[Pnews] Urgent Phone Zap! Defend Abu Faheem Shabazz, Facing Retaliation at Westville CF

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Urgent
Phone Zap! Defend Abu Faheem Shabazz, Facing Retaliation at Westville CF!
IDOC Watch - February 24, 2022
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Abu Faheem Shabazz (s/n Jerry Smith #129911) is facing severe retaliation
for his work defending prisoners’ rights and speaking out against the
corruption and brutality of the staff and administration at Westville CF!
Faheem has been a leader of political education study groups for the past
two years, and has made numerous reports about conditions at Westville CF
since arriving there in 2019.

He has been repeatedly transferred from unit to unit during the past
several months, and each time his property (food, clothing, and hygiene)
are stolen by guards. He has been forced to sleep on a cold steel box with
no mattress for the past two weeks, and hasn’t been allowed to order any
clothes, soap or toothpaste during that time either. He can’t order from
commissary, because the guards will steal whatever he orders. More
importantly, guards are constantly harassing and attacking him in groups of
two or more, trying to get him to fight them so that they can give him
another case.

Faheem has been in adult prisons since he was 14 years old, on a trumped up
attempted murder charge out of Gary, IN. He was released at the age of 32
in 2018, and reincarcerated on technical parole violations in 2019. He has
now been denied parole 3 times since being reincarcerated, despite having
completed at least a half dozen programs, including the Recovering While
Incarcerated program which is supposed to earn one a sentence modification.
Faheem has serious health issues, including severe seizures and major back
issues resulting from having fallen off a top bunk that he was illegally
forced to sleep on and having a seizure several years ago at Wabash Valley
CF.

Now, because he knows how corrupt the Westville CF staff and administration
are, and they know that he knows, he is being attacked and harassed,
deprived of medical attention, and denied access to the basic necessities
for survival like enough food, clothes, and hygiene.

*Please call Westville CF Warden Galipeau and the IDOC Central Office and
demand that Faheem’s property be returned to him, that he be given the
medical attention he needs, and that the harassment and attacks by guards
cease immediately!*

*IDOC Central Office: (317) 232-5711 ext. 0, ext. 1*

*Westville CF Warden Galipeau: *(219) 785-2511
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(ask to speak to the warden)

Script: “Hello, I’m calling on behalf of Jerry Smith #129911, who is in
IDOC custody at Westville CF. Mr. Smith is facing severe harassment by
staff and administration at Westville, and is being denied access to his
personal property and proper medical attention, as well as basic state
issued necessities like a mattress. Please see to it that his property is
returned to him, he be given a mattress and proper medical attention, and
that harrassment by guards ceases immediately!”

Abu Faheem Shabazz, when he was on parole in 2018
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