Hi, my name is Krystal Denise Clark. My inmate number is 435064. I’m in WHV, the valley of death.
I want to start off and say thanks, thank y’all so much for the support and the ladies who are doing my fundraiser, I want to tell the world I need all the support, is for me to try to get to the hospital, for doctors who really care, can really like help me because these doctors in here, the prison, are playing with my life.
They are like- I really need help before- I’m emotional because there’s a lot of stuff going on right now. But we’re all- I really need y’all support, please support and help on the fundraiser. It’s for a good cause. The people who doing it is good people. They are fighting to get me out of here, to get me to a hospital so I would not be here, like my health is bad, like it’s nothing healing on me, nothing.
I’m getting retaliated by the newspaper about me talking about the people are killing theyself and talking about how we are living in here. They know about it. I don’t mind y’all opinion and everything that I tell y’all- I don’t mind who y’all tell, because it’s bad here. We almost had another lady. Two days, she tried to kill herself and hang herself, so- this is really sad, this like is really sad, like please support us, please support me, like we need help.
They are retaliating against me about my food, making me come out there in the rain, knowing I got meals in, won’t bring my food, making me come out there. Please help us, please support the fundraiser, please, it’s for good cause for me, it’s to help me. Please world, I need support, I need- they are retaliating- please, I don’t want to lose my life in here, please help, please.
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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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