I demand he be transferred to a prison near his family!
Jessie, this was fate. No doubt in my mind. I want daily transparency to the former Congressman's activity and treatment.
By MICHAEL SNEED AND LYNN SWEET
Staff Reporters
April 5, 2014 4:32PM
Updated: April 6, 2014 6:31PM
...The 49-year-old (click here) former Chicago congressman had been advising other inmates in North Carolina about their rights in prison, according to the source, who said a guard took exception to that....
There is no justice in North Carolina until a case gets to the Fourth Circuit in Virginia. That is how corrupt the system is in that state. The corruption is systemic. I have no doubt they are afraid of prison riots. Some would say it is long overdue. But, inmates would die. The guards just wait for the first opportunity to carry out sentences the juries wouldn't.
It is a compelling thing in North Carolina when the naive actually are made aware they are being victims to a social and systemic corruption. The inmates in North Carolina are often men and women with incomplete educations and lived lives of futile existence. They live with 'honor' as a value system. That carries a heavy weight in North Carolina's society. It also calls up crime in order to live up to that honor, too.
There is also drugs in North Carolina. There are drug economies there. There isn't anything else. North Carolina had a high number of arrests in the FBI sting years ago. In Wilmington, North Carolina anyone can walk into a bar and find 'the code' to access drugs in the back room refrig. No lie. Port City. Amazing.
Imagine being an inmate and facing a guard living by the 'honor value system.' It is hideous. The difference in many instances to being in prison and being on the outside is what side of 'the tracks' one lived on. So to speak.
I can only imagine how appalled the Congressman was when he realized the reality of these people.
The prison culture in North Carolina is generational in families.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge (click here) was scheduled to hear arguments Thursday about dismissing a lawsuit that accuses guards at North Carolina’s maximum security prison of sadistically beating inmates, resulting in broken bones and wheelchair confinement.
U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle planned to consider whether there is enough evidence already presented in court documents to go ahead with the lawsuit on behalf of eight inmates at Central Prison in Raleigh.
The inmates accuse 19 correctional officers of taking handcuffed and shackled inmates from solitary confinement cells where they were placed for disciplinary reasons to blind spots out of view of security cameras, then severely beating them. Former prison administrators Gerald Branker and Kenneth Lassister are accused in the lawsuit of failing in their duties for not developing policies on investigating inmate abuse complaints and to preserve video tapes that might contain evidence from being erased....
Jessie, this was fate. No doubt in my mind. I want daily transparency to the former Congressman's activity and treatment.
By MICHAEL SNEED AND LYNN SWEET
Staff Reporters
April 5, 2014 4:32PM
Updated: April 6, 2014 6:31PM
...The 49-year-old (click here) former Chicago congressman had been advising other inmates in North Carolina about their rights in prison, according to the source, who said a guard took exception to that....
There is no justice in North Carolina until a case gets to the Fourth Circuit in Virginia. That is how corrupt the system is in that state. The corruption is systemic. I have no doubt they are afraid of prison riots. Some would say it is long overdue. But, inmates would die. The guards just wait for the first opportunity to carry out sentences the juries wouldn't.
It is a compelling thing in North Carolina when the naive actually are made aware they are being victims to a social and systemic corruption. The inmates in North Carolina are often men and women with incomplete educations and lived lives of futile existence. They live with 'honor' as a value system. That carries a heavy weight in North Carolina's society. It also calls up crime in order to live up to that honor, too.
There is also drugs in North Carolina. There are drug economies there. There isn't anything else. North Carolina had a high number of arrests in the FBI sting years ago. In Wilmington, North Carolina anyone can walk into a bar and find 'the code' to access drugs in the back room refrig. No lie. Port City. Amazing.
Imagine being an inmate and facing a guard living by the 'honor value system.' It is hideous. The difference in many instances to being in prison and being on the outside is what side of 'the tracks' one lived on. So to speak.
I can only imagine how appalled the Congressman was when he realized the reality of these people.
The prison culture in North Carolina is generational in families.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge (click here) was scheduled to hear arguments Thursday about dismissing a lawsuit that accuses guards at North Carolina’s maximum security prison of sadistically beating inmates, resulting in broken bones and wheelchair confinement.
U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle planned to consider whether there is enough evidence already presented in court documents to go ahead with the lawsuit on behalf of eight inmates at Central Prison in Raleigh.
The inmates accuse 19 correctional officers of taking handcuffed and shackled inmates from solitary confinement cells where they were placed for disciplinary reasons to blind spots out of view of security cameras, then severely beating them. Former prison administrators Gerald Branker and Kenneth Lassister are accused in the lawsuit of failing in their duties for not developing policies on investigating inmate abuse complaints and to preserve video tapes that might contain evidence from being erased....
