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On 28 December 2021, Hisham Abu Hawash of the Islamic Jihad Movement
in Palestine has gained a victory against I$rael’s counter-revolutionary
“administrative detention” policy. Hawash’s lawyer, Jawad Boulos, has
stated that I$rael pledged for Hawsah’s release on 26 February 2022 and
therefore the hunger strike will end.(1)
Hawsah is a 40-year-old father of 5 and a member of the Islamic Jihad
Movement in Palestine. He is among several Palestinian revolutionaries
waging a hunger strike in protest of I$rael’s unjust policy, which locks
up Palestinians without any due trial. He has faced 8 years of time
imprisoned with 4 of those years under administrative detention.(2)
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (PIJ) rightfully threatened
counter-attacks if Hawsah ever died in custody.(3)
Palestinians across the occupied land have gone in protests
supporting the strikers. One protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah,
on 6 January 2022, included signs which read: “Those starving behind
bars feed the universe with dignity” – a slogan we extend to hunger
strikers not only in Palestine but across the world.(4)
The
Reactionary Policy of Administrative Detention
Administrative detention is a form of arrest or imprisonment done
without trial – usually for issues of “terrorism” or rebellion. Many
imperialist countries use the tactic of administrative detention to
control unruly populations/groups.(5) In the United $tates for example,
around 182,869 migrants from the Third World were held in detention
centers through this method in 2020.(6) Despite the more advanced and
developed contradictions between I$rael and Palestine, compared to
oppressed nations in the United $tates and Euro-Amerika the year after,
I$rael held a mere 1,595 Palestinians in administrative detentions.
Amerika has truly earned the title “Big Satan” in contrast to I$rael’s
“Little Satan” status on this front.(7) The administrative detention
policy of the I$raelis work through the arrest and detention of
Palestinian revolutionaries and activists. The idealists arguing for
I$rael will say that administrative detention has been applied to
I$raelis as well – notably, against ultra-chauvinist zionist terrorists
and unruly settlers. Throughout the years, only 9 I$raelis were held in
administrative detention; Palestinians and Arabs number in the
thousands.(8) Any sober minded person and materialist will be able to
recognize that the exception proves the rule in this case like so many
often times.
DOWN WITH ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION!
THOSE STARVING BEHIND BARS FEED THE WORLD’S DIGNITY
Notes: 1. Joseph Krauss, “Palestinian prisoner ends hunger
strike in deal with Israel” Associated Press, January 4th
2022
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. “Israel’s Policy of Administrative Detention,” European
Parliament
6. “United States Immigration Detention Profile,” Global
Detention Project
7. “Prisoners society: Israel issued 1,595 administrative
detention orders against Palestinians in 2021,” Press TV
8. “Stop Administrative Detention,” Prisoner Support Human
Rights Association
Congratulations to De’Shawn Drumgo, who just let us know ey won eir
lawsuit against Sergeant William Kuschel. In 2014, Sgt. Kuschel groped
and squeezed Drumgo’s genitals while being held captive in a Delaware
prison.
If anyone has information on how to open a bank account from within
prison, without family support, please let us know. We have a couple
comrades who have won lawsuits recently who do not want to hand this
money over to the prison administration. We are trying to investigate
other options.
While lawsuits like this serve as a line of defense for individuals,
we also know they change nothing. We get letters from people every week
about horrible abuse and brutality they face across Amerikkka’s gulags.
To win a case like this is truly rare, and to even be able to file a
successful lawsuit is not possible for most. Ending police brutality
behind bars requires ending the imperialist injustice system altogether.
The people must be in charge of justice.
I can’t breath, gotta watch out for police
Asphalt in my teeth, underneath da knee
4 deep, 3 pressin on my body
All I can think about is callin on Mommy
I’m almost dead now, Blackin out in da ground
Black faces screamin “He’s almost passin out”
I-phones out people video taping now
Maybe one day my cries will ring aloud
I’m reaching out for help but I cant’ make a sound
It’s gettin blurry, cops yellin “settle down!”
It’s settled now, pick me up off da ground
EMT arrival but I’m already in da clouds
It’s too late to demonstrate the pleadings in the crowd
I’m upset with the way the shit played out
I can’t breath people mobilize the streets
Burn tha city down while the rich folks sleep
Antifa on the scene, nobody tryna be seen
Stupid opportunists lootin on the grief
Please don’t take away the dream
By feelin tha pleasure from releasing dopamines
Money schemes? But was it worth a murder spree?
One phone call and the cops murdered me
Everybody seen the video on the screen
Thanks to the broadcast on the show TMZ
I was on prison TVs the streets seen the feeds
Now the vigilantes roam in the streets
Hand-in-hand singing black symphonies
We don’t want sympathy
We just want to be seen
In the same light as a human being
In the recent history surrounding Texas prison reform there has been
an erasure surrounding the plight of those held captive in solitary
confinement as it’s practiced by the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice’s(TDCJ) Restrictive Housing Units(RHU). There are numerous
groups and persyns who proclaim that they advocate for the interests of
the Texas prisoner class, but their class interests prevents them from
aligning themselves with the objective struggles of this prison system’s
cast-a-ways in RHU.
Many of these groups whom i’ve had the choice opportunity to dialogue
with via correspondence, or have spoken to captive representatives of
these groups, have fallen into the keeper’s trap of the ‘violent’
offender as the new boogey man. This line of thought ultimately concedes
that those of us trapped in these isolation tombs deserve such
conditions, that we’re beyond redemption. Sometimes, such persyns spew
the rhetoric that We in solitary are actually well-off, and living a
privileged existence. They say, ‘your food is brought to you, your
laundry, and everything else’ They assert that all We have to do all day
and night is basically chill, and We should be appreciative. Some
officers express a form of jealously, that We don’t pay bills, yet have
a handful of privileges, and seemingly unlimited downtime.
What people like this do not understand is that solitary confinement
as it is practiced via TDCJ’s RHU, is an artificial environment. By
artificial this means that it is an unnatural habitat. It is unnatural
to relinquish all civil and domestic responsibility from humankind. We
must also pose the question as to whether or not such circumstances are
productive for the individual or the society? Of course not! Who
benefits from the cultivation of a sub-class of people who’re forcefully
and entirely dependent upon everyone else in the society, and do not
provide any sort of productive function in return? When humans
cultivated civilization the world over and social responsibility was
entrusted to those of the peer group, these responsibilities were not
merely for the betterment of the social cohesiveness, but also for the
better and more balanced function of the individual as well. In short,
humyns need to be engaged in meaningful and proactive activities in
order to function at their highest levels of consciousness.
The conditions of TDCJ’s solitary confinement debilitate rather than
rehabilitate thousands of people each day. i’ve spent 8 1/2 of the last
ten years in solitary confinement. At no point in this time frame have i
ever had the opportunity to take part in any form of organized
instruction. i entered these isolation tombs as a politically ignorant
cast away. i’ve evolved, and redeemed myself via my own independent
efforts, without the interference or assistance of my keepers. Despite
the state’s stated mission to have the best interests of the general
public at heart, their true motives and intentions for their warehousing
of so many prisoners is clear. This class of people who at any time find
themselves confined in RHU are intended to be kept in an unending state
of dependence and politico-economic alienation. This is even, and
especially, after release. It is with this notion that i assert that it
is this class of prisoners whom embody ‘paper-citizens’ in amerika, as
coined in the ‘New Afrikan Declaration of Independence’.
New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist political prisoner Mutope
Duguma articulated one profound statement, ‘Ask yourselves why is it
that so many New Afrikans who have a strong political line just happen
to be locked up in solitary confinement units. We know they are not
terrorists, We know they are not gang members & We know that they
are not criminals.’
The organization and movement proactively mobilizing Texas’ captive
population is known as Tx TEAMONE. We’re an organization founded for and
by the captives themselves, not by opportunistic outside (or inside)
elements, but by proletarian conscious prisoners. One of Our main
tactics in Our Mission of elevating the socio-political commitment and
awareness of Texas’ lumpen class, is the prisoner-led mobilizing for the
abolition of solitary confinement as it’s practiced by TDCJ’s RHU.
A Case Study on Why RHU must
Go!
Beginning with the general and moving to the particular, a conscious
observer can readily notice that around the empire, from state to state,
politically active prisoners are being held in the most barbaric, and
unthinkably repressive conditions imaginable. Almost invariably these
captives are sitting in solitary confinement cells. The few that aren’t
are being shipped from state to state, sea to shining sea in a federal
effort to ostracize these captives from their political base(s).
Solitary confinement advances the same purpose within each prison
facility. A politically active captive’s political base begins with
their peers whom are also in captivity. The productive revolutionary
behind the walls is the one who’s successful in organizing their peers
behind a revolutionary program. (think; Attica; Angola BPP etc)
Therefore, the tactical use of solitary confinement to quell
revolutionary organizing has been a re-occurring reality in prisons
around the world in the imperialists’ task of keeping the masses of
people blind, deaf, and dumb to the socio-political truths of Our
collective predicament as oppressed nation people in the era of
imperialism.
Whether We look to Califas, where revolutionary New Afrikans were
kept warehoused in SHU’s, or in Indiana were Bro. Kwame Shakur is being
tortured in a SHU, or the domestic exile of Shaka Shakur, or the
thousands of unnamed, lower-profiled politically active prisoners, New
Afrikan or otherwise, it is clear that long-term and indefinite solitary
confinement is being utilized to strategically remove political dissent
off the face of the amerikkkan empire.
In tekkk$a$, there is a long hystory of not only warehousing
political dissenters, but assassinating them. In June of 2000, innocent
death row captive, Shaka Sankofa s/n Garry Graham, was murdered by the
state of tekkk$a$. Not only had evidence came out that Shaka was
innocent but he, unlike most of death row prisoners or prisoners in
general, had become politicized while in captivity. Garry Graham
revolutionized his self into Shaka Shakur, a New Afrikan revolutionary.
Consequently, tekkk$a$ saw him as better off dead than alive as a
freedom fighter. Six years later Shaka’s comrade Derrick Frazier, aka
Hasan Shakur, another innocent Black captive whom while on tekk$a$’
death row revolutionized his self into a New Afrikan ‘revolutionary
socialist to the 10th power’. He too was subsequently executed on Black
August 31st 2006, while serving as both the founder of the Human Rights
Coalition-TX chapter, and Minister of Human Rights of the then-named New
Afrikan Black Panther Party. Lastly, yet not for lack of more victims,
there is the case of Sandra Bland, a New Afrikan womyn and activist who
was mysteriously found dead in a tekkk$a$ county jail.
i think it is logical to pose the question that, if the deceased
freedom fighters had not been politically active New Afrikans, would
they’ve still met the same fate? For We know and it has been
substantiated by the recent
International Jurist’s verdict, that there has been/is a systemic
genocide against New Afrikan, and indigenous people in north amerika. We
also know that those who possess a revolutionary orientation are the
people’s only hope of defeating this genocide, and of course this
reality renders such political prisoners as prone to enemy attack and
sabotage.
tekkk$a$ has warehoused and isolated political prisoners in what is
now called RHU for decades. Revolutionary Chican@ political prisoner
Xinachtli has been in such a predicament for over 20 years. Xinachtli
was signaled out for assassination by sheriffs in Brewster County
tekkk$a$, for his legal advocacy for a Chican@ death row prisoner who in
turn wasn’t killed by the state. Xinachtli defended his self by
disarming the pig sent to murder him and for exercising his humyn right
to self-defense this comrade has languished in prison for over two
decades, most of which in solitary confinement.
Recently officials of tekkk$a$’ prisons have identified Texas TEAMONE
cadre as ‘enemy combatants’ and singled key members out for indefinite
solitary confinement (for those who weren’t already serving indefinite
terms), unprovoked cell raids, in which the only confiscated materials
are ones’ outside contact information. Cadre have been victims of
harassment by illegally confiscating typewriters of journalist comrades,
illegally disappearing mail, and upping the level of publication
censorship – specifically that which is politically orientated.
In a recent twist, this writer was recently sentenced to ‘life
without parole’ in solitary confinement. After some officials had
elected to release Triumphant from solitary, those in the know regarding
ey’s political orientation and activity demanded this comrade be
retained in such conditions. Even going as far as scratching out the
handwriting which stated that Triumphant shall be released. When asked
for the reasoning for said continued confinement, officials listed
‘LWOP’. Of course this sentence, placed on Triumphant’s shoulders
unjustly, will not remove itself from reality in six months when the
next arbitrary hearing is to take place. Therefore, the state has
announced that it intends to confine, isolate, and destroy, yet one more
New Afrikan political prisoner in order to perpetuate amerikkka’s
genocidal campaign against the oppressed nations of the globe.
In case it still is not clear to you. All freedom fighting peoples,
those outside and inside, have in their best interest to work with TX
TEAMONE as We struggle to politicize tekkk$a$’ captive population, while
doing just that We are even more determined and justified in Our quest
to abolish long-term and indefinite solitary confinement in TX prisons
and prisons around the globe.
The state is tightening its control on free communication and
association in prisons across the country by imposing digital monitoring
systems, and in some
cases banning hard copies of mail.
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety has begun using a
company called TextBehind to handle their mail and push people towards
their digital communications platform. This allows the company to extort
people to pay whatever prices they want just to send their loved ones a
message, while the state gets to monitor every word.
MIM Distributors began sending mail to TextBehind last month only to
have it returned unopened. It turns out TextBehind does not process
letters from organizations, only from individuals. As an organization we
would be required to set up a corporate account with non-public pricing
schemes. In other words, as a member of MIM(Prisons) I cannot just put a
stamp on an envelope and drop it in the mail for a comrade in NCDPS
custody anymore. This is a blatant violation of our First Amendment
rights to speech and association. At this time it appears that
newsletters and books are still allowed through the prisons, but we will
not be able to correspond with you directly, send you study guides or
other information persynalized to you if you are being held by
NCPDS.
UPDATE: We just had a package of ULKs
returned to us from Roanoke River Correctional Institution saying, “This
facility DOES NOT accept friend and family mail directly” and that we
must send mail to TextBehind. But TextBehind does not accept
publications, only letters that can be scanned. So it seems mail to
NCDPS is being blocked on all fronts.
Pigs Bring in
Drugs, While Prisoners Mail Suffers
related news from a Wisconsin
prisoner:
First thing first, I am still in Wisconsin. They are making all of us
have our families and comrades send personal letters and photos to the
Phoenix, Maryland PO Box (189) to inspect them for drugs such as K2,
even though drugs, cell phones and other contraband items come from the
fascist pigs that work in these imperialist gulags. Newspapers, books,
publications are still to be sent here.
I recently paroled from C.D.C.R. into the B.O.P. Observation and
inquiry reveals a downward trend in the cut, caliber, and clarity of the
general population.
General Mao Zedong tells us we have to become the change we want to
see. Legion in the past has built at length under Unity-Criticism-Unity
on the people’s struggle for self-determination who are entangled in the
underground commercial sex industry. Observation within the C.D.C.R.
revealed that there was no incentive for a person, male or female and
regardless of sexual bent, to “program” at first, it’s shocking to
reveal.
However, when you are sent to prison you get a 841. It used to be a
long green sheet of paper – now it’s all electronic. They have “P” codes
for violent offenders, arsonists, and anyone convicted of any “sex”
crime. “P” coded individuals include (but is not limited to) domestic
abusers, indecent exposure, child-touchers, rapists, pimps, prostitutes,
Johns, etc. In California alone, a large part of the population has a
“P” code.
“P”-coded people at first were ineligible for milestones and relief
under Prop 47, Prop 35, Prop 57, SB260 and SB261. The “People” of
California always exclude rather than include under the guise of public
safety. They always combine “murderers & rapists” in their cry for
tough on crime policy. And will give a murderer the opportunity to
procreate but not the rapist. In turn, a lot of persons flock to
alternative living because they have no hope.
My duty is to build people’s brains. And under the guidance of
MIM(Prisons) to build public opinion and independent institutions of the
oppressed. To quote “ULK” we support the self-determination of ALL
nations and peoples. That said Legion is calling on all ESP (Erotic
Service Providers) in the confines of U.$. prisons under the thick net
of oppression to ADOPT, RATIFY, GROW, and INSTITUTE the 3P
initiative:
The safety factor, there is always safety in numbers.
Education of revolutionary thought & practice, ignorance of the
knowledge around you is NO EXCUSE.
You aren’t alone, you are not the anomaly.
These are the reasons to adopt, grow, and institute.
Legion is well aware of the hardship people face when subjected to
the “P” code. This label is akin to the Jewish persecution in Nazi
Germany during Hitler’s reign of terror. This is what is meant when you
get your 128-G printout and people see your “P” code in these “people’s”
mind its a green-light for extortion, violence, and sexual assault. UFPP
is against these parasitic practices in prisons and abroad. ESPs are not
just the vessels but the senders and the users. And everyone has a seat
at the table. The 3P initiative is a work of Legion ergo it is rooted in
UFPP and USW. DLS (Dirty Little Secrets) and the WWC (White Wolf
Collective) are some of the initiates of 3P and are apart of the cell
Legion.
– Peace
THE 3P INITIATIVE
PROTECT OUR INTERESTS AT ALL COSTS
ELEVATE OUR STANDARDS
UNITE OUR PEOPLE
– Accept yourself and be your own
– I CAN DO NOTHING BY MYSELF. IT’S ABOUT: US, WE, AND OURS!
MIM(Prisons) adds: In Under Lock & Key
61 we addressed in depth the question of sex offenders and their
role in the prison movement. One article in that issue concluded
with:
“Maoists believe that problems amongst the people should be handled
peacefully among the people and thru the methods of discussion and
debate. Most prisoners are locked up exactly because they engaged in
some type of anti-people activity at one point or another of their
lives. Should these actions define prisoners? According to MIM Thought,
all U.$. citizens will be viewed as reforming criminals by the Third
World socialist movement under the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat
of the Oppressed Nations (JDPON). The First World lumpen will be no
exception regardless of crime of choice.”(1)
We do not put any special conditions on “sex offenses,” but recognize
some crimes as more serious than others. We do think we all need to
undergo transformation, guided by criticism/self-criticism, as we create
a world free of oppression. We believe all people can be redeemed and
will have the ability to in the future. Unfortunately, today that is not
the case. But we welcome with open arms all who are ready for redemption
through revolution to begin with our new Revolutionary 12 Step
Program.
Regarding Prop. 57, there was a California state Supreme Court
decision on 2 January 2022 that CDCR shall not allow early parole to
people who have any sentence terms that are violent felonies
(In re Mohammad, No. S259999). Similarly the original law was
implemented by CDCR to exclude anyone with a required sex offender
registration under Penal Code subsection 290. However, this was
overturned on 28 December 2020 (In re Gadlin, No. S254599).
Such people should be “referred to the Board by July 1, 2021 and must be
scheduled for a hearing by no later than December 2022.” (see CCR title
15, § 2449.32)
The Prison Law Office should be able to provide you with additional
details if you are uncertain how this affects your parole eligibility:
PRISON LAW OFFICE General Delivery, San Quentin, CA 94964-0001
In ULK #73, MIM (Prisons) published one of my articles
entitled: Da
Struggle Continues: We Still Charge Genocide. In said article i
announced the coming of the international tribunal 2021, which took
place October 22-25, and has now passed. In this article we will look to
a few of the events that have taken place since that previous article,
and how it pertains to Our plans going forward.
For those who do not know, the verdict given by the International
Jurists was an emphatic GUILTY of all charges. These
charges include:
Police racism and violence
Mass incarceration
Political prisoners and prisoners of war
Environmental racism
Health inequalities
In the wake of the hystoric verdict leaders of this campaign
announced the next step forward being the establishment of what they’ve
coined a ‘People’s Senate’. This infrastructure is a key stepping stone
for New Afrikan, Indigenous, and Chican@ nation citizens to formulate
the common unity needed to eventually conduct a U.N. supervised
plebiscite, which will finally legitimize Our quest for
Self-determination.
Ultimately, that is the reason the tribunal was so important. With
the advent of the guilty verdict the political line that seeks
revolutionary nationalism for internal semi-colonies in north amerika
has been legitimized within the eyes of the international community, and
the United Nations (U.N.).
While Our struggle(s) have long been legitimate in Our own eyes, when
establishing an independent nation it is prerequisite that a nation gain
international diplomatic support. In the past New Afrikans have had such
support. However in recent decades such support has waned as New
Afrikans have become increasingly more bourgeoisified, and more and more
assimilated. As a result other countries have been hesitant to step out
on a limb in support of amerikanized ‘negroes’.
Now with the advent of the People’s Senate We will possess the
infrastructure to properly seek out reparations, and independent
nationhood. Up until this point the reparation push in this present
landscape has been one which revolutionary nationalists would be
hard-pressed to support. This was because the institutions and
hand-picked persyns chosen as the voice for reparations movement were
amerikanized negroes, seeking further assimilation into amerika,
utilizing the economic plight of segments of New Afrika to advance their
own agendas. With the People’s Senate, We will guarantee a people’s
voice, and a people’s control of the direction of Our collective
movement. Incarcerated persyns may also take part in this People’s
Senate. You should contact the Jericho Movement for further details on
how to participate. # Power Moves
The above-mentioned international tribunal took place in Harlem, at
the Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz center, which is the exact location Bro.
Malcolm X. was assassinated.
Now, 56ADM (56 years After the Death of Malcolm), those men who’ve
languished behind bars falsely framed by the U.S. government for Bro.
Malcolm’s murder were officially exonerated 18 November 2021. This long
overdue exoneration came about after a February 2020 Netflix
documentary, Who Killed Malcolm X aired, and its startling
conclusion initiated calls from the Shabazz family to re-open the case
of Bro. Malcolm’s assassination. The basic conclusion is that the actual
shooter, along with others present were working on behalf of the FBI,
when they murdered Malcolm X on the orders of their masters.
Of course to many this is not ‘news’, but merely a confirmation of a
long-held belief. What is outrageous to this writer is that with the
government basically admitting to assassinating one of the greatest and
best leaders We’ve had for the New Afrikan liberation cause, the level
of outrage is basically zero. Brother Malcolm once said that We have
gone from a race of warriors and untamed runaways, to a race of
complicit house n___ers. Sad, but true. When the U.S. can for all
intents and purposes admit to assassinating Malcolm X, a liberatory
leader, when Kyle Rittenhouse can be found not guilty (more on this
later) and there is no outrage or sustained resistance, when Ahmaud
Arbery’s murderers begin trial and not ONE New Afrikan persyn is
selected on their jury in a county that is 25% New Afrikan (more on this
later) and there is no outrage nor sustained resistance, We’ve become
complicit in Our own oppression. We’ve capitulated to the will of Our
enemies. WILL THE REAL NEW AFRIKANS PLEASE STAND
UP!!!???
AS if Our case for Black secession, and a socialist Republic of New
Afrika weren’t clearly justified, events like Kyle Rittenhouse’s
acquittal, and the lack of Black jurors in the case of Ahmaud Arbery
underscore grievances issued by generations of neo-colonized Afrikans in
amerika. What We as a people must overstand is that these issues do not
persist because of racism. Malcolm X wasn’t assassinated by racism, but
by a corrupt power structure. Kyle Rittenhouse’s murderer of two Black
Lives Matter supporters and the wounding of a third, wasn’t acquitted by
a racist, nor because of racism, as his victims were white themselves.
Instead he was acquitted because the political orientation that led to
his actions (settler-colonial imperialism) is part and parcel with the
political identity of the corrupt power structure. And finally, the
murderers of Ahmaud Arbery are being tried by a jury of their peers,
while New Afrikans have been pleading for the same consideration for
literally centuries, because their actions were in furtherance of the
corrupt power structure’s sustained power. That is while some of us have
been struggling to ‘FREE THE LAND!’, a New Afrikan is unable to run
FREELY in the LAND. The devilish cowards that murdered brother Ahmaud
reinforce the colonial relationship between New Afrikans and the white
settler amerikans.
The time has come to move away from BLACK LIVES MATTER to the NEW
BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT. We are not fighting racism, We’re fighting
oppressive and exploitative POWER. In order to ever be FREE, in order to
have a REAL influence on whether or not incidents like those mentioned
here ever happen again, We must obtain POWER, and We must exercise POWER
in non-exploitative or oppressive manners. To accomplish this, the
formula is simple, We must organize now for people’s WAR, Vita Wa Watu,
to seize power, and implement socialist (non exploitative/oppressive)
power.
Dillard v. Davis, et al. Civil Action
No. 7:19-cv-0081-M-BP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: TX. Team O.N.E. Legal Representative
113 Stockholm, #1A Brooklyn, NY. 11221
Incarcerated individuals currently housed in the Texas Department of
Justice’s Restrictive Housing (Solitarty Confinement) are moving to
intervene in the civil action [No.7:19-cv-00081-M-BP] filed by fellow
incarcerated individual, Daniel D. Dillard, challenging the
constitutionality of TDCJ using Restrictive Housing as a form of
punishment and also challenging the cruel and unusual conditions of
confinement that are known to cause irreparable mental harm. Dillard
filed this civil action in 2019 after being falsely accused of
assaulting a correctional officer, the false disciplinary proceeding
resulted in Dillard being removed from the general population on the
George Beto Unit and reassigned to administrative segregation on the
James V. Allred Unit under the conditions that has repeatedly consisted
of deprivations of exercise, showers, and meals in retaliation of
exercising his First Amendment right to the redress of grievances.
Dillard, the original Plaintiff, filed his first amended complaint
adding several new defendants’ (including TDCJ-CID new director- Bobby
Lumpkin) and brought claims of widespread abuses on behalf of the
Restrictive Housing population and ALL those similarly situated to him.
After word got out that Dillard is challenging Restrictive Housing
others began moving in to intervene on the grounds that Restrictive
Housing seriously effects their mental health when used in the long-term
or for prolonged periods of time. Some of these people have been in
solitary confinement from 3 years to 30 years without reprieve. TDCJs
Restrictive Housing does not allow any audio/visual stimulation, people
are kept in their cell for 22 to 24 hours a day, they are prevented from
educational, vocational, and/or religious programming, they are
continuously isolated for years on end. The Nation is turning away from
using solitary confinement but Texas continues this…To intervene on this
litigation use the contact information above but first see Dillard
v. Davis, et al., civil action No.7:19-cv-00081-M-BP.
I’m writing to advise of a need for you to publish in your next issue
a Notice of Pending Civil Action concerning those that did not receive
the $3,200.00 EIP #1,#2,#3 Thirty-Two Hundred even after filing
correctly. There are lots of prisoners who filed by mail and were
discriminated on by IRS and such violates a prior order. If you can,
please publish in Next Volume:
Clay v. Director of IRS Mnuchin No4:21-CV-08132-PJH
Sub Class Representative Thomas H. Clay advises all prisoners who
filed for EIP from Oct. 2020 – August of 2021 and did Not
receive any check in mail or Direct Deposit. After filing Form
1040/1040SR or letter with SSI# and copy of such to show proof of
filing; then write To:
United States District Court
Northern District of California
Oakland Division
Attn: Hon. Clerk/Presiding Judge
1301 Clay Street Ste 400 S
Oakland California 94612-5212
If you are filing the following criteria below:
Non-disabled or physically or mentally impaired prisoner in State or
Federal Prison Institution in the United States
Correctly filing legal letters to IRS or 1040/1040SR Form 2019/2020
from October 15,2020 thru tax season of January – August 17, 2021
Utilizing only Institutional Regular Legal/or Indigent
Legal Mail System in State of Federal Prisons.
Who did not receive any payment from IRS of EIP #1
#2 #3
In the form of “Check in Mail” or “Direct Deposit to Account”.
Who can “Prove upon Request” proof of the correct timely filing by:
copies of letters to the IRS office in your State area, Prison
Mail Room Record of Legal Mail logged letters showing IRS address.
Indigent mailing file showing letter sent to IRS or 1040/1040SR copies
or responses from IRS during that period from any of its offices.
And you were not issued any checks for EIP #1 $600.00 EIP #2
$1200.00 or CVRP/EIP #3 $1400.00 totaling $3,200.00
The court is reviewing Contempt of Court Order and Sub Class Action
from prior suit Scholl v. Mnuchin that does not protect the
rights to amount of payment withheld from prisoners in a discriminatory
manner by IRS.
Possibly those who read MIM will donate something once they receive
their compensation entitled after requesting to be a class member.
Styled name: F. Martinez and all inmates similarly situated in
TDCJ-CID, “Doll” and “Pineapple Pictures” versus members of the Texas
Board of Criminal Justice, TDCJ-CID, Director, Members of the MSCP,
Members of the DRC, and mailroom supervisor at the Terrell Unit.
Dear Friends,
I am writing you in regards of the lawsuit filed on 3 December 2021,
in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, Galveston
Division.
I am the leading plaintiff and I am representing all inmates
similarly situated in TDCJ, Doll and Pineapple
Pictures, both outside vendors.
The reasons in filing this lawsuit is to challenge the
unconstitutionality of rules 1 (C), IV(A)(10)(11) of the “Uniform
Offenders Correspondence Rules” (BP-03.91) of the TDCJ-CID.
Rule 1(C), which limits to receive ten photos per envelope, and rule
IV(A)(10), which is a total ban on “sexually explicit images” coming
into the general prison population, and rule IV(A)(11), which bans any
altered photos, all in disguise of rehabilitation purposes. I am
challenging these rules under the First, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment
of the United States Constitution.
I am writing you to request your support of this lawsuit by notifying
the inmates in TDCJ, publishers, outside vendors of commercial photos
and catalogs, and all persons affected for the enforcement of these
rules in the TDCJ-CID.
Inmates may join to the lawsuit by writing letters to the U.S.
District Court to the following address:
U.S. District Court
Southern District of Texas
Galveston Division
601 Rosenberg Street, Room 411
Galveston, Texas 77550
They need to include the styled name and number cause above
written.