Recent photo of Brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun Long term Indiana political prisoner Bro. Khalfani Malik Khaldun (aka Leonard McQuay #874304) has declared a hunger strike in response to the serious repression and attempts on his life that he is facing at Miami Correctional Facility, and needs everyone concerned about the human rights of incarcerated people…
Since April 2021, the carceral apparatus of Madison Correctional Facility for women has mandated approximately ninety women at any given time to work at the private owned business, Royer. Royer, a local factory in the Jeffersonville area, contracts with the facility and Warden Jan Davis for incarcerated laborers to staff its two locations, one sitting…
Update 2/27: Due to the calls that were made last week, Faheem received a mattress and an indigent hygiene kit. However, he still has not received any bedclothes or his own clothes, appropriate medical attention, food, or his tablet. Please continue to make calls! The script has been updated below. ________________________________________ 2/24/22: Abu Faheem Shabazz…
Conditions are just so bad here. No one is doing anything to alleviate the situation either. In fact, IDOC has a job position for incarcerated people to present complaints/issues to authority labeled a dorm representative. Our dorm representative was demoted from her position for “writing letters to the warden.” Of which, none of the issues…
Article 1 Section 19 of the Indiana Constitution mandates that the penal code shall be grounded upon the principles of reformation and not vindictive justice. But what happens when those tasked with creating the laws necessary to make reformation possible choose to systematically undermine them? Let’s take it a step further. What happens when those…
Indianapolis newspaper article about the Feb. 1, 1985 Uprising featuring John “Balagoon” Cole and Christopher “Naeem” Trotter. On February 1st, 1985, a prisoner rebellion at the Indiana State Reformatory (ISR; now Pendleton CF) shook the Indiana Department of Correction. Prisoners angry about guards beating a well-loved and respected jailhouse lawyer named Lokmar Abdul Wadood Yazidi,…
Retaliation Against Aaron “Israel” Isby for Seeking Credit Time Restoration On 1/27/22, I was called to the prison Chaplain office in OSB2 Building [at Miami CF], after I got off work sometime after 2 p.m… When I got there, I was told by Chaplain Croto that Deputy Warden Jacklyn Scaife would be coming to talk…
Prisoners recently transferred en masse to Marion County’s new “high tech” Adult Detention Center (ADC) have already begun to collectively resist the unacceptable conditions inside the facility. County Judges and sheriffs have been forced to admit that the situation is a “powder keg” and that an uprising could break out at any moment (1). Inmates…
John C Cole, aka Balagoon, has been locked up in the corrupt Indiana Department of Corrections since the 70’s, where he became a political mentor to many other prisoners. In 1985, he was a leader in the 1985 Pendleton Uprising where prisoners, in response to racist guards viciously beating another inmate, took over a cellblock…
Indiana Coalition Opposes Senate Bills 6-10 January 25, 2022 Dear Members of the Indiana General Assembly: We, the undersigned public safety, community justice, civil and human rights stakeholders serving Indiana constituents, write in opposition to the current drafts of Senate Bills 6-10. We appreciate the Senate’s efforts to ensure that rising rates of homicides in…
