This Ain’t Living… Never in a million lifetimes would I have ever imagined that I will be compelled to live out my existence in such a way. Now, I have truly come to realize that one compulsion leads to yet another of its kind. However, a balanced approach to this continuous life-struggle that I have…
This article was written by Balagoon about his long-time friend and comrade Lokmar, when Balagoon was informed that Lokmar had suffered from two strokes in 2019. On December 4, 2020, Lokmar passed away from Covid-19 that he contracted while in prison. Lokmar was an excellent Jailhouse Lawyer, a long-term prison rebel, and a mentor to…
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…
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…
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…
Please support Aaron “Israel” Isby, an imprisoned Indiana freedom fighter, as he fights for clemency after 28 years of wrongful incarceration in solitary confinement! Israel has submitted his clemency appeal and has been waiting to hear back for several months. As of last week, the time period within which the Governor is required to respond…
Monday morning, 6/08/20, Disciplinary Hearing Officer M. Grove assaulted Angaza (Jimmy Jones #891782). She pushed him while he was in her office to pick up the paperwork for filing an appeal of the bogus conduct reports she recently found him guilty of, delaying his release from prison by two months. Tuesday afternoon, he was moved…
Although there is no decision, the trial exposed monthly reviews of those in segregation are meaningless.
