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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Urgent Phone Zap! Defend Abu Faheem Shabazz, Facing Retaliation at Westville CF! <br></h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">IDOC Watch - February 24, 2022<br></div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-block-aff4f75419a84261f7a1"><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>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!</strong></p><p><strong>IDOC Central Office: (317) 232-5711 ext. 0, ext. 1</strong></p><p><strong>Westville CF Warden Galipeau: </strong><a href="https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJwFwUESQCAUANCx5BLaWPsp9XUEt6h8pplohia5vfe6djxHOIrCAxozQEXkfCExLTMXqORsoG5Sgwew2mlUDmjtX3pyCTES8-m-yeeQLhvZbn2IIX8_unwZkw&q=westville+correctional+facility&rlz=1C1CHZO_enUS983US984&oq=westville+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j46i175i199i433i512j46i512j0i512j46i512j46i131i175i199i433i512j0i131i433i512j69i61.5169j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" tabindex="0"><span>(219) 785-2511</span></a><span> (ask to speak to the warden)</span></p><p>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!”</p></div><div id="gmail-block-yui_3_17_2_1_1645679988246_29012">
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<p>Abu Faheem Shabazz, when he was on parole in 2018</p>
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