Compassionate Release

Balagoon on Medical Neglect in the IDOC and the need for Compassionate Release

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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…

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Compassionate Release in Indiana

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Compassionate Release in Indiana By Natalie Medley, currently incarcerated at Indiana Womens’ Prison Compassionate release is the reduction of a sentence for circumstances needing humane intervention in incarcerated individuals’ experiences; whereby the morality of continual imprisonment changes. Imminent death, significant illness, or old age are circumstances that may alter the public interest in the continual…

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