This is the brief speech IDOC Watch gave at the recent protest at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Below are links to videos of the protest rally and march, from the Michigan City Social Justice Group’s Facebook page. Statement This week, incarcerated people across the US have launched a nationwide strike to fight prison…
https://www.facebook.com/events/337612023449248/ Earlier this month we assisted the inmates at Pendleton in demanding the air conditioning and ventilation be turned on during these days of extreme heat. The pressure from the inmates and outside supporters succeeded in getting Pendleton to respond. SInce then Pendleton administration has quietly turned off the air conditioning and ventilation in E…
Several inmates in the Secure Housing Unit(SHU) at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility are initiating a hunger strike in protest of their already starvation-level meal portions, their lack of access to basic necessities like adequate clothing, and access to commissary items . Food portions are extremely small, imagine a high school lunch tray where the section…
Leon Benson is an innocent political prisoner held captive in the state of Indiana. Currently held at Pendleton Correctional Facility, Leon is an inspiration for all those who struggle for freedom and righteousness. We look forward to sharing more about his story in the future. For now please sign and share the following petition as…
IDOC Watch, The Other Victims’ Advocacy, Michigan City Social Justice Group, and Black Lives Matter NWI-Gary are organizing another protest at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, on August 25 at 1pm CST. At the last protest we focused on demanding the restoration of contact visitation and food-sharing during visits, and within a week after our demonstration,…
To all family and supporters with loved ones incarcerated in Indiana: IDOC Watch wants to work with you! Help us work to change conditions in the IDOC. Currently, we are especially interested in ending the ban on contact visitations. A protest at Indiana State Prison last month helped reverse the ban there, now we have…
Officials here at Miami Correctional Facility are seeking to create a majority lock down facility on its phase two side. Currently they are working to transform five of its eight units on that side of the facility into a 23/1 lock down unit where the prisoners housed in these units will receive only one hour of recreation a day…
An IDOC Watch correspondent contrasts conditions in Pendleton with solitary confinement.
Keith ‘Malik’ Washington is a humyn rights activist currently incarcerated in Texas. He is a co-founder and chief spokespersyn for the End Prison Slavery in Texas Movement. Malik is a proud member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and he is the Deputy Chairman of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter). Malik…
On July 18th, International Nelson Mandela Day, the New Afrikan Liberation Collective in partnership with IDOC Watch will be holding a panel on political prisoners followed by a demonstration outside the IDOC headquarters to call attention to the ongoing abuse in Indiana prisons July 18th is a day to remember the revolutionary legacy of Nelson…
