Atlanta Independent Media Center

Thursday, December 24, 2015 - 7:56pm

Alabama prisons are some of the most abusive and overcrowded in the country, with some prisons having twice as many inmates as they are designed to hold. They are also extremely understaffed, a situation that is creating a crisis for authorities. Alabama has a 1 to 11 inmate to guard ratio, compared to 1 to 6 in surrounding states.[1] St. Clair Prison has 281 security positions budgeted for but only 196 employed, and 60% of officers leave within their first five years.[2] It was locked down at least five times due to violent incidents in 2015.[2]

Fifty-one percent of Alabama’s inmate population is serving time for nonviolent property and drug offenses.[1] But the harsh conditions and brutality they have been enduring have created conditions that are perfect for the eruption of violence in prisons throughout the state. Prisoners have become more and more bold in resisting.

Stone Mountain: White Power Rally and Racist Rock Show Planned for April 23 2016

Summary: Neo-Nazis and Klansmen are planning a rally on April 23, 2016 at Stone Mountain, Georgia, as well as a racist rock show at a venue elsewhere that evening. Anti-racists will organize against these white power events. Please spread the word. We must resist this show of force by militant white supremacists.

The Upcoming “Rock Stone Mountain” Event

Tier Program grievance: inmates cannot flush their toilets

Travis King Grievance that has yet to be answered and/or processed

On 04/01/2015 while being housed in G-1 cell #19 a locked down dormitory my cellmate and myself was moved to G-2 #22 also a locked down dormitory. When I entered the cell, I notice that the toilet flushing system had been altered so that the toilet could not be flushed from inside the cell but only from a button on the wall outside the cell. I asked the Sgt. who moved us Sgt. Kirkland why I was being placed in to such a cell when I had done no wrong. He explained that all cells in the lock down would be altered the same way and that the dormitory officer will flush our toilet for now on.

It has been held by the courts that "Even in extreme situations denial of 'normal' toilet facilities, the failure to allow the 'prisoner' promptly to dispose of his/her wastes violates the Eighth Amendment".

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Tier Program inmate exposes abuses from the inside

Friday, May 29, 2015 - 1:36pm

Georgia Prisoner Hunger Strike, Local

To: Brother Seer From: Brother Grip G, Quindarrius Duffre Dearly beloved bretheren, Today is Nov 25 2014 @ G.S.P. Nothing has changed. I write you once again, enlightening you concerning my current living, health, and this corrupt Tier II program that has been instituted. The atrocities and inhumane acts are innumerable. The Tier program started July 2, 2014 @ G.S.P., which is a medium security prison that houses closed security inmates on special management unit (SMU). The Tier II program originally only had 3 phases Now in the middle of the program they have instituted another phase in which another 3 months have been added. Each phase consists of 90 days, in which a 90 day review will be conducted to see if the inmate qualifies to be raised to a higher phase, remain on the same phase, or dropped to a lower phase of the Tier II program. The classification committee then bases their judgement according to every inmate's performance sheet.

Cooperative Prisoner, belligerently beaten by officer

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 9:27pm

GA Prisoner Hunger Strike, Georgia Prisoner Hunger Strike, Local

On any particular day in prison, you would think one would presume himself safe being housed in solitary confinement. On the day of May 24, 2015 at approximately 11:15, the cert officers claimed to be giving a random shakedown. They came to cell 22, where inmate Marko Burton and Frederick Robinson was housed. Officer Thurman the spokes person for the crew, order them to strip one by one. As being used to shakedowns both inmates stripped and were handcuffed as as instructed by officers. While inmate Robinson was being handcuffed, inmate Burton trips over a shoe of his (which is on the floor of the room) and falls off the bed. At that time lent Thruman yells to security to open door. Once door is open lent Thurman runs in, grabs inmate Burton by the arm to lift him off bed, asks “where is it” punches inmate Burton in the groin, then states “Nigga I’ll kill you”.

The Klan has taken off the sheet and put on a uniform and badge: White supremacy in the prison system

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 4:24pm

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On April 27th 2015 GA's Dept of KKKorrections celebrated KKKonfederate Memorial Day. I and other prisoners were denied showers and a food tray, in order for some card carrying Klansmen to celebrate the KKKonfederacy and its legacy, which by the way only entails the oppression of people of color!

"Justice was not served": Background Story of a Reidsville Prisoner

Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 1:08pm

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Justice was not served*

By Ladarius colbert a.k.a. Comrade Seer

Hunger Strike In Protest of Conditions in Georgia Prisons' Tier Program

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 2:04pm

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A hunger strike has been going on in Georgia State Prison in Reidsville since February 26. Prisoners are protesting inhumane conditions, including beatings and lack of access to sufficient food, sanitation, exercise, and an effective grievance process. Their demand is an end to the state's Tier Program, a 2013 initiative that created three increasingly restrictive levels of “Administrative Segregation” to deal with prisoners who are deemed a significant threat to security.

Hunger Striking Prisoner Releases List of Demands

Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 11:00am

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Statement From Hunger Striker

As to date Georgia's prisoners are being arbitrarily and unlawfully denied their First, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the United States Constitution. Prisoners are being forced to live in conditions that are atypical and cause significant hardships! Prisoners are being subjected to treatment that has been deemed torture by the United Nations. Prisoners are being subjected to mental, physical, and emotional torture on a daily basis by being forced into GA's prolonged solitary confinement/disciplinary administrateice segregation (Tier Program) without having any disciplinary sanctions to justify such a punishment placement.

Therefore I am forced to challenge aforesaid violations through the non-violent means of hunger strike!

(1) I demand an end to the torture of all prisoners unlawfully placed on GA's Dept. of Corrections prolonged solitary confinement/Tier Program.

Recording by prison resisters in Reidsville

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 3:37pm

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Prisoners involved with the hunger strike at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville have come forward, knowing they are taking a great risk of retaliation, to speak out. This is a recording they made.

https://archive.org/details/prisoner_strike_police_brutality_speech

GA Dept of KKKorrections Invests In The Business of Torturing US Citizens

Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 11:43pm

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by Kelevin J. Stevenson #570391 - G.S.P.

GA Dept of KKKorrections new Tier program has taken steps to destroy a prisoner's family bonds, now stopping prisoners from receiving any pictures or letters with pictures in them. GA Dept of KKKorrections administrators have enacted a policy that clearly violates a prisoner's 1st Amendment right to freedom of association and their right to freedom of speech. The 1st Amendment exists to protect the citizens' right to read books, magazines, newspapers, etc. The right to call or write to your family and friends, the right to criticize government or state officials, and much more.

Thoughts from a Reidsville prison hunger striker

Saturday, April 4, 2015 - 1:41pm

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Inmates in Georgia State Prison in Reidsville have been hunger striking for over a month in protest of the abuses they are suffering in the Tier Program. The program, described in this document http://167.192.44.227/Research/Fact_Sheets/Info_Sheets_TierSegregationSy... , is supposed to be for people who are a threat to safety, but is really used as a punishment for people who speak our for their rights. Below is a letter from LaDarius Colbert transcribed exactly.

Mar 26th 2015

Greeting my fellow comrades,

Reidsville Tier II prisoner speaks out against inhumane conditions

Friday, April 3, 2015 - 10:20pm

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Another prisoner has come forward to speak out against the abusive conditions in Georgia State Prison in Reidsville. At least four men in the prison have been on hunger strike since February 26 in protest of the conditions in the Tier Program. Here is the content of his letter, unchanged:

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