CW: State sexual assault

Dr. Al-Fatah Stewart speaks in July 2022 about the personal and systemic conditions at Rikers Island and his ability to continue to keep faith and full trust in God and continue to fight for his liberation. He has been incarcerated for nearly 3.5 years as of July 2022 pre-trial. 

I encourage you to write Dr. Al-Fatah Stewart at the following address: 

Dr. Al-Fatah Stewart #3491907931
Anna M. Kross Center
18-18 Hazen Street
East Elmhurst, NY 11370

Free Dr. Stewart! Free Them All! 

Dr. Al-Fatah Stewart has been held pre-trial for more than three years. He is on Rikers Island where the threat of covid and other brutality are a daily reality. This is all over the alleged robbery of a pack of cigarettes and a cellular phone.  He continues to fight for his freedom in court. He has an upcoming court date on 4/18/2022 at 10 AM at 100 Centre St, Part 81 in New York, New York with Judge Curtis Farber. We encourage you to attend and to offer your support. 

We also encourage you to reach out to him. His address for snail mail is: 

Dr. Al- Fatah Stewart #3491907931

Anna M. Kross Center

18-18 Hazen Street

East Elmhurst, NY 11370

This is an episode with Al-Fatah, an incarcerated comrade of ours incarcerated on Rikers Island. He has been pre-trial for 32 months and is fighting for his freedom. We encourage you to reach out to him: 

Dr. Al- Fatah Stewart #3491907931

Anna M. Kross Center

18-18 Hazen Street

East Elmhurst, NY 11370

You can also email us at [email protected] to be put in touch with his support network. 

Please consider donating to his fundraiser. Here is the link. 

Al-Fatah has previously published with PrisonsKill. Please read his piece here. 

Here is a link to the transcript for this episode. 

At the end of the episode, we share some words from Adam, who recently released, “So Let It Be Done,” a song about the revolutionary example of John Brown. 

Today’s episode is another tragic story. We’ll be in conversation with Amanda George and Joses Dye, the parents of Mak’yo George Dye, who passed away on May 26th because of how he was treated at USP Atlanta, which is a federal prison. Mak’yo was 25. He excelled at sports and music production. He was a proud Black and indigenous person, a member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe.  He was scheduled to come home at the end of August of this year.

At the end of the episode, Steve shares a conversation that they had with Hassan. Hassan is an incarcerated person incarcerated at Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York. Hassan is speaking out against frequent abuse and violence he has experienced there. As of recording this, there are ongoing asks to step up and make calls for him so this harm stops.

Link to call to action

Transcript for the episode

Today we have a very heavy story to tell. It’s the story of Hakeem Campbell, who died last year inside a federal prison in Atlanta. Hakeem was just 27. You’ll hear an interview Joergen did earlier in 2021 with his mother Anniebelle. 

Hakeem was one of the Bronx 120, who are a group of 120 mostly Black people from the Eastchester Gardens neighborhood of the Bronx that were indicted together on RICO charges in 2016 . The state falsely accused them of being among New York City’s most violent gangs. In April 2016, Federal agents from the FBI, DHS, and ICE as well as NYPD officers stormed into houses all around Eastchester Gardens and other locations in the Bronx. The police came before dawn in full riot gear. They terrorized families, whose homes they entered with drawn automatic rifles. In the process, Geovanni Martin, who happened to be in one of the raided homes with an unrelated warrant, fell to his death. 

We encourage those that can to help Hakeem’s loved ones to purchase a headstone for Hakeem’s resting spot. Link

We also encourage those interested to follow the case of Eric King, who has faced tremendous retaliation at the hands of BOP. For more, here is the Twitter page of his support crew.

Folks can also learn more about the Bronx 120 by watching Raided: A Documentary. 

The transcript for this episode can be found here. 

We have been working with the comrades at Massive Bookshop, an anti-profit and anti-Amazon bookseller. Please visit our list here to contribute books to incarcerated comrades.

Greetings comrades and welcome to this third episode of the PrisonsKill Podcast. Today, September Ninth, is a very special day, as it marks 50 years since the Attica Rebellion. In the spirit of Attica and in the spirit of prison rebellions everywhere, we are excited to release an interview we recorded last year with our dear friend and comrade, Greg Curry. Greg, who identifies as a political prisoner, has been a continual target of repression and abuse at the hands of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction since the Lucasville Uprising of 1993. 

 

While many have heard of Attica, few people, even in abolitionist circles, know anything about Lucasville.  The uprising, which took place at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, is actually one of the largest prison revolts in US history, as incarcerated rebels maintained control of the facility for 11 days. The resistance came as a response to the brutal conditions of Warden Arthur Tate’s Operation Shakedown. Tate’s violent policies went as far as attempting to force incarcerated Muslims to submit to alcoholic tuberculosis tests. This violated their religious beliefs and their constitutional rights. This policy combined with other longstanding issues became the catalyst for the uprising. 

 

Write to Greg: Gregory Curry #A213159

To.C.I.

2001 E. Central Ave.

Toledo, OH 43608

 

Here are a few links to connect with and support Greg and others among those repressed after the Lucasville Uprising:

Lucasville Amnesty Website

Free Greg Curry Website

Justice for Greg Curry Facebook Page

 

Audio sources for episode:

The Great Incarcerator, part 2: The Shadow of Lucasville Screener

Attica Documentary (1974)

For part one of The Great Incarcerator series, please see The Great Incarcerator, part 1: Dark Little Secret. 

Transcription of episode along with printer-friendly pdf linked here.

Prisons Kill.

Troy Hendrix is an incarcerated organizer, jailhouse lawyer, and friend/comrade to many. He has been in solitary confinement for 15.5 years as of August 2021. His ability to think beyond the walls that cage him is what keeps him fighting. 

In December 2020, Steve, a co-host and producer with the PrisonsKill Podcast series, spoke with Troy Hendrix. 

At the time of the initial recording, Troy was incarcerated in Marcy Correctional Facility in the state of New York. At Marcy, Troy was incarcerated in the Residential Mental Health Unit, or RMHU, for three years. 

In this episode, we discuss his survival and resistance during his 15 years in solitary confinement. 

Since we spoke in December 2020, he has been transferred to Attica Correctional Facility into a more restrictive solitary setting.

This episode has taken a little while to air and there is an update from February 2021 at the end of the episode, which details the transfer and other retaliation he has faced for his legal battles against DOCCS. He remains in the SHU in Attica as of August 2021. 

We encourage you to please reach out to him with words of inspiration, hope, and love at: 

Troy Hendrix #06A2056

Attica Correctional Facility

639 Exchange St

Attica, New York 14011-0149

If you do decide to reach out, please include your boundaries/expectations and if you are able to remain in communication with Troy.

Link to GoFundMe

Link to Troy’s piece for #PrisonsKill

Link to Troy’s writings: 

Link to the transcript of this conversation: 

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#PrisonsKill has partnered with @MassiveBookshop to get inside folks books on specific topics to support abolitionist libraries, to build study groups inside, and to support inside scholarship. The page to contribute to this project is located here. 

Welcome to the PrisonsKill Podcast, which is a new element of the #PrisonsKill media project, which can be accessed at prisonskill.wordpress.com. We are prison abolitionists and this platform will creatively work to center the voices of currently and formerly incarcerated people. We will expose the systemic and inherent violence of the carceral state by creating space for those in its clutches to speak the truth on their own terms. Our goal is to subvert and challenge how prison is portrayed in the media, who gets to be considered a journalist and what is considered objective. In doing so we are trying to create media that can help us all  imagine a more compassionate future where everyone’s human dignity is recognized, where everyone is loved and where everyone’s voice is heard. 

 

Our first episode is a very special one as we are joined by Sean and Lauren Swain, a truly inspiring and revolutionary couple, who hope to be living together in the so called free world very soon. Sean, who we will hear from first, has been incarcerated by the state of Ohio since 1991 for defending himself in his own home against an intruder. In his 30 years inside he has become intensely politicized and identifies as an anarchist. He is also an outstanding jailhouse journalist who has contributed to the Final Straw Radio Podcast and SeanSwain.org. He has a forthcoming book entitled Opposing Torture. Sean is currently incarcerated at Buckingham Correctional Center in Virginia, despite being sentenced in the Ohio state system. His transfer to Virginia, is part of a phenomenon incarcerated people refer to as diesel therapy, which is a policy designed to separate radicals from their families, communities and comrades inside.  

 

Sean’s politics and commitment to speaking the truth have made him a constant target of state repression. He first popped up on the FBI’s radar in 2008 when a copy of an essay he wrote was found in the possession of raided Earth Liberation Front organizers. In 2012, Sean wrote a critique of the state’s predatory working relationship with JPay and as a result was falsely accused of inspiring a prison uprising led by a group called the Army of the 12 Monkeys, which Sean had nothing to do with. This became the pretext for Sean’s subjection to a year long domestic torture program orchestrated through a collaboration between the FBI and the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Sean’s perseverance is truly extraordinary and he not only survived the best efforts of the state to kill him, but has not stopped fighting. He has deeply studied the CIA’s torture manuals and understands resistance, particularly in solitary confinement, not only as a moral imperative but a necessary aspect of self care. Very significantly, Sean is up for parole this August and has a chance to come home.

 

Send a letter to support Sean’s parole application by clicking here. 

Follow Sean on Instagram @swainiac1969

Check out Sean’s writing here: https://seanswain.noblogs.org/

Read and send inside Sean’s essay “The Colonizer’s Corpse: A Liberatory Approach to Maintaing Mental Health While Subject to Isolation in Prison” 

Transcript of podcast here - We encourage you to send it to incarcerated folks if it is safe. 

 

We encourage you to write Sean:

Sean Swain #2015638

Buckingham Correctional

PO Box 430

Dillwyn, VA 23936