Nevada Prisoners Newsletter

# 13 (NPN Vol. 3, Nr 3, 2012-publ. Jan.13 Knowledge is power From the editors: The Nevada Prisoners Newsletter (NPN) is a forum for and by Nevada prisoners, made by volunteers outside and inside Nevadas prisons so that people inside are more informed about prisons, rights, about new ideas and initiatives. Co-edited by Coyote and Mighty Sparrow All views expressed are those of the authors. For subscriptions, articles, we can be reached at: NPN, P.O. Box 827, Gaylord, MI 49734. Nevadaprisonwatch.org - This NPN will be published also online: www.scribd.com/Prisonwatch. Published this time by Tuff Gong Press, thank you to our distributer South Chicago Zine Distro. <3 [heart] Stamps welcome, plz send them to our postbox, thank you! Our next issue will appear when we have time, articles and money! In this issue: . About Bob Marley . Cant turn back now (Christopher) . Classical Quotes . Books are our real weapons (Coyote) . Dear Editors of NPN . Take a deep look at whats really going on . Insubordinate . Rabbits Yoga . Poetry: The Code (Coyote) . Poetry: The True Prisoner (Ken Saro-Wiwa) . News . Danger in the Prisons (Tr. Barrick) . Poetry: Prison Psychology (Occams Raizor) . Poetry: A Prisoners Revelation (Alphoncy Sr) . Beef Stew . Sudoku . Agreement to End Hostilities . Idle No More: a Movement . NPN About: Amlcar Cabral (assassinated 40 years ago this month) . NPN Yellow Pages About Bob Marley, after whose nickname we named this issues Publishing Company:

Born: Feb. 6 , 1945, in Rhodan Hall, Jamaica; th died on May 11 1981. From Bobmarley.com: Bob Marley was born Robert Nesta Marley on February 6, 1945. Bob was born to Cedella Marley when she was 18. Bob's early life was spent in rural community of Nine Miles, nestled in the mountainous terrain of the parish of St. Ann. Residents of Nine Miles have preserved many customs derived from their African ancestry especially the art of storytelling as a means of sharing the past and time-tested traditions that are oftentimes overlooked in official historical sources. The proverbs, fables and various chores associated with rural life that were inherent to Bob's childhood would provide a deeper cultural context and an aura of mysticism to his adult songwriting. The next chapter in the Bob Marley biography commenced in the late 1950s when Bob, barely into his teens, left St. Ann and returned to Jamaica's capital. He eventually settled in the western Kingston vicinity of Trench Town, so named because it was built over a sewage trench. A low-income community comprised of squatter-settlements and government yards developments that housed a minimum of four families, Bob Marley quickly learned to defend himself against Trench Town's rude boys and bad men. Bob's formidable street-fighting skills earned him the respectful nickname Tuff Gong. Despite the poverty, despair and various unsavory activities that sustained some ghetto dwellers, Trench Town was also a culturally rich community where Bob Marley's abundant musical talents were nurtured. A lifelong source of inspiration, Bob immortalized Trench Town in his songs "No Woman No Cry" (1974), "Trench Town Rock" (1975) and "Trench Town", the latter released posthumously in 1983. By the early 1960s the island's music industry was beginning to take shape, and its development gave birth to an indigenous popular Jamaican music form called ska. A local interpretation of American soul and R&B, with an irresistible accent on the offbeat, ska exerted a widespread influence on poor Jamaican youth while offering a welcomed escape from their otherwise harsh realities. Within the burgeoning

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Jamaican music industry, the elusive lure of stardom was now a tangible goal for many ghetto youths. Uncertain about the prospects of a music career for her son, his mother Cedella encouraged Bob to pursue a trade. When Bob left school at 14 years old she found him a position as a welder's apprentice, which he reluctantly accepted. After a short time on the job a tiny steel splinter became embedded in Bob's eye. Following that incident, Bob promptly quit welding and solely focused on his musical pursuits. At 16 years old Bob Marley met another aspiring singer Desmond Dekker, who would go on to top the UK charts in 1969 with his single "Israelites". Dekker introduced Marley to another young singer, Jimmy Cliff, future star of the immortal Jamaican film "The Harder They Come", who, at age 14, had already recorded a few hit songs. In 1962 Cliff introduced Marley to producer Leslie Kong; Marley cut his first singles for Kong: "Judge Not", "Terror" and "One More Cup of Coffee", a cover of the million selling country hit by Claude Gray. In 1963 Bob Marley and his childhood friend Neville Livingston a.k.a. Bunny Wailer began attending vocal classes held by Trench Town resident Joe Higgs, a successful singer who mentored many young singers in the principles of rhythm, harmony and melody. In his Trench Town yard, Higgs introduced Bob and Bunny to Peter (Macintosh) Tosh and The Bob Marley and the Wailers legend was born. The trio quickly became good friends so the formation of a vocal group, The Wailing Wailers, was a natural progression; Higgs played a pivotal role in guiding their musical direction. Additional Wailing Wailers members included Junior Braithwaite, Beverly Kelso, and Cherry Smith but they departed after just a few recording sessions. Bob, Bunny and Peter were introduced to Clement Sir Coxsone Dodd, a sound system operator turned producer; Dodd was also the founder of the seminal Jamaican record label Studio One. With their soulful harmonies, influenced primarily by American vocal group Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, and lyrics that echoed the struggles facing Jamaica's

poor, the Wailers attained a sizeable local following. The Wailers' first single for Studio One "Simmer Down", with Bob cautioning the ghetto youths to control their tempers or "the battle would be hotter", reportedly sold over 80,000 copies. The Wailers went on to record several hits for Coxsone including "Rude Boy", "I'm Still Waiting," and an early version of "One Love", the song the BBC would designate as the Song of the Century some thirty-five years later.

Cant turn back now I cant count the many times Ive had loved ones tell me to stay out of trouble & come home. I know they mean well & that they only speak from their hearts. This imprisonment not only affects me, but it places a heavy burden in those I love as well I know this & yet I cant help but feel frustrated at times when it seems to me that they lack a true understanding of my situation & plans for the future. I am no longer the child I was when I first entered this fortress of hate. There will be no returning to the news once Im freed. There is no getting back to a normal life or re-entering society. No. These things are for the average prisoner; for those who have excepted the options set for them by the state. I am an active anarchist, & like those before me, & like those comrades of current times; my duty

lies in fighting the state, in abolishing capitalism, the prison industrial complex & in ending all existing oppressions. My life is dedicated to the people & their struggles. As long as anarchism is suppressed and the bourgeois dictate our lives, there wont be any white picket fences & a family home in my future. The struggles dont cease until the state machine that produces them is eradicated. In order for that to happen we must fight it at every side & at all costs. Sacrifices must be made. But so what? The world we live in now asks of us multiple sacrifices a day work jobs for shit, for hours that bring about mental & physical deterioration, while giving up time that could be spent on family & pleasure. The little money you do make, must be divided amongst bills & groceries, because, unfortunately, in the world we live in, if one wants food in their belly & a roof over their head, they must pay for it or else starve out in the gutter. So sacrifices are nothing new. I will gladly give everything I have, including my life. If thats what it takes to bring about a better world. I have no desires to work my way up the hierarchical ladder, or live off of the labors of others. Likewise, I do not wish to be a wage slave to the bourgeoisie. And so I choose to stand against authority & oppose the state. Whether its from behind enemy lines, or out in the front lines of the American streets. This being the case, any chances of me ever coming home are slim. For if Im fortunate enough not to have to take up permanent residence in this grave yard, then I will

eventually find myself marching forward to the last battle for independence. Long live anarchy!! In solidarity, Christopher Gonzalez Classical Quotes If unity happens inside the walls of prison, imagine the impacts it will have on our neighborhoods and youth! - Assata Therefore, we must always question comrade, to be sceptical is to be a thinker, and those who rule over our existence are more afraid of our thoughts than any bomb we should come to throw at them. They know that the mind motivates the body; and if an individual is conscious enough to think radically, then it is inevitable that they should come to act radically as well. By controlling our thoughts and engaging our reason, theyre able to keep us in a perpetual lobotomized state of complacency, unable to act, unable to think, unable to transform our reality. Therefore we question. - Victor TrayWay,anarchist prisoner, from his Zine, Deliberately I defy Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. Frederick Douglass To acquire knowledge, one must study, but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. - Marilyn Vos Savant Within the war we are all waging with the forces of death, subtle and otherwise, conscious or not I am not only a casualty I am a warrior. - Audrey Lorde The answer to our weakness cannot be to strengthen the very forces that ravaged and undermined our communities. We need to do the very opposite: build strong movements and develop solidarity among the oppressed. - David Gilbert, political prisoner The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively - Bob Marley Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds. - Bob Marley

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. - Bob Marley Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! - Bob Marley The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. - Bob Marley Books are our real weapons Before I make my statement, and bring to the attention or E.S.P. prisoners the situation going on here, first allow me to open this article with a brilliant quote from a brilliant, dedicated comrade of mine (whom I wish would frequently write more articles for the NPN, to help give these prisoners more of a social consciousness ), it goes like this: To complete the revivication of our innermost individuality and breath the potential back into the listless body that becomes us, understanding of reality becomes essential in shattering the disinformation oppressors of every sort have forcefully shoved down our throats since birth. Those who wish to keep us enslaved have always related that we are to accept their anthologies of dogma and not once question their explanation (justifications) of our conditions. Victor TrayWay Okay, now with that quote on your minds, please allow me to proceed It has come to my attention that AWP Burns has been categorically denying various prisoners books by outright rejecting their book approvals! This goes to show that the E.S.P. administration wants to dictate what we can and cannot read (but only if we let them!). Because, truth be told, what theyre doing is illegal (according to th eir own laws) and a blatant violation of our Fourteenth Amendment rights (Due Process) and our First Amendment Rights (Freedom of Speech) (the rights that they supposedly give us, yet violate on a consistent basis). Now, Im no jailhouse lawyer, unfortunately, but I do know enough to know that here at Ely State Prison we are supposed to have what is called a Publication Review Committee. This Publication Review Committee is put in place to review books that they think could possibly pose a threat to the safety and security of the

institution. Once these books are sent in, then they could review them. After the books have been reviewed, then they could decide whether to reject them or let us have them. This is called Due Process. To outright deny our book approvals, without even allowing the Publication Review Committee to review these books is a violation of Due Process. Furthermore, the only reason that they could legally deny us books is if they could actually prove that the books indeed pose a threat to the safety and security of the institution. Currently, the AWP is trying to deny us books that this prison actually carries in the E.S.P. Library! He wants us to tell him what each book is about before he approves them. Well, how are we supposed to know what the books are about until weve received them? Secondly, we dont have to tell him what the books are about. This is why we have a special form, an Inmate Book Request form (DOC 1562) that we have to fill out when we want an approval to order books from the outside. The DOC-1562 form has the stipulations printed on it and nowhere on that form does it say we have to tell him what those books are about. If they feel that the books could possibly pose a threat to the safety and security of the institution, then they could review them at the Publication Review Committee. It even says right there on the Inmate Book Request (DOC-1562 form): All books received may be reviewed for content by the Publication Review Committee. Fortunately, they are not denying everybody approval for books, but we do know for a fact that there are many of us who have had our book approvals rejected, and, as pointed out above, the only penological reason they could have for denying us new, paperback books that come from an Authorized Vendor, via First Class Mail, is if they can prove that these books actually pose a threat to the safety and security of the institution. They cannot deny us books simply cuz they dont like them, or cuz they disagree with the content. It even says in AR 750: A magazine or publication may not be rejected solely because its content is religious, philosophical, political, social, or sexual or because its content is unpopular, repugnant, or does not agree with commonly held beliefs and practices. That is exactly what it says in the AR, and believe me when I tell you that the AR is

mandated by law (by their laws): NRS 209.131; 209.365. Many prisoners in many states have sued over these same reasons and have won. This is definitely something worth fighting for. We should be able to read what we want to read, not what they want us to read. We can challenge this through grievances and through the courts (their courts). Every time they reject one of our book approval forms that is a violation of Due Process, and of Freedom of Speech. The more evidence we collect, and the more they violate our rights, the more money we could sue them for (anybody looking for a hustle, here you go!), but more importantly we can use their weapons (the law, the courts) against them so that we can get them to stop these arbitrary and discriminatory practices and oppressive tactics against us. I would like to ask E.S.P. prisoners to start a paper trail and start challenging this. You can do this by writing a kite to all of the wardens, your caseworkers and the property sgt, asking them who is all on the Publication Review Committee? Asking them whats the purpose of the Publication Review Committee? Write kites to AWP Burns and to Warden Baker, explaining to them that they cannot deny our book approvals without first reviewing the books. Collect all the evidence you can collect, and every time one of your book approvals is rejected, save that too. For further information into all of this, check out these things from the Law Library: - AR 750 - NRS 209.131 - NRS 209.365 - U.S. v. Eichmann, 496 US 310, 319, 110 SCT 2404 91990) - Police Dept. of Chicago v. Mosley, 408 US 92, 95, 92 SCT 2286, 2290 (1972) - Pell v. Procunier, 417 US 817, 822, 94 SCT 2800, 2804 (1974) - Turner v. Safley, 482 US 78, 107 SCT 2245 (1987) - Bell v. Wolfish, 441 US 551, 99 SCT 1880 - Abu-Jamal v. Price, 154 F3d 128 (3rd Cir., 1998) - X v. Blatter, 175 F3d 378 (6th Cir., 1999) I encourage prisoners to check out these materials from the library and do their own research. If youre not familiar with the law enough to file a suit on your own, and if theres not any jailhouse lawyers around on your tier who would be willing to do this lawsuit for you, then you can contact John Witherow for more information at the following address: Hope for Freedom P.O. Box 4023,

Gaylord, MI 49734 For those of you who dont know, Hope For Freedom is a paralegal service started up by John Witherow, after his release on parole from 26 years of imprisonment in the NDOC. (note: John is not a lawyer!) Books are our real weapons. The knowledge contained within the pages is what we gain strength from. And with that strength theres no limit to what we can do! Those who keep us confined and who hold us captive have clearly shown that they dont want us in here gaining knowledge or getting strong. So these types of tactics are to be expected but never accepted! It reminds me of the History books that Ive read about slavery. I mean the real History books like Howard Zinns A Peoples History of the United States 1492-present, real history that explains what really happened, not the history that weve been force-fed in school. In the History books Ive read about slavery it explains how the slave-owners made it illegal for a slave to learn how to read and write. Why? Because in order to keep their slaves servile, they had to keep them uneducated, ignorant and always dependent on Master. For those of you in prison who do not see how all of this correlates to our situation here, then I would advise you to take a more critical, analytical, deeper look at yourself, your oppressor, your circumstances, the environment you live in now and the environment you grew up in, and take a deep hard look at the nature of power, and see that it is those in power who oppress, exploit, and enslave those who have no power; the poor, the weak, the lower class, the minority. But it is through that strength that we find the confidence and the determination to strive for our liberation from these chains; from slavery, from oppression. The administration here at ESP understands this better than we do. Thats why they try to make it so difficult for us to get our books in. Imagine if we were in here educating ourselves, learning how to use the law as a weapon, learning how to use History as a weapon. Imagine if we were in here learning Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology, and then using this knowledge to construct our own societies with our own social and economic systems. Imagine all of the different ways we could empower ourselves with knowledge. Books are our real weapons. They dont want us to be armed like that. They try to dictate what we can and cannot read because they want us to learn the lessons they want to teach us, which is a lesson of

conformity. They want us to conform to their ideologies, their economic system, their standards, and to their laws and constitutionsthat we had no part in creating ourselves. This is a fight we all have to partake in. Its a fight to be able to read what we want to read, learn what we want to learn. This is a real fight, something that we really need to fight for. So if your book approvals are being rejected, I hope you will join me in this fight. Thank you. Solidarity and Respects, Coyote Anarchist Black Cross Nevada Prison Chapter November 4th, 2012

cliques, and when the violence and scandals escalate high enough to turn to collective targeted murder on a scapegoat. Its a rare event, but its precursors are gossip and backbiting. Our human instinct tells us to run with the devil the herd and mob impulse! Peace & Grace, John Quintero (NNCC) Take a deep look at whats really going on Whats going on to all that are serious about bringing on change in this concentration camp, which these pigs love to call Ely State Prison. Im currently housed in unit 4B which is just another housing unit in this death machine where these pigs would love to see me submit and conform to that way of thinking. But it wont happen cause Im aware of their [tactics?] and the little games they play. Right now Im next door to a man who is being killed slowly by these self-proclaimed doctors; hes on sy[..] meds that are not helping him but rather stripping him of his humanity. To those who have never lived next door to one of these mentally ill prisoners, it can be rough: most bang on the door, light, and even the bunk. To be honest my neighbor was doing all of the man who speaks to no one but himself cause he is lost in his own world filled with medications that dont help him, mostered up the words and called me; in a real raspy voice he said that he wanted some real help, he also stated that he was tired of people laughing at him, he is tired of hearing voices and that he wanted to kill himself. So after expressing this to an officer in the control room in our unit, a nurse and the slop-eating pig sgt Lester showed up. They approached this man .. door they seemed upset cause they had to get off of their ass and do some work. So they began to call this man pathetic and worthless. To keep it real with yall, I did not care for my neighbor but when I heard the verbal abuse that they were directing at this man, it pissed me off, so I told the slop eating pig sgt Lester to shut the fuck up and get that man some help. I also asked the nurse How is talking to this man like that going to help him in his psychotherapy? But the pig sympathizer said nothing and allowed the verbal abuse to continue. I was upset about the treatment of a mentally ill prisoner who I believe is incapable of defending himself against the psychological and physical warfare that these pigs rage against us all on a daily basis. But in the end after some protesting, they took this man to the infirmary where he will receive no help. All they will do is forcefully dope this man up, throw him in a cage

Dear Editor of NPN Thank you for sending the most recent issue. It brought great hope to hear the call for Starting to Stop by MaShaka. I also appreciated the call for fasting by SAMAEL, although I missed the date. Fasting is powerful our condition of being in prison itself can be offered as an intentional fast for goodness to prevail over the enemy. The tradition is ancient, for good reason it works. Remember the public fasts of Cesar Chavez! And Mahatma Gandhi and his sataqhaya! These traditions are related to Dharma, a fast held at the doors of an offender until justice is done. The fast has been part of the Western tradition as well, for 2000 years of its spiritual life. Pick a date, Ill join in! So, greetings and salutations from the Northern Nevada Correctional Center, which compared to Ely and the rest of the system is prisneyland our newsletter here keeps the horrors of your situation and the southern situation in mind. Warden palmer retired and Warden Baca has taken over. Conditions have been going downhill and there are worries Baca will accelerate them. To add to Mashakas critique: scholar Ren Girard argues that sociologically, the idea of Satan can be identified as mimetic snowballing there is plenty of evidence in history and day to day conflict to prove this. Mimetic snowballing is human tendency to congregate in gangs,

to rot away in there and pray that he takes his own life. Comrades, I understand what youre going through when youre next door to a mentally ill prisoner who screams and bangs on things all day and night. Ive banged back on them to keep the, up so that they would be on my schedule so that I could get some sleep, but I really had to sit back and really take a square look at what is really going on. I now know that by these pigs forcefully doping these men up and not properly treating their illness, it turns a lot of them to soulless bests who lose their grip on reality, which is a tactic to keep us at each others throats rather than us getting on them pigs bumper. So I ask all my rades to not get mad at these men but help them fight back. They do not need us to laugh at them and treat them like they are less than human. Ive done it before and I now know those actions were wrong. So now I will put forth an effort to help those who cant fin for themselves and I ask that you do the same, cause were all we got. In struggle, Mashaka I Afua

Like the coward you are, you can try to plant seeds of doubt, mistrust and disharmony, and surely your pet prisoners would be glad to assist you in this snakish trickery. But no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, no matter if Im alive or dead, free or confined, its way too late for you to stop me I will courageously gather all the people I can gather, and inspire them with insight and truth, arm them with knowledge and with revolutionary ideas, teach them and organize them and lead them into rebellion. You may think youre crushing me, but what you fail to see is, that as long as you exist, you will always give the people a cause to organize around, the urgent need to resist, a real reason to rise up. You are a monster that has created a monster that will come back and ruin you in the end My heart smolders with fervent rage, as I resist your despicable [bouts] of hatred towards me and my kind. The embers of my heart burn and burn with a strength and passion rarely seen, as I deliberately defy you, with my entire being. In your eyes, I may be nothing but a disposable outcast, but the way I see it, Im just one of the one thousand against your six! You may have me in this cage for now, but the revolution has already begun. My heart smolders, my drum thumps on, my fire unceasingly burns, my life is not mine anymore, now my life belongs to those that Im ready to die for! No Gods, No Masters, Coyote 10-27-12 Ely State Prison

Insubordinate The feverish fire that insolently burns inside of me cannot be so easily extinguished with your mere acts of degradation and iron-fisted oppression. I adamantly refuse to be incinerated by your flames of toxicity. The more they try to burn me, the higher my own flame rises. With your power you can twist the truth and cleverly make me look like the monster, and you the hero, and with your media you can even fool the public into blindly believing this sham. You can make them adore the oppressor, and despise the oppressed, but no matter what, you cannot muffle my drum. My drum beats on, loudly and magnificently, as I continuously defy the pain and punishment that you forever try to inflict on me. My drum keeps thumping, vibrantly and with tremendous passion, as you constantly insist on rendering my body to bits and shredding my mind to mere fragments Oppressor, oppressor, you can cage me and isolate me, and surround me with your bootlicking servants. You can spread little lies about me, to make me look bad in the eyes of my own kind.

The Code In this wary world of warriors Where we sometimes travel along A dark, dreary, short and twisted road Taking us to a place where Struggle becomes life And where life can be so cold We hold on ever so tightly To our warriors code In this world we have become A band of brothers Pledging loyalty to one another we put Unity over Self and all that 'me, me, me'shit goes on the shelf Never forgetting the Respect that has been shown Or the Honor we've been bestowed We love and we die By our warriors code. We don't snitch, nor rape the ladies and never dare molest the babies Cultivating the seeds that we've sown The thingswe ourselves won't do Can never be condoned! We protect the young Heal the sick and respect the old we are dutiful warriors Not low-life predators we pledge our lives to the real Warriors Code. A Warrior doesn't fear Death But embraces it. We don't do scandalous misdeeds to try to escape it we buck up and are always prepared to face it. Sure to keep Loyalty and Honor On our side, We don't do dishonorable things to try to cheat Death or to save Our own hides No, a warrior would rather die! These words are not just a poem Nor this poem just mere words But a way of life for the Honorable and Bold Those who pay back What is owed This is the real Warriors Code - Coyote June 24th 2012, Ely State Prison, Nevada

The True Prison It is not the leaking roof Nor the singing mosquitoes In the damp, wretched cell It is not the clank of the key As the warden locks you in It is not the measly rations Unfit for beast or man Nor yet the emptiness of day Dipping into the blankness of night It is not It is not It is not It is the lies that have been drummed Into your ears for a generation It is the security agent running amok Executing callous calamitous orders In exchange for a wretched meal a day The magistrate writing into her book A punishment she knows is undeserved The moral decrepitude The mental ineptitude The meat of dictators Cowardice masking as obedience Lurking in our denigrated souls It is fear damping trousers That we dare not wash It is this It is this It is this Dear friend, turns our free world Into a dreary prison - Ken Saro-Wiwa 1993

News Guards fear for their lives at Ely State Prison Recently it has been reported that all of the windows to the gun tower overlooking the ESP rec yards have been barred to keep prisoners from making a prison-made grapping hook and climbing into the control bubble and taking over the unit something that I dont even think James Bond could do, if he was actually a real person! These windows have been barred after a jailhouse snitch dropped a kite saying that a prisoner was attempting to make a grappling hook out of a yellow tub. Unit 7 was thoroughly ransacked and searched, yet no grappling hook was found. Yet, off of a snitchs word ESP guards were made to shudder and fear for their lives, wasting tax payers money on a precaution that was more outrageous than practical. Anonymous

From: Kolo8 News, Jan. 31st 2012: Guard Attacked in Carson City CARSON CITY, NV - A guard has been flown to Renown in Reno after being attacked at Warm Springs Correctional Facility in Carson City late Tuesday afternoon. A spokesman with the prison system confirms one guard was hurt, and everybody else is okay. The guard's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. An investigation is underway, and the spokesman says whatever threat there was is over. He's not saying exactly how the attack happened, or what the weapon was, but all the inmates are back in their cells. So far, no one has been arrested. --------Two prisoners die in state prisons after being found in cells From: KSNV MyNews LAS VEGAS (KSNV MyNews3) -- Nov 17th 2012 Two prisoners have died over the past two days after being found unresponsive in their state prison cells. Nevada Department of Corrections officials said in a news release today that John Biasi, 55, was found dead in his single cell at High Desert State Prison about 4 p.m. Friday. Biasi was serving 10 to 25 years for seconddegree murder and a consecutive term of 5 to 15 years for use of a deadly weapon. He was convicted in Clark County and had been in state custody since November 2011. NDOC said today that Winston Kelly, 38, was found unresponsive in his single cell during the 11 a.m. head count at Ely State Prison. He was taken to William Bee Ririe Hospital in Ely and was pronounced dead at 12:12 p.m. He was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery and use of a deadly weapon in Elko County Officials said both deaths are being investigated and no other information is available. ---------Audit finds prison doctors paid for hours not worked From: Las Vegas Sun Dec 12th 2012, By Cy Ryan

CARSON CITY Doctors hired by Nevadas prison system may have been paid $1.9 million for hours they didnt work, an audit found. The audit found that full-time physicians, who are employed to work four ten-hour shifts a week, put in an average of only 5.3 hours per day. Part-time doctors work two ten-hour days. We estimate the annualized unsupported payments for full time doctors and part time doctors for fiscal year 2012 were approximately $1.9 million, said the report by the Division of Internal Audits in the state Department of Administration. The 23 physicians at the seven state prisons are paid an hourly rate ranging from $64 to $82. An audit several years ago found that physicians hired in the state mental health system failed to put in the hours they were paid for, prompting officials to tighten controls. The prison audit included physicians, dentists and psychiatrists. The audit says physicians, as exempt employees, are not required to work the full tenhour daily shift, but standard practice in Nevada is they put in something equivalent to a 40 hour work week or more. Read the rest here: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/dec/12/ audit-finds-prison-doctors-paid-hours-notworked/ -----------Books brought to ESP following the Nevada Cure and ABC Nevada Book Drives! Just before Christmas 2012 5 boxes of books for the library were brought by volunteers who were visiting a prisoner at ESP. The books had not been brought earlier because there was a long and bureaucratic way of giving the all clear on these books. Nevada-Cure is now going to organize a bookdrive for HDSP. Have your family contact them via: Nevadacure.org 702.347.1731 ------Lawless America Movie Interview: Tonya Frances Brown for Nolan Klein in Carson City, Nevada. Nolan Klein is dead. He died in the Nevada State Prison. He was wrongfully convicted. He spent 20 years in prison and died there, an innocent man.

Nolan Klein wrote a letter expressing his feelings about the corruption that he experienced. Nolan Klein speaks to us from Heaven through his sister, Tonja Frances Brown. Lawless America...The Movie is all about exposing the fact that we now live in Lawless America. We no longer have laws that are enforced because judges do whatever they want to do. America has also become lawless because government officials are dishonest and/or corrupt. The movie will expose corruption in every state. The Movie will focus on victims. Corrupt judges and corrupt government officials will be exposed, and we will confront a number of the crooks. If anyone has ever questioned the story of a person who has expressed the view that they were a victim of the government or of judges, this movie will prove that the odds are that the corruption report was true. In fact, there are probably tens of millions of victims in the United States who never realized what happened to them. One feature length documentary movie is being produced. It will be shown in theaters, on Netflix, Blockbuster, and other such video places, and the movie will be presented at the Sundance Film Festival and other film festivals. In addition, videos will be produced for each state and for each type of corruption. Everyone who is interviewed for the film will record a three-minute segment that will be done as testimony before Congress as well as a 30-60 minute on-camera interview with Bill Windsor, founder of LawlessAmerica.com and GRIP, and candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislators in each state will receive the testimony from those in their state, and the members of the U.S. House and Senate will receive all of the testimony nationwide. Over 750 people are already scheduled to be interviewed for the movie. For more information, see (for your outside fam and friends): www.LawlessAmerica.com and www.Facebook.com/lawlessamerica ----------

Danger in the Prisons From: Travis N. Barrick, in: Las Vegas Sun, (op.-ed.) Dec. 17th 2012 Advocating on behalf of prison inmates can be a lonely task. Politicians and taxpayers are understandably focused on the kids and the kitchen table and are largely unsympathetic to the problems of convicted felons. But theres an issue developing inside prisons thats threatening to move outside those walls. Its looming as a potentially catastrophic public health risk to the mainstream population. The rate of hepatitis C in prison populations has raised red flags for at least a decade at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A 2005 study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Infections shows prison inmates are infected at a significantly higher rate than the population as a whole. It also suggests that person-to-person transmission, typically through tattooing, continues during incarceration, making infection all the more likely as more time is spent in an institution. If you dont find this sobering, you should, because more than 95 percent of prison inmates are released back into society, according to U.S. Department of Justice statistics. An unacceptable number will carry hepatitis C back into neighborhoods and workplaces, where they will continue living with the undetected disease for decades. They will have ample occasion to spread it in their social circles. The incidence of hepatitis C among Nevada prison inmates is not known because the Nevada Department of Corrections doesnt administer a test for it upon entry. Nevada CURE, a nonprofit group devoted to reforms in the prison system, wants a statute in Nevada requiring the state to administer a routine hepatitis C test to inmates entering the system. Theres a humanitarian concern: Untreated hepatitis C causes a lingering, painful death, ravaging the liver. But consider, too, the expense of treating the end-stage complications of cirrhosis or cancer, compared with the smaller, controllable cost of the test and some antiviral treatments that are available. Attempts to discuss a hepatitis C testing regimen with the state prison director have been

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largely ignored. During a face-to-face meeting in June, Director James G. Cox said immediately that cost would be a concern. We arent sure whether Cox meant the cost of the tests or the cost from the Pandoras box that would surely follow the necessity to give lengthy treatments to the hundreds of inmates who would be expected to test positive. It could conceivably be tens of thousands of dollars per case. And the treatment is not always successful, either. Its a stiff price tag, but its less costly, and less dangerous for everyone, than the current alternative. In fairness, Cox has a challenging package of responsibilities. Hes running a crowd ed prison system that has had safety and labor issues. Hes doing the job in the face of a tightening state budget that has left him with limited options. At our June meeting, Cox said he would investigate the health procedures related to hepatitis C in other jurisdictions. Despite several follow-up reminders to his office, weve heard nothing back. Since we expect the prison director to take seriously a threat to people inside and outside the walls, we followed up this fall with a public records request for information. The state took longer than the law allows to respond, and the documents we received raise more questions than they answer. Las Vegas is no stranger to the horrors of hepatitis C. Our city is still living with the fallout from an episode in which innocent patients were infected with the virus in a clinical setting. The disease also is in the spotlight nationwide. After discovering a higher-than-expected rate of infection in Baby Boomers, the CDC recently recommended a hepatitis C test for all adults born between 1945 and 1965. The rate among incarcerated people is higher still and cant be viewed as contained if it isnt even monitored. Nevada CURE does not regularly tug on the sleeve of the average citizen to ask for help getting something done. But we believe this issue is a cause for general alarm. Travis N. Barrick is a Las Vegas attorney and vice president of Nevada CURE.

Prison Psychology Theres not much of a choice between life and limb When within these prison walls its your growth of violence That determines trust and respect of criminals alike, In a world where anything could happen if you let it And hidden within my walls you can see what I see. So you tell me my mind is a web of lies The worst of the worst That I weave my intentions to deceive you With my wicked ways. That because my body is entombed It leaves my mind to suffocate in madness To which my words are dismissed in an array of Unsympathetic ears of mistrust. Yet still in all of these illusions I survive By my minds strength, conceived of a silent rage The double standard tells of an attack upon the guard And justifies the bullets that cause our death. Its the madness on top of madness Which becomes the concentration camp of psychological despair Thats self -claimed in our own minds, or so its made to seem Its preoccupation is made to slowly seep into our minds And disrupt the fabric of our sanity Causing us infraction after infraction Pulling us down into their clutches of isolation Leaving the necessities of our existence In the hands of the oppressor Who practices the technique of Tolerance upon our intolerance Pushing upon us the contradiction of their own prison policies Which is subjective to the words: cruel and unusual punishment. Display contagious of their amusement To see the shambles of Misery That creates the intolerance to become Rage Where the enjoyment of excessive force to extract the rage Results in the use of tear gas or electric shock And inflicts a beating on uneven terms In favor of the oppressors And its the prisoner in his own delusional conspiracy Exaggerating to deceive you Filing the frivolous lawsuits in your courts Which are thrown out because they have no merit And further discouraged by public propaganda relations

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Which found its only a prisoners attempt To stain the integrity of the system Or so its made to seem So tell me again the typical stereotype of this plight And thats what they want you to believe But my mind remains free to think on its own To resist the traps that have been layed before me Whereupon I tread I crush the head of snakes Occams Razor Ely State Prison

Wouldnt it be better to have this meal instead of the beef stew? I am asking all who read this at ESP to get as many people as they can on their tier to write 2 kites: one to the culinary managers, one to warden Baker, asking them to change the beef stew dinner to a kiobosi sausage dinner. The more prisoners who send in kites, the better. It wont take but 5 minutes to write 2 kites and put them in your door, and the worst they can do is say no. So let everybody around you know whats up. Thank you Solidarity and Respects, Coyote

A Prisoners Revelation

Hope for Freedom

Tik-Tok, Doing Time is not by a Regular Clock. The small hand, are the weeks. The big hand, are the months. The hours, are the years. And the days, are a decade. So to make it a week, we Will be asleep, that in Reality is Six feet deep. Tik-tok, doing Time by a prisoner clock. Alphoncy Sr. John Witherow 26 years of experience in Nevada prisons Pardons Board applications Parole Planning Research/Writing of pleadings of interest to prisoners Call or write: 702-900-8958 P.O. Box 4023 Gaylord MI 49734

Does anyone even like the beef stew they serve? Here at Ely State Prison, no one really likes the beef-stew meal that we get for dinner. We sit in our cells and starve on the nights we get this meal. Its more stew than beef. Really, its just water, with a carrot here, an onion there and if youre lucky a morsel of meat I wont dare call it beef, cuz truth be told, we really dont know what it is! Im calling on prisoners here in this gulag of ESP to join me in a petition to get the beef stew dinner changed to a kiobosi sausage dinner. Those are the big sausages that they sometimes serve us in place of a hamburger, everybody likes these sausages, right?

In Illinois, the torturous and money-usurping supermax known as Tamms has now closed! th Friday 28 Dec 2012 the last prisoners were transferred out. We call to stop the permanent lockdown situations of ESP and HDSP in Nevada!!

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From: Idle No More, a new movement: Idlenomore.ca Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to the land and water. We must repair these violations, live the spirit and intent of the treaty relationship, work towards justice in action, and protect Mother Earth. On December 10th, Indigenous people and allies stood in solidarity across Canada to assert Indigenous sovereignty and begin the work towards sustainable, renewable development. All people will be affected by the continued damage to the land and water and we welcome Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies

to join in creating healthy sustainable communities. We encourage youth to become engaged in this movement as you are the leaders of our future. There have always been individuals and groups who have been working towards these goals Idle No More seeks to create solidarity and further support these goals. We recognize that there may be backlash, and encourage people to stay strong and united in spirit. Plan of Action: Support and encourage grassroots to create their own forums to learn more about Indigenous rights and our responsibilities to our Nationhood via teach-ins, rallies and social media. Build relationships and create understanding with allies across Canada. Take steps to contribute to building relationships with international agencies such as the UN to raise awareness to the conditions

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Indigenous people have been subjected to and assert our sovereignty in the international arena. Acknowledge and honor the hard work of all grassroots people who have worked, and continue to work towards these goals you are our inspiration. Idle No More Calls For Only PEACEFUL Acts of Resurgence and Reclamation of Sacred Sites When INM first began, Elders were consulted and direction provided from them. Their message and direction has been of peaceful solidarity and unity. One of the most sacred of Indigenous laws is peaceful resistance when Elders and children are involved and this is what we must follow. Idle No More is a peaceful organization that is working towards profound social, political, and economic change. Our goal is to use education to build consciousness and awareness in all Canadians on the resurgence of Indigenous sovereignty and environmental protections. We are working on building relationships within our communities as well as across Canada and globally. We also call out to each community to organize teach-ins and peaceful demonstrations we believe an educated public is the best form of action. Each community has different needs, and we support the various actions that are taking place across Turtle Island, however because of the many decades of colonialism, some community members are seeking stronger forms of action such as blockades. While we need to protect the land from further damage, we hope that this will be used as a last resort to protect Mother Earth, and not as a symbolic act. We are working hard to maintain INM as a positive movement that includes all cultures in a vision for justice for all people and for our earth. Idle No More feels that any acts that are not in line with peace and solidarity only detract attention from our ultimate mission which is to assert our sovereignty and ensure protection to our Mother Earth and in essence our peoples health and wellbeing. We ask that you all keep in mind these factors when planning any acts of resurgence. INM recognizes that the grassroots are the face of INM - we would like to state that any one individual does not speak for the collective in any of their acts or statements. Although we recognize that individuals will partake in their own acts, we support a collective grassroots voice that speaks to Indigenous sovereignty and environmental protection. We welcome creative

acts and encourage people to generate peaceful ways to build community and defend the earth. From Kolo 8: RENO, Nev. -- You might have seen protests around town recently with people drumming, dancing and holding up signs that say "Idle No More." It's part of an international peace protest by Native Americans against a piece of Canadian legislation and the local tribes aren't staying silent. They've hit the Outlets at Legends, rallied at Meadowood Mall, stormed the arch downtown and have united at the Walmart at the Reno Sparks Colony, but it's only the beginning for the local tribes. The local tribes beat their drums to the sound of injustice. "Idle No More" is a grassroots movement that has gained a serious following through flash mobs and social media. "Everyone's been asking about it, you know 'what is this?' They're so curious. It's really nice to speak out and tell them what's going on, said Layce Roberts, a protestor. "When you tell them, their eyes open up." It began in Canada when Prime Minister Stephen Harper passed Title C-45, a budget bill that will change the Indian Act and Navication Protection Act. It was initially made to help the economy. "They're sneaking new laws and new bills and forcing ours out. We don't have a word anymore," Roberts said. "Sometimes we have to stand up and say 'no that's not ok.'" Protestors say they were not consulted about the changes that will take away the land and water that was reserved to them long ago. "They were promises. We like to keep our word and we would hope that the other person would keep their's as well," she said. Protestors across the globe have shown their support for a tribe leader in Ontario, Chief Theresa Spence, who has been on a hunger strike from 29 days. She has vowed not to eat until the Canadian government shows more respect for Native American treaties. "Even if it's happening in Canada, it's still our people, it's still our brothers and sisters; our family. It affects us in every way," said Summer Dressler, a protestor.

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Prime Minister Harper has agreed to meet with Chief Spence this Friday and organizers have already labeled it "Global Day of Action." "It's been years so it's finally happening and you know it's not going to stop," Roberts said. "We're just going to keep it going and going even after they meet." This Saturday, Jan. 12 at 2 p.m. under the Reno arch downtown, more than 200 local protestors will stand together in solidarity holding signs, dancing and singing as part of the movement. NPN About:Amlcar Cabral (Born: 12 September 1924 assassinated: 20 January 1973) was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, writer, and a nationalist thinker and politician. From 1963 to his assassination in 1973, Cabral led the PAIGC's guerrilla movement (in Portuguese Guinea) against the Portuguese regime, which evolved into one of the most successful wars of independence in African history. The goal of the conflict was to attain independence for both Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. Over the course of the conflict, as the movement captured territory from the Portuguese, Cabral became the de facto leader of a large portion of what became Guinea-Bissau. Cabral trained his lieutenants through various techniques, including mock conversations to provide them with effective communication skills that would aid their efforts to mobilize Guinean tribal chiefs to support the PAIGC. Amlcar Cabral soon realized that the war effort could be sustained only if his troops could be fed and taught to live off the land alongside the larger populace. Being an agronomist, he taught his troops to teach local crop growers better farming techniques, so that they could increase productivity and be able to feed their own family and tribe, as well as the soldiers enlisted in the PAIGC's military wing. When not fighting, PAIGC soldiers would till and plow the fields alongside the local population. Cabral and the PAIGC also set up a trade-andbarter bazaar system that moved around the country and made staple goods available to the countryside at prices lower than that of colonial store owners. During the war, Cabral also set up a roving hospital and triage station to give medical care to wounded PAIGC's soldiers and quality-of-life care to the larger populace, relying

on medical supplies garnered from the USSR and Sweden. In 1972, Cabral began to form a People's Assembly in preparation for the birth of an independent African nation, but disgruntled former PAIGC rival Inocncio Kani, with the help of Portuguese agents operating within the PAIGC, shot and killed him before he could complete his project. The assassination took place on 20 January 1973 in Conakry, Guinea. His half-brother, Lus Cabral, became the leader of the Guinea-Bissau branch of the party and would eventually become President of GuineaBissau. More than a guerrilla leader, Cabral was highly regarded internationally as one of the most prominent African thinkers of the 20th century and for his intellectual contributions aimed at formulating a coherent cultural, philosophical and historical theoretical framework to justify and explain independence movements. This is reflected in his various writings and public interventions. NPN Yellow Pages: Center for Constitutional Rights 666 Broadway 7th floor New York, NY 10012 Write them if you want to request their JHL Handbook, they will send it to you if you provide your address, and it is without charge for prisoners. You may have to have it approved before you order it or while you order it. Nevada Cure: Support- and advocacy group of people whose life has been negatively affected by Nevadas criminal justice system. Contact: Nevada Cure 540 E. St. Louis Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89104 Tel: 702.347.1731 FFIP: For family and friends, supporting them supporting you: Contact: Family and Friends of Incarcerated persons (FFIP) PO Box 27708 Las Vegas, NV 89126 www.ffipnv.org For visitors: Inmate Family Connections Bus service to prisons for visitors Address: 800 N. Rainbow Suite 162 Las Vegas , NV, 89107 http://www.inmatefamilyconnections.com

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