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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span
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line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CONTACT:
</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Shandre
Delaney,
mother of one of the Dallas 6 with the Human Rights
Coalition
412-403-6101; Phoebe Jones, Justice for the Dallas 6
Support Campaign and
Global Women’s Strike 610-505-4944 </span></p>
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color:#222222">Jury refuses to convict prisoners charged
with riot and aggravated
harassment in landmark “Dallas 6” prisoner whistleblower
trial.<br>
Defendants, family members and supporters declare victory
and call for an end
to prison abuse and corruption brought to light in
testimony</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
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hung jury in
the trial of the three remaining prisoner whistleblowers of
the “Dallas 6” led Judge
Gelb to declare a mistrial today in Luzerne County,
Pennsylvania, in a
closely-watched case that has dragged on for six years. The
three men, Andre
Jacobs, Carrington Keys, and Duane Peters, defended
themselves against charges
of “riot” and (for Mr Keys) aggravated harassment, while
exposing rampant abuse
and corruption at SCI Dallas prison and in the Pennsylvania
prison system
generally. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
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men were
supported in their courageous and sustained efforts by their
mothers and other
family members, a wide range of supporters from the Justice
for the Dallas 6
Support Campaign who came regularly to trial, and by the
legal team consisting
of Andre Jacobs and Carrington Keys who, according to
onlookers, did a
fantastic job of representing themselves, Attorney Michael
Wiseman who was invaluable
as counsel for Duane Peters as well as standby counsel for
Carrington Keys, and
Mary Deady also invaluable as standby counsel for Andre
Jacobs. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
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say
their view is the judge was fair and vow to continue their
fight against the
abuse that the prisoners sought to expose, as well as to
protest the waste of
taxpayer money prosecuting the men instead of investigating
the abuse. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Attorney
Michael
Wiseman, Mr Keys' mother Shandre Delaney, and other family
members as
well as supporters are available for interviews about the
Dallas 6 case.</span></p>
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color:#222222">* * * * *</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Who are the
Dallas
6?</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> On
April 29, 2010 six
courageous African American prisoner whistleblowers and
jailhouse lawyers at
SCI Dallas staged a peaceful protest against the widespread
abuse, violence and
torture by guards against Black, Latino and white prisoners
which they had
documented and took a stand against, with the support of
Human Rights Coalition. <b>The
abuse they documented included:</b> <b>beatings; mental
abuse; foreign objects
in food such glass, metal, feces, spit, semen and urine;
mail and legal
document tampering; deprivation of human contact;
withholding medication;
starvation and cutting off water; and coerced suicide. </b> When
they
covered their cell doors and windows in non-violent protest,
prison authorities
responded with vicious so-called “cell extractions” and four
months later charged
them with “rioting” after the criminal complaints they had
filed were
publicized.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
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from
each day of the trial can be found on the Dallas 6 webpage:
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href="http://scidallas6.blogspot.com"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://scidallas6.blogspot.com</span></a><span
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color:#222222"> </span></p>
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for
the Dallas 6 Support Campaign:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Abolitionist Law
Center; Every Mother is a
Working Mother Network; Fight for Lifers West;
Germantown Friends Meeting
Mass Incarceration Working Group; Global Women’s
Strike & Women of
Color@GWS – US; Human Rights Coalition – Fed Up;
Human Rights Coalition –
Philadelphia; Marcellus Shale Earth First; Mishkan
Shalom New Jim Crow
Study-Action Group; Payday men’s network; Peacehome
Campaigns; Shalefield
Organizing Committee. <b>Endorsements: </b>Art
for Justice; Brandywine
Peace Community; California Families Against
Solitary Confinement (CFASC);
The Center for Returning Citizens (TCRC);
Decarcerate PA; Defending Dissent
Foundation; Global Women’s Strike & Women of
Color@GWS – UK; Green Party
of Philadelphia (GPOP); Human Rights Defense Center
– Lake Worth, Florida; Jewish
Voice For Peace - Philadelphia; People’s Opposition
to War Imperialism and
Racism (POWIR) – Hollywood, Florida; Philadelphia
Coalition for REAL Justice;
San Francisco Bay View newspaper; Sin Barras –
Without (Prison) Bars – Santa
Cruz; T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights;
WHAT’S UP?! Pittsburgh;
Welfare Warriors; Women’s International League for
Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
– Philadelphia. <b>Individual Endorsements</b>: Pam
Africa, International
Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal;
Patrice Armstead, Building
People’s Power and Coalition Demanding Reinstatement
of Dr. Monteiro; Malik
Aziz, Founder, Men United for a Better Philadelphia
and Chairman, National
Exhoodus Council; Pastor Antoinette Johnson, King
Solomon Baptist Church; Dr.
Anthony Monteiro; Rev. Bob Moore, Executive
Director, Coalition for Peace
Action (for id purposes only); Margaret Prescod,
host of “Sojourner Truth” on
Pacifica Radio; Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Professor
of African American
Studies & History, Temple University; Dr. Cornel
West, Princeton
University; Dr. Carla Willard, Africana Studies
Program, Franklin &
Marshall College. <b>Partnering with:</b> AFSC
Prison Watch.</span></p>
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