As the Ruling Class pulls further and further away from the Working
Class(the rest of us)concern over the well being of members of that
Working Class becomes less and less important to their Masters. Once
their usefulness ends, as happens in many disabilities and Old Age,
the Ruling Class kicks them to the curb. And that's the treatment of
the "Free Workers". Those jailed for violating the laws set down by
their Masters, are seen as Objects to be used for production at slave
labor wages. Lots of lip service toward improving prison conditions,
but no visible changes. Public indifference toward this treatment of
Prisoners will only lead to that attitude being shifted to the Working
Class itself.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/27/20, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://themilitant.com/2020/01/25/join-effort-to-get-indiana-prison-officials-to-end-ban-on-militant/
Join effort to get Indiana prison officials to end ban on ‘Militant’
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BY BRIAN WILLIAMS
Vol. 84/No. 4
February 3, 2020
As word has gotten out about the Militant’s appeal filed against prison
authorities at Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility banning
subscriber Kevin
“Rashid” Johnson from getting several issues of the paper, letters of
protest have been sent to the Indiana Department of Correction urging
this attack
on the rights of both Johnson and the paper be reversed.
“Those behind bars are protected by the Bill of Rights,” wrote Dorothy
Webster, a Walmart worker in Louisville, Kentucky. “They have the same
right to
read newspapers and books and exchange ideas that we outside the prisons
enjoy. Please overturn the Pendleton Correctional Facility’s denial of
Kevin Johnson’s
rights.”
The Militant learned about these impoundments from Johnson, who sent a
letter reporting prison authorities withheld four issues from him at the
end of
last year, claiming they were “Prohibited Property” and a “Security
Risk.” He said he had followed the Militant’s successful fight against
prison suppression
in Florida and asked that the paper join him in fighting for his right
to get the Militant and other literature denied him.
Pendleton officials never informed the Militant of the ban, nor, in
violation of their own rules, have they given any explanation of what
they find objectionable.
Johnson became a political activist and a leader of the New Afrikan
Black Panther Party in prison. Incarcerated in Virginia, he has faced
repeated transfers
as authorities seek to isolate him — to Oregon, Texas, Florida, back to
Virginia, now to Indiana. He had been receiving the Militant in
Pendleton since
November 2018, until prison officials banned it.
Militant attorney David Goldstein filed the paper’s appeal Jan. 15
requesting the Indiana Department of Correction reverse the ban or, if
they decline
to do so, to provide “specific reasons” why these issues are banned and
allow the Militant to appeal.
Censoring reading materials “strikes at the heart of fundamental rights
of U.S. citizens and at rights that should be enjoyed by all human
beings, whether
at large or incarcerated,” Bruce Levine, professor emeritus of history
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, wrote to Indiana
prison authorities
Jan. 18. “I urge you in the strongest possible terms to reverse your
decision to impound these materials.”
From Sellersburg, Indiana, James Horn called for lifting the ban,
writing, “The Militant is a highly respected worldwide weekly socialist
newspaper. While
you may not like its political goals you will not find another
publication more accurate in its analysis of local, national and
international events.”
Send letters urging prison authorities to overturn the suppression of
the Militant to Chief Counsel Jon Ferguson, Indiana Department of
Correction, 302
W. Washington St., Room E-334, Indianapolis, IN 46204, earmarked “Appeal
of literature impoundment.” Send a copy to the Militant at
themilitant@xxxxxxx.
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