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Hank Skinner Reports Jan 5 2002:
"I
received the two page report on Pippin. What he says is 100% correct
and he reported it
just as it happened.
Roy is like me; he wants credibility and so he reports like a camera
-
dispassionately and accurately,
without slant, aggrandizement or embellishments.
He has not eaten since he began his hunger strike. The damn guards are lying on him. So now he's on a death trip because he knows that the only way now to prove they're lying about him having eaten is if he suffers a major medical crisis from not eating. In other words, if he was eating as they claim, why did his heart and kidneys fail from malnutrition?
This
is the result of TDCJ's #$%^&*! lies; they are driving the man to kill
himself because it's
the only way he can prove
them as the liars they are. They are refusing to do a medical
intervention because
they fear security problems (he'd have to be taken to a hospital and fed
intravenously in order
to keep him alive); and they won't give him any attention only because
they say it's what he wants and if they coddle him, it will encourage other
prisoners to emulate his actions in order to get "special attention" for
themselves.
In
other words, they're just going to stand idly by and allow the man to waste
away until he
dies. I tell you,
TDCJ employs some really sorry, sick, demented, deviant, depraved and horridly
perverted sons of whores.
Yesterday,
near the end of first shift, they gassed Soulja (Leon Dorsey 999359) three
(3) times,
in more than three (3)
second bursts, inside his cell. Lt. Larry Roach authorized this in
violation of the TDCJ use of force plan and A. D.'s & B. D.'s on use
of froce and use of chemical agents (B. P. 03.46 and 03.40). Since
it was time for them to go home, they just walked off and left him in his
cell with all that gas. See, that @#$% will kill you in a confined
space like that if they use too much and leave you in there too long, so
they are limited to using two - 2 second bursts 5 minutes apart or max
2 - 3 second bursts 5 minutes apart. After the second bursts they
have to run-in on you (5 man extraction team) and take you to the shower
to be decontaminated. They left Dorsey in that cell and after 2nd
shift came on they didn't come decontaminite him either. We could
hear him coughing and choking late into the night and I mean it sounded
bad.
See,
the gas settles in the low spots in the cell and any air movement stirs
it up all over again. After so long it just bllinds you and locks up your
lungs. Like carbon monixide poisoning, you get sleepy. If you
lay down horizontally, your lungs fill up with it and you die. It's
called "positional asphyxia" - the gas displaces all the air and you literally
choke to death. Soulja is still alive this morning, but he's in a
sad shape. It it weren't for the purge fans, he'd be dead."
Following is some text from his letter, written the 9th, which I received today:
"All
kinds of things are going on down here. "Slammings", gassings, run-ins,
fires, floods. I
don't get much rest.
They've been constantly welding all over this building since beginning
since the day we got here and they're still at it. Now we hear they're
going to weld the doors up solid like the managements cells on 1 row, all
of F-pod. It has little to do with "security" but of course that's
the excuse they use. It has more to do with them wanting to break
our unity with each other (prisoners) wanting to stop our communicating
with each other in any manner which they cannot regulate, intercept or
control.
Most
of the guys here are growing weary of the grievance (useless) process and
beginning to
engage some form of physical
resistance or disruptive process. Like sitting down on the run when
on the way to / from rec or showers. That stops everything until
they bring a team to carry the prisoner back to his cell. But these
activities just anger Rank and make them more prone to excessive uses of
force. The administration (Zeller, in particular) doesn't give a
---- and is just looking for any excuse to take, take, take something more.
I'm not sure where all this will end. But all of the guys, including yours
truly, no longer gave a @#$%.
This
morning for breakfast we got 2 biscuits with sugar drizzled on them and
3 teaspoons of
crushed pineapple.
I'll
tell you how bad the food is. It's so bad that we're taking turns
chucking piss so one of us
will always be on food
loaf, which we divvy up equally between all of us, so we'll at least be
full. I'ts nothing but dough and corn kernals. But at least you can
get full on it. You can't do that with any regular tray they serve.
For lunch just now (Jan. 9th) we got some kind of Goulash slop made of
leftovers from the last 3 or 4 days - macaroni noodles, broccoli chunks,
corn, peas, etc. @#$%^&* garbage, not fit for a dog."
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