Hello everybody, it’s me once again, Torrey Braxton, currently incarcerated in the Michigan Department of Corrections, inmate number 313197.
I’ve been going to the Law Library relentlessly trying to figure out how to appeal my parole board decision. They gave me a 12 month flop off of false information. I don’t really truly believe this, like anything the viewers or listeners can do right now, but if anybody in the state of Michigan, any legal beagles who happens to be listening to this message I’m sending, if anybody know the proper way to appeal the parole board decision or if anybody can send me the proper information on exactly what to do, that is exactly what I need. You know what I’m saying, because I could show and prove I was flopped on false information, which is not good. So I can use a little bit of help on that. I’ve been going to the Law Library trying to figure out- because I’m supposed to get out at the end of the year in December.
But I’m trying to figure out how do you start a successful nonprofit organization or a for-profit organization. I need information on both of them. I’m gearing up and I need all this information before I go back to society, youk now, I called, I believe about a week or so ago, trying to figure out information on how to start a small business in the state of Michigan. But I need that information. That’s not in the Law Library either. I don’t know if it’s like a national, small business book or pamphlet or information, but I need it, if it do exist, I really, really need it, I really could use it, you know, because I really just want to do something- I’m not even sure about even need the information or small business because I really want to start get me going like a food truck or something of that nature you know what I’m saying, something that can be managed, you know, because I’ve been in prison for a while, so when I get out, you know, I want to be ready, man, I want to be fully prepared, I want to have all the information I need to survive out there, you know.
I’m gonna be paroled into Detroit later on this year, so I can use all the positive information I can get on how to survive out there properly and be a productive human being in society, and I don’t have to take risk going to jail or getting locked back up because this- needless to say, this is not the place to be, so if anybody in the state of Michigan or even anywhere, I don’t care where you are on the planet earth. If you can look up the information and send it to me to JPay.com. As far as I know, it’s free to sign up and log on to JPay.com as far as I know. But I could really use information, so I’m gonna keep on reaching out and keep on going, keep on striving to get it right, you know, and get the information I need because, you know, I don’t plan on coming back to the Michigan Department of Corrections when I get out of here.
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![Prison Radio is sharing an abbreviated version of a press release covering recent racist incidents at SCI Rockview in PA and the organizing to demand accountability. We are reaching out to people incarcerated at Rockview as well as recently transferred folks, inviting them to call, in hopes of hearing commentaries from them.
Benner Township, PA.-
On November 24th, 2023, imprisoned people at SCI Rockview found two nooses hanging in the CO’s office, displayed visibly for many prisoners to see. When the prisoners asked the staff why the nooses were hung, they were told it was a joke.
By December 4th, prisoners filed a grievance to document what they saw, noting that the hanging of the nooses was “unethical, racially motivated, hateful, [a] deliberate debasement of black inmates" and “unsafe for inmates, staff, [and] the whole prison in general.” In the grievance, they demanded that Sgt. Mosser and CO Richard be fired and investigated for a hate crime, and for CO Kirchner to get therapy. Captain Andrews, the head of security, denied the grievance.
The sergeant and COs are still working in the prison to this day, with no repercussions...
As of March 10th, prisoners have reached out to Pennsylvania officials at the Dept. of Corrections in a letter campaign, sending 100 copies of the grievance. Copies of the letter also were mailed to Governor Shapiro, Senator Fetterman, Senator Street, and various advocacy groups. The demands for relief in the original grievance have now become the platform of demands for this campaign. About 20 of the 100 letters were withheld by the prison.
Activists on the outside are joining forces with prisoners to elevate their demands, flooding the phone lines of DOC offices, assisting with outreach to media, and circulating the stories of prisoners who have found unity in opposition to the facility's virulent institutional racism.
In any other workplace, hanging a noose would be grounds for immediate termination. However, Nicki Paul, the superintendent's assistant and "grievance coordinator" informed the public that they self-investigated their staff and found they did nothing wrong.
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