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<h1><small>Announcing Call-In Day and Petition for NC Hunger Strikers</small></h1>
<div id="single-date" class="date">July 23, 2012</div>
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<p>First, we are announcing and encouraging people to participate in a
call-in day to support NC prison hunger strikers on Wednesday, July
25th. You can find phone and fax numbers <a
href="http://prisonbooks.info/2012/07/18/prisoners-begin-hunger-strike-at-three-facilities/">here</a>.
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<p>Robert C. Lewis, Director of Prisons<br>
phone: 919.838.4000<br>
fax: 919.733.8272</p>
<p>Central Prison Warden Ken Lassiter<br>
phone: 919.733.0800<br>
fax: 919.715.2645</p>
<p>Bertie CI Warden Renoice Stancil (The Receptionist Says Stancil Is
Replaced With A Man Named Anderson)<br>
Phone: 252-794-8600<br>
Fax: 252-794-4608</p>
<p>Scotland CI Warden Sorrell Saunders<br>
Phone: (910) 844-3078<br>
Fax: (910) 844-3786</p>
<p>PRISONERS’ DEMANDS</p>
<ol>
<li>Law Libraries. We are tired of being railroaded by the courts,
and having our rights violated by prison staff and officers. NC Prison
Legal Services are inadequate and oftentimes do not help us at all. A
law library is needed to enable us to legally defend ourselves.</li>
<li>An immediate end to the physical and mental abuse inflicted by
officers.</li>
<li>Improve food, in terms of quality and quantity.</li>
<li>A better way to communicate emergencies from cells; many
emergency call buttons are broken and never replaced, and guards often
do not show up for over an hour. At least one prisoner has died this
way.</li>
<li>The canteens that serve lock up units need to make available
vitamins and personal hygiene items.</li>
<li>An immediate stop to officers’ tampering or throwing away
prisoners’ mail.</li>
<li>Education programs for prisoners on lock-up.</li>
<li>The immediate release of prisoners from solitary who have been
held unjustly or for years without infractions; this includes the
Strong 8, sent to solitary for the purpose of political intimidation.</li>
<li>The immediate end to the use of restraints as a form of torture.</li>
<li>The end of cell restriction. Sometimes prisoners are locked in
their cell for weeks or more than a month, unable to come out for
showers and recreation.</li>
<li>The theft of prisoners’ property, including mattresses and
clothes. When on property restriction, we are forced to sleep on the
ground or steel bed frames naked, with no bedding.</li>
<li>Medical privacy and confidentiality. Guards should not be able to
listen in on our medical problems when on sick call.</li>
<li>Change our cell windows to ones which we can see through. The
current windows are covered with feces and grime. Not being able to see
out is sensory deprivation, and makes us feel dissociated from
everything that exists outside of prison.</li>
<li>An immediate repair of cell lights, sinks, toilets, and plumbing.</li>
<li>Toilet brushes should be handed out with cell cleaning items.</li>
<li>The levels of I-Con, M-Con, and H-Con need to be done away with
altogether. When one is placed on Intensive Control Status (I-Con), one
is placed in the hole for six months and told to stay out of trouble.
But even when we stay out of trouble, we are called back to the FCC and
DCC only to be told to do another six months in the hold, infraction
free.</li>
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<p>Because the strike may have spread to facilities we don’t yet know
about, folks are especially encouraged to call the Division of Prisons
HQ in Raleigh.</p>
<p>Second, the Asheville Prison Book Program has set up a petition for
the strikers which supporters can sign <a
href="http://www.change.org/petitions/nc-prisoners-on-hunger-strike#">here</a>.</p>
<p>Third, a poster made for public distribution can be found <a
href="http://prisonbookscollective.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/hungerstrikeposter.pdf">here</a>;
feel free to put this up everywhere in your town, as a general reminder
that prison struggles are happening.</p>
<p>Fourth, please write to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:prisonbooks@gmail.com">prisonbooks@gmail.com</a> if your group would
like to be mentioned as supporting the strike. Feel free to also write
your own statement of support like <a
href="http://prisonbooks.info/2012/07/20/groups-release-statements-of-support-for-strike-poster-available/">these
folks</a>. As soon as that list starts to come together we will post it.</p>
<p>Fifth, prisoners have called for solidarity actions and boycotts
(the latter largely intended for other prisoners) against companies
that exploit prisoners and their families via the canteen. A list of
companies involved can be found <a
href="http://prisonbooks.info/2012/07/20/nc-hunger-strikers-call-for-boycott-and-solidarity-actions-against-canteen-profiteers/">here</a>.<span
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<p>A weekly anarchist radio show out of Asheville, NC, called the Final
Straw, recently did an hour long interview regarding this hunger
strike. You can hear the interview <a
href="http://archive.org/details/NorthCarolinaPrisonersInitiateHungerStrikes">here</a>.<br>
As soon as more news emerges from prisoners we will be sure to post it.
Also, please send us by email or comments any news on your end about
solidarity actions, demonstrations, etc.</p>
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