Midnight Special. 3:1 January 1973- mNmii PRISONERS NEWS PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD (N„Y„CHAPTER) APEC/AL JANUARY 1973 Vol.3 No.l WOMEN FIGHT TO LIVE In the second week of November, 90 % of the women at the Correctional Institution for Women in Clinton, New Jersey participated in a week long work stoppage. They took over the administration building for 22 hours and held an assembly, voicing their demands. The administration conceded to a number of demands, but the sisters are wary of verbal concessions. The following statement was signed by 200 of the250 women at Clinton. November 26, 1972 Clinton, N.J. TO THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY CARE: Here you will find a list of we the women of Clinton Farms requesting the resignation of Mrs. Marilyn Davenport who is suppose to be our Supt. I'm sure you're aware of the sit-in we had here a few weeks ago concerning the long time given us. The garbage they serve us for food. The incompetence of our so called Medical staff which includes the"dentist who is a alcoholic. Ninety per cent of us here are black and our arrests are for drugs or stems from drugs as users. There is no rehabilitation program here whatsoever. They have been stealing rponey from us for the last ten years or more saying it's for the welfare fund.. According to Mr. Wagner who met with us once there is no such fund and so we want our money back poste haste. We would like the Sickle Cell Anemia Test which we haven't received as yet. Health is wealth! God made the bees; and the bees made the honey. We do the work and the staff gets the money, which is unfair. We are not given the proper clothes to wear and we have terrible winters here. women Our commissary is suppose to be non-profit. Yet we pay twice as much for everything. Thanks to a Mr. Dan Longey. We find prejudice running con currently here. No blacks on classification. No blacks in our cottages hardly at all as officers. A few of the women here are of the Muslim faith and yet they cannot serve their Allah. We have a choir here that goes off grounds frequently to sing for benefits, etc. They get paid, but what happens to the money? Our rooms are closet size with two beds crammed in them which is not healthy. We don't have a Law Library. Our mail is con stantly being delayed. Our letters from our lawyers and judges are open which is an infringement on our rights. Mr. Wagner said there would be no reper cussion due to the sit-in. Mrs. Davenport is setting our time back etc. We were suppose to have a change of the Honor System also; we're still waiting. Some of us have been punished twice or more for one infraction, be it minor or major, this is triple jeopardy. Our grievances have not been met and we have been more than patient and so now we're imploring you the public to please take heed and make yourselves available. And we await your indulgence impatiently but respectfully. to live One of our women here's mother had a major operation on her eyes which have left her blind permanently. The women requested a com passionate furlough and was denied per Mrs. Davenport. And yet another woman was permitted to go to a wedding which we don't feel is com passionate. Is this justice? A woman who weight- - more than three hundred and fifty pounds fell and broke her leg. She'll be a cripple for life. She wasn't even suppose to be walking up hills etc, with inadequate shoes. We'd like to see her go home at once. We feel as tho' its time the blind fold be removed from Lady Justice's eyes. How about you? We keep asking questions, but we get no answers. Perhaps you the people can aid us in our hour of need. We are becoming more dependent and desperate. Mrs. Davenport doesn't even know half of the people who work here on the grounds. She doesn't have the time to take up or talk to us. We feel as tho she's ir-responsible and cannot do her job. Respectfully "DAY TO NIGHT" Deep into my cell I crawl To dream of days before my fall Deeper yet I squish and squirm And into Prison dreams I Journ All my sleep on fire still From all the men they continue to kill. —Brooklyn H. of D. I've wandered far and aimlessly I've witnessed life through hate I now admit I've been a fool But now it is too late I've been among the well-to-do I've been among the humble I walked with pride not long ago But now through life I stumble Once I was full of eagerness And had such great ambition But now that I am down and out I resent and shun position. Kerry Gataldo Bklyn. house of Detention Page 2 ATTICA AGAIN The weather on November 8th was a constant dnzzle of rain which was to last throughout the day. The regular prison schedule began, but at 7:15 a.m. was broken somewhat by the Latin Brothers (Puerto Rican, Cuban) refusing to leave their cells in protest of promises made by the Administration but never kept. At approximately 3 p.m. in the "A" yard, 150 to 200 inmates participated in a peaceful, orderly "exercise demonstration." It, also, was in protest against conditions of harrassment and the failure of the Administration to make meaningful changes that inmates could identify with. It began by a few inmates jogging, then a few more, and a few more, until all were in complete harmony, jogging a few laps around the yard, clapping and singing words of togetherness. Then the lines formed into one big beautiful circle, every man in unity. The joy of having done something together made all hands clap after each exercise with joy and voices rise with the cry of "Right ONI" and "Yes, Sir!". After ten minutes or more of this, the circle broke, forming two columns, jogging, singing and clapping, around the yard. After a few laps around, the lines again formed a circle in the yard and stopped. For five minutes of very electrifying and heart-warming moments, the men shook hands and embraced one another in the most civilized and brotherly manner, for men of different beliefs, ideologies, and prin ciples. But this act of peaceful demonstration was soon pitted against the forces of gas guns, shotguns, and machine guns of the Administration. Imagine the throughts and questions of the inmates in the yard upon seeing such armament. ..."Will this be another September 13th massacre of beating and killing?" Fortunately, it was not. All the men then in A yard, with the exception of an obvious few who were not involved, were taken to "Segregated Housing" in B-Block on the side of the prison not used since the riot over a year ago. Interrogations which followed the day after freed a few back to their original cells; others remained in segregation. The B Block cells were dirty, without mattresses, blankets, pillows, sheets. Nobody had any of their personal property, books, legal materials, writing equipment except pencil stubs. To this day, the Administration of Attica is still making excuses for not changing in the direction of bettering conditions of the prison population, and is looking for someone to blame for their continued inhumanity to man. Notes 10 days later Inmates who participated in the A yard exercises now have blankets and bedding, but none of their personal property. About ten of the men are in HBZ, the main area of segregated confinement, awaiting disciplinary action and possible transfer as "ringleaders." As this issue of M.S. is going to press the indictments from the Attica, rebellion have just come down. At this time we do not yet know the names of most of those indicted. Our next issue will have a full story. Associated Pr»s» Vernon Lafranque, In handcuffs and leg irons, being carried from a van into the courthouse at Warsaw, N .Y., yesterday. A defendant In the charges stemming from the Attica prison rebellion, he refused to walk in irons, Page 3 erie county jail: attica's hunting ground On Nov. 3, detainees in Erie County Jail in Buffalo started fires in their cells and particapated in con tained disturbances. No longer will they remain silent as they are kidnapped from our communities and railroaded to Attica. The following demands were presented to their captors: 1. Phone calls to attorneys when deemed im portant by the prisoner. 2. More visits with more visitors, consisting of one friend commonlaw wrfes and family. 3. Literature—law books and more reasonable list of magazines. 4. Confidential correspondence with attorneys. 5. Tour made by jailor to hear weekly grievences. 6. Acknowledgement of all reguest slips filed. 7. Tour by outside community group weekly to listen to prisoners and protect their rights. 8. Commissary equal to that of the jail annex. 9. More and better recreation. 10. All prisoners to be allowed to see the doctor if not satisfied with medication. 11. T.V. till 1:30 A.M. nightly. 12. Newspapers on a daily basis and paid for by the prisoner, one per gallery. 13. Property of prisoners picked up faster and oftener from the Buffalo Police Dept. Enclosed is a letter from a brother...that brings us to the present. To date their have been no reprisals and the county legislators are meeting to try to get the necessary money to implement the demands. In struggle, Attica Defense Comm. The Sing Sing Lock Step, discontinued after 1900 ERIE COUNTY JAIL After meeting with Sheriff Amico, undersheriff Mahoney and Supt. Festa we called off our hunger strike and ate the night meal Monday night. I speak for myself as I say, I feel as though our disturbance and strike was pot in vain. We may have riled some citizens, yet those who speak against us do not know what it is like to be held in confinment, separated from your home and family. I feel we have extracted a lot of promises from the men who control the way of life here at Erie County Jail, but I am also skeptical about their fullfillment. I probably will not be here to view if these promises are fulfilled, but I know from my experience of being here, this will not just fade away. More average people are coming to jail and their feelings will be the same. Also the communications in here between detainees is unsquashable and these promises will be kept in full view from one detainee to the next. I also speak for myself as I state, I don't think the population of this jail will wait long to see some improvments. People are now aware and if another disturbance arises it will spread quickly throughout the entire jail and the fault can only lie with the false promises if they turn out to be that way.lt has to be realized the detainees in this jail are no different than any other John Doe, except he may be a little poorer and can't raise the bail to free himself awaiting a trial. He is not convicted of a crime, yet he has less fundamental human rights than a convicted criminal in our state prisons. Is it justice to be treated as a convicted criminal because a man can not afford to fill a bondsmans pockets? Someone should remove the blindfold from the scale of justice. FEDERAL PRISONS: THE TURN OF THE SCREW mi l - 1 X M rPhot^b^Georg^H^Arr^^^^ 111. State Penn. - Pontiac, 111. from p enal Digest Internal-i on* i Marion, III. August 21, 1972 IN THE WAITING In the wake of a July 17th work stoppage, over 120 convicts were arrested in a mass administrative dragnet and placed in segregation. In general, all were charged with the catch-all charge of "Agitation." Participants or agitators, it makes no matter, 120 convicts fell scapegoat to administrative failures, deceptions, and abuses (e.g., the prime spark of the strike—the beating of an inmate). Most, if not all, of the 120 received no due process as is described by the Bureau's own policies. Thus, on August 17, after a month of "segregation- stupor," the 120 grew restless in their near-barren segregation cells, and began to noisily protest such unmerritted and unfounded punishment. Because the restless scapegoats annoyed their keepers so, the keepers elected to subject the audacious protestors to total deprivation, from shirt to toilet paper, which resulted in the destruction or loss of much personal property, including irreplaceable legal materials. However, to the further annoyance of the keepers, phase one-total deprivation—had a very reverse effect. Therefore, the restless, mad, scapegoats made much more noise the following night-what more was there to do? The protestors, having been stripped of every material object were angry, foremost, because they were in a place they should not have been in to begin •h. But, the gestapo-keepers did not limit themselves solely to the shameless protestors, quite the contrary, 100% of the inmates in segregation, participant or not, were subjected to the in discriminate, mass deprivation/retaliation. Humiliated and angered to the point of tears, the non-participants/victims of the previous night joined in with the chorus of unanimous protest the following evening. This is when the keepers new plaything. Big Bertha, appeared on the scene. Big Bertha is a gasoline-powered machine designed to fill entire buildings with teargas within four or five minutes. In H-Block, which housed the angry, naked, shouting protestors (each in his separate cage), the keepers ignited Big Bertha and within minutes the entire block was dismal with teargas. Each in dividual, obstinate, naked shouter of protest was methodically and systematically gassed for a minute or so with Big Bertha, almost to insensibility, and some even received her favors as many as five times. Page 5 (Continued on Page 6) FEDERAL PRISONS: THE TURN OF THE SCREW The keepers, on those two hot summer nights, let their hatred for their charges get the better of their reason, thus, was born the present class action suit against the barbaric retaliation displayed by the professional harrassers at the U.S. Penitentiary, Marion, Illinois. And so here we lay, all the waiters, hoping we may restrain our hopes within the knowledge of our past experiences with impartial justice...for all. We read the scriptures of the keepers own book, but the keepers are hypocrites...he has murdered the civil rights of 120 men; he has smited his naughty protestors on both cheeks and with the slightest semblance of gaining their feet, he continues to smite and smite and smite—here lies our anxieties, our psychic chaos...why does he not laugh when he smites us, as is his nature? Is the keeper worried, forther retaliating while he still has time, getting all the blows in that he can? Is he so confident that he does not have to practice what his doctrines preach, that he further bludgeons us to emphasize his immunity to the complaints of non-human convicts? Yes, here we lay...the pendulum-cleaver ever swinging and clawing clefts in our benumbed, wondering brains with each passing stroke. Is it just more psychological dehumanization or is it desperation bringing all this extra-curricular harrassment... U.S. Penitentary Marion, Illinois THE MARION STORY - PARTII October 3, 1972 - Our hearing was set to be heard today at 130. We arrived at the court house in Benton, Illinois. The U.S. Attorneys were present along with Assistant Warden, Charles Fenton. 18 prisoners—our witnesses were delivered in state cars wearing handcuffs. The two sides met in chambers with Judge Foreman for about three hours. The outcome was that because the prison officials were not served with a copy of the complaint, the hearing would be postponed. The judge said he.would set a date in the near future. October 14, 1972 - Saturday - The men on "D" Range of 'H' Unit in protest of receiving small quantities of food and it being cold, protested this by not turning in their trays or spoons after meals. This continued thru the following day. October 15, 1972 - Sunday - In response to the protest, guards refused to give showers to men on 'D' Range. Also these men were served sack lunches at breakfast. At noon meal, a guard came in and said if utensils were returned, hot food would be served. Again, sack lunches were served at lunch and supper, even though the men returned their trays and spoons. At 10:47 p.m. the riot squad, about 30 men, in full riot gear dress along with Assistant Wardens Fenton, armed with pick handle, and Fry entered 'D' range to conduct a shakedown of cells and strip search. The procedure was for each man to be stripped, handcuffed to cell door, removed from inside of cell, all belong ings removed from cell and man returned to cell with no clothes on. Three of the eighteen men on 'D' Range refused to be hand cuffed, but agreed to being stripped and would come out of cell peacefully. The first man was Raul Estrada. Because of his refusal to the handcuffs, he was maced by Lt. White, the cell doors were opened and about four guards rushed him and beat him. About 10 guards carried him to the box-car, a closed front cell on B range. A second man, Daniel Sap- pington also refused the handcuffs, but agreed to strip and would come out peacefully. He was also maced and when the cell door was opened he was rushed by about four guards and beat. The third man to receive the same treatment was Eddie Adams. After the Lt. maced him, four guards rushed Eddie and literally 'beat the shit out of him.' He has suf fered many bruises, abrasions, and two black eyes. After these beatings, Raul Estrada was placed in a box-car, which is a cell completely closed on all four sides. Page 6 FEDERAL PRISONS: THE TURN OF THE SCREW ^ //AAjMCt MfiXFOUf the attorney was bewildered at seeing Eddie being dragged down the hall by two guards. He was in such bad shape, he had no control over his body. His left eye was completely closed and his right eye half closed, vision and stability were poor, but strength and togetherness were strong. October 18, 1972 - Wednesday - Upon returning to the prison to visit Eddie Adams, the attorney saw the guards escort Eddie, into this visiting room, in a wheel-chair. And up to now, Eddie still uses the wheel-chair. Also on this day, the attorney visited the other two prisoners who were beaten. Danny Sappington, one of these men had cuts on his wrists and on the rest of his body. He received no medical attention. Raul Estrada, during the visit, could not sit down at all. He said he had much pain in his side where an unremovable bullet is located. He was very unstable at the time and was afraid of falling over. On Oct. 27, 1972, after two motions to restore regular attorney-client visitation rights and to allow an outside physician to give medical help to Eddie Adams, were denied, a date was finally set for a hearing on the preliminary injunction filed on Oct. 3. On Nov. 2 and Nov. 3, nine witnesses, kept in handcuffs and leg irons the whole time, testified to the brutality, the confiscation of prisoners' property, the restrictions on visitations and other goings on in Marion. On Nov. 3, the prison officials gave their side of the story. The judge closed the hearings by saying he would make a ruling on the prelimary injunction within 20 days. Our echoing voice maintains: "To win our freedom From our present condition We must all challenge The oppressive system's hand'." -by a brother transferred from the Fed. Penn. at Marion. October 16, 1972 - Monday - At around 10:45 p.m. the riot squad again with Fenton and Fry, all dressed in full riot gear and armed came back to 'D' range in hope of stirring the prisoners to resist. On this day, they were unsuccessful. But again they went through another shake-down of all 18 prisoners housed on 'D' range. This time there was a cameraman present who taped the whole ordeal. It's funny that he wasn't present on Oct. 15, the previous night when there were beatings. After this strip search, Eddie Adams was taken to a box-car, located in the same area where Raul Estrada was sent. While trying to survive in this cage, Eddie suffered from ten black-outs during a two week lock up. He was told by doctors "it's all in your head." On this day one of the lawyers representing the inmates in the suit filed against the prison, was denied to see Eddie Adams or anty other prisoner. October 17, 1972 - Tuesday - Today, the lawyer was allowed to visit some of the prisoners. To his surprise, he was escorted to a small visiting room where he was told, all his future visits would take place. The style of the visits consists of two sides, one for the lawyers, one for the prisoner. The two sides are separated by a full glass partition and communication is done via monitored telephones. This act is in complete violation of Attorney-client privileges. Our two lawyers representing the prisoners are the only lawyers in the country forced to visit clients via monitored telephones and this is the only federal prison in the country to have this whole set-up. After requesting to see Eddie Adams, iff DOWN WITH OPPRESSION! The consequences do inform us: "To plea our plea With the system today Is surely the heat Of you retreat to defeat. " Thus our inter hurt proclaims: "To face this system Bravely together as one Is to win at length Over the oppression adrift." MOT LEUCI. TV Page 7 FEDERAL PRISONS: THE TURN OF THE SCREW Springfield, Mo. Dear People, Greetings. I am a Federal prisoner presently en- carcerated in the U.S. Medical Center for Federal prisoners. I am a "Jail House lawyer" presently in Federal court on transfers without procedural due process of law. I am also in a hunger strike with two other prisoners here we have not eaten since Sept. 25, 1972 (we only drink very little liquids as we are in the "hole" and only little liquids are given to us in an effort to starve us into submitting the efforts will faill' We are protesting being kidnapped from the U.S. Penitentiary Marion, Illinois and being kept in the "hole" here six months and then being put in a brain washing unit mainly for our principles and political beliefs. I have prepared a class action in our behalves which will be placed in court as soon as an interested visits us. We are charging the director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, the Wafden of the U.S. Penitentiary Marion, Illinois and the Warden here with conspiring to and violating our numerous constitutional and civil rights. That is the news in this prison. The Midnight Special received another tetter dated Nov. 21, 1972, that said that the prisoners "Fast For Rights" was into its 57th day and that they were receiving outsidesupport. A RARE REAL UNITY A beautiful unity A unity of faith A unity of principal A unity of togetherness. Such Is the unity Found so together Within Marion prison Amongst the real men. The brave men Who got segregated Because they as brothers Protested unfair behavior. These true men Protested peacefully But were dealt brutality By the administration's hand. A disgrace it is The recourse employed By the prison's blind puppet Upon the brothers in struggle. -by a brother shipped out of Marion prison We are compiling information about the new mind control type programs being instituted in many prisons. These use techniques such as drug and shock "therapy" and highly regimented systems of punishment and reward. Two of these are the . Prescription Program at the Adirondack Center in Dannemora, N.Y. and Project S.T.A.R.T. [Special treatment and rehabilitative training) at the Federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo. If you have in formation about these or any other similar programs please let us know. Midnight Special 23 Cornelia St. N.Y.C., N.Y. 10014 Settle your quarrels, come together J reality of our situation, understand that L erstar ) d the h cre > .hat people are alriady dyingtho couM d"? g e n e r a t i o n s m o r e w i l l d i e o r l i v e p o o r b u t c h e r e d \ZfV ! y o u f a i l t o a c t . D o w h a t m u s t b e d o n e H " , f humanity and your love in revolution Pas's onT" Y °^ Jom us, give up your life for the people. h " Page 8 FEDERAL PRISONS: THE TURN OF THE SCREW IN THEF/NAL ANALYSIS It has been approximately 60 days since Black Prisoners at the U.S. Penal Colony, Atlanta, Georgia, were subjected to the brutal and vicious tear gas and ax-handle clubbing attack by racist guards, for peacefully showing concern for three (3) other Black prisoners, who themselves had been previously beaten... It is now time to examine the causes and effects of the above mentioned incident and bring light to bear on the contradictions which are ever present throughout the fabric of the country in general and its penal system in particular... In order that we do this so it's enlighting to both reader and writer alike, the reader should be made aware of certain history and events that lead up to Sept. 23, 1972... ...It can be said with a certain amount of validity that the U.S. Penitentiary, Atlanta, Ga., is the only federal penal colony in the United States, that has NO formal/organized educational or cultural program geared to Black Et Latin Prisoners (although we comprise half the prison population); the ad ministration here at the penitentiary (Warden Henderson & Assoc. Warden Rigsby) have admitted as much to the local news media...And we need not even discuss rehabilitation...by the warden's own statements to a reporter from the Atlanta Con stitution newspaper and the bureau press release, Atlanta is considered an "end of thd road' facility for prisoners the bureau has determined are not worth rehabilitating!!! ...Across the United States Prisoners are waking up to the truth of their own worth and intelligence, Prisoners have come to treat themselves with more personal respect than to further accept pet theories about the common ignorance and anti-sociality of their kind. Prisoners have been for several years actively seeking reasonable solutions to their common problems of recidivism and disen chantment...and in light of this, in the early part of this year (1972), a group of aware, dedicated and committed Black prisoners came to gather to seek ways and means to change the image of Black Prisoners projected by the administration and depicted by the racist news media, which conveyed situations and visions calculated to alienate the public...The United Black Front (U.B.F.) was a dream in the minds and hearts of these men who had come to realize it was time for more positive action and less negative conflict amongst each other...The U.B.F. —whose aim and purpose was to establish dialogue between ourselves and the instant com munity and national community by way of certain programs (i.e. the four (4) point plan was the ex ternal part of the overall program and the African/American Cultural Development Society was the internal part)...We drew up a proposed charter with the four (4) point plan and the AACDS Atlanta, Ga. programs included and submitted them to the prison administration (Assoc. Warden Rigsby: in charge of programs)...and this is when the shit hit the fan...the administration was aghast that there were some brothers who were spending their time in con structive activities (i.e. THINKING AND TRYING TO RAISE THEIR LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS) in stead of playing games and singing and dancing (which is what they call good institutional ad justment)...We were viewed as a threat to the penal system in general and the penitentiary in particular, in that we were actively seeking ways and means to insure our continued release from captivity once we were discharged from confinement, by seeking alternate means of survival other than the means that resulted in our being incarcerated in the first place...In other (BLACKER) words, we was waking up! I I...and they couldn't stand this. So they began to really supress/repress us...We became (and still are) the victims of the most heinous plan of systematically dehumanizing ever used on prisoners in this country,..This plan is called the "MANIFESTO OF DEHUMAN1ZA T/ON" , and it has long been in practice throughout the prisons of the United States...We APPEAL to the reader to seriously read and evaluate the evidence which points to a systematic plan by prison administrators to destroy human life. (Continued on Page 10 Page 9 FEDERAL PRISONS: THE TURN OF THE SCREW ...In early 1962, the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons called a special meeting of top prison ad ministrators from throughout the United States. The primary focus of this meeting was the subject of applying newly developed brainwashing techniques to induce behavioral change ("rehabilitation") in prisoners detained in prisons across the land. The main instruction comprised an introduction by one Dr. Edgar H. Schein, associate progessor of psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Industrial Management, to his treatise entitled "Man Against Man: Brain washing", which comprises a definitve analysis of techniques employed in North Korea to induce radical alterations of behavior in prisoners of war. (A MORE COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF DR. SCHEIN'S WORK CAN BE FOUND IN A REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE UNITED NATIONS BY THE FEDERAL PRISONERS COALITION)...A list of the basic tactics Dr. Schein considers the most ap plicable to prison milieu follows...we refer to these 24 points as the manifesto of dehumanization MANIFESTO OF DEHUMANIZATION m PHYSICAL REMOVAL OF PRISONERS TO AREAS SUFFICIENTLY ISOLATED TO EFFECTIVELY BREAK OR SERIOUSLY WEAKEN CLOSE EMOTIONAL TIES. (2) SEGREGATION OF ALL NATURAL LEADERS. (3) USE OF COOPERATIVE PRISONERS AS LEADERS. (4) PROHIBITION OF GROUP ACTIVITIES NOT IN LINE WITH BRAINWASHING OBJECTIVES. (5) SPYING ON THE PRISONERS AND REPORTING BACK PRIVATE MATERIAL. (6) TRICKING MEN INTO WRITING STATEMENTS WHICH ARE THEN SHOWN TO OTHERS. (7) EXPLOITATION OF OPPORTUNISTS AND IN FORMERS. ' 8 > CONVINCING THE PRISONERS THAT THEY CAN TRUST NO ONE. I 9 ) TREATING THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO COLLABORATE IN FAR MORE LENIENT WAYS THAN THOSE WHO ARE NOT. HO) PUNISHING THOSE WHO SHOW UN COOPERATIVE ATTITUDES. (11) SYSTEMATIC WITHHOLDING OF MAIL. (12) PREVENTING CONTACT WITH ANYONE NON- SYMPATHETIC TO THE METHOD OF TREATMENT AND REGIMENTATION OF THE CAPTIVE POPULACE. (13) BUILDING A GROUP CONVICTION AMONG THE PRISONERS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN ABANDONED BY AND TOTALLY ISOLATED FROM THEIR SOCIAL ORDER. (14) DISORGANIZATION OF ALL GROUP STAN DARDS AMONG PRISONERS. (15) UNDERMINING OF ALL SOCIAL SUPPORTS. atlanta, ga. (16) PREVENTING PRISONERS FROM WRITING HOME OR TO FRIENDS IN THE COMMUNITY REGARDING THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR CONFINEMENT. (17) MAKING AVAILABLE AND PERMITTING ACCESS TO ONLY THOSE PUBLICATIONS AND BOOKS THAT CONTAIN MATERIALS WHICH ARE NEUTRAL TO OR SUPPORTIVE OF THE DESIRED NEW ATTITUDES. (18) PLACING INDIVIDUALS INTO NEW AND AM BIGUOUS SITUATIONS FOR WHICH THE STANDARDS ARE KEPT DELIBERATELY UNCLEAR, THEN PUTTING PRESSURE ON THE PRISONERS TO CONFORM TO WHAT IS DESIRED IN ORDER TO WIN FAVOR AND REPRIEVE FROM PRESSURE. (19) PLACING INDIVIDUALS WHOSE WILL POWER HAS BEEN SEVERELY WEAKENED OR ERODED INTO A LIVING SITUATION WITH SEVERAL OTHERS WHO ARE MORE ADVANCED IN THEIR THOUGHT REFORM AND WHOSE JOB IT IS TO FURTHER THE UNDERMINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S EMOTIONAL SUPPORTS BEGUN BY ISOLATING THEM FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS. (20) USING TECHNIQUES OF CHARACTER IN VALIDATION, i.e. HUMILIATION REVILEMENTS, SHOUTING, TO INDUCE FEELINGS OF GUILT, FEAR, AND SUGGESTIBILITY, COUPLED WITH SLEEPLESSNESS, AN EXACTING PRISON REGIMENTATION, AND PERIODIC IN- TERROGATIONAL INTERVIEWS. (21) MEETING ALL INSINCERE ATTEMPTS TO COMPLY WITH CELLMATE'S PRESSURE WITH (22) REPEATED POINTING OUT TO PRISONERS BY CELLMATES OF WHERE HE HAS, IN THE PAST OR IN THE PRESENT, NOT LIVED UP TO HIS OVW STANDARDS OR VALUES. (23) REWARDING OF SUBMISSION AND SUB SERVIENCE TO THE ATTITUDES EN COMPASSING THE BRAINWASHING OB JECTIVE WITH A LIFTING OF PRESSURE AND ACCEPTANCE AS A HUMAN BEING. (24) PROVIDING SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SUP PORTS WHICH REINFORCE THE NEW AT TITUDES. 10 FEDERAL PRISONS: THE TURN OF THE SCREW ...In addition to the tactics/techniques offered by dehumanist Dr. Schein, the Federal Bureau of Prisons turned also to the leading authorities in the U.S. on the effects of isolation and sensory deprivation as a technique of eroding the human will of self-determination —(in state prisons it's used as punishment: as experiments, see Brothers George Jackson and Martin Soreste as classic examples), in the federal prison system it is employed as a coer cion to participate in the brainwashing experiments. The procedure of dehumanization will be stepped up with the opening of the National Detention and Behavioral Modification Research Center in Butner, N.C. (slated for opening in 1974). This facility's operation will be under the direction of Dr. Martin Groder, psychiatrist, who began and developed the Bureau of Prison's brainwashing program at the U.S.P., Marion, III. ...It does not take a genius to see that this program is being designed and developed and implemented for use against Black/Latin and all aware prisoners, who refuse to become second-class citizens, who have begun to speak out and fight for their human rights and dignities...who have raised their voices in complaint against a society which casts its citizens into despicable and degenerate prisons (when society itself is at fault for creating the conditions that necessitate prisons), then demands that these disenfranchised people do better (under the same conditions they left), after spending years in HELL (penal colonies). -So in the final analysis, YOU, the Black Public Should raise your voices against the sadistic and barbaric methods being employed today to destroy nT Mothers ' H ^bands, Wives, Sons Daughter, Brothers, Sisters... YOUR PEOPLB\ I who have the misfortune to be incarcerated in an Amerikan prison facility. The Brothers in the Atlanta penal colony who made a statement of their personal com^tment/mvolvement ( U .B. F .), IN SEEKING LIBERATION! f 6 m" 9 , 9 ' 6 ** ? eace and LIBER AT! ON for Black people, have fallen victim either by intent or design to this inhuman crime against humanity!!!.-,YOU, my AFRICAN Brothers and Sisters, could very well be nextm. cause nowhere does the saying..."|F THEY TAKE YOU IN THi-rNirH 1 ! 1 ."'T HEY W ' LL BE C0MING F OR US I HAT NIGHT! ...fit so aptly. ...RESIST TO EXIST!!! Pamoja Tutashinda... brother of the people UNITED BLACK FRONT COLLECTIVE /NATIONAL PRISONERS COALTION (atlanta division) Page 11 FEDERAL PRISONS: THE TURN OF THE SCREW Continuing The Fight I have three years to do on parole and since I intend to spend a large portion of these three years fighting against the repressions and unpardonable inhumanisms of prisons, as well as the men- daciousness and moral bankruptcy of the men who rule over prisons, it is likely and probable that the U.S. Parole Board, the Amerikan Inquisition, will at some point in these three years revoke the parole that it has granted me and thereby, return me to fortress Texarkana or a similar bastion of con centrated madness. If this likely event should occur, then it will be the result of my having effectively exposed the essential corruption and human destruction of the prison system and the apparatus that props it up and it will stem from the fact of my refusal to see the world through the eyes of some racist, incompetent, morally bankrupt parole officer who will more than likely believe that god or his white skin or something similarly sick and obnoxious ordains him to define my life for me or who will want that I perform as his puppet, a sick image of his much deluded ego. The happy slave that white amerikans seem to love so well is more than a myth; he or she is a grotesque perversion of biology and culture. Likewise is the model prisoner, the suc cessful parolee, the happy slave in modern day dress with a new title —but still a slave. I am not that mythical happy slave and I have no intention of cooperating with slavery that masquerades under the misnomer of people centered parole. And, if there be latter day George Fitzhugh's and latter day Simon Legree's working for the parolee mess these corruptions of men might will take note now that Sambo if he ever existed, does not exist anymore — and in either case Sambo is a creation of the criminally insane minds of white folks who prospered and prosper on the blood of all people of color. Sambo does not exist today—we have white folks in black skin, criminals who embrace the sophisticated fascism of Nixon and his henchmen, we have black folks struggling to survive, and black folks struggling to destroy amerika,the inhuman colossus of the age —but not Sambo. Sambo, if he ever existed became a prostitutefor Nixon, a pimp for his policies and programs, an alien figure in black, jarringly out of place in Black america, glaringly insulting to Black People, embracing the oppessors of Black People in particular and people who toil generally and in this embrace performing sacrilege on the graves of their ancestors who died prematurely building this society. For their outrageous betrayal of the trust of Black People, traitrous buffoons in Black will be made accountable. If they are mad, they will be treated for their madness, but if they are criminal, if they are conscious of the fact that their actions in pursuit of the dollar and social stature are a misuse and abuse of black people and are yet willing to undertake these pursuits, then like all criminals in the society of human beings engaged in a collective effort to meet their needs and satisfy their creative impulses, these criminals masquerading as spokesmen and spokeswomen for the Black Masses will be treated to the full restrictive justice of a people armed in pursuit of their destiny and this according to the nature and destructiveness of the crime. Thus, white folks who are of the opinion that their order and property built upon and sustained in human blood and oppression can be maintained forever by including in the society of this order and the society protective of this property a few buf foons in black might well consider that people victimized by their order armed with the truth of their order and supported by the means to destroy this order have no respect for skin pigmentation. A man or woman who consciously and willingly commits crimes against humanity will be stopped from committing such crimes, if need be he will be destroyed —and this, irregardless of the color of his skin. As I prepare to leave fortress Texarkana the keepers of this fortress are engaged in a final bit of desperate madness characteristic of men whose order of life is crumbling. October 20th the morally bankrupt men who define the stercoraceous order of this place had a dedication for a new building on the grounds of this fortress. This new building called a treatment complex houses the offices of fast manipulating people, abusing caseworkers, the office of a psychologist who justifies the abnormality of prison, the offices and room of education that befits buffoons and the year 1865, a gymnasium and chapel. This mauseleum for the mind in its brightly painted, windowless, un-air conditioned splendor, this magnificent cover for a cesspool, and what is needed is room and facilities to adequately meet the needs of visitors. But I suppose people who stoop to come to visit prisoners deserve the rain and a knee knocking abrasion on the ears. And the men of this outlook, the men with this sickness of the soul deserve and will get destruction. Toward a brighter tomorrow, Federal Prison, Texarkana, Texas Page 12 BROOKLYN QUEENS EXPRESSWAY brooklyn Power Comrade; Many administrational pressures and forces are effectively emerging and taking on form here. In stitutional Genocide, administrational pressures such as blocking and thwarting the communicational services here at the Brooklyn House of coercion and corruption. The administrational heads and en forcers, have designed an ordered that the telephone services be suppressed. Therefore, giving birth to an non-intelligent reaction to which the masochistic law enforcers want and pray for. But cutting off the telephone services the heads know and understand that, this would bring about the institutional unrest and tension that was predicted, premeditated and designed to