My name is Derek Gibson, a person in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections on a restricted release list of indefinite solitary confinement since 2013, over a 12 year period. But under this harsh and inhumane, cruel condition, I have become a paralegal member of the National Jailhouse Lawyers Guild, self published author, broadcasting commentator, outspoken advocate of civil rights, criminal justice reform, and against oppression.
So, on March 7, 2025 the State Correctional Institution at Fayette, [unclear] a lockdown, shakedown, of the facility composed of their own and numerous staff members from other facilities, dressed in all black fatigue, booted, as if a military strike in front of prisoners of deportation. At least 30 officers emerged on the pod where I was housed with 21 other prisoners, with six officers coming directly to my single cell, strip search and handcuff me behind my back, through a security wicket aperture on the cell door: just to be placed in the handcuffs on extremely tight, causing cuts, bruises, lacerations to my wrists with a lack of blood circulation to my hands.
I was then removed from the cell and stood outside of it, in underwear only, while four officers entered and ransacked it, ripped open the mattress, [unclear] my sheet style blanket and scattered all my property on and around the floor; of legal religious material, mail, books, [unclear] and obituaries, writing the words “loser” and drawing a arrow warning at a picture of ex vice president Kamala Harris and ripping it from the wall and discarded on the floor also. They then trampled, stomped and stepped on it and everything else. [unclear] maliciously, statistically degraded, humiliate.
Now I need any medical care or knowledge in the injuries to my wrist until forced to an hour later. Their actions were not just an attack of hostility, hatred, perpetrated by all white officers on a Black prisoner and the honorable Black female authoritarian, Kamala Harris, but a message disguised under the color of the law of oppression. So I say now. Message Sent. Message well received.
These commentaries are recorded by Prison Radio.
