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
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