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</font><h1><font size=4><b>Brutal Reprisals Against Peaceful GA Inmate
Strikers Confirmed. Was One Victim Hidden For Weeks By Prison
Authorities?</b></font></h1><font size=3>Created <i>01/01/2011 -
10:08<br><br>
</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#800000"><b>By BAR
Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800000">Brutal
Reprisals Against Peaceful GA Inmate Strikers Confirmed, Was One Victim
Hidden For Weeks By Prison Authorities?<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#800000">By BAR
Managing Editor Bruce A. Dixon<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Black, brown and white
inmates in 6 Georgia prisons nonviolently locked themselves in their
cells for several days beginning December 9, demanding wages for work,
educational opportunities, adequate food and medical care, just parole
decisions and access to their families. The peaceful inmate strikers, as
we reported the following day, were already victims of brutal retaliation
on the part of correctional officials, ranging from cutoffs of heat and
hot water to unprovoked assaults by correctional employees upon
prisoners.<br><br>
It now appears that at least one inmate, Terrance Dean of Bibb County GA
was brutally assaulted by staff at Macon State Prison on or about
December 16 was so severely injured prison officials secretly evacuated
him to a hospital in Atlanta without bothering to inform his family. It's
not known at this time which Department of Corrections officials
authorized the secret evacuation, who decided not to notify Dean's family
of either his injuries or his whereabouts, or whether the prisoner was
transported the roughly 130 miles to Atlanta via ground or air ambulance.
The first word the prisoner's family received of either the beating or
Dean's whereabouts was when they were contacted December 30 or 31 by the
friends and associates of other prisoners on the outside. Neither the
Department of Corrections nor Atlanta Medical Center, where the prisoner
was held for about two weeks, has released any information about the
extent of the prisoner's injuries, his current medical condition, or how
he was injured.<br><br>
The morning of Friday, December 31, Dean's sister, along with ACLU
attorney Chara Jackson and GA state NAACP chief Ed DuBose representing
the
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Concerned-Coalition-to-Respect-Prisoners-Rights/134681756588784">
Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoner's Rights</a> [4] showed up at the
Atlanta Medical Center demanding to see the injured prisoner or at least
have his whereabouts confirmed. After several hours of delay,
correctional officials said his mother and sister, along with the
attorney would be allowed to visit him at Jackson State Prison Sunday,
January 2, but they offered no explanation of the reasons for his
secretive transfer. Hospital officials also refused to offer any
information on Dean's injuries, even to his family, on grounds of
doctor-patient confidentiality.<br><br>
</font><font size=3></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>We
assume that state officials have a written policy requiring them to
inform family members in the event of the serious injury of their loved
ones in prison, said the
<a href="http://blackagendareport.com/?q=content/brutal-reprisals-against-peaceful-ga-inmate-strikers-confirmed-was-one-victim-hidden-weeks-p">
Georgia Green Party</a> [5]'s Hugh Esco. If Georgia corrections
personnel did brutally beat Terrance Dean, transfer him secretly more
than a hundred miles from the scene of the crime scene and neglect to
inform his family about his injuries or whereabouts they could be parties
to a criminal conspiracy. The Green Party has written a letter to the
outgoing and incoming governors asking them to look carefully at the
events surrounding the case of Mr. Dean. We also note that the Department
of Corrections promised access to the 37 prisoners whom it transferred as
a result of the inmate strike that began on December 9. We hope this is a
promise they keep, so that the public can get a complete and accurate
picture of what goes on behind those walls.<br><br>
Dean's sister, attorney Chara Jackson, and the NAACP's Ed DuBose briefed
the press at Atlanta Medical Center, including representatives from at
least one local TV station repeatedly beginning at noon on Friday, and
assured Black Agenda Report that they will attempt to see Terrance Dean
at Jackson State Prison on Sunday, January 2. But as of nearly 24 hours
later, on the morning of January 1, 2011 no corporate news outlet is
publicly asking or answering any of the key questions around the assault
on Terrance Dean, or what look for all the world like official attempts
to conceal it from his family and the public.<br><br>
</font><font size=3></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>This is
no surprise, offered BAR executive editor Glen Ford. For corporate
journalists, a story without input from government or corporate officials
is no story at all. For these so-called reporters, the story has a big
hole in it as long as state officials decline to comment, even though
official misconduct on the part of government IS the story. If the state
declines to comment until Sunday or Monday, they will sit on the story
till then. Establishment journalists are nothing if not disciplined and
well-trained.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2 color="#800000"><i>Bruce A.
Dixon is managing editor at Black Agenda Report, based in Marietta GA,
and a member of the state committee of the Georgia Green Party. Both
Black Agenda Report and the Georgia Green Party are members of the
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Concerned-Coalition-to-Respect-Prisoners-Rights/134681756588784">
Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoner's Rights</a> [4].<br>
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GA prison strike</a>
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<a href="http://blackagendareport.com/?q=category/us-politics/mass-black-incarceration">
mass black incarceration</a>
<li>
<a href="http://blackagendareport.com/?q=category/us-politics/mass-incarceration">
mass incarceration</a>
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