In Contempt #43: Deadly Heat Wave Hits Prisons, Multiple Hunger Strikes Kick Off, July 25th Roundup

In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays.

There’s a lot happening, so let’s dive right in!

July 25th

July 25th was the annual day of solidarity with antifascist prisoners, and solidarity events and benefit shows took place across the US, with a panel on political prisoners being organized in Seattle at the University of Washington campus and letter-writing events happening in Olympia, WA and Sacramento, CA.

A livestreamed event featuring former antifascist political prisoners Eric King and David Campbell was also organized by Firestorm Books in Asheville, NC and moderated by grassroots journalist, Alissa Azar. Also in Bremerton, WA, a anarcho-punk benefit show raised money and support letters for antifascist prisoners.

The Final Straw Radio also interviewed the Antifa International collective to mark the day and you can view the presentation with David Campbell and Eric King at Firestorm Books here.

Black August, Week of Solidarity, and Running Down the Walls

The next few months see a number of important dates in the prisoner support calendar. There’s a call to make August 3rd a day of action for Gaza and Palestinian prisoners.

The entire month of August is commemorated as Black August, and Jailhouse Lawyers Speak have suggested a number of ways that outside supporters can help mark the occasion, as well as sharing messages from Sundiata Jawanza and James “Doc” Holliday.

International Anarchist Black Cross groups hold a week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners from August 23rd-30th, and you can see this year’s call on their website now:

Those of us living under the fragility of neoliberal ‘peace’ are expected to take political positions devoid of human feeling or meaningful action. How to break this artificial veil constructed to make ‘war zones’ appear a world away, when the weapon shipments, and the webs of diaspora, tell a different story? How to seize back our humanity and our agency, understanding the urgency while giving space to feel, grieve, and act, standing hand in hand against this monstrosity? And how to maintain this fabric of resistance that defies news cycles and nation state politics, recognizing the fights for survival and liberation against ongoing colonization and resource extraction, that are materializing globally outside of news spotlights?

What is to be done? With constant return we fumble with these questions. Empathy and solidarity is the strongest medicine against the current realities we face. Empathy and solidarity is why we are here- our hearts embracing these words. We choose to share the weight of grief and take steps toward action in this fabric of resistance that has been woven through time on this earth. Is it not our yearning towards the forces of care, creation and destruction that we gather around our fires? Is it not because we wish to understand and greet each others pain and seek freedom from oppression that we show solidarity with our comrades who are carrying the heavy weights of repression?

There are too many atrocities, too many beautiful spirits taken from this world to grieve them all. Among the bloodshed live the spirits of those who choose to resist against this hegemonic order, against the grinding wheels of genocide and colonialism. There are those who, throughout the turning of this earth, choose not to ignore the forces that prey upon free life. Many have chosen to greet these forces with fists clenched, a grin from cheek to cheek. I’m sure you share this too, maybe not smiling, but we are here again. With time, with strength and patience we deepen our constellations, we strengthen and weave new webs, alongside the earths cycles we change, grow, and learn.

With strength we make this call to action for a week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners. Let our words not die in our mouths but our ideas and actions be realized.

Organize solidarity events, film screenings, banner drops, discussion rounds, direct actions, radio shows, letter writings … be  creative!

Further ahead, mid-September will see Running/Pushing Down the Walls events in various cities, with Philadelphia, Bloomington, Lowell, Chicago, and Huntington Park confirmed so far. Jailhouse Lawyers Speak are also calling for “Shut Em’ Down” demonstrations on December 6th – 13th.

Political Prisoner News

Long-term indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier has been denied parole, having been incarcerated since 1976.

Environmental prisoner Jessica Reznicek has shared a message of thanks for everyone who’s been supporting her.

The Anarchist Black Cross Federation have created and shared a range of updated political prisoner support flyers, and published a new support page for Jesse “Tall Can” Cannon.

Upcoming events connected to Eric King and Josh Davidson’s book Rattling the Cages are:

• Friday, Sept. 6, in-person, Oakland, CA: Eric and Josh will be speaking with former political prisoners Donna Willmott and Claude Marks at Tamarack.
• Saturday, Sept. 7, in-person, Sacramento, CA: Eric and Josh will be speaking at the Sacramento Anarchist Bookfair at the Washington Neighborhood Center.

You can also watch all their videos here. Rattling the Cages was also featured in PEN America’s round-up of recent books on justice and incarceration.

Samidoun has put out a new call for people to take action in solidarity with the Holy Land 5, twenty years after the FBI raids that began their case.

Uprising Defendants, Stop Cop City and Other Ongoing Cases

Casey Goonan, a California defendant currently facing a number of serious charges, recently held a hunger strike over their conditions of incarceration. Check out an update on Casey from his support crew, here.

Anarchist prisoner Hybachi LeMar of the Black Autonomy Federation Chicago Local Organizing Committee has released a statement in support of Casey Goonan. From a post on Indybay.org:

My name is Hybachi LeMar and I’m a member of the Black Autonomy Federation Chicago Local Organizing Committee. I’m sending this message to support the release of scholar activist dedicated community organizer and friend Casey Goonan.

When I was houseless, he let me eat and sleep in his home. Each morning we asked each other, “What’s your positive affirmation for the day?” We take a meaningful moment before sharing a positive truth, both of us knowing it’s significance in our lives when we internalize it as an instrument of our liberation. More often than not, for the years I’ve known Casey, he’s neglecting his own needs to prioritize those of others, has led me to ask him instinctively, if he’s taken his meds yet. And I’ve lost count of how many times he thanked me for reminding him before asking if I remembered to take mine too.

With barely anything in his pocket, I watched him fill a perfect stranger’s diabetic medication prescription. He’s loved, and I don’t mean by me, but by street walkers and other commoners throughout Chicago.

Casey Goonan is a walking model of our aspired-after ideals. A genuine listener, whose aura is evident in the integrity of compassion. His ideals against genocide are shared by me and each of us around the globe who envision a world released from its grip.

Free Casey Goonan! Free Jack Mazurek! Free the Cop City 61! Drop the charges against the Merrimack 4 and the Mountain Valley pipeline defenders! Free the Holy Land Foundation 5! Free Leonard Peltier! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Free Cletus C Rivera! Free them all!

To support Hybachi LeMar, go here. You can also write to Casey here:

Casey Goonan #UMF227
Santa Rita Jail
5325 Broder Blvd
Dublin, CA 94568

To write to Hybachi:

Hybachi LeMar
c/o Midwest Books to Prisoners
1321 N Milwaukee Avenue PMB 460
Chicago, IL 60622

Arkansas George Floyd uprising defendant Cody Nowlin is now free, and the Uprising Support crew have updated their website with a new section on requests for post-release support.

A rave is being held in Philadelphia on August 2nd to raise funds for Ellie and John, two Georgia uprising defendants who are being released soon. You can donate directly to their post-release funds here.

Philadelphia uprising defendant Khalif Miller has been given a 1-10 year state sentence on top of his existing 5 year federal sentence. You can write to him at:

Khalif Miller #70042-066
USP Big Sandy
U.S. Penitentiary
P.O. Box 2068
Inez, KY 41224

South Carolina anarchist Cyprus Hartford has been resisting a grand jury subpoena, and recently released a follow-up statement. You can listen to an in-depth interview about her case on the Final Straw here. As this column was being put together, a statement was released announcing:

On July 26, after a nearly two-month long ordeal, I was released from my federal grand jury subpoena by the South Carolina U.S. Attorney’s Office. I’m so relieved that I don’t have to appear in court. This would not have been possible if a supportive community hadn’t had my back through all of this. I’m incredibly grateful for all the love I’ve received.

We are living in a new Green Scare. The federal government jumped on an opportunity to tear apart a target it perceived as weak, and when it faced even a hint of resistance and solidarity from across the country, it backed off. We have to be reaching out to each other, building connections across state and international lines. We win by putting our resources together. Our greatest strength is in our networks. We keep us safe.

There’s a variety of ongoing cases connected to the Palestine solidarity movement. Millions for Prisoners New Mexico recently shared information on the case of Siihasin Hope, a New Mexico defendant facing charges connected to a Palestine protest, and Blue Ridge ABC have put out a request for bail funds to help bail out defendants facing charges in Asheville, North Carolina. A post submitted to North Shore Counter-Info reports that Toronto police are attempting to recruit confidential informants to undermine the movement, and the Samidoun network has published a statement in solidarity with the CUNY 27.

Stop Cop City defendant Priscilla Grim recently published an article on surviving jail. You can find more ways to keep up with her here, as well as a general support campaign for Cop City defendants at Weelaunee the Free. Cop City defendant Larry Clark was recently released after several months in jail, and there’s a call to send post-release funds to $only1solonas on CashApp.

Kite Line Radio recently broadcast a new episode focusing on the cases of Peppy and Krystal, two Pittsburgh defendants facing charges for alleged actions against transphobia.

After a long-running legal battle, the courts have finally defeated a lawsuit that aimed to hold protest organizers liable for anything that happened at the event, after a police officer was injured in a 2016 protest over the killing of Alton Sterling.

Four people are still facing potential prison time in Florida for alleged Jane’s Revenge graffiti, having now plead guilty to felony charges. While they await sentencing, an anti-abortion protester has been given a non-custodial sentence for a breach of the FACE Act, the legislation supposedly designed to protect abortion clinics that’s now being used to criminalize those fighting to defend abortion access.

A benefit show for federal prisoner Randy “Smiles” Platt is being organized in Fort Collins, Colorado on August 17th. Supporters of the remaining Vaughn 7 prisoners have started selling t-shirts to raise money for their commissary and legal funds.

Antifascists in Texas are calling for “support [for] Aeshna “Protest Mom” in court, a street medic who was violently arrested last year in front of a drag show that was threatened by fascists. We’re packing the courtroom to show Tarrant County that our solidarity is stronger than their harassment.” See more info here.

Amber Kim Hunger Strike and Other Calls to Action

Amber Kim, a trans woman held in the Washington prison system, launched a hunger strike after being moved to a men’s prison, although she has now had to suspend the strike after threats to cancel a planned surgery. An event in solidarity with Amber is planned for Seattle on August 12th. Her situation has been covered by The Stranger, Truthout and the Huffington Post, and a blog has been set up to collect updates. There is also an upcoming in in Seattle, WA at the Pipsqueak Infoshop on Amber’s case.

From an article by Victoria Law in TruthOut:

After 17 days, Amber Kim has suspended her one-woman hunger strike protesting her involuntary transfer to a men’s prison.

Since her incarceration in 2006, Kim had spent 15 years in men’s jails and prisons. During that time, she fought both for gender-affirming medical care and for a transfer to a women’s prison. Finally, in 2021, she was transferred to the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW).

Three years later, this past March, Kim was issued a 504 disciplinary ticket for allegedly engaging in consensual sex with her girlfriend, a cisgender woman. (Sex, even consensual sex, is against prison rules.)

In June, three months after she was issued the disciplinary ticket, officers brought Kim out of her cell and told her she was being transferred to a men’s prison. She asked to see the transfer paperwork. She also asked to speak with her lawyer. When both requests were denied, she refused to walk. In response, she told Truthout that guards threw her to the ground, hog tied her, and drove her the 70 miles to the Monroe Correctional Complex, where she was placed in the Intensive Management Unit, or solitary confinement. She was issued two tickets for allegedly refusing to follow staff orders and refusing a facility transfer.

In response, Kim went on hunger strike. She initially contacted Truthout nine days into her strike. While LGBTQ+ people across the nation were commemorating Pride with parades, protests and parties, Kim spent her single hour outside her cell in a concrete yard calling the media and trying her best to ignore hunger pangs.

Separately, a call has gone out for a phone zap in support of prisoners at Vaughn prison in Delaware, who are reporting torture and beatings at the hands of prison officers.

Antifascists in Texas are calling for “support [for] Aeshna “Protest Mom” in court, a street medic who was violently arrested last year in front of a drag show that was threatened by fascists. We’re packing the courtroom to show Tarrant County that our solidarity is stronger than their harassment.” See more info here.

General Prison News and Abolitionist Media Updates

This summer, a massive heat wave marked by wildfires and fueled by climate change is hitting prisoners hard. At the former slave plantation of Angola in Louisiana, prisoners are legally challenging through a class-action lawsuit extreme heat conditions as they are used as prison slave labor in fields surrounding the facility. From one report:

…Other Southern states also operate sprawling penal farms on former slave plantations. Modern equipment is typically used to tend and harvest row crops that are sometimes sold on the open market and exported, even though the U.S. bans the import of goods made with prison labor overseas. But in some places, like Louisiana’s penitentiary, rudimentary tools and prisoners’ bare hands are used to harvest fruits and vegetables that feed inmates.

…prison farms nationwide have in recent years supplied millions of dollars worth of crops — including soy, corn and wheat — to massive global companies like Tyson Foods, Louis Dreyfus, Consolidated Grain and Barge and Riceland Foods. Agricultural goods produced through prison labor end up in the supply chains of popular brands like Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, Ballpark hot dogs and Pepsi, reporters found.

Prison labor is legal in the United States due to a loophole in the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which banned slavery, except for people convicted of crimes.

Some incarcerated workers say heat is used as a form of punishment, not just in the fields but also inside facilities. Many units across the country lack air conditioning, and some prisoners resort to flooding their cells and lying on the wet floor nearly naked to try to stay cool.

Prisoners in Texas facilities are also in the midst of a trial over extreme heat and lack of air-conditioning:

Texas is not alone in facing lawsuits over dangerously hot prisons. Cases also have been filed in Louisiana and New Mexico. One filed last week in Georgia alleged an inmate died in July 2023 after he was left in an outdoor cell for hours without water, shade or ice.

Desperate women would fake suicide attempts, or “commit some harm” to themselves to get placed in a cooler medical unit, Simmons said.

A November 2022 study by researchers at Brown, Boston and Harvard universities found that 13%, or 271, of the deaths in Texas prisons without universal air conditioning between 2001 and 2019 may be attributed to extreme heat. Prisoner advocates say those numbers are only likely to increase as the state faces more extreme weather and heat due to climate change.

According to a report by KUT Radio in Austin, autopsy reports on at least three inmates deaths in 2023 mentioned heat a possible contributing factor. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, however, has said there have been no heat-related deaths in the state’s prisons since 2012.

Detainees held by ICE in Central California have begun a hunger strike, which comes on the back of work strike. You can learn more about the situation in this interview. One report wrote:

ALMOST 50 IMMIGRATION detainees in Central California began a hunger strike on July 11, escalating a work stoppage after detention center management cut off their once-free phone calls to the world outside.

As of July 22, roughly 10 people continue the hunger strike. Organizers said the strike specifics vary among protesters, some of whom take protein shakes or limit food consumption.

Detention Watch Network, an activist coalition that wants to abolish immigration-based incarceration, counted at least five other hunger strikes across the country over ICE phone access. At Golden State, porters had already begun a labor strike. For cleaning the facility, they earn $1 per 8-hour workday, organizers said. They also protest for free phone access, improved hygiene and nutrition and an end to solitary confinement among other demands.

According to a log collected by detainee advocates, current hunger strikers face retaliation — from segregation to the seizure of their legal materials. In previous years, protesters alleged through the ACLU that detention employees put them in solitary confinement for a month and performed sexually-abusive pat-downs after they participated in a hunger strike.

The private contractor GEO operates both Northern California facilities. The state banned new ICE detention contracts on government-run property in 2017. GEO’s website counts a total capacity at both sites of roughly 1,100 people.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the two SF-controlled detention centers have seen hunger strikes against unhygienic conditions. Through an ACLU class action lawsuit, protesters said they didn’t have enough soap, among other cleaning and protective supplies.

Democracy Now! reports:

La Resistencia also reports that another hunger strike has kicked off at the NorthWest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA.

The article “Pelican Bay to Palestine” by revolutionary Texas prisoner Monsour Owolabi has now been republished by the Palestinian prisoner solidarity network Samidoun, who have also made it available as a printable zine.

New documents have exposed the extent of ADL spying on left activists involved in opposing ties between US police and the Israeli state.

Unicorn Riot has published a new interview on the case of Mahdi Ali in Minneapolis, as well as a video on the wrongful conviction of Jermaine Ferguson.

Revolutionary prisoner Kevin “Rashid” Johnson continues to publish new writing, including the article “White Privilege and the Revolutionary Struggles of People of Color” as well as new poems.

Supporters of the Pendleton 2 in Indiana have suggested a number of ways to take action in solidarity with them, and are raising funds for the campaign here. Imprisoned Texas writer Jason Walker now has a new facebook page.

Prism has published a new article by a Georgia prisoner on the extent of state violence in women’s prisons. New York prisoner Jared Bozydaj has written on the lack of air conditioning in the NY prison system. A new report exposes the extent of preventable deaths in ICE detention facilities.

Texas prisoners are now dealing with an outbreak of tuberculosis at the Connally Unit.

North Carolina Republicans are attempting to bring in a new law that would make it harder for district attorneys to drop or reduce charges in protest-related cases. Teen Vogue has started a new series, United States of Suppression, focusing on repression issues.

The rapper BG, recently released from prison, has now been ordered to submit all his new lyrics for approval by the state before releasing them. Prosecutors are apparently keen to prevent BG from expressing “anti-snitch” sentiments in his music.

Truthout has broadcast an interview with Dean Spade on how solidarity can falter amid repression and how to do better.

A lawsuit could lead to changes in the notoriously bad Louisiana prison medical system, but the state is now looking to use the Prison Litigation Reform Act to avoid making any changes and shut down any chance of improvements from the courts.

Also in Chicago, a book talk on the WTO protests in Seattle, was “disrupted in Chicago…,” due to the author interviewing “Suzanne Savoie – a snitch in Operation Backfire case…” Read more on Operation Backfire, which was central to the Green Scare, here.

Finally, Belly Zine has new content up about Black August:

This tradition began in the 1970’s in California after the death of Black Freedom Fighter Jeffery “Khatari” Gualden at the hands of the administrators of the San Quentin death camp. To quote Doc Holiday, a comrade of George Jackson’s, “Black August is a reflection and commemoration of history; of those partisans and leaders that realistically made it possible for us to survive and advance to our present level of liberation struggle.” Over the decades, Black August has grown in popularity among people outside of prisons who love and support those who are locked down and living in direct conflict with the whitesupremacist state.

Though we acknowledge historical facts, our tradition is not another Black History Month. We are not celebrating notable firsts, like the first Black person to do X, Y and Z and was therefore accepted by white amerika. It’s not about those whose talents or ingenuity brought them closer to their oppressors. There is another month for that, if you care to celebrate peanut butter, or the supreme court, or baseball stats. In that (shorter) month people celebrate the contributions Black people made to a country that rarely compensated them and continues to treat most of them as disposable. In Black August we celebrate those who stood against amerika and sacrificed for future generations.

Black August is about the kinds of resistance to white supremacy that is not limited by the bounds set by the ruling class and its collaborators. The terms and actions in revolut¡onary struggle are set by those in active contradiction with the enemy, and they resist as they see fit. As their courage allows. As their dissatisfaction dictates.

International

An exhibition will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from September 20th-22nd, featuring the artwork of a number of anarchist prisoners. Unoffensive Animal have published an interview with Swedish animal liberation prisoner Sindre, as well as a general call for people to support him as he faces an indefinite sentence with no clear end date.

In the UK, a defendant known as Katie is facing trial for having an abortion, and you can send messages of solidarity here. UK anarchist prisoner Toby Shone has been facing increased censorship recently, and British courts recently sentenced five climate activists to sentences of four to five years each for taking part in a Zoom call discussing a protest where a road was blocked. Freedom News has published some analysis of the verdict here, along with the latest installment of a prison diary from an ex-prisoner who served time for a direct action against the arms industry.

Palestinian prisoner solidarity network Samidoun has published a new article on the French state’s repression of Kanak defendants fighting against colonialism, as well as a video on repression against the Palestinian solidarity movement in Europe. Samidoun coordinator Mohammed Khatib, a Palestinian refugee in Belgium, is facing an attempt to withdraw his refugee status as a reprisal for his activism.

An event will be held in Warsaw on August 24th to celebrate 15 years of the Anarchist Black Cross Belarus, and ABC Belarus were also able to interview antifascist ex-prisoner Kristina Cherenkova on her prison experience recently.

A Spanish court has upheld a sentence of three and a half years for six members of the anarchosyndicalist CNT union for “coercion and harassment” for taking part in rallies against a pasty shop.

As the Budapest antifascist case continues, one defendant, Maja, was recently extradited from Germany to Hungary, showing the continuing collaboration between other European governments and the far-right regime of Orban.

The Anarchist Black Cross Federation have published a statement on the passing of Tsutomu Shirosaki, a political prisoner who has died in the Japanese prison system.

Warzone Distro has published a new interview with the Susaron 4, anarchist/animal liberation prisoners held in Chile.

Uprising Defendants

See Uprising Support for more info, and check out the Antirepression PDX site for updates from Portland cases. To the best of our knowledge they currently include:

Tyre Means 49981-086
USP Victorville
US Penitentiary
P.O. Box 3900
Adelanto, CA 92301

Margaret Channon 49955-086
FCI Tallahassee
P.O. Box 5000
Tallahassee, FL 32314

Malik Muhammad #23935744
Oregon State Penitentiary
2605 State Street
Salem, OR 97310

Cyan Waters Bass #23905849
Oregon State Correctional Institution
3405 Deer Park Drive SE
Salem, Oregon 97310

Montez Lee 22429-041
FCI Ray Brook
Federal Correctional Institution
PO Box 900
Ray Brook, NY 12977

Matthew White #21434-041
USP Terre Haute
PO Box 33
Terre Haute, IN 47808

Matthew Rupert #55013-424
USP Big Sandy
US Penitentiary
P.O. Box 2068
Inez, KY 41224

José Felan #54146-380
FCI Terre Haute
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 33
Terre Haute, IN 47808

David Elmakayes 77782-066
FCI McKean
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 8000
Bradford, PA 16701

Andrew Duncan-Augustyniak
Smart Communications/PA DOC
Andrew Duncan-Augustyniak / QN9211
SCI Rockview
PO Box 33028
St Petersburg, Florida 33733

Anthony Smith
14813-509
FCI Fort Dix
Federal Correctional Institution
Satellite Camp
P.O. Box 2000
Joint Base MDL, NJ 08640

Khalif Miller #70042-066
USP Big Sandy
U.S. Penitentiary
P.O. Box 2068
Inez, KY 41224

Alvin Joseph 1002016959
Hays State Prison
PO Box 668
Trion, GA 30753

Richard Hunsinger 16066-509
FCI Forrest City Low
P.O. Box 9000
Forrest City, AR 72335

Diego Vargas 55070-424
FCI Schuylkill
PO Box 759
Minersville, PA 17954

Howard Eugene Nall #586907*
Newberry Correctional Facility
13747 E. County Road 428
Newberry, MI 49868

T’Andre Buchanan 67637-060
Milan FCI
PO Box 1000
Milan, MI 48160

Renea Goddard #22810-509
FCI Aliceville
P.O. BOX 4000
Aliceville, AL 35442

Aline Espinosa-Villegas #22814-509
FMC Carswell
P.O. Box 27137
Fort Worth, Texas 76127

Address letter to Angel, address envelope to Aline A Espinosa-Villegas.

Mujera Benjamin Lunga’ho #08572-509
FCI Forrest City Medium
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 3000
Forrest City, AR 72336

Upcoming Birthdays

Bill Dunne

Long-term anarchist prisoner held since 1979 for attempting to free another comrade from imprisonment. Through the years Bill has also taught GED classes at almost every prison he has found himself at, helping many prisoners get their GED. Bill is generous, principled, full of integrity and has never wavered from his politics or convictions. Bill continues to stay active politically, helping edit and write 4Struggle Magazine, organizing the yearly Running Down the Walls 5K for political prisoners, and serves on the ABCF Prisoner Committee. You can read some of his writings here.

The Federal system uses Corrlinks, a system where a prisoner must send a request to connect to someone on the outside before they can exchange emails, so if you’re not already connected to Bill then you’re best off just sending him a card or a letter.

Birthday: August 3

Address:

Bill Dunne #10916-086
FMC Butner
PO Box 1600
Butner, North Carolina 27509

Hanif Shabazz Bey (Beaumont Gereau)

One of the Virgin Island 3, serving 8 consecutive life sentences after being tortured into a false confession then wrongly imprisoned since 2001 when his sentence was vacated.

Hanif is in an institution run by CoreCivic, and it appears that you can email him here.

Birthday: August 16

Address:

Beaumont Gereau #19-1952
Citrus County Detention Facility
c/o Securus Digital Mail Center
Post Office Box 20187
Tampa, Florida 33622

Christopher L Young

Queer anarchist prisoner/jailhouse lawyer in Kentucky wishing to start an anarchist book club and get more involved in organizing.

Kentucky uses Securus, so you can send him a message by creating an account at securustech.online, clicking “emessaging – launch account”, then searching his name while selecting “State: Kentucky, Inmate ID: 136515”.

Birthday: August 17

Address:

Christopher L Young #136515
Little Sandy Correctional Complex
505 Prison Connector
Sandy Hook, Kentucky 41171

Ronald Reed

Black Liberation prisoner, convicted in 1995 for allegedly shooting a police officer in 1970.

Minnesota uses Jpay, so you can send him a message by going to jpay.com, clicking “inmate search”, then selecting “State: Minnesota, Inmate ID: 219531”.

Birthday: August 31

Address:

Ronald Reed #219531
Minnesota Correctional Facility-Lino Lakes
7525 Fourth Avenue
Lino Lakes, Minnesota 55014

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