NC Prisoners take 23 to Court over Assaults

Sitting here I thought I would touch base and let you know that the pigs in Raleigh got caught red-handed. I’m in an eight-plaintiff lawsuit against 23 defendants, including the former and present wardens at Central prison.

Last year they put a guy in a wheelchair. Pigs were aware that the cameras didn’t record or even have the capacity to record in certain areas and would put prisoners in restraints and then beat them down. They broke several of my ribs.

We are working on getting new cameras and a video retention policy, which currently they don’t have. I have been working like hell to get a light shown on these corrupt pigs so as the hunger striker said in ULK 24, “Let’s Rock!!”

The case is: Stanley Earl Corbett et al., v Warden GJ Branker et al., U.S.D.C. Eastern District of NC Western Division, No. 5:10-CT-3135

Defendants

1. Warden GJ Branker
   
2. Warden Kenneth Lassiter
   
3. Sgt. James Reed
   
4. Sgt. Mildred Prado
   
5. Off. Doyle Holloman
   
6. Off. Melanie Lancaster
   
7. Off. Timmie Hicks
   
8. Off. Samuel James
   
9. Lt. Michael Norris
   
10. Lt. Brent Soucier
    
11. Off. Moore
    
12. Off. Press
    
13. Off. Summerlin
    
14. Off. Arthur Marsh Jr.
    
15. Off. Oates
    
16. Off. Bidwell
    
17. Off. Lassiter
    
18. Off. Marcel Colleymore
    
19. Off. Tyson
    
20. Off. Alexander
    
21. Off. Jared Welch
    
22. Off. Ben
    
23. Off. Hunt
    

MIM(Prisons) adds: We commend the prisoners who came together to organize this suit against difficult odds in a state where law libraries do not exist. Yet, demanding cameras to address this one instance will do nothing to stop the inhumane, physical abuse that is meted out at a conspiratorial level. Abuse like this has led to multiple hunger strikes and other demonstrations in recent years in North Carolina prisons.

Of course, the Department of Public Safety turns around and accuses ULK of promoting violence and lawlessness, having censored every issue we’ve put out since November 2011. As the rampant abuse and corruption of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety comes to light, we have comrades struggling against these abuses on many different fronts including censorship, grievance procedures and physical brutality, as well as education and recruitment on the inside. And despite all the censorship, as one reader points out, it seems interest in Under Lock & Key only continues to grow.