My name is Omar Askia Ali, AKA Edward Sistrunk. I’m housed at, uh, Coal Township in Pennsylvania.
Historically, false identifications have been the crux of criminal investigations. Now for the first time in Pennsylvania, law enforcement officers will have statewide guidelines aimed at preventing them from being a person- for bringing a person before a victim in handcuffs. Because a victim is affected because of the use- because of the trappings are suggesting that this is a bad person.
Philadelphia Police Department now prohibits just a confrontation because images sometimes become memories and people have a hard time letting them go, says the psychologist at the University of Washington: a memory of a person charge- changing their memory is hard to do.
Mistaken witnesses identified- identifications are very convincing to a jury because the victims have no motive to lie said Jack King, a spokesman for the National Association of Criminal defense lawyers. Unfortunately, it’s the least realistic testimony. Studies show that eyewitnesses are even less reliable when the victim and suspect of- are of different races.
There is the old draconian premeditated illegal scheme that is synonymous with high tech lynching: the all-white jury and illegal scheme that is practiced nationwide even after the United States Supreme Court and several rulings over the last 40 years have outlawed the practice. However, instead of adhering to these precedents, prosecutors nationwide have repackaged the tactics in order to circumvent the high court and render it impotent.
Lastly, when will the madness ever end?
These commentaries are recorded by Noelle Hanrahan of 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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