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NEWS & LETTERS, OCTOBER 2003Indiana prison strikeThe following statement is issued on behalf of 11 prisoners on the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Secured Housing Units, and concerns the conditions on said units. Beginning on Sept. 12, 2003, prisoners on the long term administrative segregation range collectively refused to eat food off the Black unit trays. This is not a hunger strike, but rather a response to the inhumane conditions on this unit. The men on this unit are under indefinite sanctions and the conditions under which they are forced to live are in violation of their human rights. We on the outside have been monitoring the situation and have seen that there are no incentives given to these men to work toward their release and the system is simply warehousing them and therefore feels free to violate their human rights. We are sending this message in an effort to provide impetus to those political officials whose job it is to see that such claims are investigated and corrected. Among the 13 demands are:
We on the outside associated with the men on long term Secured Housing Units/Administrative Segregation status, who are the focus of these demands, will continue to monitor the response to these demands, realizing that it is in the long-term interest of all citizens that men confined thus are afforded their constitutional guarantees and fit living conditions. --Committee for Freedom for Khalfani Malik Khaldun (contact Mark at elsapo37@yahoo.com) |
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