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questionaires give full circle view

The Question we asked in our Fall newsletter was "Is the WI DOC fulfilling its mission to rehabilitate prisoners and keep the public safe?" We will use this in our legal efforts and will try to see that all who need to know the fuller stories of who we have locked up do. These questionaires also give flesh and details to the bits and pieces we get about the corruption and dysfunction in the system, The vista here is awesome. We need help  typing up these questionaires and planning how to use them . Below are links to the questionaires that still need summing/typing.You decide what you want to do with them. If you pick one, let me know so we do not duplicate efforts. questionares that need summing /typing: https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/andre-tinnon.pdf https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/bartola-pena-dominguez-quest.pdf https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/demetrius-robertson-juv-helper.pdf https://ffupstuff.files.wordpress...

Two Essays for Human Rights Day

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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                                             ...

Kamau Damali

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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 ...