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Political prisoner Khalfani Malik Khaldun puts the Indiana Department of Corrections and its system on trial

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Political prisoner Khalfani Malik Khaldun puts the Indiana Department of Corrections and its system on trial

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This is an interview done by "The Campaign" in order to try and help free Khalfani Malik Khaldun. Khaldun was first arrested in 1987, just as a senior in high school. He is now 43 years old and has spent the majority of his time within the prison walls in solitary confinement. Within the prison walls Khaldun has expressed that it is a constant battle regain his freedom, trying to maintain physical health, pushing to be released, and keeping sanity is an all day on going job. Khaldun states that he not only views himself as a political prisoner but that he is treated like one too and his given a harsher time because of this. He claims that being a political prisoners is a constant threat on his safety and his security. Khaldun is pushing the notion that the prison system is getting slashed of its funding for education and rehabilitation programs. Due to his charge Khaldun feels like he not only was unjustly convicted but now he is receiving harsher punishments by his guards. He has had to spend the majority of his time within solitary confinement and believes that he is purposely kept in their due to him being "Indiana Public enemy number one." Khaldun had completed 12 programs within the program to help his case trying to get out of solitary confinement, but still no one in the prison system has signed off on his removal. Khaldun has expressed that only through working work and reading has he been able to stay mentally stable, but that that does not mean that it was not a struggle, "I am scared by anxiety, depression, paranoia, and hypertension." Talking about how he is unable to grief the loss of his mom, brothers, cousins, and other family member in the prison has taken a toll on him. Khaldun expresses that throughout all of this struggle though he will not give up on getting released and believes that he will be able to do so.

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This letter discusses the mistreatment of an inmate who the author, Wesley I. Purkey knew. His fellow inmate had been beaten senselessly after threatening a guard and refusing to cuff himself and leave his cell with the guards. While he was beaten, Purkey attempted to intervene telling them that " he's had enough-stop". After this, he received threats from the beaters saying that he didn't see anything. No medical assistance was offered to the beaten inmate. When Purkey attempted to help file a grievance, his cell was shaken down and marijuana was "found" there. The lieutenant in charge then threatened his saying that if he kept attempting to assist his fellow inmate, he was going to die in the prison with him. At the end, it is explained that the fellow inmate finally received the treatment, and the lieutenant was killed by his son who he had been molesting for years.

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Finding light in a dark place (Stippler)

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Valjean Royal is a transgender individual was incarcerated at 17 years old in 1970. While in the prison they were pulled out of their bed by over twenty men and raped. The prison's course of action after this altercation was just to move Valjean into an other block, which was smaller. There she said she felt like a "freak of nature" and had to commit sexual acts with the cell boss in order to have any sort of protection from the others in the cell. Over the years within the prisons Valjean kept on getting sexually assaulted and raped by her jail mates and the staff correctional officers. During this time Valjean became dependent on marijuana as a means to cope with the events that have happen within the prison walls. In 1982, she was moved out of the state prison into a federal one in hopes of having more protection. However, in 1991 an officer let an inmate into her cell and raped her. After, this incident Valjean was taken to the hospital and reported the rape. There was video evidence of the events happening and the officer was recommended to be put on leave, Valjean was transfer yet again. In 1997, still dependent on marijuana she was raped by her dealer in the new prison. After this Valjean decided to be drug free. In 2006 Valjean was in the Pendleton Correctional Faciality and was raped again. now Valjean is numb to the act and feels unable to be intimate with another individual. Her story is one of pain and suffering no matter where she was placed within the prison system, she felt worthless and shame throughout her story and how the prison and its system did not seek her best interest and often tried to just move her to "fix" the issue rather than address it.

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Kyoto Seabridge was wrongly charged, indicted, prosecuted, convicted in Beaumont, Texas. After his conviction his wife that he was taking care of was put into a nursing home. Despite being told that his trial lawyer would help his wife, they never did. A few weeks into his incarceration his wife would end up passing away in that nursing home. His wife begged and pleaded for him to come get her but all he could do was be in his cell. The guards would laugh and joke about him and his situation. He never got to see his wife before she passed while the jury and guards got to go home to their families and loved ones.

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A Cesspool Full of Drecks by Danny Cherry

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A Cesspool Full of Drecks by Danny Cherry

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Danny Cherry makes references to untreated burns on his arms. He describes them as oozing puss incessantly which shows that since the burns are infected that he has gone without treatment for a while. This bolsters our claim that medical treatment is inadequate in prisons. Later in his recollection, Cherry is assaulted by a fellow inmate with chemicals. Again, the medical team refused him medical treatment and sent him to lockup instead.

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Danny Cherry highlights two major themes of unethical medical practices conducted by prisons. The first is the inhumane medical treatment. Something that should be so simple as a decent healthcare was barely provided to the inmates and even then the practices the staff invoked in risked the lives of other inmates. One example, Cherry includes is how they are getting flu shots and are not cleaning the needles after and setting them on the tables where they eat. Cherry has HIV so his concern is extremely valid that the spread of infectious diseases ran rampant due to these unethical medical practices. The second practice is the psychiatric practice, which the Pendleton prison systems just labeled Cherry as insane even though he was proficient in numerous languages and other academics. Instead of the prisons taking the time to carefully examine patients the prison staff views inmates as objects and not people. This objective view of inmates display the discrepancies that many prisoners have to face and the challenges that they will continue to face due to the lack of respect and basic ethical practices being conducted in prisons.

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INSIDE THE WALLS OF AN INDIANA STATE PRISON

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INSIDE THE WALLS OF AN INDIANA STATE PRISON

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In a press release written by Khalfani Malik

Khaldun, he brings up issues of mistreatment of suicidal convicts. He claims that guards and others who run prisons must keep a watchful eye on those who seek to claim their own lives in an act of defiance against their incarceration. According to the 8th amendment, guards who are cognizant of suicidal inmates and do nothing about it are violating the rule of cruel and unusual punishment. Later on in the press release, he describes one Halloween night where an inmate by the name of Logan Green killed himself. This death could have been prevented if the person working the night shift would have done a proper security check. After Logan's death however, there was no memorial or service of remembrance. The workers cleaned up the body and threw in a new inmate right away. No one was held responsible for his suicide, and this kind of gross negligence should not be common or tolerated in any prison.

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Richard Dodd was plagued with the label of shooting a cop and his life was thrown away because of the stigma behind the power of authority. He compels that he had no intent to kill the officer, but because the cop was able to see the video from the squad car and collaborate with the prosecution to make a story that will convict Richards. This highlights that Dodd's life was lost behind bars because of the established union of authority. The South Bend courts didn't give Dodd's a fair trial or ensure that his voice would be heard but instead be put on display for everyone to see that he shot a cop. Just because the crime was against a cop doesn't mean he deserved to lose the majority of his life for a crime that can be argued wasn't attempted murder.

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Prison Walls are not a Barrier Separating Prisoners From  Protections of the Constitution  by Wesley L. Purkey

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Prison Walls are not a Barrier Separating Prisoners From  Protections of the Constitution  by Wesley L. Purkey

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Following the theme of inadequate medical attention, we have a prisoner on death row here that is denied care for a corneal disease. However, there is some evidence for resistance here as Wesley sues the prison's administration for the denial of medical treatment. Poor health care seems to be a problem across Indiana prisons in general. Steps should be taken to make sure prisoners are given the same access to medical care as everyone else.

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Clinton Riley believes that he is a hostage in the prison that he is in. He believes that he is a hostage because despite the fact that he has served his court sentence to be released in 2015 he has been continually sanctioned more than 16 times every 60 days. He has been held at the prison for two years and seven months past his release date. Clinton Riley was eventually released in 2018 and has said that he isn't looking for sympathy or to place blame. He just wanted to share the struggle that he was apart of and wanted to inform the masses about how the criminal justice system treated him.