6/9/20 Update: Update: Please call MCF Legal Department now: (765) 689-8920 ext. 5579
Angaza Iman Bahar (aka Jimmy Jones #891782), the incarcerated founder of IDOC Watch, is facing an additional two months being added on to his sentence. He was scheduled to be released this coming Thursday, June 11th, but his release date was just pushed back to August 12th over a trumped-up conduct report. He was also attacked by someone he has never even spoken to, earlier this week. We believe this is all retaliation for his activism and refusal to submit to the inhumane practices of IDOC!
Please call and email Miami Correctional Facility (MCF) and IDOC Central Office to demand that the conduct report be dropped and Angaza be released this Thursday as previously scheduled. He has been in prison since he was 19 years old, for nearly 27 years. The conduct report they are trying to hold him an extra two months for is specifically retaliation for going on hunger strike to get his medical needs met. In May, staff at MCF were refusing to provide Angaza with medications to take care of the sever allergies he suffers from, and refusing to provide him the insoles he needs in order to avoid serious foot injury. They only gave him the allergy meds after his hunger strike, and they never provided the insoles.
Let’s get Angaza home this week!! We need him out here fighting with us for freedom!
Please call MCF and ask to speak with Case Manager Smith or Caseworker Burkhardt: (765) 689-8920 ext. 0
Email IDOC Chief Counsel Robert Bugher: rbugher@idoc.in.gov
And call IDOC Central Office: (317) 232-5711, ext. 2, ext, 3, ext. 1
Sample Script:
“Hello, I am [calling/writing] to request that conduct report #MCF 20-05-0173 against Mr. Jimmy Jones #891782, from May 7, be dropped and Mr. Jones be released this week as previously scheduled. Mr. Jones was found guilty of this conduct violation without the due process he is entitled to under IDOC Policy & Procedure 02-04-101, “The Disciplinary Code for Adult Offenders.” Hearing Officer Grove denied Mr. Jones the right to be present at the disciplinary hearing, in violation of policy. He was also denied the opportunity to review the evidence against him, also in violation of policy. These facts can be verified with Disciplinary Officer Eagleheart. Please see to it that this conduct report is dismissed immediately. If Mr. Jones is held past his correct release date due to these violations of his due process rights, legal and other action will be taken.”
