Prisoners Reach Out

http://ffuppenpalclub.blogspot.com/2013/03/two-essays-for-human-rights-day_6.html The blogger Between the Bars asked two political Prisoners in WSPF to Write essays on Solitary confinement.  The international community has deemed what US does here is cruel and inhuman. FFUP works with many prisons and any one in the "free world to end the abuse and overuse of segregation.  Essay one 2-18-2013 Beyond Solitary Confinement: Evolving the Standards of Decency       By : Mustafa- EL K.A. Agala 2-18-2013                 Beyond Solitary Confinement: Evolving the Standards of Decency                                             ...

I AM WHO WE ARE By Kamau T.Z. Damali (originally written: June 20th, 2001) I AM WHO WE ARE; I am our nappy heads,  Our broad noses & full lips, I  am our beautiful smiles And our angry frowns I am the tears rolling down Our faces inflicted by Injustice, hardship and suffering I AM WHO WE ARE: I am Alkehulan’s (Afrika) Glory and her failure, Her happiness and her misery. Her beauty and her ugliness, Her triump and her tragedy, Her tenacity and her docility, Her  rage and her serenity. her satiety and her hunger, Her Perfection and imperfection  AM WHO WE ARE: I am that Alkebu-lanium king Who fought against the other                           Alkebu-laniankings that helped  The Europeans steal our people  Arid packed them onto ships  Like sardines ...

Forum For Understanding Prisons (FFUP) a 501c3 non profit James Greer, Director DOC health Services PO Box 7925, Madison, WI 53707 Senator Lena Taylor PO Box 7882 Madison, WI 53707 Report on Conditions in CCI segregation Units and Prisoners’ suggestions for improvement September 5, 2010 Hello, Since the beginning of my work with prisoners I have had a special place in my heart for the mentally ill in our system, many who find themselves perpetually in segregation, and now count among the people I most admire, those prisoners who have been able to gain enough insight into themselves and their situation to get out and stay out of the “hole.” Over the years I have kept an open mailbox for prisoners in trouble and had brief spurts of actual FFUP programs for them, but I am now getting too many desperate cries for help and have no more to offer them. I am writing to ask for your help. After one restless night I came up with the idea of eliciting from several of the...