Hello, my name is Malik. I am calling this afternoon from Westville Correctional. I would like to share a couple of my poems with you and maybe a little commentary to update you on my medical situation. All power to the people. This is brother Khafani Malik Khaldun, Indiana voice of the voiceless.
“Facing your beauty.”
You was very, you were my very first love, from 1 to 17, you taught me everything that inhabits above. You was my first love. When you were taken away from me, I got lost, my whole world was confused, and I needed you back at any cost. You had me chasing you and your beauty. Nothing and no one could replace you. We were like two kids in love. So until we meet again, my love, I will pray to God to send you back to me. I can’t eat, drink, or sleep without you next to me or in my life. You will be my wife the next time I see you, but for now, I will be chasing your beauty. Freedom.
Number two: “Home to you.”
Once the prison gates closes, our journey for freedom ignites the fire in our belly. To freedom. The struggles we encounter teaches us to believe and endure as if we will be with those we love tomorrow even if tomorrow looks like it will never come. We still believe that freedom is in our back. Our hearts never sleep, our bodies only lay around in moments of lethargic rest, never wanting to slip mentally and counted amongst the lost souls of broken men and boys. Never stop believing in me or us. We are coming back home to you.
These commentaries are recorded by Prison Radio.
![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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