We Demand Our Grievances are Addressed in Georgia

We Demand Our Grievances are Addressed in Georgia

Inspired by the California petition for the proper handling of grievances, comrades in Georgia made a petition specific to their state.

Our ability to fairly have our grievances handled is directly related to preventing arbitrary repression for people who stand up for their rights or attempt to do something positive.

From a comrade in California:

“I have sent MIM(Prisons) a letter of grievance for use by CDCR prisoners. Its purpose is to petition the Director of Corrections to investigate the purposeful failure of the 602 procedure [California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation grievance process] within CSP-LAC. This is something somebody put together for the general population here on C-yard. It is our intention to flood the Director’s office with these petitions in hopes that it will shed some light onto the illegal acts in which these pigs are willing participants. We are being forced to file these petitions due to the unfortunate fact that the vast majority of our 602s are not being filed or properly heard.

“The idea is to distribute this petition to all CDCR facilities and to have as many people sign and mail the petition to the Director’s office as possible. Once all parties receive their responses concerning the petition, all responses along with contradictory paperwork should be sent to MIM(Prisons), the Prison Law Office (which is specific to CA), the Office of Internal Affairs, etc. Our goal is to expose CDCR, its administration, and facilities as tools of repression and the lengths that they will go to to cover their crimes.”

Prisoners are being recruited to lead this campaign where they are being held. Supporters of prisoners can join this campaign by printing out the petition and sending it to their family members, loved ones, and comrades inside. They can also send letters on behalf of prisoners to the addresses listed.

Sending in one petition to the Inspector General won’t get results, but getting multiple people to send out the petition will not only amplify the opposition to the problem, it will also bring those prisoners together around a common goal. Use this campaign to build unity behind bars.

Spread This Campaign!

There is a generic country-wide petition that can be used by anyone in the United $tates. A step up from using the generic country-wide petition is to modify one of the state-specific petitions to work in the jurisdiction where you’re held. Using one of the state-specific petitions as a format, rewrite the quotations and citations included on it. If you do this research and send us what needs to be rewritten for your particular state, we will gladly send an edited, accurate copy to other USW and Legal Clinic folks in your state.

You will need to research who to CC: (carbon copy) the letter to for your particular state. The U.$. Department of Justice and Office of Inspector General are the same for all U.$. prisons, but your state’s ombudsman and internal affairs officers will be different. The Prison Law Office is a non-profit organization that provides legal support to prisoners facing civil rights abuses, but it is particular to California. If you know of an organization in your state that is similar to this, they should be included on your petition.

Updates/Reports from Inside

• Grievance battle tactics in Georgia (October 2017)
• Georgia denying medical in seg (October 2016)
• Conditions at Georgia State Prison inspire fight back (August 2016)
• Grievances lost or ignored in Georgia (May 2016)
• GSP Brutality, Improper Food and Lack of Legal Access (March 2016)
• Grievances Hidden and Denied (March 2016)
• Downloadable Grievance Petition, Georgia (August 2015)
• Georgia Manufacturing Mental Health Problems (June 2015)
• Georgia Joins Grievance Campaign (November 2014)
• Fighting Georgia SMU Torture (November 2014)

Related Censorship

Click for more	STATE	DATE	TYPE	TITLE	REASON GIVEN	FACILITY	DIRECT LINK
	[GA]	09/01/2015	letter	Unconfirmed Mail Form	unknown - no notification given	Valdosta Correctional Institution
	[GA]	09/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 39 (July 2014)	unknown - no notification given	Valdosta Correctional Institution
	[GA]	09/01/2015	letter	TX Campaign Pack	unknown - no notification given	Valdosta Correctional Institution
	[GA]	09/01/2015	letter	Censorship Guide	unknown - no notification given	Valdosta Correctional Institution
	[GA]	08/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 45 (July 2015)	unknown - no notification given	Valdosta Correctional Institution
	[GA]	08/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 45 (July 2015)	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	07/01/2015	letter	Unconfirmed Mail Form	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	07/01/2015	letter	Unconfirmed Mail Form	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	07/01/2015	letter	Unconfirmed Mail Form	unknown - no notification given	Macon State Prison
	[GA]	07/01/2015	letter	invitation to join study group	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	07/01/2015	letter	invitation to join study group	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	07/01/2015	letter	personalized	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	07/01/2015	letter	study group assignment	unknown - no notification given	Macon State Prison
	[GA]	06/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 44 (May 2015)	unknown - no notification given	Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison
	[GA]	06/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 44 (May 2015)	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	06/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 44 (May 2015)	unknown - no notification given	Macon State Prison
	[GA]	05/01/2015	letter	personalized	unknown - no notification given	Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison
	[GA]	04/01/2015	letter	Censorship Guide	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	04/01/2015	letter	Censorship Guide	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	04/01/2015	letter	letter to warden re: censorship of ULK42	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	04/01/2015	letter	letter to warden re: censorship of ulk 42	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	04/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 43 (March 2015)	unknown - no notification given	Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison
	[GA]	03/01/2015	magazine	MIM Theory 5: Diet For a Small Red Planet	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	02/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 42 (Jan 2015)	unknown - no notification given	Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison
	[GA]	01/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 41 (Nov 2014)	unknown - no notification given	Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison
	[GA]	01/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 41 (Nov 2014)	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	01/01/2015	zine/pamphlet	Under Lock & Key 41 (Nov 2014)	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	12/01/2014	letter	grievance petition	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	10/01/2014	letter	Writing Tips	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	10/01/2014	letter	study group assignment	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	09/01/2014	letter	PLC intro	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	09/01/2014	letter	invitation to join study group	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison
	[GA]	07/01/2014	letter	Second Introductory Letter	unknown - no notification given	Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison
	[GA]	07/01/2014	letter	Writing Tips	unknown - no notification given	Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison
	[GA]	01/01/2014	letter	select ULK articles	unknown - no notification given	Georgia State Prison