Around 9/16/21, IDOC guards, Indiana State Police and other police forces carried out a major operation with over 100 heavily armed officers and K-9s on the solitary confinement Secure Housing Unit (SHU) at Wabash Valley CF designed to terrorize people incarcerated throughout the Indiana prison system. The SHU houses people in both Disciplinary Segregation (DS)…
On 1/4/2021, IDOC Watch and other organizations around the state and country organized a mass Phone & Email Zap to change the cruel and illegal conditions faced by people locked up on Indiana’s most repressive solitary confinement units, the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) at Wabash Valley CF. You can read and listen to the call…
by Kwame “Beans” Shakur Illegal Denial of Video Visits Due to the Covid-19 virus Wabash Valley Correctional Facility closed the visitation room in March. Those of us held captive in the SHU have not been able to see our loved ones in 9 months, however, population has still been allowed to maintain contact with the…
The Secure Housing Unit is the most repressive unit in the Indiana prison system: 23-24 hour lockdown, solitary confinement, lights on constantly, starvation diets, and frigid temperatures, and illegal restrictions that deprive people caged there of the basic rights they are entitled to under IDOC Policy & Procedure. We are fighting to get people on…
On April 12, 2020, an incident occurred on GHU at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility during night recreation. Staff refused to allow people to return to their cells after showering, or to clean their cells to stop the spread of Covid-19, and the Sergeant threatened anyone who questioned him. When the people caged on the unit…
Phone Zap! Hunger Strike at Miami Correctional Facility We have received word that Angaza Iman Bahar and others at Miami are on hunger strike in protest of the lockdown conditions being imposed there. We will report more details as we have them. Please call Warden Hyatte at MCF and IDOC Central Office and ask them…
