorms. It was a conscious decision that they made for themselves regardless as to what was going on with the masses. In a mass protest, when weakness is shown, it leaves room for division. I n a divided ans conquer situation, the odds are with the house.
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woh I enjoy your articles , saved to bookmarks ! .
Yes let rapist, drug dealers, murderers, thieves, child molestors, and every other sick outcast from society eat steak, lobster, and shrimp. Give them a personal trainer and a chef. Turn up the heat to 80 in the Winter and 60 in the summer. Let them make free phone calls and receive visitors anytime they want them. Let’s all do our best for the lowlifes who killed raped and violated.the law. Pathetic they made their bed let them lie in it.
In a country were the justice system is suppose to be the best ,its people like you that allow some laws to stay unjust and unfair. I am not going to sit here and make an excuse for no rapist ,drug dealer,murder,thieves, or child molesters ….but I am going to say “not all people in prison are guilty as charged”. Each case is different as well as the people that commit the crimes . We can go back and forth on many matters or your Opinion on matters of the people that break laws. You are not looking at the big picture . You fail to realize that the justice system has failed many times and that is because of the corruption , greed ,hate, and vigilanteism that surrounds the system. You want to turn a blind eye on the people that make the laws that are breaking the laws just to incarcerate the people that are on the other side of the law. Now is that wrong or write ? I am not the judge nor jury , but I do know that it is more things to look at before you just cast people out of society without any investigation or due process . No body is perfect and I do believe that some people need to be in prison. Still at the same time we are not perfect and we all make mistakes some unforgetable as well as unforgivable .
Okay I use to be a correctional officer at Macon State and I feel that you can’t really speak your opinion on the matters of how the inmates are treated in Prison unless you have been an inmate or worked at one. Respect goes both ways and working as a female in a male institute was challenging. Even though I didnt talk to them or treat them like animals, a lot of them treated me with no respect and treated the white correctional officers like crap so if you didnt take your respect or earn it you got nothing. People wake up and smell the coffee you cry about things not being done to the people who commit these crimes now you want to treat them like this is the Hilton. You all need to grow up and face reality. You didnt mention how the state employees are getting furloughed for working with these supposely victims. Education who is giving jobs to convicts these days somebody please let me know. If they had listen to encouraging people throughout their lives then I am sure they would not be in this predicurement! Education for the young children is not the best with the school system as jacked up as it is. I wish yall would do good by an inmate education when we have kids struggling to get education. Man you people are all screwed up, you loose the luxury of freedom when you do two thing die or commit a crime. I will pray for you all and this jacked world we live in!
well if it was your mother or daughter or any one in your family that was raped murdered or beaten to death by any of these inmates you would not be on here saying how bad they are being treated, you would be saying why are they not sitting in the chair with the juice running through them
I agree with this one!
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WHO ARE YOU TO EVER BE THE JUDGE OF THESE PRISONERS, WHATEVER THEY HAVE DONE THEY WILL ANSWER TO ONE DAY. IN THE MEAN TIME THE ARE STILL HUMAN AND DONT DESERVE TO BE TREATED AS ANIMALS. EVERY ONE OF THEM WILL SEE GOD INCLUDING YOU IF YOU BELIEVE AND HE WILL THEN JUDGE THEM ACCORDINGLY. DONT LET YOUR JUDGEMENT BECOME YOUR OWN. GEORGIA HAS CONVICTED MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE AND THEY TO ARE IN THOSE PRISONS THEY DONT DESERVE TO BE TREATED LIKE SLAVES, DOGS BY OFFICERS THAT DONT HAVE A GODLY BONE IN THERE BODY. WHAT THEY DO WILL BE DONE UNTO THEM AND THAT’S HOW I SEE IT. THIS BATTLE IS NOT OURS ITS THE LORDS
where’s all these innocent people in prison,now as far as i know these felons didnt make it into the prison system without a fair trial,and sentences handed down by a jury of there peers,unless they opted out for the judge to decide. now the evidence presented in each case was strong enough to find them guilty,this system has been in effect since before america was discovered,and it actually works.now i know family and friends are upset that their love ones are in prison but whose fault is that? 1. the felon himself/herself for not complying with the laws of the land. 2. its your fault (the loved ones ) if you seen where these felon’s was on the wrong path,you should have stepped up and stopped,corrected,helped,or seen they got help for their problems before they took it out on the innocent citizens of this state/nation. so please stop with all the innocent inmate comments,nobodies buying it.
thats where u re wrong, ppl are buying it cuz its real and true. nobody deserves to be treated the way they are. yes, sum deserve to be there then there are some that dont, but that doesnt mean they should be treated like animals!!! the justice system has been around for along time and in the past has failed!!!!! now days they take there authority to there heads so you can take what you said and shuv it, u have noooo clue!!!
Okay well let them know that showing their private areas to workers and visitors is inappropriate! That is probably one of the reasons the visitation got cut down because somebody brother,cousin, nephew,grandson, dad,friend etc cant keep their freakn pee pee in their pants. This was the worst part of my job dealing with these foolish men who did that and expected you to act like it was okay. I wished we could cut off their hands when we caught them doing this mess and especially in front of the kids when they came to visit. You people need to learn about or shut up!
@ANTONIO FOR YOU TO CALL THE PRISONERS SICK OUTCAST WOW THAT COMMENT SPEAKS ALOT OF YOU AS A PERSON. LET’S HOPE THAT ONE DAY YOU ARE NEVER PUT INTO A SITUATION THAT YOU BECOME WRONGFULLY ACCUSSED OF A CRIME AND SENT TO PRISON. KNOWING THAT YOU NEVER DID THE CRIME THAT YOU WERE CHARGED WITH HAVING TO FIGHT FOR YOUR FREEDOM. IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA, AND LOOKED OVER DAILY. GOD FORBID IT EVER HAPPENS TO YOU, THEN LET’S SEE IF YOU THINK THAT YOU FIT INTO THE SICK CATEGORY, GET OVER YOUR ANGER THAT YOU HAVE AND PRAY TO THE MOST HIGH GOD EL ELYON
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I agree with Antonio. They made their bed so they need to lay in that bed. If they wasn’t out here BREAKING LAWS they would NOT be in that situation in the first place. So, whoever has something to say behind this comment I am making I have 3 words for you/ya’ll …..” GO KICK ROCKS ” !…
U KICK ROCKS, OUR INMATES WILL HAVE THERE DAY AND THIS WILL BE HEARD AND RESOLVED REGARDLESS OF YOUR LITTLE OPINION,HA!!!!!!!!
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HELLO TO ALL! I THINK THE LAY DOWN IS GREAT! I THINK THE GEORGIA SYTEM IS SO WACK! I THOUGHT SLAVE DAYS WERE OVER! I AM SO UPSET ABOUT HOW THEY TREAT MY LOVED ONE AND THE OTHER INMATES AT AUTRY STATE PRISION! THIS IS CRUEL AND UNJUST! FIRST OFF, WHERE DO THE STATE OF GEORGIA GET THEIR SENTENCING FROM? ITS TERRIBLE. THERE ARE INNOCENT PEOPLE LOCKED UP FOR A LARGE PORTION OF THEIR LIFE LET ALONE FOR LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE! THEY DO NOT EVEN LOOK IN DEPTH INTO THE EVIDENCE ENOUGH TO EVEN PROPERLY SENTENCE THE PRISIONERS! WHY DON’T GEORGIA HAVE GAME TIME FOR THE PRISIONERS TO WORK OFF THEIR TIME AND RECIEVE A SHORTER SENTENCE? MOST OTHER STATES DOES! THEY DO NOT AT CHARISH FAMILY LIFE AT ALL! I MEAN ITS CRAZY! THE STATE OF GEORGIA NEEDS TO RECHECK THEIR SENTENCING GUIDE LINES AND GO BY THE LAW! THEY ACT LIKE THEY DON’T LIKE OR PROMOTE GOOD BEHAVIOR IN THE PRISIONS! PRISIONERS GET LETTERS STATING THAT THEY HAVE MANIPULATED THE SYSTEM BY NOT GETTING IN TROUBLE AND THEY GET THEIR TPM (TEMPORARY PAROLE MONTH) TAKEN AWAY! BUT EVERYONE IS SCREAMING ABOUT HOW CROWDED THE GEORGIA PRISION SYSTEM IS! OF COURSE ITS CROWDED BECAUSE THEY ARE KEEPING INNOCENT PEOPLE AND DRAGING EVERYONE WITH THE INHUMAN SENTENCING! WHEN WAYNE SNOW WAS CHAIRMAN OF THE PAROLE BOARD PRISIONERS WERE EDUCATED AND LESS RETURNS BACK TO PRISION BECAUSE WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR THEM TO BE RELEASED FROM PRISION, THEY WERE WELL EDUCATED AND HAVE A CHANCE IN THE REAL WORLD! COME ON STATE OF GEORGIA, ARE YOU FORGETTING THAT THESE PRISIONERS ARE ALSO HUMAN BEINGS AND ALSO SOMEONES LOVED ONES? WHAT IS THE USE OF HAVING LAWS WHEN THEY ARE NOT BEING ABIDED BY? WHY PUNISH INNOCENT PRISIONERS SO HARSHLY WHEN YOU ARE NOT FOLLOWING THEM THE GUIDELINES YOURSELVES?
NOW AUTRY STATE PRISION! THIS PLACE IS SO PATHETIC! THE STAFF IS SO RADICULOUS AND THEY ARE SO SLOW ABOUT EVERYTHING! THEY HAVE DIRTY RUSTED OUT RAILS THAT THE PRISIONERS HAVE TO TOUCH! COME ON, THIS IS HEALTH ISSUES WE ARE TALKING ABOUT! THIS GIVES A GREAT CHANCE OF THEM GETTING STAFF INFECTION! THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT WAITS FOR THE WORST TO HAPPEN! HOW ARE YOU GOING TO TELL A MAN THAT THEY HAVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND ITS EXTREMELY HIGH MOST OR THE TIME THAT HE GOES DOWN THERE, AND NOT EVEN ISSUE A PERSCRIPTION TO CONTROL IT! I MEAN IF A MAN NEEDS TO HAVE SURGERY OR SOMETHING HE HAS TO WAIT UNTIL THE PROBLEM GETS WORST AND UNBAREABLE BEFORE THEY ATTEMPT TO FIX THE PROBLEM! I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE SEEN SUCH CRUELTY! THEY FEED OUR LOVED ONES SLOP! THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, NOT ANIMALS!
I CAN GO ON AND ON ABOUT AUTRY STATE PRISION AND ALSO ABOUT THE STATE OF GEORGIA, BUT IF I DO,I WILL BE AWAKE OR DAYS, AND EVEN MONTHS SO I’M HOPING AND PRAYIN THAT SOMETHING GET DONE ABOUT THIS! I PRAY THAT THE RIGHT PERSON OF POWER GET THE MESSAGE AND DOES SOMETHING ABOUT THIS! THIS IS INHUMAN, UNJUST AND NOT THE LAW!
I have a 21 year old son in Telfair sate prison, he has a short sentence compared to so many in there. I too am fed up with the treatment these men receive. They are not fed lunch fridays through sunday. Right now they have yet to receive the Christmas packages, I suppose as a punishment for the “peaceful sit in “. They have been in lock down since Dec 9th, the prison has fed them sack meals , on the day of the “sit in ” they turned off the heat. I’ll have you know that my son wanted no part in this, He volunteers work detail just to keep busy, and yes with out pay . He has been threatened by other non working prisoners to NOT go to work detail, told ” if you do , don’t come back ” you will be beat or stabbed. He IS a peaceful young man. This is not his battle, yet if he does as the guards want him to do and return to work he is risking his life !!!! Do you understand this ? As for the person who thinks all prisoners are rapists , murderers , child molesters,,,, well your ignorance exceeds your intelligence. Did you know if one fool you are with decides on a whim to say punch another man in the face, while you are in the same room, and you dont run like the wind and call 911 as you are running……… You too will be charged with assault. Even if you never touched the “victim ” !!!! read up on the Ga., laws buddy, this could very easily be your son or your grand child !!!! Many prisoners have life sentences with nothing to lose and stabbings are a regular thing in Telfair State Prison. The people who were brave enough to go to kitchen duty today were yelled at and told they will be stabbed or beaten by the lifers who have nothing to live for. Wake up, please !!! show your concern , call the wardens, call the GDC , get in touch with an ombudsman , Do something before it gets out of hand !!!! And as for you ignorant , hateful person who wrote such garbage,,,,, pray for you and yours buddie, cause this does not discriminate amongst race , wealth , or social status . YOURS could be next !
I was incarcerated at autry state prison and the living environment is very bad and that prison is once of gas most violent. During my stay I witnessed a guard get stabbed to darth a.swer inmate was killed on the sidewalk on my first day there from my transfer from jackson state prison. And drugs are everywhere there cell phones too I was in g2 block .
what a snitch
I babysat these georgia punks and thugs for 6 years at Bostick state prison..These inmates have more rights than me..No free medical care for me when I get sick and I don’t get to eat 3 times a day or relax and watch cable tv all day..99.9% of these thugs are where they need to be..The only reason I quit was because the new warden Alexis Chase was a hug-a-thug inmate lover..Giving them free candy bars and sodas every week and chicken dinners..Guards were instructed not to curse or use any use of force against an inmate..We had to stand by while somebody called the CERT team from baldwin state prison 5 miles away to come cuff them up..Unreal..Being a prison guard is not a fun job being cursed,threatened and spit at everyday but the admimistration expects a guard to cover 2 work areas being responsible for 224 inmates ande have them acting like boot camp cadets..Up yours Ga. Dept. Of Corrections..I don’t see how they even have enough guards to control a prison even in this economy..Most of the guards I worked with were worthless..Just there to do 8 and hit the gate and a lot of them were in cahoots with the prisoners..No way I will ever do this kinda work again,,The public just wants these thugs locked up and kept away from them and don’t even think about them anymore and the guards that have to babysit them.,It’s true..Inmates run the prison..Jail ain’t like it used to be..It’s now like a big social event and fun now.
Prosecutors move to dismiss charges against former Scout leader
January 3, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. –Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss charges against a retired FBI agent who was indicted on child sex charges dating back more than a decade when he was a Boy Scout leader, in response to the death of his accuser.
William Hutton, 63, of Killingworth, was arrested in February on charges he enticed a member of his Scout troop to Maine for the purpose of sexual activity in 1994 and 1995.
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Edward Rodgers was in charge of investigating cases of Child Abuse at the FBI
THE DENVER POST – Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire
May 17, 1990
Sisters win sex lawsuit vs. dad $2.3 million given for years of abuse
By Howard Prankratz
Denver Post Legal Affairs Writer
Two daughters of former state and federal law enforcement official Edward Rodgers were awarded $2.319,400 yesterday, after a Denver judge and jury found that the women suffered years of abuse at the hands of their father.
The award to Sharon Simone, 45, and Susan Hammond, 44, followed testimony of Rodgers’ four daughters in person or through depositions, describing repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults by their father from 1944 through 1965.
Rodgers, 72, who became a child abuse expert after retiring from the FBI and joining the colorado Springs DA’s office, failed to appear for the trial. But in a deposition taken in March, Rodgers denied ever hitting or sexually abusing his children.
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FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse
Tuesday February 17, 2004 11:46 PM
By JOHN SOLOMON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison in Tarrant County court in Fort Worth, Texas, after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.
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Monday August 8, 2005 Longtime FBI agent sentenced to prison on child porn count
By JOHN MILLER
Associated Press Writer
BOISE, Idaho (AP) A longtime FBI agent who helped arrest mountain-man Claude Dallas and was involved in a deadly 1984 siege involving white supremacists in Washington state is going to prison for 12 months after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.
William Buie, 64, of Boise, most recently worked as an investigator for the Idaho attorney general’s office.
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February 22, 2007
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. A F.B.I. analyst has been sentenced to seven years in prison for having sex with a young girl in Spotsylvania County.
Forty-four-year-old Anthony John Lesko entered an Alford plea yesterday in Spotsylvania County Circuit Court to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child. An Alford plea means Lesko doesn’t admit guilt but believes there is enough evidence for a conviction.
Authorities say Lesko engaged in a sex act with her nine times, beginning when she was nine years old.
According to the plea, Lesko said he was a victim in the case. He said the girl initiated the contact.
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FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public
May 25, 2007 09:02 PM
FBI Agent Accused Of Masturbating In Public
Posted by, Marissa Pasquet KOLD News 13 News Editor
FBI Special Agent Ryan Seese, 34, is facing sex offense charges after a cleaning woman said she found him masturbating in a women’s lavatory on campus, according to a University of Arizona police spokesman.
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FBI agent arrested on child sexual assault charge
Associated Press – January 15, 2008 6:14 PM ET
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) – An FBI agent is under arrest in Pueblo for investigation of sexual assault on a child by someone in a position of trust.
Authorities say 53-year-old David Allan Johnson is being held in the Pueblo County jail today on a $100,000 bail.
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Former Great Falls FBI agent sentenced on child sex charges
Jan 23, 2008
A man from Great Falls who’s accused of sexually assaulting five underage girls will be spending the next 10 years behind bars.
Stanley Perkins, 64, changed his plea to guilty after police began investigating him for child molestation in August 2006.
The former educator, who also served two years as an FBI agent, was sentenced on one count of felony sexual assault.
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SUGGESTED READING LIST
annotated bibliography
Bari, Judi. TIMBER WARS. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994.
The F.B.I. attempted to stop the political activity of Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney by exploding a
bomb under their car. Daryl Cherney and Judi Bari filed a Civil lawsuit
against the FBI and Oakland police. A jury awarded them $4.4 million
dollars in 2003. see http://www.judibari.org
Bowen Roger. INNOCENCE IS NOT ENOUGH: The Life and Death of Herbert Norman
New York USA M.E. Sharpe Inc 1988
Looks at FBI assassination of Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt.
Buitrago, Ann Mari. F.B.I. FILES. Grove Press, 1981.
Covers the procedures for obtaining and interpreting your F.B.I. file.
Burnham, David. ABOVE THE LAW. Scribner, 1996.
Looks at secret deals and fixing of cases by the Justice Department for corporations.
Burnham was the New York Times reporter who broke the story about New York City cop Serpico and Police corruption.
He was the reporter on route to meet Karen Silkwood when she was found murdered. Read his other book A LAW UNTO ITSELF.
It details how FBI agents collaborate with the IRS to target political activists.
see his important website about the FBI
here http://trac.syr.edu/
Burnham, David A LAW UNTO ITSELF Vintage January 30, 1991 ISBN-10: 0679732837
Exposes FBI agents using the IRS to cripple political activists.
Buttino, Frank. A SPECIAL AGENT. William Morrow, 1993.
Investigates F.B.I. attacks on gay FBI agents .
This book is written by a FBI agent who is gay. It details how other FBI
agents tormented him .
Carson, Clayborne. MALCOLM X: THE F.B.I. FILE. Carroll & Graf, 1991.
Looks at the evidence for the F.B.I. assassination of Malcolm X.
Cashill,Jack, Sanders,James. FIRST STRIKE Thomas Nelson Press, 2003
Overwhelming evidence presented by Dr. Cashill on the downing of TWA
Flight 800 by a missle over Long Island and the ensuing cover-up by FBI
agents.One of my favorite books. see their documentary about the same
subject called SILENCED here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Nm2Ql1-qk
Charns, Alexander. CLOAK AND GAVEL. University of Illinois Press. 1992.
After reviewing thousands of pages of FBI documents the attorney author
exposes the FBI illegal phone tapping of the Supreme Court and how the
FBI fix court cases and work behind the scenes to get “their man”
appointed to the Supreme Court. Written by a lawyer active in Human
Rights.
Churchill, Ward. AGENTS OF REPRESSION. South End Press, 1988.
Professor Churchill gives first hand accounts of F.B.I. death squad
activities. This book is a classic and is a must read along with THE
COINTELPRO PAPERS
Churchill, Ward. THE COINTELPRO PAPERS. South End Press, 1990.
Explores how the F.B.I. disrupts legitimate political activities and engage in Death Squad activities.
Criley, Richard. THE F.B.I. VS. THE FIRST AMENDMENT. First Amendment Foundation, 1990.
Looks at the destruction of the First Amendment by the F.B.I.
Davis, John. MAFIA KINGFISH: CARLOS MARCELLO AND THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F.
KENNEDY. McGraw-Hill, 1989.
A must read book in understanding how the FBI has used the Mafia to carry out the assassination of President Kennedy.
De Camp, John. THE FRANKLIN COVERUP. AWT Publishers, 1992.
A former Republican state senator from Nebraska writes about a
pedophile ring involved in the kidnaping, sexual torture and murder of
children that went all the way to the Bush White House.
Attorney DeCamp discusses the FBI role in the coverup of this case and
the murder of a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the
pedophile ring.This book will keep you awake at night and is an active
barometer for evil indexing how the FBI crime family operates.
Dempsey, James X. and David Cole. TERRORISM AND THE CONSTITUTION: SACRIFICING CIVIL
LIBERTIES IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY. Los Angeles, CA: First Amendment
Foundation, 1999. Examines FBI campaign of terror to undermine civil
liberties. Attorney Dempsey worked for Congressman Don Edwards who was
a former FBI agent.
Diamond, Sigmund. COMPROMISED CAMPUS. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Professor Diamond attempts to get F.B.I. files showing collaboration
between F.B.I. agents and professors at universities from 1945-1955.
The FBI created the Patriot Act , in part, because of this book.
Donner, Frank. PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE. University of California Press, 1990.
Looks at the death squad collaboration between local police and F.B.I. agents to stifle the Bill of Rights.
Dwyer, James. TWO SECONDS UNDER THE WORLD. Diane publishers 1997.
The most important book you will read on understanding FBI agents Floyd
and Anticev creating the 1993 terrorist act at the World Trade Center.
This book lays out in detail how the FBI engineered
the 1993 World Trade Center explosion.
Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy. THE FALL OF PAN AM 103. G.B. Putnam’s Sons, 1990.
Oliver Revell was the number 2 man at the F.B.I. until he was demoted
by F.B.I. Director William Sessions to the Dallas Field Office. His son
Chris Revell had tickets for
Pan Am 103, but he changed his flight two days before the plane
exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. See Ross Gelbspan’s book, BREAK-INS,
DEATH THREATS AND THE FBI to get a fuller picture of Oliver Revell.
Foerstel, Herbert. SURVEILLANCE IN THE STACKS. Greenwood Press, 1991.
Looks at attempts by the F.B.I. to get librarians to spy on the American public .The FBI created the Library
Clauses in the Patriot Act because of this book.
Gallagher, Dorothy. ALL THE RIGHT ENEMIES. Penguin Books, 1988.
The F.B.I. utilized the Mafia to carry out its executions against Presidents and political activists from 1930 through 2000.
Carlos Tresca was one of their victims.
Gelbspan, Ross. BREAK- INS, DEATH THREATS, AND THE F.B.I. South End Press, 1991.
This Pulitzer Prize winning reporter formerly with the Boston Globe,
details the F.B.I. death squad collaboration with the death squads in
El Salvador and their attacks upon American groups opposed to those
death squads.
Glick, Brian. WAR AT HOME. South End Press, 1989.
Attorney Glick details the F.B.I.’s covert war against political activists.
Hoffman, David. THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR. Feral
House, 1998.
Contains detailed evidence about the FBI alliance with the terrorist
underworld, and how FBI agent provocateurs are behind many of the
current bombings that have plagued the United States since the fall of
the Berlin Wall. Some current thinking has FBI agents creating these
acts to fill the void caused by the downfall of communism and replacing
communism with the new boogeyman Islam.
Hougan, Jim. SPOOKS. William Morrow, 1978.
Important book detailing the life of former F.B.I. agent Robert Maheux
and his relationship with the Mafia. Groundbreaking book in
understanding FBI collaboration with the Mafia, using it to carry out
assassinations on President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and others.
Maheux was the liason between the Mafia and the FBI when the FBI assassinated President Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
ALL I HAVE TO SAY IF GOOOOO INMATES!!!!! KEEP DOIN WHAT YOUR DOIN, THEY WILL GET THE HINT, AND TO ALL THE FAMILIES OUT THERE, OUR LOVED ONES NEED OUR HELP. WE HAVE TO DO THE LEG WORK OUTSIDE THE PRISON, THEY ARE COUNTING ON US!!!!
Okay Melanie why havent you mentioned anything about work and education for the free people who deserve it or trying to get it! If all of the people stopped working with the prison today would you go and work their, I am guessing no because you maybe to coward to be around 96 men or more on your side of the dorm and knows what they have done or you would probably give in and be a inmate lover it is people like that I hated working with at the prison because it put my life at jeopardy. I wouldnt have thought twice about bringing them fools nothing from the outside risking my freedom. Not even my own relatives who goes to jail and if I was in a situation where I became an inmate I wouldnt put my family freedom at risk but you have inmates that do this and dont think about nobody but themselves! Speak on things worth it like our medical care, life insurance, education come over here to kuwait and see how women are treated you will be grateful! You people discuss me!! I will pray for yall!!!! God Bless America! At least other countries take care of their families unlike us.
While I do agree that a person’s civil rights should not be taken away even while they are incarcerated; I do not think they should be given a ‘get out of jail free card’. That being said, yes I agree to them earning a normal wage for the work performed. But as they are living there, even behind bars, bills still have to be paid. So since they earn a paycheck, rent, utilities, groceries, medical care/insurance and phone/internet’ bills should be paid by the inmates. Just like us regular folks outside the walls have to pay our bills, so should they. If their insurance company doesn’t cover their medical, dental or whatever, it should come out of their pocket just like the rest of us. I do think that there should be other forms of training aside from the GED/Baptist minister training. Something along the lines of what they would be authorized to do with their current convictions, once they are released. It could be anything from metal works, machinery operations, to carpentry. As they will probably be leaving with a felony conviction for obvious reasons there are many careers which they wouldn’t qualify for. As far as the overcrowding, until such time as another prison can be build, that is how it is going to have to be. We are dealing with the government, and if it isn’t affordable, it isn’t going to happen. But if a plan like the above were to be implemented, it would teach these inmates about some proper money management and possibly free up money so that they govt could build another prison to alleviate this problem.
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