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<font size=3>Via Kiilu Nyasha<br><br>
I'm in email contact with Sundiata, and he sent me this email to
share:<br><br>
Birthday, Transfer and OWS<br>
by Sundiata Acoli- 1/14/2012<br>
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Thank each of you for such warm Birthday (Jan. 14th)
greetings, they brightened my day immensely but frankly it's hard for me
to fully comprehend that i'm actually 3/4 of a Century old. That is old
by any standard!<br><br>
i was transferred from FCI Otisville, NY because
they're supposedly converting it into a "Sex-Offenders and
Debriefed-Gang-Members" prison. Otisville population stands at
around 1200 prisoners. Staff said they planned to transfer out 500
prisoners, mostly gang members and replace them with sex offenders and
debriefed gang members, i.e., prisoners who have gotten out of the gang
and off the prison's gang list as a result of them debriefing by telling
what they know of their gang's operations and pointing out other unknown
gang members to the staff.<br><br>
Otisville had transferred out approximately 20 gang
members (1 bus load) each week for a month or more when they added
"convicted murderers" to the transfer list. i departed
Otisville on the 2nd busload of prisoners convicted of murder. At each
stop along the way, MDC Brooklyn, NY and FDC Philly, PA the prisoners
there were very welcoming and helpful altho federal men's prison are so
overcrowded that there's a widespread chronic shortage of the most basic
supplies, prisoners are literally stacked atop each other and as soon as
any prisoner transfers out, another moves into his bed space that same
day or the next.<br><br>
At MDC Brooklyn i received a much welcomed visit
from each of my long time attorneys: Florence, Soffiyah, Marisa and Joan.
Attorneys can simply show up at the Detention Center and visit. Not so
for family or friends, they must be on a new visit list created at the
Center. None of my family or friends were able to get on my list before
the week or so lapsed by which time i was long gone to the next detention
center.<br><br>
The same visit rules were in effect at FDC
Philly, PA. After a week or so there our bus departed on a round-about
trip to FCI Schuykill, PA, our final destination. The first stop was
Harrisburg International Airport, PA which looked every bit like a modern
day slave market. 40 to 50 bus and van loads of prisoners, mostly Black
and Brown with a splash of White and smaller splashes of Red and Yellow,
chained hand and foot, sat along the runway of a "Con Air"
transport jet disgorging hordes of cuffed hobbling prisoners from it's
entrails. Empty, and refilling its belly with just as many
new prisoners from the buses/vans until finally sated, it turned, waddled
down the runway , belched, and lurched into the horizon. <br><br>
Other buses and vans mixed and matched, switched and
swapped prisoners till each bus was loaded only with prisoners
going to the same destinations across the Northeast: NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD,
VA, WV; the whole operation was surrounded by a cordon of federal
marshals, prison guards, state troopers and county sheriffs.<br><br>
It was here that all the prisoners on my bus
were switched to a bus bound for FCI Schuykill...except me. Shortly, a
guard i vaguely recognized from long ago came, took me off the bus and
escorted me to another filled with different prisoners. Once seated i
asked where they were headed. They said "Cumberland." My
property and traveling papers continued on to Schuykill. We arrived at
FCI Cumberland and i was immediately put in SHU (the Hole) because they
had no papers for me. I did 10 days semi-incommunicado in "the
hole" until my papers arrived and was then let out into
general population. i thank all those who expressed concern about my
welfare during the transfer, particularly Mumia Abu-Jamal, Pam Africa,
the Jericho Movement and numerous others. i've since learned that at
least 5 convicted murderers who left Otisville on the bus with me were
rerouted back to FCI Otisville before reaching their transfer
destination. They were all White.<br><br>
i and SAFC support the OWS/OCCUPY MOVEMENT and i thank
them for the evolving mutual support they've shown at various times and
places for the Jericho Movement, the Black Movement and other Movements
of People of Color and the Oppressed.<br><br>
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