FFUP
INTAKE REPORT FOR END OF October 2019 with Catch up inclusions from months
past.
(note:
this is longer and more complicated than future reports will be because of
backlog that needs to be looked at by the activist community, legislators etc.
A try at
a list fuller compilation of links to
complaints received in last few months is here:
Below are latest complaints plus
complaints that highlight ongoing problems.
A) Individuals
1)Timmy Johnson 616546 WCI, ( 1988,31YO) (written with rubber pencil- will not scan/hard to read) |
| Timmy Johnson |
Timmy had an incident with a guard where Timmy
ended up spitting
at
him. Mother and Timmy's story is that the guard said racial slur and spit at
Timmy first. Much of first
letter covers this. The danger is that the guard in the incident now often
serves Timmy food and Timmy is afraid it is doctored and will not eat
it. Mother says it is guard’s smirks that alerts Timmy.
2)second issue is his conviction and is
indicative of many in there. Before the crime occurred Timmy’s mother had gone to the courthouse asking that her son be committed to a mental
institution, that is behavior had radically changed. She was refused. Hewants to appeal his conviction.
3)the crime: Timmy was in cab, was hearing voices that told him the cab driver was the devil and was going to kill him- He stabbed the cab driver and I guess took the car on a chase. Says he crashed it trying to die. Promised hospital got Prison and much abuse.
Is interested in out legal project where he
learns the law- all he does will need typing, will need to get help for
that.
first letter typed:
https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/timmy-johnson-9-10-19.pdf
second letter is on scraps of paper and mostly unreadable because too light but did have mothers phone number and I got more complete story from her. She has 5 kids, Timmy is oldest.
second letter is on scraps of paper and mostly unreadable because too light but did have mothers phone number and I got more complete story from her. She has 5 kids, Timmy is oldest.
2)deaths and firing GBCI
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| Matthew McAfee |
Matthew McAfee 444947 (1982, 37) /
4 19 letter
written in pencil , not typed till 10 19- second letter
7 19 summed and scanned, Below/
sent to FFUP months in April and July
hand written 7 19 letter
both letters typed:
1)from 4 19 letter:death of about an hour later another prisoner is
found dead by suicide he hung
himself in his room, ( guards)
commenting by saying that’s one less fucker we get to take care of hahaha
sickos I tell you” .
from 7 19 letter:”That inmate I told you about that hung himself i just
got his last name “Bong; He was having an asthma attack and staff ignore him he
killed himself by hanging and was left in cell for hours, when found the
sprayed him to cover up the smell to cover their own asses by telling
Dets..that they had no idea he was dead and it was just procedural that they
sprayed him, nobody lost their jobs but my guy on the inside Bong is not in the
system I had it checked out so you got to look up CCAP to get his info.
2) We were on lock down due to a guard killing himself at his home-
I’ll get his name later for you
3) As well as another female barbershop chick get caught having sex and
walked out.
4) I’m working on a list of names of inmates that killed themselves or
were killed by staff and staff that kill themselves or got charges for
misconduct sex, drug, etc.”
5) Complaint that staff should be rotated every 3 months= was
rejected as frivolous never got to Madison.
6) needs 25 dollars to pay off a debt and then a friend will buy him a
tablet and he could type regular reports.
7)Also here is guards losing McAFee’s property and a head butt
incident.
3)Brandon Bradley 644115 CCI (1984, 35) update from last intake report
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| Bradley Brandon |
his case was summed last intake report, Here is typed essay for FFUP
newsletter s and his affidavit to judge plus original
typewritten letter. Talks about winning in court. IT was a case of being accused of
assaulting staff when it was actually self defence. Is still in danger from retaliation. Has renal
cancer.
Also here are graphic descriptions of assaults, one of them by infamous
srgt Beahm in retaliation for reporting a rumor that Beahm assisted in the
suicide of inmate Marques Childs .
typed 9 19 typed affidavit to judge and letter to FFUP:https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/brandon-bradley-9-16-19-1.pdf
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| Bryant Howze |
4) Bryant Howze 214434, OSCI
(bd 1969, 50 YO)
niece murdered, prison put him in seg for 60 days and then on a 9 month
program “which is the same as seg”. Took him 6 days to get one call to family/
wants to die
5)Julian Blackshear 502141WCI. (1989 29)
Cases in court ongoing abuse particularly from Srg Beahm in WCI, wants media/
good, difficult look at conditions. These
are letters from way back in spring but we were in no position to do anything
but witness- maybe can do more now.
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| Julian Blackshear |
second, April letter, transcribed:
first letter handwritten, not yet typed
Hunger strikes : there have
been multiple truncated hunger strikes which we do not support as the prison
does not follow procedure, we cannot keep tabs and there is not yet strong
enough support out here to effect change . links on general site to some of the
main attempts. Our past efforts at supporting
( example 2016)have led to more suicides and more retaliations by DOC
and generally worsening of conditions as DOC learns of the short attention span
of the public.
B)October Complaints about BAD
POLICIES
Richard Schmidlkofer 253430 OSCI ( 1972, 47) |
| Richard Schmidlkofer |
Talking about seg they misuse use the max TLU- temporary
Lock Up it suppose to be 21 days max but the can give another 21days has to be
approve by security Director then the 3rd 21 days has to go through Madison. So
it could be be in seg for 63days that does not count on the conduct report when
get your punishment. Also when you are in TLU you do not get anything but books
you shoun ld be allow one of your electronic, but then they have to put outlets
in seg.
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| Jason Dodd |
Jason Dodd 391909 CCI (1980,39)letter
7 28 19:CCI policy in DS1
wrong/ all
given the same severe punishments
from 7 28 19 letter
I am writing to you to inform you of the policies in CCI segregation
units which in my opinion have significant constitutional
infractions. And the public needs to know of this and I don’t think Madison has approved this. And how can I find out if Madison has
approved the or not .OK. DS1 is solitary confinement, DS2 is also solitary
confinement. DS2 is supposed to be better that DS1.In DS2 you can have your TV,
order a little food, and have a cellmate. But these luxuries are obtaining a
certain “step”. Each step you get more privileges etc. Now DS1 is also solitary
confinement with none of those privileges. If you act up out of control they
will put you on “control status” or if you self harm they will put you in
observation status. Both of these statuses require a special cell where you can
see the I/m 24/7 and the I/m has to wear a paper smock “after” being completely
naked for up to 24 hours.
Now , here is DS1prior to this “new policy” if an I/m specifically
does something such as withholding his
tray, throwing liquid on a C/o, holding his hands out of the trap, etc, the
that i/m will be placed on a “restriction” which will support the i/m
inappropriate actins. If you attempt to self harm, you will be placed on
“sharps” which means you will not be
given any sharp objects in order to prevent the I/m from self harming
Now, the issue is that CCI ‘s policy now is: every single I/m who comes
to DS1 is automatically placed on the above restrictions” This is “cruel and
unusual punishment” for I/M such as myself who have not attempted to self harm.
Me and 80% of the I/m in DS1 have never
attempted to self harm or has not done anything to be subjected to the “special
restrictions”, which has been “transferred” into a “policy” now in DS1.
So I/m like me are not allowed
to receive a tray through the top trap. I have to go to the back of my cell
while the C/o slides my food on the floor through a bottom trap, like I’m an
animal. If I don’t go to the back of my cell , I can’t have my food!! Mind you.
I did nothing to require such an unusual way to get my food. We are not allowed
cups of juice in the morning for breakfast or milk. The c/os have to pour the
milk in our cereal if we request it .
And we are not allowed to have a milk after lunch or dinner? We are forced to
drink nasty stinky water. Mind you, me and 80% of the I/ms have not done
ANYTHING to be subjected to this treatment. CCI’s DS1 policy stems from
restrictions based on negative behavior from I/ms with severe mental health
issues.
Court
access denied
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| Phillip Keller |
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| Shawn Murphy |
another uptick in difficulty getting
to the courts takes myriad guises from denying library access, the usual
trashing and loosing legal work to a recent one of making many inmates use only
rubber pencils- this used to be a paper restriction for those who used pencils
to harm themselves, now is widely used- we have not figured out just which
units. documents and letters using these cannot be scanned and courts can’t use
them, are incredibly light and hard to read.
Phil Keller 395959 WCI:https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/phil-keller-and-rubber-pencil.pdf
Shawn Murphy 401293 WCI:https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/murphy-berry-court-access-wci.pdf
C)THE
BIG LIE: WI DOC holds on to Old law
prisoners with all the corruption it can muster while releasing tis prisoners
ready or not with no support after release and no treatment and little training
before.
truth in sentencing Prisoners who have worked with FFUP over the years
and have been revoked in the last year after years in solitary with no
effective treatment , much self harm and punishment for that.
note:this is where the policy of changing the seriousness of mental
illnesses from serious to not serious comes into play, for they can now call
Self harming “malingering” and not treat it as behavior resulting from mental
illness the by law not punishable. See wi watch article: https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/wi-watch-boivin-article.pdf
1)Below:Prisoners
(most TIS ) revoked within last few months
these men FFUP has worked closely with/advocated
for rather unsuccessfully obviously. . All have spent forever in solitary and are now
back to the same old horror. Those who have written me since revocation have
stories of unjust revocations and no real chances real given.
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Louis Keys 587473 DCI
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| Christopner Goodvine 310458 MSDF |
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| Bobby coil 518792 CCI |
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| Timothy Sidney480018 MSDF |
Below: some TIS inmates now awaiting release,begging for transfer to treatment
at WRC before release and being denied
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| Gerald Easterling- 564618;WCI |
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| Scott Brown 567501 JCI, 23 |
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Jordan
Cosby 501015;
WCI
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Damien
Huff ( 24) 5 25 2022
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| Tyler L Milton 596157 WCI bd1998 ; 20 y.o. ( out 2 4 20) |
ACTIONS NEEDED_
short term:
short term:
1) independent investigation into changing
diagnoses and mental health serious level for prisoners in solitary confinement
( link)
2)help get TIS prisoners long held in
solitary who are requesting treatment before release to WRC.
long term is always the same-
1)real treatment, best is to use model of treatment center and new policies and rules in Women's prison , mandated by Lawsuit
2) end of long term solitary confinement , perhaps using CO as model
long term is always the same-
1)real treatment, best is to use model of treatment center and new policies and rules in Women's prison , mandated by Lawsuit
2) end of long term solitary confinement , perhaps using CO as model
BIG
LIE FOR OLD LAW PRISONERS:
manipulating Sex offender policies and laws to delay old
law prisoner release.
: GOAL of DOC still seems to be to help Old law
prisoners for as long as is legally possible and that campaign has revved up
with the new administration.
The latest technique for
extending incarceration for Old law prisoners seems to be manipulating the sex
offender laws. I think these folk are targeted because the hysteria whipped up in the public
makes it easy for them to make up programs and needs when there is no staff or
space or resources to provide the programming.
We have been reporting
on this phenomenon for quite a while. Old law prisoners are skipped over for
court ordered SOT treatment, promised the treatment , moved and then not given
it, and arbitrarily assigned treatment and a new risk level with no due process
or any new testing. When there is no
room for SOT treatment for TIS prisoners, they are given a waiver and released.
Never for Old Law prisoners.
a)Tony Merriweather 199123 NLCI:
in this fiasco: a fine litigator who dedicates his time and
resources to helping other inmates. He is one of FFUP’s main litigator guides
and I have known him since starting this work at Boscobel Supermax when it
opened: https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/tony-merriweather-sot-fiasco10-19.docx
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| Tony Merriweather |
Basically, after being decades eligible for parole and having programming
used as an excuse to hold him, he is told he now has a need for a four year Sec
offender treatment program and not the 2 he had needed. This was without an
testing or interviews
other examples of above fiascos
a)Nick Brosz: promised
programming, moved, no
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| Nick Brosz |
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| Ron Schroeder |
b)Ron Schroeder 528682 OSCI ( 1969, 50): in process
of being civilly committed to Sandridge-
Ronald Schroeder- a fine person,
litigator, special target it seems. There was no basis for revoking him nor now to commit him except :They can here
are a bunch of his writings on the subject tof revocation and how to change
Here are some of his writings:
from
Ron Schroeder
HOW TO FILE A PROPER COMPLAINT ABOUT YOUR PO OR CONDITIONS
OF SUPERVISION: https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/how-to-file-a-proper-complaint-about-your-po-or-conditions-of-supervision.docx
d) The real corker resident
Akstulewicz-( transgender, cannot use chosen name) after many reports of prisoners being denied SOT program for various reasons, "resident" Akstulewicz reports of the 10 plus people starting the SOT course at OSCI- there is only one who will finish- all , including him, have been kicked off, he says for bogus reasons. FFUP got one complaint letter from prisoner saying he was kicked out for complaining about racist language used in course. Actual letters coming.
latest revocation complaint:https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/thomas-isham-8-30-19.pdf
Thomas Isham 613107; BCJ 615 2nd ave east, Washburn, WI 54891(1995, 23 native american)
letter 10 26 19: revoked himself to get lighter sentence( deal) .Says he gave the police a wrong name and that was considered a felony. Moved from first jail because he felt unsafe. wants to file a lawsuit.
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| Thomas Isham |
Thomas Isham 613107; BCJ 615 2nd ave east, Washburn, WI 54891(1995, 23 native american)
letter 10 26 19: revoked himself to get lighter sentence( deal) .Says he gave the police a wrong name and that was considered a felony. Moved from first jail because he felt unsafe. wants to file a lawsuit.
3)Action Needed
for Old Law AC prisoner
AC
prisoner Needs help with deportation:
Sonniel R Gidarisingh 287108,from 9 19 letter ;
written and much of letter
is about being charges for assault unfairly when he was assaulted by gang members and was protecting himself- he is handling
it. The story is complicated, showing again retaliation for complaining about
gang assaults - and will type and post.unscannable.
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| Sonniel Giddarisingh |
More to point and where he wants help is with
deportation (jamaican): “ I am now 48 years old and
began to have serious medical and mental health problems from years of solitary
confinement. Since I have been incarcerated I have not been found guilty of any
other criminal offenses- this is my first incarceration ever. I have spent
around 19 of the 22 ½ years in solitary and A/C despite I never been convicted
of any additional crimes in Federal or state court since April 9, 1997.”
4)CORRUPTIONS GENERAL/SCAMS
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| Fairly Earls |
9 3 19 Local County Sheriff's Department gives the Department of
Corrections
at Columbia Correctional Institution the Green light to falsify
inmate records. If you are interested in exposing this Law breaking Fraudulent
behavior please contact me. I have documented proof by the detectives who were
to investigate this wrong doing but chose to do a lousy job of bias
investigation.
The Department of Corrections of course would not admit it even
thou I have record proof, documented evidence. The Sheriff's Department came to
C.C.I. and failed to contact the victim of this crime or raise questions about
this evidence that would of shown who and what records were being falsified by
the Department of Corrections.
When I last checked falsifying Offender Documents was still a
Crime. The Biggest Taxpayer Agency in Wisconsin has to Falsify records to
justify keeping prisons full and misusing Tax dollars.
Please look into this and put a stop to DOC Corruption.
Thank You. Sincerely, Fairly W. Earls #369129 Columbia Correctional
P.O. Box 900
Portage, WI. 53901
SCAMS/misc
policy complaints
new vendor much more expensive and of low quality/ corrlinks email
prices raised/phones unavailable
https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/reinier-ravensteijn-vendor-scams-etc.pdf
Demetrius Hewlett 483369 GBCI singled
out for retaliation because of advocacy he believes ( tablet taken for minor
violation)https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/demetrius-hewlett-ret-and-taking-tablets.pdf
misc complaints/ sent to FFUP
litigator guides
following three cases send to
litigator guide= DOC fudging with rules to extract time and money unfairly
Charles Bleisner send a time of handwritten complaints which I have yet
to study . He has been also seding these to sherrif of Brown County and asked
me to call said sheriff- I did and the guy said he has told him he cannot deal
with these as they are not felonies.Charles ‘s wife Mary wrote following
affidavit- all normal occurances – everyday life in the DOC – a good read- what
it feels like to now be treated as an outcast .
5)
Many stories like this one- prisoners looking for psychological support and
envelopes /short, sweet, honest
Jason
Mayer
appealing
case, mentally ill, 5 kids , no support
https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/jason-r-mayer-9-24-19.pdf
Sean Wolfe 557811 WSPF October 7,2019( 1991, 28)
I’m an inmate at WSPF. I don’t have any family or friends
that can help me. I have no contact with my dad, My mom passed away from Cancer
back in 2018. The only family I have contact with is my uncle who is as inmate
in CCI and who for obvious reasons cannot support me . I have a learning
disability and am not writing this letter on my own. – a friend here is helping
me .I have no money nor means to obtain any.
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how hard it is being alone
in prison. I also probably don’t have to tell you how hard it is at WSPF with
staff abuse. It is just very hard getting through each day. Solitary
confinement is too hard to take with the abuse in silence. ( Asks for a tv or
radio)I really need to occupy my time. I have serious problems with my anxiety
and my depression. ( says he would like to write me from time to time( seeing
as I have no one else)
what is not here-
1)Innocent
Bids:requests for
help with criminal cases- innocence and wrongly convicted- a huge category-
links to these cases in general category post. These we offer litigation guides
and screening first suggestions by a prisoner litigator and help with stamps,
copying etc.
good essay by
anonymous:
https://casesprison.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/why-few-criminal-cases-get-overturned.pdf
2)health care complaints- these I send
to prisoner litigator after sometimes sending the perfunctory letter to Health
services / WI DOC Madison and get the perfunctory all is fine from them for
future records . We offer guidance with litigation. Will do separate report on
health care.
There are a
few very complicated cases that are indicative of just how corrupted health
care has become in this system and that only fine litigators can get ANY help. In future will
gather and give links to a few of these enormous efforts.
three
examples of everyday cases:
3)Failure to protect complaints and PREA
complaints- this is a problem throughout the prison. . Extortion is rampant
as is harassment of gays and for some particularly vulnerable inmates, rape by
guards. There is no followup and unless
the DOC asks sherriff or volunteer group to come in on PREA charges, the
inmates who complains gets nothing and is left in the company of the offending
staff or prisoner under much more dangerous circumstances. again, will be separate report
In WCI the problem
is most severe and even pleas for no
contact designations ( SPNs) seem to be disregarded. Extortion by gangs of
Indians is rampant. In WCI the only protection from gangs is to get yourself
put in solitary – through disobeying and order- and that is only temporary
protection .Also on PREA side of things, there is absolutely no accountability
for abuse and assaults by guards and the guard highlighted for his incredible
abuse in WI Watch articles of 2014 is now heading the unit. ( link)
here is report
done in 2016: Main victim, Jim Smith has since died:
3)Complaints about unfair parole hearings-
one of the most common complaints- again, will come later as composite of
several months.
4)Money scam- taking all
moneys from prisoners though misuse of Act 355 - this complaint comes with
practically every letter.
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| Tyler
L Milton 596157 WCI bd1998 ; 20 y.o. ( out 2 4 20) |
Tyler Milton:one stark example:out of a 25 dollar check form his grandmother, he gets 14 cents. Complaint Docs here.
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