tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62238739369141803882024-02-20T13:07:44.607-08:00Paul ReddAfter 44 years, Paul Redd was released, he finally came home on May 22nd, 2020.
Paul has written poetry, and while he was in the Pelican Bay SHU, he was one of the original hunger strike representatives and signees of the historical document “The Agreement to End Hostilities"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15925924165118026840noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-58549210325982714782022-06-23T14:36:00.002-07:002022-06-23T14:36:55.043-07:00Paul Redd Presente: Rest in Power<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0fIpe5BHFxOAmfKvdOZgc_2HueVTev4DQvBEnpVLvGP43S_VcLls2twRXR6Oynu9jWDECbn5KKYQmjRGAzcoM4bckOQFtP1f6oJQoAEW0n4mUgropHbPlyLpjyKzlBUQ4s7FmeFBmaqBH3hPCQ0wNReRIpDVsVoul-yIShRntZslxtfX9LLveWw/s593/Paul%20Redd%20RIP%202022-06-19.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Photo of Paul Redd, who passed away Juneteenth, 2022" border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="593" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0fIpe5BHFxOAmfKvdOZgc_2HueVTev4DQvBEnpVLvGP43S_VcLls2twRXR6Oynu9jWDECbn5KKYQmjRGAzcoM4bckOQFtP1f6oJQoAEW0n4mUgropHbPlyLpjyKzlBUQ4s7FmeFBmaqBH3hPCQ0wNReRIpDVsVoul-yIShRntZslxtfX9LLveWw/w320-h268/Paul%20Redd%20RIP%202022-06-19.JPG" title="Paul Redd, photo from Gofundme funeral cost fundraiser" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/paul-redd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">From Paul's Family and friends:</a><br /><p></p><div>Paul Redd left us on Juneteenth. A hero to so many, he was loved by
so many communities: from his childhood friends in Oakland, to his
family who has always been with him, to decades-long friendships from
the inside, to the many friends he made in his two years home after 44
years of wrongful incarceration, including 30 in solitary. He will be
remembered for his infinite love, his courage, strength, generosity,
hope, his poetry, and passion for justice. We love you Paul!
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<div>Funeral is July 9th, 11am at Church of All Faith located on 2100
5th Ave in Oakland. In the meantime the family welcomes your financial
contributions towards his being buried in the honorable way he deserves.
Thank you for any support you are able to offer.<br /><br />Here is a poem from Paul's book "Roaring Free in A World Without Walls":</div><div><br /><strong>A Voice From Within</strong><br /><br />Do you know<br />the voice when<br />i call to you?<br /><br />Do i know the <br />voice when you<br />call to me?<br /><br />It is a whisper<br />A silent call!<br /><br />It is my call<br />to go forward<br />never backward.<br /><br />It is my voice<br />for you to know<br />with the words<br />i speak for you<br />to grow.
</div>APhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038968777225549885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-31827795503088173122020-08-07T03:46:00.005-07:002020-08-07T10:07:20.356-07:00Last Call to Freedom: Statement of Support by Paul Redd <p> </p><p><i>Published first in <a href="http://newest.prisons.org/articles/273" target="_blank">CA Prison Focus, issue 60 (30 May 2020)</a> </i><br /></p><p>I am Paul Redd/Abbas, one of the original hunger strike
representatives and signees of the historical document “<a href="https://prisonerhumanrightsmovement.wordpress.com/blue-print/agreement-to-end-hostilities-issued-8122012/" target="_blank">The Agreement to End Hostilities</a>.”</p>
<p>I find it an honor to be amongst this class of solid members who
continue to refuse to compromise or/and debrief under any circumstances
nor allow our minds to play tricks on us. It has been a continuous
struggle fighting against the obstacles CDCR officials, IGI, ISU, SSU
alike with their SNY’s now referred as designated program yard in
attempt to derail positive progress.</p>
<p>Now we are up against an even more deadly beast called COVID-19 that
data showing it is largely attacking and killing the Afrikan American and
minority population that’s at a higher risk who suffering from
hypertension, diabetes, cancer, sleep apnea, etc. Many of us like myself
suffer from all these diseases listed as a high risk under COVID-19.</p>
<p>A lot of prisoners here including myself recently had our CPAP
machine confiscated due to the COVID-19 virus. It’s being a lot of hype
from some politicians lifers convicted of a violent offense should not
be released under COVID-19.</p>
<p>Governor Newsom must be reminded of the longstanding undisputed data
(record) elderly 60 & over serving a life sentence only has a 1%
recidivism rate of returning. The older you are make us less likely to
reoffend and less of a danger to public safety.</p><p>Here something
overlooked or/and being ignored by CDCR/Board. </p><p>All of us released from
the SHU by DRB under Step 4 and Step 5 were documented by DRB /
Classification as <i>inactive</i> under a 12-months observation. <i>Inactive</i> is
defined by CDCR officials as <i>not being involved in criminal gang
activities</i>. Even when they later changed it to <i>current activities</i>. It
still meant not involved in any current criminal gang activities. Their
own language and definition make us a low-risk to moderate. </p><p>Let’s take
it a step further at one time when some prisoners were completing the
earlier step down programs. CDCR officials were handing out
Rehabilitative Certificates stating folks completed their step down.
Those were certificates printed up by CDCR officials.</p>
<p>Next point: many of us under our sentences already got our max time
served, which means, legally the board has no authority to hold us past
our maximum term, which means: a period grossly disproportionate to his
or her individual culpability for the commitment offense.</p>
<p>Case in point: the California Supreme Court in <i>Danneberg</i> has
acknowledged:</p><p> "Section 3041(b) can not authorize such an inmate’s
retention even for reasons of public safety beyond the constitutional
maximum period of confinement."</p><p>Turn to <i>in Re Palmer II 33 CA, 5th 1199</i>
(April 5, 2019), the court said prisoners may bring claims directly to
the court through petitions for habeas corpus if they believe because of
the particular circumstances of their crimes, that their confinements
have become constitutionally excessive as a result. We can presently
cite <i>in Re William Palmer II 33 CA 5th 1199</i> as precedent in the
pleadings.</p>
<p>There’s no time under COVID-19 to go through normal habeas corpus
channels. Food for thought here under compassionate release provision
section PC 1170(e)(a) read in part, the court shall have discretion to
resentence or recall if the court finds that the facts described in
subparagraph (a) and (b) exist. </p><p>The prisoner is terminally ill with an
incurable condition caused by an illness or disease that would produce
death within month as determined by a physician employed by CDCR.</p>
<p>Now the court said in order to ensure that such cases may be resolved
fully and expeditiously we urge any party or counsel appealing under
section 1170(e) to advise the appellate court at the earliest possible
time of the nature of the issues on and date which a medical
professional determined the defendant had no more than six months to
live and to seek calendar preference. (Cal. Rule of Court Rule 8.240)</p>
<p>My point for bringing this up, under this COVID-19, we can use to
expedite hearings and releases for all of us meeting the high-risk of
this deadly COVID-19 deadly no curable virus. Our fight continues. Each
one, teach one.</p>
<p>Your brother in arms, Paul (Abbas)</p>APhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038968777225549885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-27214366078366597622020-05-30T07:40:00.002-07:002020-08-07T13:48:31.107-07:00Paul Redd is free!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We are so pleased to tell you that, finally, after 44 years, of which 30 years in solitary confinement, Paul Redd was released from prison!<br />
In his letter of May 17th, 2020, Paul wrote:<br />
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"On May 15th the Court recalled my sentence. Vacated my first degree murder conviction and ordered I be immediately released."<br />
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Read the article in the SF Chronicle of May 29th, 2020:<br />
<a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/amp/SF-public-defender-unit-helps-Oakland-man-go-free-15301831.php" target="_blank">https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/amp/SF-public-defender-unit-helps-Oakland-man-go-free-15301831.php</a><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />See also: <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-public-defender-unit-helps-Oakland-man-go-free-15301831.php#photo-19461442" target="_blank">SF Chronicle: The Power of Redemption</a> (29 May 2020) </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">And: <a href="https://www.upaya.org/2020/06/paul-redd-jr-and-the-trauma-of-systemic-racism-by-cherlyne-majors/" target="_blank">Paul Redd, Jr. and the Trauma of Systemic Racism by Cherlyne Majors</a> (June 30, 2020)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">And: <a href="https://www.davisvanguard.org/2020/07/44-years-later-redd-comes-home-an-inside-account/" target="_blank">44 Years Later, Redd Comes Home – An Inside Account</a> (The Davis Vanguard, July 8, 2020)<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Welcome home Paul! <br />
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APhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038968777225549885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-14685070638993431712016-05-02T04:53:00.003-07:002016-05-02T04:53:46.560-07:00Paul is in the Medical FacilitySince some months, Paul has been housed in the California Medical Facility (CMF).<br />
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His latest address is (without the cellnr which we do not know right now):<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Paul A. Redd Jr B-72683</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">California Medical Facility (CMF)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">P.O. Box 2000</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">Vacaville, CA 95696-2000</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span>APhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038968777225549885noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-2584167653145111212015-06-01T13:51:00.001-07:002015-06-01T13:51:16.108-07:00Please send Paul a card, he is in hospitalPaul is in hospital right now, please send him a card and let him know people are wishing him well:<br />
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Paul A. Redd Jr B-72683<br />SATF / CTC Hospital Rm 39<br />P.O. Box 5248<br />Corcoran, CA 93212<br />
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Thank you!APhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038968777225549885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-11516575583161160632014-05-06T04:03:00.001-07:002014-09-08T01:33:21.881-07:00Paul Redd was moved out of Pelican Bay SHU finally!Paul wrote to say he was being transferred out of Pelican Bay SHU finally! <br />
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Paul A. Redd Jr B-72683<br />CSATF<br />P.O. Box 5248<br />Corcoran, CA 93212APhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038968777225549885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-27857529886629246812014-02-19T15:07:00.000-08:002014-02-19T15:07:59.242-08:00Down in the hole<i>This article was written by Andrew Purcell for the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/down-in-the-hole-20140218-32y9v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sydney Morning Herald</a>, and contains information from Paul:</i><br />
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Feb. 19th, 2014<br />
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Victorian courts have been told of young offenders being held in 22-hour lockdown. What's it really like in isolation? Andrew Purcell looks at the situation in California where prisoners are kept in solitary for years at a time.<br />
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''Listen to me. Put away your preconceptions.'' Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, is explaining that reporters often make the same basic mistake. ''We don't have solitary confinement in California state prisons.''<br /><br />She then describes a penal system in which almost 4000 men are locked up indefinitely in cells the size of a city bathroom. ''There's no sensory deprivation. They go to the yard every day.''<br /><br />This is for 1½ hours, alone, in a lot with no view. ''There are skylights in all of the Security Housing Unit pods,'' she says. But there are no windows in the cells, so inmates cannot see outside.<br />A guard keeps an eye on the solitary confinement cells in Pelican Bay prison.<br /><br />''They have television sets, cassette players and reading materials,'' Thornton says. But phone calls are not permitted.<br /><br />''They talk among themselves.'' But they must shout to be heard by the men in neighbouring cells.<br /><br />''This notion that they have no contact with people has no basis in fact,'' Thornton concludes.<br />Tyrell Muhammad, a former solitary confinement detainee at Pelican Bay prison.<br /><br />Tyrell Muhammad, a former solitary confinement detainee at Pelican Bay prison.<br /><br />The perforated steel doors of their cells are remote controlled. Twice a day, a guard pushes a meal through the slot.<br /><br />''Part of the problem is: what is solitary confinement?'' she says. ''You ask 10 different people, you'll get 10 different answers.''<br /><br />There is no internationally recognised definition of solitary confinement. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, has suggested that the term should apply wherever prisoners spend 22 hours or more in their cell each day.<br /><br />''The only standard that is clear is that pain and suffering that crosses a line into a certain severity is prohibited because it's cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,'' Mendez says. ''If it crosses another line and becomes intentional, it's torture.''<br /><br />In his 2011 report, he proposed that spells in solitary should be restricted to 15 days. Hundreds of the prisoners in California's SHUs have been there for more than five years.<br /><br />The US is home to about 5 per cent of the world's population and 25 per cent of the world's prisoners. Per head, it locks up five times as many men and women as Australia and 10 times as many as Norway. Young African-American men who fail to complete high school are more likely to go to jail than they are to get a job.<br /><br />The first supermax - a prison designed to hold inmates in isolation - was built in 1989 at Pelican Bay in northern California. By the end of the 1990s, there were 60 such prisons across the country. ''Under President Clinton there were federal incentives to reduce parole, pass longer sentences,'' says Jean Casella, of Solitary Watch. ''A lot of states used that money to build supermaxes.''<br /><br />Nobody knows how many people are being held in US segregation units. The most recent federal estimate is about 80,000 inmates, not including county jails, immigration detention centres, mental wards or juvenile detention.<br /><br />''One of the biggest misconceptions about solitary is that its use is limited to incorrigible murderers and serial rapists,'' Casella says. ''The vast majority have never committed a violent act in prison.''<br /><br />In July 2013, about 30,000 inmates refused food in protest against the use of indefinite segregation in California prisons. The hunger strike soon dwindled to several hundred, then a few, mostly prisoners with life terms being held in the SHU at Pelican Bay, some of whom lasted two months without eating.<br /><br />Officially, they are some of the most dangerous prison gang leaders in the state. ''From my perspective, they are terrorists,'' says Terri McDonald, a senior CDCR official.<br /><br />Three months ago, I started writing to these prisoners. In the letters that arrived by return of post with the censor's stamp on every page, the men described a system in which wardens act with impunity, punishing inmates they don't like by keeping them in solitary. They all described the conditions they live in as torture.<br /><br />Paul Redd, a jailhouse lawyer, employed language from the US Bill of Rights. ''When you cage another human being under these barbaric structural conditions designed to inflict physical and psychological, cruel and unusual pain, it's torture,'' he argued. He has spent 34 of his 37 years in prison in solitary confinement.<br /><br />''When prisoners are going crazy and/or killing themselves in isolation because of the harshness of their conditions, what further proof is needed?'' asks John Martinez, a 12-year veteran of the SHU. ''To me, that is overwhelming evidence that isolation is harmful, that the US knows it is harmful but nevertheless continues to use it.''<br /><br />In 2003, a psychology professor from the University of California, Craig Haney, studied 100 inmates at the Pelican Bay SHU. Forty-one reported hallucinations, 27 had had suicidal thoughts and ''chronic apathy, lethargy, depression and despair'' were commonplace.<br /><br />CDCR data shows that between 2007 and 2010, inmates held in isolation were eight times more likely to commit suicide than prisoners in the general population.<br /><br />Casella cautions that corresponding with inmates in the SHUs can create a false impression: ''Those people come from a pool of maybe a third of the people in solitary. Another third are so mentally ill that they can't communicate and another third are illiterate.''<br /><br />''If someone's a pain in the ass, odds are good that they're going to end up in solitary,'' says David Fathi, of the American Civil Liberties Union's prison project. ''Some of these people are activists, they stand up to staff. More common are people who are mentally ill and act out in ways that annoy the guards.''<br /><br />Access to SHUs is tightly controlled. The Red Cross may visit, but may not report what it finds. Lawyers suing the prison system have right of entry. On the rare occasions journalists are allowed in, they get the approved tour.<br /><br />When Shane Bauer (who spent two years as a hostage in Iran) reported from Pelican Bay for Mother Jones magazine, he was allowed to speak with one inmate at a pod for men in transition to the general population.<br /><br />The Correctional Association of New York is one of the few organisations with a mandate to inspect prison conditions. Tyrell Muhammad, a project assistant, regularly visits the SHUs at Clinton, Attica and Sing Sing prisons. He spent 26 years in prison himself, serving time for a hold-up at an after-hours club that went wrong. His friend killed the manager and Muhammad got 20 years to life for second degree murder. He was 19.<br /><br />His first stint in ''the box'' was for ''disobeying a direct order'' by arriving late for lock-up. That got him four months. Each time he complained: about the deranged prisoner next door that kicked the wall all night, about rough treatment or missing meals, the guards wrote him another ticket.<br /><br />''You're always at the whim of the officer,'' he says. Four months became two years, in a cell four metres by two. At night, he would often wake to find his arm draped in the toilet at the side of his bed. One of his neighbours hanged himself with his shoelaces and a sheet.<br /><br />In total, Muhammad spent seven years in solitary. When he got out of prison when he was 45, he wasn't confident enough to walk to the corner of his street without someone with him. He wore sunglasses all the time, so people wouldn't be put off by his habit of staring too hard for too long.<br /><br />In California, there are two ways to end up in the hole: prisoners who break the rules or commit acts of violence get a finite sentence of up to five years. This accounts for about 7000 of the 11,000 men and women on lockdown. The rest are held in isolation because they have been validated as an associate of a prison gang, such as the Aryan Brotherhood, the Black Guerrilla Family or the Mexican Mafia. Their ''sentence within a sentence'' can last indefinitely.<br /><br />In 1980, Redd was validated as a member of the BGF, after his name was found in a coded roster of gang members in another man's cell. ''I have never been charged with any criminal, gang-related activity, yet I remain in the SHU for decades, called the worst of the worst … a violent, dangerous prisoner,'' he wrote in a letter to me.<br /><br />In October 2012, the CDCR switched to a ''behaviour-based'' policy that requires evidence of gang activity to hold inmates in the SHU. It also started a case-by-case review of prisoners serving indefinite terms. Of the 632 reviewed so far, 408 men have been released to the general prison population.<br /><br />''It is a gruesome admission that so many are going back to mainlines,'' says Charles Carbone, a prisoner-rights attorney. ''That shows that two-thirds of the men did not deserve to be there and posed no security risk to other inmates or to staff.''<br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/down-in-the-hole-20140218-32y9v.html#ixzz2toPLLVY0">http://www.smh.com.au/world/down-in-the-hole-20140218-32y9v.html#ixzz2toPLLVY0</a><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15925924165118026840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-87938182721991708302013-07-20T08:52:00.002-07:002013-07-20T08:52:37.500-07:00Retaliation against Prisoner Representatives of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike - take action plz! New photo of Paul<i>Prisoner Hunger Strike Representatives in Pelican Bay State Prison, of which Paul is one, were retaliated against harshly. Read below what you can do to support Paul and his brothers. We need massive support for them all. Here is also the latest picture of Paul, taken on June 14th 2013.</i><br />
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Thank you for your support of the hunger strikers. As you may have
heard, the hunger strike began on July 8 with California 30,000
imprisoned people refusing to eat. Hundreds of media outlets have been
covering this historic event.<br />
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The California Department of Corrections and ‘Rehabilitation’ (CDCr)
has begun to retaliate against the vocal spokespeople for the hunger
strikers, who are located in Pelican Bay and Corcoran State Prisons. Our
Pledge of Resistance Alert today will focus on the extreme brutality of
prison authorities against the Representatives of the hunger strikers,
who are in Pelican Bay State Prison.<br />
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The CDCr is also trying to undermine legal and community support of
the hunger strikers. They have just issued ‘banning’ orders to Marilyn
McMahon, an attorney for many of the Reps in Pelican Bay, denying her
access to her clients.<br />
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Most likely, prison officials will not be thrilled to get your phone
calls and emails, so please be determined and polite in trying to send
your phone and email messages. Whether you get a voice or a voice mail,
they will know you are watching them, and want them to Stop the Torture.<br />
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RETALIATION AGAINST PELICAN BAY PRISONER REPRESENTATIVES:</h3>
On July 11, PBSP prison authorities removed 14 prisoner
Representatives from their solitary confinement (SHU) cells and placed
them in Administrative Segregation (Ad Seg) cells which are even worse
than the SHU. The hunger strikers, many of whom are elder men and have
severe chronic illnesses, are dressed in summer clothing, but the CDC
has turned on air conditioning full blast, leaving some of the men sick
and freezing.<br />
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Meanwhile, the prison officials have raided their SHU cells and confiscated their legal
materials, including attorney-client protected documents pertaining to
their highly publicized federal class action lawsuit against the state
of California (Ruiz v. Brown).<br />
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RESPONSE OF THE HUNGER STRIKE REPRESENTATIVES:</h3>
“On July 11, 2013, we were placed in Administrative Segregation
(Ad-Seg), where we are subjected to more tortuous conditions than in the
SHU. Despite this diabolical act on the part of CDCR intended to break
our resolve and hasten our deaths, we remain strong and united! We are
100% committed to our cause and will end our peaceful action when the
CDCR signs a legally binding agreement meeting our demands.”<br />
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NON-ACTION OF GOVERNOR BROWN</h3>
Governor Brown has been completely silent on the hunger strike while it has gained<br />international news attention. He is now taking a vacation in Europe, visiting, among<br />other
places, Dachau concentration camp in Germany, and promoting
California’s environmental advancements to selected European audiences.<br />
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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP STOP THE TORTURE:</h3>
Tell the PBSP prison authorities to return the 14 prisoner
Representatives to their cells. See below for their names.<br /><br />
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<li>Return all their property, especially the legal documents guards have confiscated.</li>
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<li>Lift the ban on their attorney, Marilyn McMahon, so that she can again access her clients.</li>
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<li>Medically monitor the men to ensure that the prison has not destroyed their health!</li>
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1. Contact Pelican Bay Warden Gregory Lewis:<br />phone: 707-465-1000 x5001<br />email: Gregory.Lewis@cdcr.ca.gov<br />
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2. Copy to Dr. Jeffrey Beard, Secretary of CDCR<br />phone: 916-323-6001 (alternatively 916-445-5073)<br />fax: 916-442-2637<br />letter: Dr. Jeffrey Beard, Secretary CDCR, 1515 S Street, 5th Floor; Sacramento, California 94283<br />
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3. Copy to Assistant Warden at Pelican Bay, Rawland Swift<br />phone: 465-1000 x6254<br />email: RSwift@cdcr.ca.gov<br />
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4. Back up: Public Information Officer at PBSP Christopher Acosta<br />office phone: 707-465-9040<br />cell phone: 707-951-0350<br />
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THE 14 PRISONER REPRESENTATIVES:</h3>
1. Todd Ashker C58191 2. Arturo Castellanos C17275<br />3. Sitawa/ R.N Dewberry C35671 4. Antonio Guillen P81948<br />5. Danny Troxell B76578 6. George Franco D46556<br />7. Ronnie Yandell V27927 8. Paul Redd, Jr. B72683<br />9. James Baridi Williamson D34288 10. Alfred Sandoval D61000<br />11. Louis Powell B59864 12. Alex Yrigollen H32421<br />13. Gabriel Huerta C80766 14. Frank Clement D07919<br />
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Please write to the Reps.<br />
Include one sheet of paper, one envelope and one loose stamp so they can write someone outside the walls. You can address your letter with the person’s name & prison number; Pelican Bay State Prison/SHU; <br />PO Box 7500. Crescent City, 95532.<br />
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Mr. Arturo Castellanos may not be able to receive your letter. He’s on ‘restricted mail,’ by the prison authorities.<br />
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Thank you so much for your solidarity,<br />
<br />Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition: Pledge of Resistance work group<br />(for more info, <a href="http://www.prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/">www.prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com</a>)APhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038968777225549885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-55384303787802413702013-07-13T15:45:00.000-07:002013-07-13T15:45:16.542-07:00Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Paul Redd From: <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/17527-pelican-bay-profiles-paul-redd" target="_blank">Truth-Out</a>, July 13th 2013<br />
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<span class="itemAuthor">By <a href="http://truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/48622">Paul Redd</a>, <a href="http://truth-out.org/">Truthout</a> | Op-Ed </span><br />
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<span class="itemAuthor"><em>Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit
(SHU) are isolated for at least twenty-two and a half hours a day in
cramped, concrete, windowless cells. They are denied telephone calls,
contact visits, any kind of programming, adequate food and, often,
medical care. Nearly 750 of these men have been held under these
conditions for more than a decade, dozens for over 20 years. This
treatment has inflicted profound psychological suffering and caused or
exacerbated debilitating physical ailments. </em></span><br />
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<em>Ostensibly, these men are in the SHU because they associate with
gang members and isolating them is necessary to prevent gang activity
and racially motivated violence. But in the summer and fall of 2011,
these men, joined by other SHU prisoners throughout California, showed
this claim to be the lie that it is. Organizing across racial lines,
more than 6,000 SHU prisoners went on hunger strike for several weeks to
protest their conditions. That's right - men who have been isolated for
over a decade and deprived of basic human rights because they are
allegedly connected to racially divided gangs worked together to demand
basic rights and constitutional protections for themselves and one
another. Now they have <a href="http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">resumed their hunger strike</a>, demanding that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation meet their demands. </em><br />
<em>Here is the sixth in our series of their stories and those of their families.</em><br />
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<strong>Paul Redd, plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights <a href="http://www.ccrjustice.org/pelican-bay" target="_blank">lawsuit</a> challenging long-term solitary confinement</strong><br />
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In 1980, [I] was part of a major lawsuit to improve prison
conditions. I rallied to get other prisoners involved so Folsom Prison
could be added to the lawsuit. I helped to bring blacks and Mexicans
together to talk, ending years of racial violence. I attempted to help
black correctional officers form a black union. I provided legal
assistance to all races, challenging everything from their convictions
and sentences to losses of good time, lack of medical care and other
matters. For that, I am called the worst of the worst.<br />
<span class="wf_caption" style="display: inline-block; float: right; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 5px;"><img alt="Hunger Strikers." height="340" src="http://truth-out.org/images/2013_June_Images/2013_0712-3.jpg" style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 5px;" width="306" /><span style="clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; text-align: left; width: 301px;">Drawing by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson. Johnson is currently incarcerated in Texas.</span></span>When
we arrived here, late, on the prison bus, pulling through the many
prison gates, a guard stepped aboard to give us his speech: "This is
your new home, Pelican Bay State Prison. Look to your right, left and
behind you. See them trees in the hills? This will be the last time
you'll see a tree. Look at the ground. See the dirt? This will be the
last time you see dirt of this earth."<br />
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<br />Read the rest here:<br />
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<a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/17527-pelican-bay-profiles-paul-redd">http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/17527-pelican-bay-profiles-paul-redd</a><br />
<br />APhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038968777225549885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-37111165379129088762013-06-30T04:35:00.001-07:002013-06-30T04:35:46.742-07:00CDCR to prisoners: Submit to force-feeding to get demands met<a href="http://sfbayview.com/2013/cdcr-to-prisoners-submit-to-force-feeding-to-get-demands-met/" target="_blank">From: SF Bay View, June 29th, 2013 </a><i><b></b></i><br />
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</b></i> <i><b>by Paul Redd/Mume, Ruben Williams/Jitu Joka Kambon, Richard Wembe Johnson, Charles Coleman/Ghais</b></i><br />
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As a representative of the Pelican Bay SHU hunger strikes in 2011 and a signatory on the “Agreement to End Hostilities,” I have not written any articles for publication except a few pieces related to the hunger strikes posted on the internet. The reason being I felt our Brotha and the other three main representatives were articulating our peaceful nonviolent united fight to expose and end our torture, inhumane conditions and decades of indefinite long-term solitary confinement. I did not want to occupy more space saying the same things.<br />
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The main four representatives have also expressed our collective love and respect to all the unbroken prisoners who have volunteered to join this long-awaited united front with the peaceful nonviolent hunger strikes, including our humble respect for those prisoners who weren’t able to partake because of serious life-threatening health issues and still refused to accept some food trays in showing their solidarity to end this abuse.<br />
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They have also extended a heartfelt “thank you” beyond the walls to all our supporters in California and around the United States.<br />
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Although my personal condolence along with our brothas and other hunger strike comrades within my unit to the families has never been printed on the fallen hunger strike comrades’ deaths, our expression of condolence has never been in silence. But we speak with a united voice. Those deaths could have been prevented. But this is a reminder of these diabolical beasts we are dealing with who do not see us as human beings, but as caged-up animals.<br />
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These deaths of our fallen comrades has made us more enraged, more determined to let the outside communities and people all over the world to really see the faces behind the racism, racist policies and blatant abuse of power hidden behind CDCR titles.<br />
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Enough is enough. We are tired of CDCR officials, CCPOA, IGI, ISU and SSU continuing all this manipulation, deception with word games, lying to politicians to secure funding, lying to the media and the public in order to cover up the truth. The outcome of the two hunger strikes only exposed a little of their lies but enough to shock the world.<br />
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It’s an insult that it took two hunger strikes for CDCR officials to give us these small token trinkets that we should’ve had years ago. These things were only given because CDCR could not answer the questions from the outside communities about what provoked this massive hunger strike in California and around the United States.<br />
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The people on the outside were shocked and in disbelief when reading our core demands to find human beings were living in Pelican Bay supermax under the deplorable conditions exposed.<br />
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Suddenly, with the spotlight on CDCR officials, they claim our demands were reasonable, yet they are not meeting all our demands. During these ordeals CDCR officials have lied to the media, publicly stating hunger strikes are not the correct approach for presenting our grievances.<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;">Enough is enough. We are tired of CDCR officials, CCPOA, IGI, ISU and SSU continuing all this manipulation, deception with word games, lying to politicians to secure funding, lying to the media and the public in order to cover up the truth. The outcome of the two hunger strikes only exposed a little of their lies but enough to shock the world.</span></h3>
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What they did not tell the media and public, nor politicians, is that we prisoners filed many inmate 602 appeal grievances for years seeking these things and an end to the torture and inhumane conditions, only to have Pelican Bay officials and CDCR officials deny our grievances as meritless.<br />
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CDCR officials, in response to the attention and embarrassment they experienced because of the hunger strikes, quickly rushed to politicians for funding to implement another repressive structure called STG (security threat group, i.e., gang) and a step down pilot program to give the illusion they are trying to make changes and improve conditions.<br />
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Recently on April 18, 2013, in our class action lawsuit, federal District Judge Claudia Wilken, in a written order denying CDCR officials’ motion to dismiss our lawsuit, stated<br />
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1) CDCR cannot establish that the STG/SDP pilot program will irrevocably eradicate the effects of plaintiffs’ alleged violations; and<br />
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2) CDCR’s request to stay plaintiffs’ class action until the STG program has been fully implemented would prejudice plaintiffs by delaying the case unduly.<br />
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We’ve been called the “worst of the worst” throughout our confinement here and hunger strikes, but Judge Wilken noted that the CDCR SDP pilot program already found a lot of people were in the SHU who should not have been. That’s why CDCR officials et al. started with validated associates (rather than gang “members”) first, in hopes their motion to dismiss would be granted or their request for a stay to clean up their dirt.<br />
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Had they started reviewing and processing the validated members first, the public and the media would have seen hundreds of validated members who have spent decades in the SHU immediately released, justifying the peaceful nonviolent hunger strikes that brought us some major relief and total shame and disgrace to CDCR officials.<br />
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Judge Wilken further said we prisoners gave CDCR officials explicit notice of our injuries by way of administrative grievances, written complaints and, of course, the hunger strikes.<br />
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<span style="color: maroon;">We’ve been called the “worst of the worst” throughout our confinement here and hunger strikes, but Judge Wilken noted that the CDCR SDP pilot program already found a lot of people were in the SHU who should not have been.</span></h3>
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I am not going to waste my time exposing each of the lies told, but here’s a few that were most insulting during the two hunger strikes: 1) hunger strike representatives/leaders and gang leaders were forcing prisoners not to eat; 2) hunger strike representatives/leaders and gang leaders were ordering racial assaults on prisoners refusing not to eat; 3) hunger striking prisoners were stashing food and eating during the hunger strike; 4) some hunger strike prisoners were refusing to be weighed because they were eating; 5) another funny lie, hunger strike representatives/leaders and gang leaders were forcing prisoners not to participate in the SDP pilot program and/or sign the SDP contract.<br />
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These prisoners are grown men who are free to make their own choices whether to eat or not to eat, whether to participate in the SDP or sign the contract. Not one of those prisoners could ever be viewed in a negative light. It’s an insult upon us when CDCR officials make these false accusations to attempt to save face in the court of public opinion.<br />
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We feel it’s time to turn up the heat, so we are taking a scripture from the W.O.N. to rally that level of support.<br />
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Another truth that is secretly whispered to many of us prisoners: some CDCR officials, guards and other employees expressing to us prisoners they think we should be released from the SHU and/or our demands are reasonable and agree with them, yet they aren’t bold enough to openly state these words, and as prisoners we understand and know why.<br />
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However, the scripture says we are not going to be silent. The united front in these two peaceful, nonviolent protests has proven to be warranted and justified.<br />
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I have talked with some prisoners who have expressed they do not want to do another hunger strike, including myself. But it’s obvious CDCR officials wish to force a hunger strike.<br />
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What I have also heard, as well as other prisoners, is certain correctional supervisors and employees speaking confidentially, stating if we prisoners really want CDCR headquarters to meet our demands, force-feeding tubes would do it.<br />
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I guess correctional employees are really pissed off and upset with their own job cuts, pay cuts and whatever else, thinking force-feeding tubes would benefit them. I guess many of them do believe our demands are reasonable and we should be released from the SHU.<br />
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“Nothing can be solved if it can’t be faced.” – James Baldwin<br />
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<i>Send our brothers some love and light: </i><br />
<i>Paul Redd, B-72683, PBSP, D2-117, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532; </i><br />
<i>Ruben Williams, B-72882, PBSP, D2-121, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532; </i><br />
<i>Richard Johnson, K-53293, PBSP, D2-218, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532; </i><br />
<i>Charles Coleman, C-60680, PBSP, D2-120, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532. </i><br />
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<i><i>This statement was transcribed by Adrian McKinney.</i></i><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sfbayview.com/2013/cdcr-to-prisoners-submit-to-force-feeding-to-get-demands-met/force-feeding-british-suffragette-poster/" rel="attachment wp-att-40083" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Force feeding British suffragette poster" height="320" src="http://i0.wp.com/sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Force-feeding-British-suffragette-poster.jpg?resize=300%2C412" width="232" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The force feeding of imprisoned militant British suffragettes on hunger strike in 1909 outraged the public. Nine years later, the right to vote was granted to women over 30 and in 1928 to all women. But the victory was hard won. Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst wrote: “Holloway (Prison) became a place of horror and torment. Sickening scenes of violence took place almost every hour of the day, as the doctors went from cell to cell performing their hideous office. I shall never while I live forget the suffering I experienced during the days when those cries were ringing in my ears.”</td></tr>
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APhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09038968777225549885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-27805402090183767102013-06-23T12:36:00.000-07:002013-06-23T12:36:43.004-07:00Paul Redd: Prisoners, unite! Community, stand with us!<!--[if !mso]>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"><a href="http://sfbayview.com/2013/paul-redd-prisoners-unite-community-stand-with-us/" title="Paul Redd: Prisoners, unite! Community, stand with us!"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">From: <a href="http://sfbayview.com/2013/paul-redd-prisoners-unite-community-stand-with-us/" target="_blank">SF Bay View, </a></span><a href="http://sfbayview.com/2013/paul-redd-prisoners-unite-community-stand-with-us/" target="_blank"><br /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">June 19, 2013 </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Interview by Sharon Martinas</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Legendary jailhouse lawyer Paul Redd speaks out
at this critical time from the Pelican Bay SHU.</span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> What is your name?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> My name is Paul Redd.
However, many friends and comrades call me P.R., Mume or Abbas.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Photo: Paul “Mume” Redd is a legendary jailhouse lawyer respected both inside and
outside the walls. That proud brotherhood, whose work is essential in
protecting the freedoms all of us cherish, is described and supported in this
book by Mumia Abu Jamal, “Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v.
the USA.”</span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> May I call you Mume?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> Of course you may.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> Mume, you’re one of the 16
representatives of the 2011 Pelican Bay State Prison SHU hunger strikes in July
and September?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> Yes, I am.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> You also signed the Aug. 12,
2012, <a href="http://sfbayview.com/2012/california-prisoners-make-historic-call-to-end-hostilities-between-racial-groups-in-california-prisons-and-jails/" target="_blank">“Agreement to End Hostilities Between Racial Groups?”</a></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> Yes, I did.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> Let me travel back in time
with some questions.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> By all means.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> Where did you grow up?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> I was born and raised in
Oakland, California.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> Why are you in prison? And
how long have you been in prison, including the SHU?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> I was convicted in 1976 of
first degree murder for the death of a local drug dealer in San Francisco. I am
serving a seven years to life sentence with possibility of parole. I’ve been in
prison now over 36 years. And 33 of these years have been spent in various
SHUs. I have spent 25 years, minus a couple of months, in Pelican Bay supermax
SHU.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> Mume, you said you were
sentenced to “seven years to life with the possibility of parole.” What does
that mean?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> It means that I was eligible
to be paroled (released) from prison any time after Dec. 21, 1982, which was
seven years. Yet, the Parole Board continues to find me “unsuitable for a
parole date” because of my commitment offense and my SHU status. Historically,
the Parole Board has never found a prisoner in the SHU serving a life sentence
with possibility of parole suitable for a parole release date, in spite of the
fact that many of us have met the criteria to be paroled.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> How about others in the SHU
who are not serving a life sentence with a parole release date?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> Here is a clear illustration
of an arbitrary unwritten policy. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">For example: Prisoner A is a non-lifer in the
SHU serving an indeterminate SHU term for “validation as a gang member” only.
When his parole date arrives, he is paroled from the SHU back into the
community.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Prisoner B is a lifer, eligible for a parole date in the SHU serving an
indeterminate SHU term for “validation as a gang member” only. He is not given
a parole release date. The only difference between the two prisoners: One has a
parole release date; the other one does not.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> How have you grown as such an
intelligent, highly skilled human being that prison officials, the IGI
(Institutional Gang Investigators) decided that your voice needs to be silenced
behind the pit of hell concrete walls of PBSP supermax for so many decades? Why
have you been separated from your community and from other incarcerated people
with similar aspirations and visionary plans?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> You asked a two-part
question. My growth is owed to many direct and indirect experiences in my life,
prior to prison and while in prison. When I came into the prison system in 1976
to DVI (Deuel Vocational Institution) in Tracy, California, I felt the need to
be a part of something to bring about positive changes to benefit the Black
prisoner population. I started by using what little outside influence I had
with friends to bring live entertainment shows inside the prison.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">At the same time, I met other positive brothers educating others about our
history and culture, including teaching reading and writing. They shared books
with me that really opened my eyes, exposing the blatant institutional racism
from the administration, top to bottom.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">I also called upon other prisoners to join me in donating a few dollars
each to raise funds to purchase a large amount of canteen to send into the
SHU/MCU to be shared among all Black prisoners housed there. It was important
to those brothers living under those inhumane conditions to know that there
were brothers out there in general population that were going to look out for
them.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">I saw other prisoners contesting these conditions and it was a natural
thing for me to join that fight. That was the way I was raised, although my
life took a different path. Prison brought me back to those natural things I
saw as a kid growing up in West Oakland in the ‘60s.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">I began filing prison grievances, reading law books – and finding myself
wrongfully being placed in the SHU, based entirely on manufactured accusations
by certain prison officials, just to remove me from the general population to
stop the positive things I was doing.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">While in the SHU, I joined major class action lawsuits, continued to file
grievances, and assisted other prisoners with filing documents. Some prisoners
would call me a “legal beagle,” a “jailhouse lawyer,” “the people’s lawyer.” I
was far from developing my legal skills back then.</span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: maroon; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">They fear us prisoners who have the ability to use our
positive conscious minds to unite prisoners in a peaceful, non-violent movement
to eradicate repressive conditions and arbitrary, discriminatory policies and
regulations.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Anyway, many prison officials over the years and even today, have called me
a “troublemaker,” a “thorn in their side,” “an agitator.” I welcome with a
smile what CDCR officials call me. But two things they can never call me are
(1) a liar, or (2) someone who embellishes the facts.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">When prisoners speak out and stand up to challenge acts of injustice that
prove to be an embarrassment to CDCR officials, the officials retaliate by
placing you in a SHU on bogus accusations or charges in an attempt to discredit
us. This is the case today behind the pit of hell concrete walls. But thanks to
the united hunger strikes, our voices are being heard, and our undisputed
truths revealed, causing greater embarrassment to the CDCR.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">CDCR officials, from Sacramento down to the prison grounds, have always
known that prisoners hold the solutions to solving prison conditions entirely.
They fear us prisoners who have the ability to use our positive conscious minds
to unite prisoners in a peaceful, non-violent movement to eradicate repressive
conditions and arbitrary, discriminatory policies and regulations.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Q:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> What are your hopes now, in
this time and in the near future?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">M:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> My hopes are many, but my
immediate hopes are as follows:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">(1) Establish a campaign calling on all Afrikan prisoners in the California
prisons’ general populations, SHUs and ASUs to unite together as one voice to
help reduce and end the senseless Black on Black killings and violence in our
neighborhoods, using our unity to help rebuild our families, foundations and
neighborhoods.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">We as a proud Afrikan race with a history can solve our own problems
without any involvement from law enforcement.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">I want to start with bringing all the Afrikan prisoners from the Bay Area
to join this unity movement through a creative Bay Area workshop. The success
of this workshop will be to set up all over the major urban cities from up North
to Southern California, committed to rebuilding our families and neighborhoods.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">(2) Unite all the California prisoners in the general population as
addressed through our call <a href="https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/agreement-to-end-hostilities.pdf" target="_blank">‘Agreement to End All Hostilities Between Races,’</a>
reaching mutual common ground in order to focus on the bigger picture to better
our conditions for pushing for greater changes: from CDCR regulations to Parole
Board composition and decisions. And, more importantly, rebuild our communities
through our united efforts.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">(3) Unite serious committed jailhouse lawyers behind the walls as a power
“think tank” in addressing issues affecting the class of prisoners and working
with outside legal aid clinics, law firms and attorneys. This is a vision I
have had for a long time. My attempt to create such a think tank was disrupted
by prison officials who implemented new policies to prevent me and other
jailhouse lawyers in Pelican Bay SHU from communicating with other JHLs within
the SHU and outside of the SHU.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: maroon; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">We as a proud Afrikan race with a history can solve
our own problems without any involvement from law enforcement.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">I was recently reading the book you sent me called “Jailhouse Lawyers” by
Brother Mumia Abu-Jamal, and he said something very similar, reminding me just
how important it is for us to build this JHL movement and connect ourselves to
the outside. Let me close by paraphrasing Bro Mumia’s words: Jailhouse lawyers
must look beyond the state’s imprisoning bars, bricks and cement to build
relationships with others in the so-called “free” world to further and support
social movements that spread liberating and progressive space within society.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Paul Redd Jr., 2011</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">These words are relevant today and equally applicable to our call for
broader unity. We behind the concrete walls start this new progressive
movement. But we need the outside support of our communities to stand with us.
Thank you all! I can be contacted at the address below:</span></div>
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Building Social Change, In Solidarity,</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Mume</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Send our brother some lover and light: Paul Redd
Jr., B -72683, Pelican Bay State Prison D2-117, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City,
CA 95532.</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;">Note from Sharon Martinas: Mume and I have been
pen pals since the summer of 2012. Mume is one of the representatives housed in
Pelican Bay State Prison’s SHU, in the Short Corridor. I am a member of the
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition (PHSS) and a coordinator of PHSS’s
Human Rights Pen Pal program. We agreed that Mume would also write the
interview questions, since he knows what he wants to share about his life, his
beliefs and his visions for a better world.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: NL;"></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15925924165118026840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223873936914180388.post-26535993456930787422013-06-23T08:39:00.000-07:002013-06-23T13:51:00.365-07:00Paul's Testimony for the Legislative Hearing on Solitary Confinement, California Feb. 2013<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN-GB">February 8, 2013</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">To: Assembly Member Tom Ammiano</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Legislative Hearing February 25, 2013</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">From:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Prisoner Paul Redd B-72683</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PBSP
– SHU</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Dear
Committee Members,</span>
<br />
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Thank you for this brief opportunity to
speak via Letter. I understand we only have a couple of minutes in having our
letters read which is impossible on PBSP SHU Inhumane Torture Conditions. So
I’ll just go to the Main Issues.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB">My name is Paul Redd, I am
a New Afrikan Prisoner serving a Seven years to Life Sentence W. Possibility
of Parole on a 1976 Senseless Murder Conviction of a Drug Local Dealer.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB">I’ve been held here at PBSP
– SHU since <b><u>September 5 1990</u> <u>To Present</u></b> except for a brief
60 Days period when I won my SHU Release on December 29, 2000. Only to be
Fraudulently placed back into a SHU on March 12, 2001 without Due Process.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB">I have been held in
California Prisons for the last <b><u>36 Years.</u></b> I have spent 33 of
those years in a SHU.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB">Again, it’s impossible for
me to give a Brief Description of what my Experiences of Solitary Confinement
have been like here in Two Minutes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let me tell like this: The Architectural SHU Design at PBSP <b>was <i>intentionally designed</i> to inflict physical and psychological torture on our bodies and minds. I have seen some Prisoners<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>lose Their Minds in a Short Period of time, while others it took more
years. </b></span>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I have had some prisoners from all races, whom debriefed, tell me
they made up information on some prisoners or / and went along with what Gang
Investigators wanted them to say on Specific Individuals. They told me they
couldn’t take living in this SHU anymore. I have seen some Prisoners harm
themselves to Get Out of this SHU or get on Psyche Medications just to get
moved out of this SHU. I have seen prisoners Health Deteriorate, - Died etc.</span>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">What effect this Long Term Solitary Confinement has done on me:</span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Escalating Health Problems such as:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Taking Several Pills to Treat High Blood
Pressure, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Enlarged Thyroid Gland and Partial Removal of the Right Thyroid
Gland. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Two (2) Right Knee Surgery. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Short Term Memory Loss more frequently. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Distorted Hearing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Lack of
Sleep Due to the Loud Noises of Cell Doors /Pod Doors Opening / Closing. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Loud
Noise From Toilet Flushing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Bad Vision, Double Right Eye Vision. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Last<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Year I was Diagnosed with Right Eye Double
Vision and Given Special Lenses called Prism, which I blame these perforated
Cell Doors (small holes) For Messing Up Our Visions.</span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB">This <b>Security Threat Group
(STG)</b> and <b>Step Down Program (SDP)</b> do not serve <i>any</i> legitimate purpose.
It’s Racist inside and outside and Ridiculous on its Face. It Completely
Suppresses what little First Amendment Rights we supposed to have.
It does not afford any meaningful due process safeguards before <i>any</i> impartial Fair Review / Hearing Panel. </span>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It Allows for more Arbitrary and Discriminatory<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Decisions cloaked under the Erroneous Pretext
Confidential Informant Information Or / And Current Gang Activity. <b>Most importantly it allows for more new abuse of power by those administering this racist profiling policy that changes nothing nor improves nothing.</b></span>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This STG / SDP is manipulative and designed to mislead
the Legislative Members to approve more wasted unnecessary fundings. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">This STG /
SDP <b>should be rejected and <u>not</u> funded.</b> The SDP is <b><u>not</u></b> voluntary. But – to be forced on us Prisoners<b>. </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>WHY?</b> Because CDCR Officials / IGI / OSC <i>know</i>:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>NO PRISONERS WOULD VOLUNTARILY PARTICIPATE
IN THIS SDP.</b></span>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">We Prisoners have <i>real valid reasons</i> backed with undisputed evidence to justify our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>concerns why it must be shut down.</span></b>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Let us have some Legislative Hearings under Oath
that will review / examine our Evidence given to us for Indeterminate
Placement, CDC 1030 Disclosure Forms, that are vague and NOT satisfying Due
Process Requirements, IGI Validations Packages. Six Years Inactive Reviews.</span></b>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Hear <i>live</i> Testimony from both
Prisoners and CDR Prison Officials, Captains, LT’s, Sgt’s and IGI Staff Behind these already existing Programs causing years of long<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">-t</span>erm Solitary Confinement.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Ask the Hard Questions that have been covered up for decades. Most of you think the Hunger Strikes exposed shocking inhumane conditions, discriminatory practices and abuse to follow Court Rulings. CDC
Policies.</span></b>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It was shocking to learn Many of us Prisoners have
spent 30 to 40 plus years in the SHU with <b>No Acts of Violence against Prisoners
Nor CDCR Staff. I hit a Prisoner one time with my Fist in <u>1984</u> on a SHU
Yard. I Received a CDC-115, I Pled Guilty and Accepted Responsibility For My
Actions. That’s the only Assault I Have On a Prisoner and None On Any Staff.
That Was Almost 30 Years Ago.</b></span>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It’s funny CDCR Officials / Gang Officials tell the
Media and Legislatures, we use other Prisoners to commit our violence. Yet they
failed to produce<i> any</i> Evidence to connect you to the incidents. <b> </b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><b>They also<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fail to Tell the Media and
Legislatures that the Prison’s own investigations into certain incidents has cleared our names of any involvement. So, instead of releasing us from the SHU, they use group punishment with validation membership to warehouse you for decades in the SHU.</b></span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB">Since this New CDCR
Regulations Staff have, in the last 3 to 6 Months, issued more</span><span lang="EN-GB"> ridiculous CDC-128 Chronos, <b>CDC-115</b> and stating the information should be considered during the prisoner’s Six Years Inactive SHU
Review.</span>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A Final Note, CDCR
Budget has been cut in some areas. Now they are attempting to implement this
STG / SDP to seek funding for it and going to turn it into more funding, because the reality is it will be a failure.</span>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://sfbayview.com/2012/pelican-bay-human-rights-movement-presents-counter-proposal-opposing-cdcr-security-threat-group-strategy/" target="_blank">Our proposed MCUProposal</a> is based on already existing Programs within CDCR and reduces spending
and <b>Not</b> ask for more funding etc. Yet CDCR Officials rejected our proposal.</span>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Thank You For Your Time.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count: 7;"></span>Paul
Redd Jr B – 72683</span></b>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From:
Paul A. Redd Jr B-72683</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">D2-117</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">P.O. Box
7500</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Crescent
City, California, 95532</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My name is
Paul Redd Jr. I am an African American prisoner from Oakland, California, who
is serving seven years to life with the possibility of parole. In 1976 at the
age of 19 years old I was indicted by a San Francisco Grand Jury and I was
wrongfully convicted in the same year for the murder of a San Francisco local
drug dealer. I am truly sorry for the senseless loss of that young brother, who
was around the same age as me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I am
writing this introduction here to bring attention to my injustice and to ask
you all for help in raising funds to hire the attorney(s) that will vigorously
prepare my Writ of Habeas Corpus to overturn this false conviction and to vindicate
my name.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I got
involved in my former lifestyle at the age of 12 ½ years old. I grew up down
the street from the major hangouts for pimps, hustlers, prostitutes and drug
dealing. These pimps-hustlers and players would come from all parts of the cities
and states to visit the California Hotel and the major strip for prostitutions known
as San Pablo Ave. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As a youth
I became fascinated and obsessed at this early age seeing these older
individuals in their expensive cars, custom-made Cadillacs, Bentleys and Rolls
Royces with their tailor-made suits, custom-made jewelry and the whole nine
yard. These individuals who were major big-time pimps and major drug dealers
welcomed me into their inner circle at that young age. I eventually began
pimping and later dealing in heroin and cocaine. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In December
of 1975 I flew to Portland, Oregon, to visit a few friends as well as to drop
off a large amount of drugs. Unbeknown to me, someone was killed in San
Francisco. While in Portland, OR, I was arrested for questioning in this San
Francisco drug-related murder, which caught me by complete surprise. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During my
arrest, Oregon authorities seized $150,000.00 worth of heroin and cocaine with
a street-value around 400,000. No drug charges were ever filed against me, nor
pending when I was taken to San Francisco. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I waived
extradition in order to return to San Francisco to clear my name in this murder
investigation that I wasn’t aware had happened. San Francisco authorities had
set my bail at $1,000.000.00 and I was shortly indicted by a Grand Jury. The
trial lasted four days and the Jury deliberated for about one hour. There was
no physical evidence, no murder weapon nor any forensic evidence to place me at
the crime scene. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My false
conviction was based entirely on false material evidence, false perjury
testimony, prosecutor presented false material evidence and concealed
exculpatory evidence pointing to my innocence. They concealed police reports
and made secret deals with two prosecution witnesses who themselves were
charged with this murder in exchange for charges being dismissed or/and
reduced. They gave false testimony against me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How did I
become a target and focus? Simple: Kelvin Davis was the only eyewitness to this
murder. He was the first to be arrested and was well aware all the evidence was
against him, including motive. Kelvin Davis had a lot of information to bargain
with by throwing this murder on someone like me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Kelvin
Davis told law enforcement that I was a drug dealer and was close friends with
major drug dealers. He told them that I went to Portland, Oregon. He took me to
the San Francisco airport knowing I was carrying a large amount of drugs. Yet
he never told authorities he drove me to the airport. However, he did tell
authorities he knew of several residents in the Bay Area where large sums of
money and drugs could be found. He told them I stayed and visited those
residents. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So when I
was arrested and those large amounts of drugs were found at my motel, and
Oakland Police Department obtained search warrants for other residents, finding
more drugs and large sums of money, I became the focus. Because detectives
thought by falsely charging me with murder, I would give up information about
drug activities throughout the Bay Area in exchange for my freedom. I refused
to become an informant for anyone.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I do not
deny my former lifestyle I lived, nor that the victim lost his life over a drug
deal and that should not have happened. But I did not take this life nor was I
present at the crime scene. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I ask for
your help and support to have a fair hearing to show I was wrongfully
convicted. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since I’ve
been in prison I have made many positive changes in my life and am determined
to reach youths and help to rebuild our communities. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Please read
my brief summary of the injustice and trial <a href="http://paulreddjr.blogspot.com/p/about-paul.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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