Dear Radtimes and Sixties People:
I know firsthand that *ALL* prisoners were placed in lockdown last Tuesday
and that mail is notoriously slow in any circumstance. Prisoners are
routinely placed in SHU (Segregated Housing Units) for indefinite periods
of time which is part and parcel of the pyschological torment in our
prisons. In other words, it's "business as usual" for all in lockup.
Before some of you tear me a new one, I believe that 15-20% of the
population need to be isolated from the public and that prisons are a
necessary evil. The rest, though, are victims of poverty, a morally
bankrupt and dysfucntional system, and all its draconian drug laws.
In solidarity,
Maggie Jaffe
> >
> > PLEASE LET PEOPLE KNOW:
> >
> > Several political prisoners in the U.S. Federal Prison System have in
> > the last few days, (since Sept. 11), been rounded up into isolation
> > units. (SHU: security Housing Units) These political prisoners include
> > Marilyn Buck, Sundiata Acoli, and Carlos Alberto Torres. Marilyn for
> > instance, is not receiving mail, not able to make phone calls, and
> > perhaps most disturbingly-- cannot communicate with her lawyers.
> >
> > We've been asking the lawyers if this is legal - they think the
> > prisoners are not supposed to lose their right to counsel no matter what
> > the circumstances.. Abrogating the right to council erases a
> > fundamental civil right. No one in the Bureau of Prisons will say how
> > long this punishment and suspension of civil rights for political
> > prisoners will go on.
> >
> > We DO want people to know this is happening.. Do spread the word in the
> > political community and to the media about this example of stripping
> > away of our basic rights in the name of fighting terrorism. *** BUT ,
> > this is a very delicate situation and the prisoners are vulnerable so
> > ** Please no phone or fax campaigns yet,. until we have more information
> > from the attorneys.
> >
> >
> >
> > Outside contact for Marilyn Buck is Friends of Marilyn Buck:
> >
> > c/o Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, 100
> > McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. E-mail:
> > fombuck@yahoo.com. (This outside
> > support group includes members who also work with Out of Control,
> > Leonard Peltier Defense
> > Committee, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Bay Area
> > chapter of Jericho Amnesty
> > Movement, the New York Three, PARC and other prison activist
> > organizations).
> >
> > More info on Marilyn at
> > http://www.prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/marilynbuck/
> >
> > I believe more info on Sundiata and Carlos can be linked to via
> > http://www.prisonactivist.org/links/
> > or at http://www.thejerichomovement.com/
> >
> > --Lisa Rudman
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