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 """#$%&&'#()* In This Issue Perhaps it takes sitting back and viewing the game from its beginning in many of our lives, to its end, to get a true perspective of it all. I know that in my case, a view from  behind th e prison walls and th e razor wi re fences of maximum and medium security  prisons, h as given me a pers pective th at I think may well have escaped me but for my  present cir cumstanc es. I ha ve witnesse d the game and/or street life played at its height. I have been a witness to all that happens in  between, just as I have am no w witnessin g the end game. I have watched those in their twenties and early thirties as they frolicked, danced and partied as their money and their honey’s rolled in with no en d in sight. I have also watched sadly as one by one their time to pay the piper came and state and federal prison doors closed behind t hem, in many cases to never open again. I have watched them here and other p risons, as they walked the compounds in near shock as the reality of their circumstances gradually began to dawn on them. Like vi ctims of PTSD, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) I have watched them as they attempt to grapple, often not successfully with the prospect of spending the next twenty five, thirty, forty years or life away from the friends and families. I have seen the countenance of defiance, as it descends into looks of defeat and resignation, as the reality of the "end game"  begins t o settle in . I have a lso watche d those that are lucky enough to return to the streets after fifteen, twenty or thirty years, return to homeless shelters or their d aughter's or sister's couches. I have watched, as they re turn to what are now, strange cities and unfamiliar streets. Adrift in a new world, they find themselves  both comp uter and t echnolog ically chal lenged, returning to a world where those they formerly called squares, are the one's now that may very well be their bosses or s upervisors, if, they are fortunate enough to secure a job. Bereft of health insurance and any advance degrees, these are the ones that are threatened to fall between society’s cracks. Having never worked a steady  job, ther e are no 4 01k, soc ial secur ity benef its or annuities that have accrued over time. They have met the end game. Continued on page 2

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In This Issue

Perhaps it takes sitting back and

viewing the game from its beginning in many

of our lives, to its end, to get a true perspective

of it all. I know that in my case, a view from

 behind the prison walls and the razor wirefences of maximum and medium security

 prisons, has given me a perspective that I

think may well have escaped me but for my

 present circumstances. I have witnessed the

game and/or street life played at its height. Ihave been a witness to all that happens in between, just as I have am now witnessing the

end game. I have watched those in their 

twenties and early thirties as they frolicked,

danced and partied as their money and their 

honey’s rolled in with no end in sight.

I have also watched sadly as one byone their time to pay the piper came and state

and federal prison doors closed behind them,

in many cases to never open again. I have

watched them here and other prisons, as they

walked the compounds in near shock as the

reality of their circumstances gradually beganto dawn on them. Like victims of PTSD, (Post

Traumatic Stress Disorder) I have watched

them as they attempt to grapple, often not

successfully with the prospect of spending the

next twenty five, thirty, forty years or life awayfrom the friends and families.

I have seen the countenance of 

defiance, as it descends into looks of defeat and

resignation, as the reality of the "end game"

 begins to settle in. I have also watched those

that are lucky enough to return to the streets

after fifteen, twenty or thirty years, return to

homeless shelters or their daughter's or sister'scouches. I have watched, as they return to what

are now, strange cities and unfamiliar streets.

Adrift in a new world, they find themselves

 both computer and technologically challenged,returning to a world where those they formerly

called squares, are the one's now that may very

well be their bosses or supervisors, if, they are

fortunate enough to secure a job. Bereft of 

health insurance and any advance degrees, these

are the ones that are threatened to fall between

society’s cracks. Having never worked a steady job, there are no 401k, social security benefits

or annuities that have accrued over time.They have met the end game.

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With jails now being little more than human warehouses, most leave

ill-prepared for life in the outside world. With no health insurance any

hospital visit can be costly or even deadly. According to an article in The New

York Times “A study of hospital emergency rooms in Wisconsin found thatvictims of severe traffic accidents without health insurance got 20 percent less

care. Hospitals spent $3,300 more on average for each victim who was

insured. They kept the insured 9.2 days, on average, and the uninsured just 6.4

days. Unsurprisingly, the uninsured were 40 percent more likely to die from

their injuries” (New York Times, Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Rationing

Health Care More Fairly. Eduardo Porter).

This is the end game. This is the part of the game that never appearsin rap videos or is the subject of serious discussion. Is it avoidable? Perhaps!

For how it all ends depends on the choices one makes or neglects to make. I

can say this without hesitation or equivocation, if one does not choose early

and wisely, the probability of the scenario outlined here becomes more probable than not.

Your brother,

Akbar Pray

Editor-in Chief 

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LIFEGOESON:TheHistoricRiseofLifeSentencesinAmericaAreportfromTheSentencingProject

The Sentencing Project1705 DeSales Street NW 8th Floor

Washington, D.C. 20036(202) 628-0871

sentencingproject.org

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Are We Leaving Black Students

Behind? 

“Research consistently haspointed to effective teaching as

the most significant factor affecting student achievement.”

The T3 ( Turnaround Teacher Team) Initiative is an innovative programthat recruits, develops, and supports

effective, experienced teachers toserve in low-performing schools.

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Robert Boyd, 80 Knoxville, Tenn. I had no idea

about the march, or anything about the civil rightsmovement at all. Things were moving quite well

for me. I had a great job as a New York City

fireman, and my wife worked in a bank. Ireceived a phone call from the Vulcans, an

organization of black New York City firemen, to

come to a meeting. I was hesitant and said to my

wife, “I don’t want to get involved in any of this

civil rights stuff.” She said, “Civil rights stuff? We

have this nice apartment, you have your job, I

have my job at the bank because of the civil rights

stuff.” So I went.

I’ll never forget one little man, he must have been a senator or congressman. He

came up to me, of all people, and whispered, “say, ‘Pass the bill.’ ” I didn’t even

know the bill he was talking about! So I said, “Pass the bill!” And everybody started

shouting, “Pass the bill!” all the way down the Reflecting Pool. All over the place!

It was the civil rights bill! That was amazing. My job was to make sure Martin was

safe, so I was paying attention to my job. Consequently what I remember from the

speech was more about the crowd than him. That was my focus. I don’t remember listening to the speech, but I remember the impact it had on the people, the

audience. When he started to speak, there was silence. Thousands and thousands of 

 people, and not a word. And then when he finished, it was an uproar, a crescendo,

and this joyous noise. Then I realized, this is something. And I tell you, it changed

me. I became involved in the community and became president of the Flushing

 Witness to History 50 Years Later

nytimes.com/2013/08/23

‘The Dogs Stopped Barking’

Cappy (Cathryn) Nunlist, 65

Lebanon, N.H.

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 breakingbrown.com 

“…About two-thirds of black 

respondents (68%) and a

quarter of whites (27%) say

blacks are not treated as fairly

as whites in the courts.”

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GUPTA

Published:August14,2013

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and Urban

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These writings are pro bono for my uncle Akbar Pray,

A means of enticing you readers to never go astray.

The subject matter of this Newsletter is broad in scope,

There's something for the erudite, and those destitute of 

hope.

But for me, this is my time to thank the man - the legend,

Whose wisdom was innate; and his greatness was

destined.

I am proud to admit, you are a true inspiration,

Wisdom based ingenuity doesn't negate patience.

Being matriculated by Life, making it an art,

You're a Gemologist with infinite jewels to impart.

Us meeting wasn't by chance, but God's plan,

Flesh, formerly known as words written by His hand.

Keep in mind moments of sand seeping through an hour

glass,

Never neglect the breath of life - treat each as the last.

I wish for you an extended life, and much success,

Having Heaven on Earth- wings accompanying your

flesh.

Even if I'm not in your presence when you read this,

Just picture a hand raised high, yet balled into a fist.

If there's to be a Legend's Ball, you'd be a host,

This poem's a goblet, words are wine, and this ellipses is

the toast......

written by: Semaj Thomas '13

 Words

From

Saint

Let us know what you’re thinking on our Facebook page!Akbar Pray Foundation For Change

I remember a meeting I had with a Financial Advisor,

His conclusion on his advice, "None would be the wiser.

Failure's a lucrative business; invest in jails,

You'll make enough money to send four generations to

Yale."

I had to sit back, and through a prism, ponder his views,

" 'What's trash to some, is treasure to others' seemingly is

truth."

Was he a bigot or a realist was hard to differentiate,

Oppression has long been the rich's source to quell hunger

aches.

To understand business, is to understand Republicans,

Yet out of loyalty, I'm a Democrat - so heed my sentiments.

War apparel's no longer khaki suits and All Stars,

It's now seersucker suits, cufflinks and tie bars.

How can there be a Community Revolution In Progress

If there's nothing owned by our own to demand progress?

We've been our own worse enemy, succumbing to

complacency,Simple minded actions begot our modern day slavery.

We're legally trafficked and housed by the F.B.O.P.,

Our oppositions are playing Monopoly and we're the

currency.

Us being portrayed as an evil is essential to their plight,

Yet the truth - the contrary is plain and in sight.

Education is the key, but if you don't believe me,

Look at the most revered individuals on TV.

Before athletes can be deemed as professionals,

A G.P.A. was maintained - that's non-negotiable.

Create your own options - strategize with a sober mind,

Even a bum can have hope while inebriated with wine!

Step out and go against the grain, elevating your brain,

Doesn't Tookie have a Noble Peace Prize attached to his

name?

History is his story, and it's written by the victor,

Become a 10 on the Triumphant Scales of Richter.

With recourse, an industry can become null and void,

Freedom awaits to be rung; now mash hard to rejoice......

written by: Semaj Thomas '13

We must let go of the life we have planned,so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

-Joseph Campbell-

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Black people in Ameika have

 been living in a state of war for over 400

years. This war continues to be waged as

slavery, Jim Crow (de-facto segregation)and continued economic, social and

 psychological terrorism. We suffer and

then suffer some more. Warfare as we

know it, is multifaceted and we have been neutralized in a number of ways

including: low/high intensity warfare,

 psychological, germ, chemical, drug,

cultural, infanticide, genocide, fratricideand mentacidal warfare.

We continue to experience

domestic terrorism as disaffected,disenfranchised beings because Black 

 people living in Amerika have no

franchise. We’ve never been recognized

as a sovereign people because our sovereign rights were mislaid by the

Ma’afa (aka the Black holocaust

commonly referred to as the slave trade;

a misnomer since trade implies an

equally beneficial business transaction

 between willing participants). Possessionof sovereign rights are a major vehicle

that will give Afrikan descendants inAmericka a path to power and supreme

authority. Tractable federal civil rights

legislations continue to demonstrate that

we are Amerikan by name and not bysovereign citizenship status which is not

existent for us as is evidenced by the

Trayvon Martin verdict and our decent

into socioeconomic/political hell.

Amerika has absolutely no

regard for our humanity! This dismissal

of Black people has overwhelming

evidence historically and presently in our disproportionate rate of poverty,

incarceration, ignorance, drug use

(buying and selling), criminal activity,

fratricide, fractured families, poor health,inferior education, mental illness and

unemployment. Not one of these

conditions has been improved upon, either 

 by state or federal laws or legislation.Our sovereign rights to be wholly free and

viable are imperceptible to most Black 

Folks. Have the courts offered any

meaningful pretection against jury

discrimination in the Amadou Diallo,

Oscar Grant, Central park 5, Rodney King,

Sean Bell and now Trayvon Martinverdicts? A young black man, a child

actually, was targeted criminalized andlynched (se Emmett Till ) and if the Justice

Department didn’t intervene (due to the

outcry from the people) the diabolicalagent would have immediately got his

weapon of Black destruction back.

As people we need to continue to

 pressure the politicians to put forward

legislation regarding our sovereignty;

lobby Congress to sign a Sovereign Rights

Bill for Black people (disenfranchised

Afrikans) in Amerika, and/or petition the

courts to establish a Federal responsibilitytrust regarding out sovereign rights. Racial

 biases and stereotypes are given free reign

throughout the whole of the United States

Autocracy- while at the same tome

appearing on the surface to be colorblind.If we continue to fail to solidify our 

sovereign righs, then all the noise you hear 

in the aftermath of the Trayvon murder 

will be drowned out by the silence of 

second-class de-jure status.

YOU DON’T STUDY ‘HIS’STORY OR

YOUR STORYS O YOU RECEIVE

THE SAME TREATMETN OVER AND

OVER AGAIN!Wisdom is defined as: intelligence

C.L.E.A.R. thinking and good judgement

I offer some practical intelligent ways to

save our children:

1. MAKE TIME FOR THEM2. LISTEN TO THEM

3. TEACH THEM HOW TO WRITE

4. TEACH THEM HOW TO

RESEARCH

5. TEACH THEM HOW TO WALK 

SAFELY THOUGH THE ‘HOODAND THE SUBURBS

6. TEACH THEM HISTORY AND

SHOW THEM THE CONNECTION

BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT

7. MAKESURE THEY DON’T

BECOME A SALVE TO MIS-ECONOMICS (CREDIT CARDS,

LOANS, ETC.)

8. ENCOURAGE THEM TO DEVELP

A SPECIFIC ARTFORM

(WRITING, MUSIC, DANCE)

TEACH THEMTHERESPOSIBILITY OF ART TO

CAUSE SOCIAL CHANGE.

9. TEACH THEM THE DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN WANTS AND NEEDS

10. TEACH THEM NOT TO TAKETHINGS AT FACE VALUE

11. TEACH TEM THE DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN MALE AND MAN,

FEMALE AND WOMAN

12. TEACH THEM TO STAND ON

THE SQUARE FOR WHAT ISRIGHT AND THEY WILL NOT

FALL FOR WHAT IS WRONG…

Power to the people.

M.M. Ankh “Heru” Ma’at

“As people we need to continue

to pressure the politicians to

 put forward legislation

regarding our sovereignty“

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Happy Endings B y O m i f a l a d e  

Itseemsthateverywhereyoulookthesedays,peoplearetryingto

dethroneoneanother.Youdrivethroughtheneighborhoodyougrewupin,andeverything-everyonelookslikethey’reinamovieaboutzombies;that

emaciatedlookandaformofdespair.Yettheycontinuetherelives,noteven

awareofhowithasconsumedthemandinfectedtheirwholebeing.

TherewasatimewhenIbelievedthathumanitywasmoreimportant

thananythingelse,morethanmoneyorevensecurityofanykind.Sincethen

Ihavededicatedmylifetothebetteringofmankind,andwhileIfeelthatpeople’spolitical,aswellastheirreligiousjargonhavehinderedmany,in

manywaysmyheartcontinuestobelievethatthehumanracehasachance.

Itappearsthatthemistakewehavemadeisinnotunderstandingthatreligionismerelyadoctrine,

withtools,rulesandceremoniescreatedbymantobringthemclosertoGod.Havewelostour

awarenessofLOVE,compassionorevensympathytowardsoneanother,onyourown? Havewelostsightthatweareallchildrenofthisuniversewithallourimperfectionsandthatour

judgmentsonlymakethingsworse?Ourworldhasneverbelongedtojustthosethatcallthemselves

rightous,itbelongstoallpeoplenomatterthecolor,creed,nationality,orgender.Ourchildrenhavelentusthisworldtofixitforthem,aswelentittoourparentstofixitforusaswell.Yetthecycleof

destructioncontinuesandnothingisbeingdonetosaveoursouls,ourspiritorevenourownhumanity.

Therewasatimewhenfairytaleswerereadtous,andkeptusinthebeliefthatallthingswerepossible.

EvenintheeyesofourCreator…Orthepowersthatbe,weweretaughttonotjudgeandtohelpour

fellowmanorwomanandyethowcansuchbeautifulwordbespokenandyetinthesamebreath,

nothingbutcondemnationscomeoutofpeoplesmouths?

Therearemanycriesofhelpfromourchildrenandthosecriesarebecomingmoreviolentthanever,andyetinsteadofpeople,religiouspeople,judgingthesekids,theywouldjustwalkthewalk

insteadoftalkingthetalk,maybe…justmaybe,ourhumanitymayrepairitselfjustenoughtoseeadifference.Andthatwouldreallybeahappyending.

YOUR EDUCATIONAL NEWSSmart Time Triplets Join Mensa

SEPTEMBER 2013

Florham Park, NJ

Making the grades are three smart girls who have joined as members of Mensa. The tripletsare The Wilson Trio Kate, Victoria and Elizabeth. They are the first African American

Triplets to be accepted by the prestigious group for high intelligence. The Mensa grouphighlights people from ages young to old and is considered a prominent organization promoting higher intelligence. The New Jersey

Triplets have scored exceedingly on IQ tests and have moved to New Jersey to attend school at the Brookdale School in Florham

Park, NJ. Eager to continue their education the trio is excited by being in their new school. Parents of the 9 soon to be 10 year olds are

glad to have them being accepted by Mensa and look forward to their daughters having even better education because of the great

school district in Florham. That's smart time for Triplets.

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cognition tests, saddled with a mentalload that was the equivalent of losing

an entire night’s sleep. Put another

way, the condition of poverty

imposed a mental burden akin to

losing 13  IQ points, or comparable to

the cognitive difference that’s been

observed between chronic alcoholics

and normal adults. 

The finding further undercuts the

theory  that poor people, through

inherent weakness, are responsible for

their own poverty – or that they ought

to be able to lift themselves out of it

with enough effort. This research

suggests that the reality of poverty

actually makes it harder to execute

fund

amental life skills. Being poormeans, as the authors write, “coping

with not just a shortfall of money, but

also with a concurrent shortfall of 

cognitive resources.” 

This explains, for example, why poor

people who aren’t good with money

might also struggle to be good

parents. The two problems aren’t

unconnected.  Poor people live in a

constant state of scarcity , a

debilitating environment that Shafirand Mullainathan describe in ,

URBAN WONK 

The condition of poverty

imposed  a mental burden akin

to losing 13 IQ points 

By Emily Badger 

You’ve probably experienced this

 before (though maybe not in those

terms): When you’re lost in

concentration trying to solve a

problem like a broken computer,

you’re more likely to neglect other tasks, things like remembering to take

the dog for a walk, or picking your kid

up from school. This is why people

who use cell phones behind the wheel

actually perform worse as drivers. It’s

why air  traffic controllers focused on

averting a mid-air collision are less

likely to pay attention to other planes

in the sky.  We only have so much

cognitive capacity to spread around.

It's a scarce resource. 

Researchers publishing some

groundbreaking findings  in the

 journal Science  have concluded that

poverty imposes such a massive

cognitive load on the poor that theyhave little left over to do many of the

things that might lift them out of

poverty –  like go to night school, or

search for a new job, or even

remember to pay bills on time.  Thecondition of poverty imposed a mental burden akin to losing 13 IQ points 

In a series of experiments run by

researchers at Princeton, Harvard, and

the University of Warwick, low-

income people who were primed tothink about financial problems

performed poorly on a series of

Scarcity: Why having too little means somuch. 

The limitations created by poverty

directly impact the cognitive contro

and fluid intelligence that we need for

all kinds of everyday tasks.  “When

your focus is on basic needs , as in the

case of the poor,” Shafir says, “you’re

 just more likely to not notice things

you’re more likely to not resist things

you ought to resist, you’re more likely

to forget things, you’re going to haveless patience, less attention to devote

to your children when they come  backfrom school.” At the macro level, this means we lost

an enormous amount of cognitive

ability during the recession. Millions

of people were less able  give to their

children, or to remember to take their

medication. 

Conversely, going forward, this also

means that anti-poverty programs

could have a huge benefit that we've

never recognized before: Help people

 become more financially stable, and

you also free up their cognitive

resources to succeed in all kinds of

other ways as well. 

“All the data shows it isn't about poor

people, it’s about people who happen

to be in poverty. All the data suggests i

is not the person, it's the contexthey’re inhabiting.” 

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“Soul on Fire”An excerpt from the upcoming book, Soul on Fire by Hafiz Farid

 

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I was on American Most Wanted Fugitive and

Capture List; International Police watch list, Interpol fugitive

capture list: My American Name is Roland (aka Panama)Campbell. I am Black with Brown eyes, 6 feet tall, 235

 pounds, born on May 5, 1962. I am presently 51 years old. Ihave been in Federal Prison for the past 17 plus years, serving150 year sentence.

After being kidnapped and brought here to theU.S.A. from Costa Rica on the sole word of the government

informant and chief witness in this case, who actually

admitted to being the perpetrator of these crimes I am

convicted of: Armed Band and Postal robberies (Marcus

Robertson the leader in these crimes stated in an identification

hearing to determine if I wasthe person; he said "I don't ever 

remember identifying a photo of Campbell" whether it being5 years or 5 days ago in the U.S. attorney's office prior to

trial). I received 125 years of my sentence for firearm

offenses called 924(c)(use or carrying a firearm during acrime of violence or drug offense) 18 USC SECTION 924(c)

I currently have 133 years more years to serve.For Bank and Postal Robberies Counts, I received

25 years running concurrent (together). For the 7 counts of 

the firearm offenses (924(c)), I received 125 years. I was

never found with a firearm relating to these crimes. There

was never a civilian "eye-witness" who identified me relating

to these crimes (in fact all co-defendants were either Id’bywitnesses or in photo arrays or forensic evidence at the crime

and even mis-id); there was no forensic evidence ever found

at these crimes relating to me. In fact, none of the addresses

here in the US or outside this country that was searched

relating to me for these crimes, was there ever found "ANY"evidence of these crimes that relate to me.So how did I get here? On the word of a Snitch or 

Government Informant who was paid to set me up, and

receive a cooperation agreement for a lighter sentence to Lie

on Me. and Destroy my family and get off for his crimes only

to go out and commit several other crimes (he has been

arrested several more times since I have been in prison). Sothis is a warning to all those who want to be Bad-Man, Gun

Slingers, Gun-Men, and Gun Clappers. You don't have to get

caught with a Gun, nor do they have to find it. All they need

is One word from your enemies, One of your friends, or 

anyone who can just say we know he is a Gun-man and Here am with 150 years with no-one whose seen or heard me

commit these crimes except the word of paid government liar

....to say there goes the "Bad-Guy" and Poof I am gone for the

rest of my life!!! At least until the Law changes or the Truth

comes to Light?

You can find more about my case in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Federal Court Citations under U.S. v. Campbell 300

f.3d. 202(2nd.Cir.2002): Or The American Most Wanted

Achieves : with John Walsh commentator: Or Unsolved

Mysteries' achieves 1995-1996, in the month of July.

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 Editor’s Note:  As coordinator of the  American Friends Service

Committee’s Prison Watch Project  , Bonnie Kerness is a

leading voice for humanitarian reform of U.S. prisons, jails,

and detention centers. Kerness is also a pioneer in raising 

awareness about the use of prolonged solitary confinement,

and in uncompromisingly identifying the practice as a form of 

torture. Since the 1990s, she has coordinated  AFSC’s

STOPMAX Campaign , which ”works to eliminate the use of 

isolation and segregation in U.S. prisons” through “research,

 grassroots organizing, public education and policy advocacy.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Between the 1913 closing of Eastern State Penitentiary’s

isolation cages and the 1983 lockdown of the federal facility in

Marion, Illinois (recently recounted in Nancy Kurshan’s book Out of Control ) is a history of struggle against the use of 

extended solitary confinement in New Jersey, which is littleknown.

In 1975, after the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights

Movement, the Viet Nam War and the prisoners’ rights

movement, Trenton State Prison (now New Jersey State Prison)established an administrative isolation unit for politically

dissident prisoners. The warden and his staff decided to use this

technique, which was modeled after a unit in Soledad Prison in

California. The Management Control Unit housed those prisoners who had not broken institutional rules, but who were,

as a result of their political convictions and expressions, seen to

 be a threat by prison administrators. Thus, the New Jersey

MCU pre-dated the advent of the control unit in federal system.In his book  Inside Out – Fifty Years Behind the Walls of New

 Jersey’s Trenton State Prison, former guard, Harry Camisa

says, “The guys singled out for the MCU were viewed as potential troublemakers or political leaders who needed to be

segregated to keep them from influencing the rest of the

 population. This was a new and controversial concept in New

Jersey.” The unit isolated activists and leaders from the prisons

general population, as it attempted to psychologically reshape

their convictions by subjecting them to an extraordinary level

of physical control and sensory deprivation.

The definition of “no touch” torture is a set of practices used to

inflict pain or suffering without resorting to direct physicalviolence: sleep deprivation, sensory disorientation, solitary

confinement, humiliation, extreme cold or heat, extreme light or 

dark. Intentional placement situations. A systematic attack on all

human stimuli. A November 2010 New Jersey Network program

called “Due Process – Solitary: Who and Why” featured myself 

and Ojore, and other advocates and lawyers talking about the

history of activism to close the MCU.The history of the opposition to the New Jersey Management

Control Unit includes advocates from the 1994-1998 National

Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons, of which the Committee

to End the Marion Lockdown was a founding member. It alsoincludes the publication of a Survivor’s Manual – written by and 

 for people living in isolation inspired by Ojore.

The political use of isolation in ensuing years has morphed into

entire isolation prisons being built for the mentally ill. The

 political use of this form of torture continues with the

development of Security Threat Group Management Units (for 

 purported gang members), and Communications ManagementUnits (for Muslims in the federal system). Imam Jamil Al-Amin

has been held in such conditions for years. For those of us

monitoring US prisons over decades, the targeting of radicalization feels eerily familiar. The Department of 

Corrections is more than an institution; it is a state of mind. Thatstate of mind has led to the use of “no touch” and other devices

of torture both here and overseas.

We owe thanks to all of those inside and out who have spoken

out: Eddie Griffin, Jr, who had the courage to write “Breaking

Men’s Minds” while he was held in the Marion Control Unit; the

Marion Brothers who were part of the ongoing resistance to the

control unit repression; and to the hundreds of prisoners who hadthe mettle to contribute their testimony and art to AFSC ‘s 2012

Torture in US Prisons, and to Jean Ross and the many lawyers

who have been there for all of us, inside and out.

http://solitarywatch.com/category/solitary-confinement/page/11/ 

Solitary Watch Guest Author

Bonnie Kerness

“Thereisnoeasywalktofreedomanywhere,andmanyofuswillhave

topassthroughthevalleyoftheshadowofdeathagainandagain

beforewereachthemountaintopofourdesires.”-NelsonMandela-

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Published on Friday, October 4, 2013 by Common Dreams 

-JacobChamberlain,staffwriter

“It’s true. I suffer, but I rise above that suffering because I know it is through my suffering that 

the masses of people are so inspired to fight back.” - -

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