This article was written by Balagoon about his long-time friend and comrade Lokmar, when Balagoon was informed that Lokmar had suffered from two strokes in 2019. On December 4, 2020, Lokmar passed away from Covid-19 that he contracted while in prison. Lokmar was an excellent Jailhouse Lawyer, a long-term prison rebel, and a mentor to…
01/06/2021 So, at IWP: 31 people from 1 unit were infected with covid about 7 days ago. No new tests have been administered to the rest of the unit to determine if other infections are present. A maintenance worker is presently 14 days into being sick with covid and is at work in my unit’s…
Balagoon is a long-term New Afrikan political prisoner who spent over 30 years in Indiana’s maximum security solitary confinement units in retaliation for his participation in the 1985 uprising at Pendleton CF (then Indiana Reformatory), which was a collective response to the intense brutality directed at Black/New Afrikan people incarcerated there by guards, with administrative…
by- EL•BE•448 12.25.20 “If you tremble with indignation every time an injustice is committed in the world, we are comrades.” —Che Guevara The number of covid-19 infections in general population @ Correctional Industrial Facility, in Pendleton, Indiana has immensely decreased since Nov. 13, 2020. However, prisoners were left to let the infections run their natural…
“I’ve never been so sick in all my life. Everyone on this dorm is deathly ill … It all went downhill when they started putting positive cases back in the room with negative cases … I was just told I was positive and left in my room. With negative people. They are putting us all…
OFFICIAL MISMANAGEMENT: “Vicious Corona Out Break @ C.I.F” by-EL•BE•448 (12/7/20) “We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking that created them.”—Albert Einstein Correctional Industrial Facility was the only Indiana prison without any prisoner infected by Covid-19, until on Nov.13th, 2020. Of course, staff brought the infection into the facility and it…
The Secure Housing Unit is the most repressive unit in the Indiana prison system: 23-24 hour lockdown, solitary confinement, lights on constantly, starvation diets, and frigid temperatures, and illegal restrictions that deprive people caged there of the basic rights they are entitled to under IDOC Policy & Procedure. We are fighting to get people on…
10/26/2020 BEHIND THE WALLS WITH COVID -19 My name is Christopher Trotter, and I’m a political prisoners being held captive inside the belly of the beast at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, Carlisle, IN. At this present time the facility is on lockdown due to the uptick in positive cases of Covid-19 amongst staff and prisoners….
Please check out this recent interview, from 10/17, with our correspondent at Westville CF, Abu Faheem Shabazz. Faheem discussed the recent lockdown and denial of commissary to his unit, how during the lockdown incarcerated people were denied access to legal resources, the medical neglect he has been experiencing, racism in the Recovering While Incarcerated (RWI)…
We received these messages from a woman with serious under-lying health conditions who is incarcerated at Indiana Women’s Prison, which is on lockdown due to a major Covid-19 outbreak. The lock-down has already lasted nearly a month. Please see these recent articles from WFYI about conditions at IWP for more information: Indiana Women’s Prison Locked…
