By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson As a captive population, prisoners have no choices about what, if any, medical and mental health care they receive. And, in most cases in U.S. prisons, any care given is substandard at best. But even under these conditions, the courts have long found unacceptable and banned as unconstitutional the use of…
Read moreThere Is A Nationwide Prison Strike Happening: Prisoners and Organizers Discuss Why
Kevin Rashid Johnson and comrades from the New Afrikan Black Panther Party discuss from both sides of the walls why the current national prison strike is happening.
Read moreFlorida Warden Retaliates For Article Publicizing Prison Abuses, Slave Labor and Prisoner Protest (2018)
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson During early January 2018 my article “Florida Prisoners Are Laying It Down” was published online, which discussed the prevalence of enforced slave labor in the Florida Department of Corruption (FDOC), the brutally inhumane conditions under which its prisoners live, and a planned nonviolent protest they were staging in efforts to bring…
Read moreThe Heat is On! Florida Prisoners Receive No Protection From Deadly Heat
by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson In the Heat of the Moment On June 22, 2017 I was transferred from the Texas Department of Criminal (In)Justice (TDCJ) to the Florida Department of Corruption (FDOC). I was initially confined at the Reception and Medical center (RMC), which houses and treats Florida’s most medically vulnerable and chronically ill prisoners….
Read moreFlorida Prisoners Are Laying It Down
by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson During early 2018 prisoners across Florida are gonna “laydown” in nonviolent protest of the intolerable conditions in Florida’s prisons. The objectionable conditions being protested include unpaid slave labor, compounded by outright price-gouging in the system’s commissary and package services, and the gain-time scam that replaced parole, which, coupled with extreme sentencing,…
Read moreEnd Prison Slavery in Texas Now! (2018)
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington the Deputy Chairman of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, Prison Chapter, Texas Region. More information about him and more follows the article. “For years we were called Niggers to indicate we had no value or worth and that anything could be…
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