Violations of Due Process

Where Are Our Rights?

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Prison Radio supports the right of incarcerated people to express their grievances without fear of facing retaliation. This weekly digest shares the narratives and perspectives of people whose right to due process has been violated. The criminal legal system and its actors manipulate, reconstruct, and fabricate narratives to keep oppressed people down. In a context of structural racism, the promise of due process will always be empty. In the words of Mumia Abu-Jamal, “there is rhetoric and there is reality, and those two rivers rarely meet.” The highlighted correspondents are victims of due process violations such as tampering with evidence, judge and jury bias, unusual punishment, and unappealable sanctions.

Inspector Abuse – Faluch Bigsby

“Each inspector I’ve ever met has the same moral compass, it’s to protect the institution, not do the right thing. In fact, inmates like to call them institutional protectors, not inspectors.”

Unjust Punishment – Christopher “Naeem” Trotter

“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.”

Tag Me Out – Ashana Monique Hayward

“I was faced with an all white jury which would not meet the criteria, ‘jury of my peers.’ That alone attests to the failure of a due process of the amendment rights…”

Restricted Movement Unit – Khalfani Malik Khaldun

“We’re going to continue to fight. They removed me out of the unit last Thursday in an attempt to pacify me and another guy, and hopefully we would drop the lawsuit. It is not my plan to drop the lawsuit.”

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