On June the ninth, 2025, in the afternoon, I was at work at the Education Department, pre-mentor tutor, when Sergeant Ibeiby, Ibeiby, that’s i, b, e, i, b, y, pulled me out of classroom and told me that he had to stop and strip search me. We proceeded to go to the restroom, where he strip searched me, and after that was over with, I went back to the classroom. When I returned back from work, my cell was a total mess from a shakedown. I had proceeded to put it back together on that day. I was never told anything was found. In fact, the officer said nothing in my cell was found. On June the 16th, 2025, I go to work, and they sent me back, stating that I was on CAB [Conduct Adjustment Board] hold. I asked them what for? And I was told for a class A no, for a class B 231, in toxins. A couple of offenders had watched the shakedown and witnessed Sergeant Ibeiby pick trash up off the floor, which was strips of paper from a from a basketball ticket, and put it on the table. The paper that he found was nothing more than basketball tickets that I’ve been running for my basketball and football games since 1999. I’m 100% sure that the stuff they took out of my cell had nothing to do with any toxins whatsoever. I asked them to test it, but they refused to test it. Now I’m facing a conduct report for something that wasn’t nothing more than a piece of paper.
This is not the first time this has happened. This is happening repeatedly. Anytime prison officials want to torture someone, they have go in their cells, find scratch pieces of paper, and then the next thing you know, they would say it has some type of controlled substance on it, without testing it. Then they find you guilty. The most important point of this is this: when they find you guilty, what they do is give you sanctions that are not appealable. You can’t appeal these sanctions to our state, and therefore it doesn’t need the institution. What I’m asking is that people get involved in terms of what’s going on here. Again, please keep in mind; this is a reoccurring event. You know, I can name three or four offenders that this has happened to. They knew it wasn’t any type of substance on the paper that they found. They never would test it, never field tested it, never tested in the institution, and they will automatically find you guilty.
But the worstest part is this: if you counter it and you have a cell mate, both individuals are charged. And if one of them doesn’t take the case, both of them end up with the case, which is wrong; because if it’s not a toxin on the paper, you’re forcing someone to plead guilty when, if there’s nothing there for them to plead guilty too. And if one of them don’t plead guilty, they’re both found guilty and then punished for something that’s wrong. And this is continuing, continuing occurrence here at Wabash Valley. The CAB board, the Conduct Adjustment Board, just does what it wants to do. It railroads people. This affects their lives. They have no way of challenging, again, because they do not give them proper sanctions. What they do is give them a verbal recommend, “don’t do it again,” or give them some commissary restrictions. That way they cannot appeal it down state, and if you can’t appeal it down state, then you can’t file a federal haeb [haebeas corpus] or anything like that for them violating your due process.
But the most important thing is this: they’re not testing any of this stuff that they’re finding. So, at the end of the day, they’re finding incarcerated individuals guilty, without testing. And again, I hope people understand that this is affecting not only prisoners that may be able to get released or they may have a job or in programs, but it’s affecting people throughout the state of Indiana, you know. And I ask that people please pay attention to this. Imma do a follow up. I’m scheduled to go to the Conduct Adjustment Board here soon. I asked them to test it. I told them I was willing to pay for the test. And, I’m just waiting to see what they do. And so, again, this is something that needs to be paid attention to, because it’s happening on a repeated basis. Again, this is [unclear], and I appreciate everybody’s support on this. Thank you and everybody have a great day.
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