>Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 19:22:24 -0700
>From: ccadp <ccadp@home.com>
>
>Just recieved this urgent letter from Jimmy Dennis about racist
>treatment and abuses against inmates at SCI Greene. What follows is info
>about the shifts and the guards. Please call immediately to register
>your protest ! Tell them to take these gaurds off shift immediately, to
>launch an investigation, and that we are aware and watchful about any
>possible retaliation against these and other death row prisoners on the
>wing.
>Jimmy's letter :
>
>Dear Tracy & Dave,
> This is what's going on down here. Need you both to get media
>outlets and Amnesty International involved and everyone to put
>pressure on this jail. and commissioner Horn at Camp Hill who runs all
>prison systems. Need you to place on the internet that we are not
>eating morning and noon meals because of the racial and hostile
>environment that the guards have created. We are not eating because we
>have found particals in our food on the 6 to 2p.m. shift. We have
>encountered blatant racism from C.O.1 Clovis, DiCiano, Schwartz and
>Albright. We are asking that Sec. Horn be notified of what is going on
>to have the guards removed and the racism investigated. We have the
>racist staff on the morning shift and the admin. here at Greene is not
>providing us with adequate sneaker exchange. We have holes in our
>sneakers and can't get them exchanged. They get cash money from the
>State for brand new boots and they pocket the money or keep the boots
>and sell them. When we place in a request for an exchange, they
>give us someone else's used boots without care of athlete's
>feet. Med. treatment is inadequate at the institution, because of the
>majority of the doctors and nurses have racist attitudes and mislead us
>about what is wrong. There are many other guys with serious med.
>problems not being addressed.
> The admin. here purposefully took $1.00 dollar gloves off our
>list so we don't have anything to keep our hands warm in the winter.
>They won't let us purchase raincoats from our prison store. We are
>forced 1 hr. yard time without rain gearof gloves. We stay locked down
>23 hrs. a day, and our only resource for live air
>is 1 hr. of yard. We go out to keep from going crazy in these
>cells. The guards on morning shift harass and opress us from doing
>legal work on our cases by taking our law library typewriters. Under
>Sec. Horn's policy, there's supposed to be typewriters in each law
>library booth, but we only have two instead of four. We had four, but
>the morning quards removed two so we stop signing up for the law
>library to type our legal documents for our cases. They specifically
>and maliciously took our extended visits(extra hours). To harass and
>opress ourfamilies from making the bus trip every other month 6-8 hrs.
>from Philadelphia up and back. They deny our request for extended time
>stating visit's are crowded. This is a flat out lie, visiting room is
>never full to capacity. There are 18 visiting booths or 20 never are
>they completely full. In fact whenever my dad comes to
>visit, only 3-4 people are out there in the visiting room.
>This is because of the fact 6-2p.m. shift quards do not like taking us
>to visiting room. Only 3 times a year a bus comes up for $10.00 to
>bring families up here, but even then all the booths aren't filled at
>all. Plenty of booths be left open always. The admin. here
>eavesdrop on our legal calls so they can turnover info. to the State
>procecutor's about our cases. They refuse to provide us with population
>commissary lists when Sec. Horn placed it in the policy specifically for
>us. We are forced to eat off dirty filthy plastic trays. The plastic
>tray's come w/ disposable inserts to combat
>micro-organisms so food borne illnesses won't spread. They violate the
>state health codes on the food trays. In PA, plastic is to be used once
>and discarded.
> They do this with the spoons and cups but not with trays. The
>State Agriculture Depatment of Health Unit comes to inspect 2X's a year,
>but never inspect the level 5 unit trays where capital cases are
>housed. We are intitled to yard five days a week for 1hr., and on
>inclement days, yard is supposed to be made up.
> They have been denying us make-up days when it thunders and
>lightening on our yard day. We used to get it, but now they stopped.
> We are calling on worldwide support to write letter to
>complain or call about the above issues. We have done all we can do
>from inside, now we need outside support. We also request that the
>media be written specifically on the ssue of us not eating because of
>racism and fear for safety of our food. We stop eating on 6-2p.m. shift
>on August 30th.
> Now our protest is non-violent. Us not eating and signing up
>in the yard. On tonight, Unit Manager Warmun comes around saying that
>on 8/31/99 and 9/1/99, I and everyone who is protesting didn't stand for
>count. Now Warmun is saying we must be on the door with lights on, the
>policy states clearly just be standing and visible. Nevertheless, this
>is no more than retaliation for our protest. Unit
>manager Warmun is going along with the guards. He says if we don't
>stand for count we will be issued a misconduct. The document saying we
>didn't stand was signed by C.O. Pennington. Not once has C.O.
>Pennington ever taken count.
> So they have falsified documents. Count was taken by C.O.
>DiCiano, but they don't want to state that, cause it would be clear of
>retaliation. Now, we have gotten word that they are going to seperate
>us and try to give out misconducts. I expect guards, Unit Manager
>Warmun will continue the games. Jermont Cox, Ronald Gibson, Jessie
>Bond, Donyell Paddy, Ronald Clark, Craig Williams and I will be the main
>targets.
>
>**** IMPORTANT*****
>When you get everyone to write email, fax, call, let it be known that
>you all know that because of protest we all on B-Pod and on death row
>will be retaliated against. Put out an action alert to
>contact officals. I want Secretary Horn and Superintendant
>Blaine's offices flooded with email, letters, phone calls, etc. These
>racist guards that I have mentioned need to be removed from L-Block
>period. The purpose of them trying to separate us is to single us out
>so they can set us up for misconducts.
>
> Superintendent Conner Blaine, Phone #: (724) 852-2902
> 1030 E. Roy Furman Highway
> Waynesburg, PA 15370-8089
>
> Secretary Martin F. Horn, Phone #: (717) 975-4859
> Dept. of Corrections
> P.O. Box 598
> Camphill, PA 17001-0598
>
> Praying 4 the truth of '99 Jimmy Dennis
> http://members.tripod.com/ccadp/jimmydennis.html