Da: "coalit" Oggetto: [listacoalit] EMERGENCY AT TERRELL Data: luned́ 26 marzo 2001 0.46 Greetings Fellow Abolitionists: Please read the letters below as they are so heart wrenching. Terrell Death Row Inmates are in a state of life or death situation and need us all to act immediately. We need all to contact the media, legislatures, etc. and have the Terrell really exposed like it has never been exposed before. These men are really crying out for help in an emergency situation. I write to six men there and I will do my part so please everyone who can help please act right away. Also contact the different medias and whatever else you can think of doing that might help these men. Brenda Letters from Terrell Gloria, Help! Help! Help! The administration is trying to cause us harm mentally and bodily. We are being starved, denied sleep, clean clothes, medication, visits and access to stamps to mail our mail out. We have been protesting the treatment and conditions here on Death Row. They have been using chemical gas where none is needed. There has been no violent or aggressive behavior. They have F-Pod C Section on lock down. There are guys over here who have nothing to do with anything but they are being treated the same. Lock-down Johnies are bad. But the Johnies they have been giving us are worse. This morning at breakfast it was two peanut butter sandwiches, 2000 calories. No, I don't think so. We're starving! Seriously. At all hours of the night guards are intentionally kicking our doors to raise hell and get us wired up. We need a protest out front of the prison today. We need someone to get it going and involve the media. There has been no violence yet and we seriously hope to avoid that at all cost. The worse thing that's happened is feces has been thrown and Gerald Tigners and Rick Rhoads were slammed. Tigner's head was busted open, Rhoads was punched in back of his head. There are men here who have absolutely nothing to do with what's going on who are also suffering and that's a prime example of how these people screw us over. We need a rally/protest out front to both sides and come to some kind of compromise. Death Row don't have good time or time class or even jobs to worry about. We are here to die. Plain and simple, all we're asking is that a little dignity and respect be shown and the rules followed. Death Row had a work program, TV, crafts and group rec for years with a less percentage of problems or incidents than any other part of TDCJ on average. We have less disciplinary cases, staff assaults and inmate assaults. Yet, we are treated worse than any other part of TDCJ. We're ready for a long ride, but anyway, Gloria, we need some help. That's the bottom line. No one is willing to speak up because they fear retaliation against us. The silence is hurting us worse. We need a rally sit-down protest or something outside the prison, not in Houston or Austin, but here in Livingston. It don't matter if it's just 10 or 15 people with picket signs. We need something now before these problems escalate. We're being gassed and subjected to food and sleep deprivation, run in on, denied medical care, clean clothes, showers, visits, classification because no one is raising hell out there. Help! Help! Help! Respectfully, Paul Colella #9990455, Terrell Unit 12002 FM 350 South Livingston, Texas 77351 Greetings Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, As I write this missive from the walls of death; I wish to inform you all of the non-violent protest against the cruel conditions in which we exist/live under at Terrell Unit. The establishment is truely abusing us in all ways humanly possible. F-Pod C-Section is on lock-down--no visits, recreation, no hot meals, showers only three days per week, and Johnnie sacks. I'm personally asking you all to support us in this non-violent protest at the moment for better conditions for all death row. Also have your friends, pen-play, etc., to participate in this on going struggle. At this present time there's only five (5) of us participating in this sit-down, we need more comrades to take part in this struggle. To have only five persons take part in this struggle out of 400-plus humans is truly ludicrous. If humanly possible could I get 15 copies of this letter so I can send ti to other organizations, etc. I will now enclose a handwritten copy of the the letter I sent to the comrades, I will enclose 10 stamps (33 cents) to cover the postage and copy. Hopefully this is enough as I'm on level 3 and this is all I can afford at the present time. Enclosed letter: Greetings to the People To all humans that exist within the walls of death. Our struggle for equal human treatment is justified; we deserve to be treated as human beings even though we exist within this amuck establishment. We have been fighting for our very life for many precious years. It's time for us to take a stand for ourselves, let's come together once again and fight the system with a sit-down whenever we exited our cell (at least once a day). We have friends, family, etc., fighting for us in the free world, right? All their fighting is for our struggles. A non-violent protest is all we ask for. Please give your assistance for the start somewhere. (Power to the people.) We understand consequences of punishment will follow our actions, no visits, etc., I personally understand how important visits are. I get visits only twice a year, but I'm willing to sit-down for the cause. I know there probably won't be many people to participate in this struggle (our struggle) but any and all assistance in this particular area is appreciated. Tee, pleasue spread the word to all B section and A section. Thank you, Tee, and send the letter back to me. Please call the establishment about our conditionss at 936-967-8082. Sincerely, Jimmy Jackson #000835 Terrell Unit, 12002 FM South, Livingston, Texas, 77351 25 January 2001 Dear Friends Njeri, Gloria, Lucha and the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH EMERGENCY! Thanks for your 1/11/01 letter re Hank Skinner's lawsuit and for all your efforts to abolish the death penalty and end TDCJ's Terrell's abuses of death row inmates. Because I know that you communicate with attorneys and investigative reporters and others who are concerned about unconstitutionally cruel and unusual conditions and treatment that Terrell Death Camp's subjecting us to, and because you care, I'm writing to BEG you to please, ASAP, inform all those persons and organizations that there is a fast worsening and volative situation here which, absent prompt outside investigation and intervention. will likely get some inmates or guards or both seriously injured or killed. Guards are gassing death row inmates--especially those on Level 3 status--every day; inmates are throwing feces and urine at guards, flooding runs with raw sewage, etc., to protest those gasings and other abuses. officials cut off the water to F-Pod, B Section yesterday around 3 pm. (I live in A Section.) For about 7-8 hours, inmates there banged and screamed for water to be turned on long enough to get a drink and flush toilets; but guards and officials taunted and laughed at them and left it off. Around 10-11 pm, guards gassed one of the protesters and ran in on him, apparantly inflicting at least one head wound. HELP! Thank you and God bless you, Craig H. Ogan The thirteen men on indefinite lock down are: Victor Saldano #999203 Jimmy Jackson #000835 Brian Davis #999036 Ruben Gutierrez #999308 Gerald Tigner #999099 Rick Rhoades #999049 Steve Moody #999076 Charles Mines #000941 Milton Mathis #999337 Marcos Arthur #999254 Jose Santellan #999140 Paul Colella #999045 Carlos Trevino #999235 VISITA IL NOSTRO SITO WEB : www.coalit.org Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/