My name is Ronald, my inmate number 276531, I’m calling from LRF Brooks Correctional Facility. This here is unreasonable constitutional violations.
I’m trying to support fellow prisoners here at this facility where I’m at. There’s a lot of prisoners that are being slaughtered as sheeps by the administration. Their constitutional rights under the federal constitution are constantly being violated. Most of the inmates are in a mental health program which they call RTP, and being an advocate for prisoners is hard from here, you know, for legal resources being limited, paying for legal copies, and legal minimums. There’s so many prisoners that was put in unreasonable situations in the process of COVID, and that should have been a crime.
I’m also putting together a program for one-on-one counseling for gender discrimination. There’s an equal protection standard when it comes to this and it needs to be challenged for the LGBTQ community to move throughout these facilities unharmed and supported as a whole.
So if there’s anyone that can assist me in these matters, please contact me at Ronald Jones, prisoner number 276531 at jpay.com. Thank you.
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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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