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NEWS & LETTERS, JUNE 2003
Prison hell in Indiana
The prison hell in southern Indiana, called "death valley," is the Carlisle Correctional Facility. In the past five years four prisoners have been murdered there by racist prison guards. Almost all of the prison staff there is white; most of the prisoners are African American. Khalfani Khaldun is the latest target of abuse. One
guard has gone out of his way to provoke Khalfani, a longtime prison activist
and thinker whose writings have appeared in NEWS & LETTERS (Khalfani was
transferred to Carlisle in January). On March 4 the guard and four other
officers tried to force Khalfani to surrender a religious necklace, on the
grounds that it was unauthorized. They then told Khalfani that he must stop his
prison activism or they would kill him by placing arsenic in his food. Khalfani's false conviction of having murdered an
Indiana prison guard is fueling these racist attacks upon him. There is no
question that many guards want to see him dead and their efforts may prove
successful if nothing is done about it. Khalfani has filed a request for an investigation into
the latest acts of harassment. He is asking his friends and supporters to write
to the prison authorities asking that the guards who have been threatening his
life be removed from their jobs or moved out of the SHU unit in which Khalfani
is housed. Letters should be sent to: Head of Internal Affairs, 334 IGC South,
302 West Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204. To directly contact Khalfani, write to him at: Khalfani
M. Khaldun, No. 874304, PO Box 111 (SHU Unit), Carlisle, IN 47838. --Peter Wermuth |
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