Please listen to the two interviews below to learn about serious instances of medical neglect at Westville CF. One interview deals with a situation in which a person experiencing a very serious asthma attack wasn’t tended to until over a half hour after medical attention had been requested repeatedly. The second interview is with a…
We just received this report from someone who has a loved one incarcerated at Plainfield CF: Diabetic Inmates at Plainfield Correctional Facility (Central N Cell Block) are being accused of being intoxicated and sent to medical where the nurses have confirmed their sugar is low and they are NOT intoxicated. Yet they are still being…
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…
Please check out this recent interview with Abu Faheem Shabazz, an IDOC Watch member who is incarcerated at Westville CF on a technical parole violation. In the interview, he describes how effective medications are being withheld from him and others caged there, while new, unproven medications are being tested on them. You can contact and…
IDOC Watch is opposed to the mistreatment of anyone in the Department of Correction’s custody, because whatever they can do to one of us, they can do to all of us. Prisons disappear and torture people, and medical neglect is one of the torture tools they use on the people in their cages! From Angaza…
We received word from James Wright, who is locked up on D1, the mental health unit at Pendleton CF. James says that they have been on lockdown receiving 3 bag lunches per day, and just one hot meal per week. Wright has been denied his medications, in retaliation for the recent uprising in the gym…
In the past week, news has come out that a terrible COVID-19 outbreak is occurring at the Westville Correctional Facility. The outbreak became newsworthy after a 70 year old man died of the disease in the facility. In response to the outbreak, people incarcerated at Westville, their loved ones, and other supporters are organizing to…
We recently received word from Martin Horst’s mother and fiance about the dangerous situation he is in, as someone incarcerated with a respiratory condition during the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow us for upcoming actions to release Martin and other incarcerated people so that they aren’t killed by COVID-19! An inmate at Jail 2 was recently isolated…
Angaza Iman Bahar is on hunger strike at Miami Correctional Facility! He hasn’t eaten in over a week (as of 4/2), in protest of the conditions being imposed at MCF during the COVID-19 pandemic and the failure of IDOC to re-classify him in the appropriate security level, keeping him at a maximum security facility when…
