Chance Wallow

 Chance Wallow spent years in segregation  and was known for his serious suicide attempts. He is now in general and will be getting out soon. His first issue here is about the fact that The cells  in the prison he is in , WSPF ( formerly supermax), have no source of outside light- no windows that open to the outside. This causes depression and serious health concerns

Chance Wallow

Nate Lindell

 Nate Lindell has become a dedicated Justice advocate and patient educator of folks like me. He is another OLD Law prisoner, in since 1999 and eligible for parole for decades but kept in thru conflicting rules, misinformation, and fear of you, the public. We all must embrace the idea: PEOPLE DO CHANGE. They are NOT their crime. 

litigator- I will link here some of his projects and then introduce and link them to the issue they are addressing . This man has many suits going that would help all-

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Nate Lindell 303724 SCI

Post 824- Open records request for crucial information like complaints against staff and camera coverage of abuse by staff  is always difficult to obtain and ends up being very expensive. Here Nate is addressing the difficulty prisoners and their advocate friend have by sharing a lawsuit  that breaks the deadlock - below he explains and below that I will link the actual lawsuit . 

HANIEL LINDELL (303724)

Hi Peg,

     Of course you and incarcerated persons can use that Brief that I emailed you to challenge any of the too-many rules that WDOC staff are constantly concocting. Derek DeGroot here (an excellent litigator) just used it to end a rule that SCI concocted that banned use of tape and staples.

    Below is a fuller explanation of where my case is at, the one about Open Records. (Rest assured tat all of the litigators at my prison ave access to what was filed in the case, although some have no need for it.) Please share it with Tim and other litigators. Just awaiting the judge's decision....it is time that you and others start requesting video footage under §19.35; if its denied, file Mandamus, let me litigate it, get your costs and punitive damages -easy peasy, get 'em for being greasy#

 

      In Dane County Circuit court Case #24-CV-1066 State ex rel Lindell v. Reese, the WDOC has argued that it denies all Open Records requests for body-cam footage based on a presumption that release of such footage would threaten security. The WDOC is also claiming that they deny all PREA scoring results, claiming that it could be manipulated by prisoners. In neither case did the WDOC explain how these records actually pose a risk to security in my case, nor is there any statute permitting a blanket denial of these types of records, meaning that the attempt by the WDOC to deny these records is clearly illegal, as our state court of appeals and supreme court have repeatedly ruled.

     The legal authority for my arguments is provide in the Brief that I filed responding to A.A.G. Sandra L. Tarver's Motion to Quash the Writ. We had oral arguments on 14 August, in front of judge Everett D. Mitchell, and are awaiting his written decision. I expect that Judge Mitchell will declare the WDOC's blanket ban on releasing video footage a violation of Wisconsin's Open Rec

 

link to text Behind petition: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y1Ov8DBPkk_HiG1JFFuQwqnWKHYKsPEP/view?usp=sharing

Joseph Cook

Joseph Cook 436664 

 Thought Log

Joseph Cook
Incarcerated as a juvenile, shares with us his "Thought log " he wrote while grappling with big disappointment and heartbreak

After 19 years in prison, I thought that I would never be sent back to a maximum security prison. I worked my way

down to a medium with the goal of eventually working my way down to work release and community custody. But

I fucked up and did some silly shit that landed me back to maximum security prison for a year. Waupun is the

max. prison they sent me to. I was very disappointed in myself. I let my family down, along with dragging them

down emotionally. My family is doing time with me. They are experiencing the joy of my accomplishments along

with the stress and pain of my mistakes.

Upon entering Waupun, it was suggested that I keep a Thought Log by my psychologist in order to document my

feelings. Expressing myself verbally to my psychologist was/is a challenge. Writing my feelings down throughout

the week prior to going to our sessions gave our sessions more material to discuss. Although the Thought Logs

started off as an exercise to better communicate with my psychologist they have become something more

personal. A daily habit I do for my own healing.

The first three entries were written during the first few weeks of entering Waupun. This moment of my life was

very stressful. After 90 days in the hole in a minimum security prison, I was shipped out or maxed out as we call it

inside prison, I was maxed out to Waupun. A maximum security prison as part of my punishment for getting into

trouble at a minimum security prison. I was so disappointed in myself. During this stage of my growth, I knew

better than to fuck up like I did. I knew the power of choices. Although the DOC is a dysfunctional institution, I

knew the consequences of my actions. Placing the responsibility of my actions in my own hands. With no one to

blame, I had to look within. The below reflects my process of dealing with myself. You will see that after a year in

Waupun, I was able to go back to a minimum security prison. And how that transition also altered the tone in my

thought log.

Thought Log 5-6-21

For years, I feel like I've been walking, stumbling, fumbling forward in a world where there is a perpetual fog.

Preventing me from appreciating all of the hardships I've overcame, goals I've reached, and precious bonds with

the power heal created. The now seems blurry, out of place, at a loss to where I came from and with no direction

for the steps forward. In the fog, shame mistakes, indiscretions, and a sense of wanting to feel invisible exist.

Although the fog interrupts one's vision it doesn't cloud the negative self image, or the lack of self acceptance I

feel for myself.

Book Entrance: ″When you drive your vehicle from place to place, you have awareness of your starting place as

well as an awareness of where you are going. You accept that you cannot get there instantaneously; you accept

that you will travel the distance, and in time, you will arrive at your destination. And while you may feel anxious to

get there, and maybe even tire of the journey, you do not get so discouraged at the midway mark that you just

turn around and go back to your starting point to the midway point and then finally collapse from the never-ending

journey.

You do not announce your inability to accomplish your journey. You accept the distance between your starting

place and where you desire to be and you continue to move like in the direction of your destination. You

understand what is required and you do it.″

5-9-21

The fog is diminishing slowly. There is still a haze of self blame, of shame, of feeling like I'm not worthy of

compliments, help, positive acknowledgement. I believe acceptance of what was, what is, and what will be is the

beginning of a new dawn. But that acceptance is difficult. Yesterday, when I was on the phone with my creative

partner who is the Poet Laureate of WI. she told me she was going to make sure my book project becomes a

success. I immediately wanted to tell her I'm not worthy, or that I was a mistake. Immediately part of me negated

her statement. Apart of me wanted to tell her I wasn't the same man she met years ago. That I was weaker, more

prone to making mistakes, and on a downward spiral. I wanted to tell her their is a world of difference between

my gift of writing and me as a person just living. But of course, I didn't tell her that. She wouldn't have looked at

me differently. She loves and supports me, not based on my performance but based on my person.

Quote from Sistah Souljah:

″Hibernate the heart,″ my sensei had taught me. In extreme situations or in captivity, isolation or tortore, only the hibernated heart will allow the fighter to prevail. ″

″Silence is discipline. Even while being provoked, lied to, lied on, insulted, and maligned.″

5-18-21

Emotionally, I'm riding the wave of being back in max. It feels like I'm on a raft and the waters are turbulent. I don't

fear tipping off, or drowning. I know I'll be safe if I just lay on the raft. I really desire to stand up, position my legs,

center my feet, and balance myself until the wave has dissipated and I'm able to walk unto the shore. With the

water and all it's potential danger beneath me growing more distant and less threatening as I make my way to

shore. Maybe that will come as I leave the DOC in general. Until then maybe turbulent waters will be the wave

that washes me up to freedom.

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I left Waupun a year after that last thought log. I arrived in New Lisbon on May 25, 2022. Which was a shift in my

routine, my spirit, and my outlook on life. Waupun was hectic. Fights daily, extortion, drug use, screaming over

the tier all day, suicides, the sounds of guys getting tased , suicides attempts, along with the constant 24hr. cell

confinements due to the shortage of staff. New Lisbon, is regular. A walk in the park when compared to Waupun.

We get rec., and library constantly, the food is better, I have witness no fights, drug episodes, or even heard the

word suicide mentioned. The only thing I resented was not being able to take up my college courses for the fall

semester. It got delayed one semester. After I got over that and the fact that New Lisbon is so white and far away

from home, I was able to appreciate the limited freedoms provided by New Lisbon. And I was also able to create

opportunities for growth, opportunities to connect, opportunities to create spaces where a shared humanity is the

focus.

Thought Log 5-27-22

Today is my fourth day in New Lisbon. I know I should be happy due to being in a prison with more freedoms,

less violence, and more space. Maybe I'm not allowing myself to be happy based on the fact that I'm in New

Lisbon and not Racine or Oshkosh. Prisons that are closer to Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. I feel like this

prison is a replica of all the other prisons: white officers and staff members that really have nothing to do with the

majority Black inmate population they are in control of. Racine would have been a breath of fresh air. More

healthy for my transitioning from the monotony and riffraff of prison time to the more meaningful and productive

aspects of preparation time. Being in a prison ran by Black and Brown people is more representative of the

people who represent my community. Good people are good people, but it's a difference between working with

people who know where you come from, who have compassion, understanding, and tolerance versus working

with people who are completely cultural strangers. I looked forward to attending the groups offered by Racine

some of those groups are offered by New Lisbon but there's a difference when the people who are conducting the

groups relate to you and have a vested interest in your success. Being in New Lisbon feels lonely, foreign,

strange, and unwelcoming. Besides being in their prison I know I don't belong here, around these people, in this

area. They view my incarceration not as a social and human crisis, but as a job/career opportunity for

themselves, their families, and their community. Sometimes I envy them, but most of the time I pity them. They

look as miserable as I sometimes feel. And to be a correctional officer, I wonder do they know their worth, did

they ever pursue their dreams, do they question a society who uses prisons as job opportunities for some

communities while destroying other communities?

Thought Log: 6-27-22

Today I feel alright. My thoughts are clear, my emotions are balanced, my body is fully functional. I have no aches

in my knees or elbows. I don't feel bloated, exhausted. A little sleepy, yet I feel the enthusiasm that comes with a

new day. I have to get back to writing more, thinking more in depth about my book manuscript and putting true

effort into my publishing goals. Sometimes I add old writings into new manuscripts in order to fill up space. I have

to stop that. It cheats my readers and also I'm cheating myself. Following a theme without deviation helps.

Gratitude Chart:

I'm thankful for friendship.

7-11-22

Monday morning! A new week. I'm continuing to adopt to my new environment. I'm attempting to find my rhythm.

A schedule of writing, reading, consuming information that serves a purpose. And incorporating some form of

spiritual practices. Fasting for a day, meditation, prayers that acknowledge a force bigger than myself. Rather that

force is Nature or Buddha or God or all three. I've been consistent with thanking God for each new day. Letting go

of the past, being open to new experiences, reaching for people who share my interest, and pursuing my

interest with a hunger like never before. How I've been feeling(like giving up) my state of being(down and

dejected) and my actions(dumb as hell) should have come in the beginning. Now I'm almost finished. The finish

line is in sight, so why stop now?*

Feeling sorry for myself, wanting others to feel sorry for me, all that shit has to stop. I have to be a force. Inwardly

and outwardly.

Gratitude Chart:

I'm thankful for Lauryn Hill

I'm thankful that I have the ability to see, to touch, to smell, and to think comprehensively.

*It's usual for guys with long prison bids to act out in the beginning of their time due to the adjustment period, and

during the end due to the anxiety of now getting closer to release.

7-14-22

It's okay. It's okay. I'm able bodied, sound minded, emotionally balanced, and goal driven. Focus, perspective,

priority, watch the company I keep. Be mindful of my words. Don't take things personal. Don't hold on to grudges

if you do transfer that negative energy into fuel for your goals. Don't posture, don't feed into bullshit. Don't focus

on others, neither staff nor peers. Be cordial, not friendly, or stand offish. Hold your on. Listen to good music, eat

good healthy food. Sleep, take naps, its not a form of laziness it's giving your body, your muscles time to

rejuvenate, rest, recovery. Have good conversations, listen to good podcast, surround yourself with good people.

Write....write good material. Read good literal. Meditate, pray, connect and give gratitude to life, to forces outside

of myself. Laugh more, look for humor more. Don't give shit talk power. Appreciate the skies, the trees, the fresh

air, water: cold, warm, hot. Sometimes look out the window at the night sky. Go hard for your dreams without the

anxious controlling feeling. Appreciate the process, the people involved, the connection with others and not just

the end result. Tell the people who you love, that you love them.

7-18-22

Today was a good day. I actually enjoyed it. My morning started off with two guys approaching me on some silly

negative shit. But after that, things went good. I told myself not to give that energy too much power, time, thought.

So it wouldn't ruin my day. Just an unpleasant moment. After that, I read. Prepared workout by drinking water and

stretching. I exercised all morning until my psych doctor called me in. Our session gave me perspective, insight,

and the cathartic experience of connecting,being vulnerable, sharing. I continued to have positive interactions

throughout the day. The poetry group went good. I had to practice being present, mindful, and present. It gets

dull, boring, tedious but that's that. Part of the poetry group that I'm committed to. So along with sharpening my

writing skills, and networking with other writers it's also an exercise of being mindful and present. I wrote one

poem today and emailed it to my agent/publisher. I also sent emails out to my love ones. I felt/feel myself growing

bitter towards some. I remember the quote by Gandhi or was it King, ″Become the change you want to see.″? So I tell myself, I want others to be here for me, so I have to be here for others. I want mercy, so I have to give

mercy. I want to be shown compassion and forgiveness, so I have to be a compassionate and forgiving person.

That's what I'm building on. Still flawed, still fucked up, but also focused and forward thinking.

Tyler Milton

 Tyler Milton; Has had a long journey through the DOC . He was released and revoked, is mentally ill but has improved his behavior record enough to be in general and help all that are near him.

Tyler Milton, learning well the hard way

Carrie Metz

CARRIE METZ (350814),Taycheedah Correctional Institution

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Carrie Metz needs help herself and speaks for all

Metz  is Native American and has alerted me to may wrongs at TCI, she tries to keep in touch with her  small child. One of the concerns she alerted us to the fact that prisoner  without money or  support have to walk the long track to HSU several times a day to get their medicine no matter how cold it is. They are not allowed to wrap blankets around themselves and do not have the required warm garb -s o either go cold or skip meds.

The second issue is that there are no windows that open in TCI and most prisoners have no fans.

So winter or summer, these women are suffering, we need to act.

Update 81424/CARRIE METZ (350814)

8/14/2024 12:15:33 PM

Hey u....what's been going on? Haven't heard from u in a while. I hope all is well. Its the same ole same ole here. A lot of changing faces as far as higher up staff go. We still are restricted almost every weekend from any movement because of staff shortages. Which is nuts because they hired so many more staff but I realized this isn't by accident. They are purposely reducing staff on weekends to save money because now they hire these 18 year old correction officers straight out of high school with absolutely no training what so ever and pay these pukes $33 an hour starting pay. And we still get $4 every two weeks. If we're lucky enough to not owe the courts which isn't often. But the shampoo and conditioner they sell is $6.50 each. Suave products. So its getting really hard to survive around here. I just want to get the heck out of here. Well hopefully I hear back from u. Xo 

 

DarRen Morris

Animal in a cage by DarRen Morris

DarRen Morris

Self Portrait DarRen Morris 

 

DarRen  Morris is an inspiration for all. When I first met him, h e was always in segregation , being abused and fighting back, He is severely deaf and that makes all worse inan environment where few accommodations are made for the handicapped. With DarRen's help , FFUP submitted a proposal with several suggestions on how to make life better in there for the deaf. They were not accepted but slowly over the years, there has been increased awareness and some good action. 

DarRen has healed himself through contact with caring people.  He and a goo friend published a book together, link below and he himself wrote a guide to help other kids like he was, navigate their way to a healthy life style

https://guidebydarrenmorris.blogspot.com/2010/04/goal-setting-guide-for-urban-students.html

https://darrenmorrisartist.blogspot.com/

 

 

http://www.prisonforum.org/2013/04/second-chance-for-juveniles.html

Damien Green

 Damien Green 384855 GBCI

 Damien Green’s story , unfortunately, echoes many. He is mentally ill and has been in and out of prison many times. Always released with no treatment to the same neighborhood, where old friends and influences return him to the same bad behavior. Like so many in Milwaukee Inner city, he grew up without a father, with a mother working full time and stressed to the limit. He wants desperately to  make it to a stable life outside. We have been for years trying to get him to treatment at WRC but the DOC criteria to refer him are so contradictory and impossible that he never made it. Also, Treatment at WRC is short term usually and then prisoners are returned to the same old setting where there is no follow up, making gains hard.

 

 Now he has matured a lot through time  and influence of others and is no longer disruptive. He was a few days out of segregation when he reported to the powers about much drug dealing in the cell next to him. This has lead to a cascade of events we think is in retaliation and an effort to shut this man up.  He gets out next year and FFUP is trying to secure a safe landing for him.

Below is a series of letters from Damien to those in power and then my letters to the powers  with a few answers interspersed. 

There was a bizzare series of conduct reports that gave him disciplinary status before he got "PROTECTIVE custody" and we both discuss some of that in the letters below. We both think these farsical and hurtful CRs were an attempt to hide the fact that GBCI is awash with drugs. The conduct reports were related to his need to use a catheter and the HSU response continues to be negligent and uncaring.  

Damien Green 384855 GBCI

transcription of letter clearly stating the danger he was in and why

Damien Green 384855 GBCI

12-4-23

 Hello how are you doing? The reason for this letters is because I fear for my life, because I was thinking that I was doing the right thing. The inmate next door to me been selling his pills to the workers and buying K2 a drug and trading his pills with other inmates for this pill- they coming to his cell door like it's a drug house, so I wrote letters to the warden, security Mr kind, Captain Roz, and unit manager. An officer told one of the workers, I'm telling on the guy next to me and the Lit puledl the cell next to me B 39 out and talked to him. He came back and told everyone I'm a rat. Everyone wants to jump me, fight me. They putting money on my head so someone can do something to me. I don't want to be stabbed up. These people refuse to protect my safety, well-being. Please call up here and talk with someone. I ask them to put me on PC

I will jump to latest letters- I have a few more ideas to try to get this man treatment and real support when he gets out but so far he is just stuck:

Damien green poem https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HdI3pwpIFrf7oDzx2v3ypxMogDbyXF7y/view?usp=sharing

Conditions in GBBCI 8824 names names

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FrIzFsiUvroOZokzPwNF9-lQg3lzpgV6/view?usp=sharing

 Letter to EVERs

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IrMPmCzAvn2gsyXodjwF2cFTM1Odj_zk/view?usp=sharing. 

 Damien Green 122123/plea to me to get him out of GBCI 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13H-mk-LNaU4lJXeQEL-gWABy18eBpEsh/view?usp=sharing

 Damien Green Crayon letter to internal Affairs committee 1424

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dy2AsbS-YDg59YMZF2dA7HH7QsFNxkka/view?usp=sharing

 D Green to licensing board 11924

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LYh4UUNe10rOW7pzPQ7qrl2I8E309_ok/view?usp=sharing

 D green to carr 224 https://drive.google.com/file/d/189R_1UlohQij5ULEAgEj2Us41tfx1I4U/view?usp=sharing

 D GReen to me

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ijRpp74eH4QRuuA6pnAX-OatplrXjTJ9/view?usp=sharing

 

Green from security director

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FLKz3ObvNYuvVsjX6hIVCrqEvMTkjij9/view?usp=drive_link

 Green from Warden

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PkZd-_UvqmFDuo65_vZOf7yCXQrZIgle/view?usp=sh

Complaint Appeal ( pencil too light to scan)

Fill number: GBCI-2023-18312

I was in general population, on the North unit cell B38. I told on an inmate who used to live in cell B-40 that took my phone card from me and had the phone number put in the phone jack, so he can use the phone. I wrote to Warden Steven, Mr kind security and Captain Roz. I gave them dates, times to look at the cameras. They did, and the inmate in Cell B40 was given a conduct report and moved to a lower cell a42. The inmate next to me in cell B39, selling his medication to all the workers and inmates and the runners going to buy K2 and drugs so we can get high. Cell B34(9?) was trading his medications with an inmate who lives on the lower named Mike B39 got all the workers, Runners at his cell door everyday.

 

 I gave this information to the same people I stated in the front of this complaint. I've been threatened, my safety and well-being be at risk, I was not going to shower, rec. I was threatened by both inmates and their friends to jump me, stab me, the warden put me in seg on 12/9/23 to suffering.

 

 Because I'm a GP  inmate, they could put me over in the treatment center, on PC, in a single cell but they put me with seg inmates. I can't use the phone everyday like I would in GP or Treatment Center, I can't go to Rec, to play ball, workout, have face-to-face visits. I'm suffering down in seg,this is bullshit how I'm being treated. And many inmates coming down to seg calling me a rat telling everyone I told on everyone, got their  jobs taken, when they see me they going to fuck me up. I wrote  to Mr Kevin Carr Mr Tony Evers and others:Senator David Stephan and more..

 

 I don't want to be in seg, I want to be moved out ,for my safety- in the treatment center until I be moved.

 Damien green 1 1 24

MY letters to the powers  tell more of the story :

FFUP March 2024 letter to Secretary Carr and GBCI Security Director Kind

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TjxcahWjU_pu2AnrB5ZB6LkCxVhTFxZK/view?usp=sharing

 ffup to state licensing board :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VAbyRKuunlfXHSdmIiBvVRgaUro6Qapr/view?usp=sharing

FFUP to Carr and all:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TjxcahWjU_pu2AnrB5ZB6LkCxVhTFxZK/view?usp=sharing

 

 

Fredrick Morris

 

Fredrick Morris 2018

Fredrick Morris today

Fredrick is a strong person, maintaining his sanity thru learning the law and litigating, the only real resources available to those in segregation . He is on administrative Confinement(AC), which is long term segregation, supposed to be nonpunitive . But nothing in the DOC is non punitive and conditions are harsh in the  extreme. He is on Ac because he assaulted a guard who was assaulting him, Fredrick says. He is from Chicago and He will not tolerate that abuse.

Recently he went on hunger strike and was going to stay on hunger strike till he go out of there. He was convinced,, I think, by nursing staff, to abandon the effort and FFUP will be working with him on our upcoming suit aimed at getting a mental health treatment center up and running. 

My mail into the prison now takes three weeks due to the use of Text Behind, a third person mailing system . It was supposed to curtail drugs but instead makes communication between prisoner and their families nearly impossible. FFUP is mightily hindered. Fredrick will eventually get my blog invite and start contributing himself. I have a zoom visit with him soon. Drugs, in the meantime, have never been so plentiful iin our prison system. Also reports are that seof harm in thses solitary units is at an all  time high. Our destress tools are not allowed where they are needed most and  there is NO treatment or training for the majority of the mentally ill here.i  

KENDRICK SELLERS

Kendrick Sellers 603304 NLCI

In my life I have always stood up to racism. My father whom raised me Roy Howard Sellers Sr. Was from Rulesville, Mississippi, Sunflower County. He had to be hidden in a trunk of a car and driven out of town to Memphis Tennessee, he was accused of whistling at a white woman. The Descendants of Slaves, Estelle Sellers. When I was a kid the Ku Klux Klan came into the neighborhoods in Rockford Illinois and I stood up to them. I marched Proudly against the Unchecked powers of Racism. I have memories as a child that no child should ever see. My Father Roy H. Sellers Sr. Born 12-25-51 yes Christmas Day. Was a good man, a wise man. Who Graduated Parker Highschool in Chicago Illinois Top of his Class who was  then sent to fight a SECRET war coined Operation Menu. I remember I used to take my dad to see the Psychiatrist and he used to try and get my dad to tell him about Operation Menu but my dad always said he didn't know what he was talking about. At one of the sessions he told my dad "they changed the law" you can talk about it now! Tell me about the SECRET mission. My dad turns to me and says "son I ever spoke about any secret mission" I replied " no sir you have not " then the psychiatrist says to my dad "I know you were sworn to secrecy Mr. Sellers" but I assure you you can talk about it now. My dad replies "you said Secrecy? Well if I was sworn to secrecy then that's what'll be". My dad took that to his grave despite the government covering up the Operation and changing all of the soldiers papers and not providing all of his pension. He still Kept their SECRET. I searched high and low for any published books or anything on operation menu. None existed. I found a scholastic news article in prison about how to write newspapers and low and behold I saw Operation Menu. It was coined Operation Menu because their was 6 targets and the targets' code names were "Breakfast" "Lunch" "Supper" "Dinner" "Snack" "Desert"

The reason I write this is that I'm proud to stand up to racism in prison by the children's of those who wore the sheets over their heads in our neighborhood and those who forced my forced my father out of town.

May God Rest His Soul, Roy Howard Sellers Senior  12-25-1951--06-07-2009

 

If I learned anything in prison that was useful. At least I learned that!

Nicole Pergande

Nicole Pergande555978 TCI
Speaks for many

This is taken from a letter by NICKOLE PERGANDE (555978) .on the tablet and conditions in TCI.

“I'm not  certain If you've been alerted to the recent update pertaining our tablet situation within the DOC? The DOC is taking a stance that all of our personal music and games that we purchased and own will not be  “compatible” with our new tablets.. And if we cannot sync our current tablets with the kiosk systems prior to the” upgrade”- alI will be lost.

    What I know is this: we purchased all music and games individually when the tablets first became available; therefore all these individually purchased items should fall under the” grandfathered” property items. Either the DOC must Grant access for us or refund every person's money to them for each individual song and or game purchased.( even if it must be at depreciated prices)  

  Another thing I do know is  that the only two place to “hurt” The DOC  is through its bank accounts. I can't ever imagine the USC being forced to give any sort of payment to an inmate. plus both Florida and Missouri DOC won their same fight so the way has been paved. Have you heard of anyone picking up the reins for this legal fight? if so, how can we join here.. or will we be automatically include all inmates in the Wisconsin DOC?

The prison here is taking a stance that no person will be allowed to utilize the  law Library without a case number. I have actively been trying to help those who are filing(we don’t have a law librarian) including the education director and education counselor that legally they cannot stipulate who can use the law library. Yet those who have cases with deadlines looming will get their first dibs. The law( federal Eighth Amendment) is very clear that withholding the courts from us is illegal( unconstitutional).

   At the end of the day my prison is not overly happy that I am not a sheep. No I don't conform and submit into the likes of what the DLC expects and wants. This is for inmates to be sheep. Myself am an  alpaca standing in the field of sheep with a placard around my neck that says”I am not a sheep.”

   I ask questions. I understand the policies and procedures that are supposed to hold persons including inmates and staff accountable. Yet much of the staff believes they’re above them. I say this because the number of Staff members who are not fans of mine grows only because I have named them by name when accountability is necessary. My access to the library has been severely limited. I have been allowed a total of 13 hours of research time and time to write my motions.. that's it.

In a nutshell, I'm a person who has stood up against bullies. No I don't pick up every cause for the sake of needing to hold on to something. When I am personally affected and poked and I puffed up like a blowfish; research; get my ducks in line and fight them for what is correct and accurate. please let me know if I can help with anything.

Theodore Roosevelt once said ”speak softly with Carrie a big stick”  I say “speak softly and carry a bic pen”

 

Jimmie Johnson

 

Jimmie Johnson 328433 ( FLCI) Fox Lake Correctional Institution

      BD 1974, 49YO/MR 9/87

Case # Location Statute # Convicted 00CF5118  MILWAUKEE 940.02(1), 941.30(1), 941.29(2)   05/01/2001 2-510668  MILWAUKEE 943.20(1)(A)   02/26/1997

He was convicted in 2001 In Milwaukee county 

This from his advocate:

He was given a sentence of 113 years 87 to be served in prison and 26 years supervised (crazy amount of time)

To dare an Appeal was filed on his behalf which obviously was denied 

In 2008 newly discovered evidence was given to Jimmie by a man named Andre which he states he was with the real gunman that night and following day and this person admitted to doing the crime.

Jimmie sent a copy of the interview of Andre to the court (did not file a motion only sent in interview document.)  The court simply denied it without a judge or jury even seeing it.  To date this is all that had been filed with the courts 

Reason for reduction/time served:  TIS issues and the fact that the newly discovered evidence had not been reviewed by a judge.. 

Sean Forester- Hoare

Sean Forester -Hoare  

Sean Forester-hoare

590081GBCI ( Bd 1981, 41 W) :

note:  this is a report from several months ago-am renewing contact, Father is involved also, a good advocate but getting  nowhere. Sean has resumed eating and is not on hunger strike anymore but  at last call, all is still stuck. Throughout the system prisoners are asking for outside Doctors and are told they have to go thru their providers  which are in short supply and are often incompetent and hostile to prisoners. and certainly won't give a referral.

link to WI watch July 2024 article on WIDOC hiring doctors

https://wisconsinwatch.org/2024/07/these-doctors-were-censured-wisconsins-prisons-hired-them-anyway/

now for Sean: 

 Sean believes he  has Mrsa and has not seen an outside doctor since 2019 ( verified by  conversation with nurse) , when he was diagnosed with mrsa. He has gone on  hunger strike because of lack of care and will not come off until he gets care, HSU ( health service unit)says he will not get care till he eats- This is illegal and unconstitutional but things continue= he has lost over 100 pounds and Contact is hard-- Nurse said he is getting electrolytes. To deny health care for ANY reason is illegal, and since he did not receive the care before the strike , there is no reason to believe he will get it if he stops. At least this brings pressure on advocates on the outside ( us),

link to Mayo clinic on mrsa: what is it and how to treat it    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xL1DYSoErQviwncddJ8oifAVZYkMAbtG/view?usp=sharing

This is the email thread between Sean's father in security Director Kind. Gives a good view of the situation .

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11nV5hc5mCScL8orkTqxzatXjmI-sRiJ7/view?usp=sharing 

This is Sean's lawsuit complaint:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wxI1luzFRCTcG577_ISGWpzqB7dlOS1H/view?usp=sharing

here is a scroll down of many of the documents accumulate while I worked closely with Sean At that point I was not in contact with his father, who is now engage in struggling for his son.

my report on conversation with HSU:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/143mp6xhUVoQQ4tOru1SYhAARRxGqZxIb/view?usp=sharing

John Kind response to my letter

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_8leqsTwWX6JiNcs-tSyHMtbkUMV-iCW/view?usp=sharing

his is the email thread between Sean's father in security Director Kind. Gives a good view of the situation .

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11nV5hc5mCScL8orkTqxzatXjmI-sRiJ7/view?usp=sharing 

This is Sean's lawsuit complaint:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wxI1luzFRCTcG577_ISGWpzqB7dlOS1H/view?usp=sharing

here is a scroll down of many of the documents accumulate while I worked closely with Sean At that point I was not in contact with his father, who is now engage in struggling for his son.

my report on conversation with HSU:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/143mp6xhUVoQQ4tOru1SYhAARRxGqZxIb/view?usp=sharing

John Kind response to my letter

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_8leqsTwWX6JiNcs-tSyHMtbkUMV-iCW/view?usp=sharing

Sean’s transcribed story ( written in small pencil print, unscannable)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lzpt5SCjAZ6B5hY1dDiqGJjaTjFGmINw/view?usp=share_link

first letter full out;(Note- this was hard to read (15 pages)small print pencil and some words I could not make out and many names were impossible and I guessed>)

the first part is about his innocence ,the second the health care and mrsa

 

My name  is Sean Liam Forester- Hoare  and I am an innocent man wrongfully convicted and I am literally being murdered by the Department of Corrections ( DOC). assaulted and sexually assaulted by staff.They break my bones, deny me needed Healthcare for life-threatening conditions. and keep me in life-or-death danger. I'm literally dying of MRSA, falling in seizures all day, in too much pain to live in, limping on a broken leg with a broken wrist and hand, 120 lbs underweight.,forced to stay RHU( the hole) to not be killed by gangs,denied TV, visits, phone and comfort for for a staff won't return me to protective custody(PC) knowing I'm to be killed in general population(GP) at Green Bay Correctional Institution(GBCI).  Where staff assault and sexually assault me -on camera - in RHU and I can prove every word of this and gbci will kill me very soon if someone doesn't get me out of here. and my criminal case ties to what the DOC is doing. People need to know how corrupt t the courts and prisons are in Wisconsin. This has to stop.

  I was a professional martial artist and musician. I was a very respected man in both fields and a popular teacher. I owned a non-profit business giving free lessons 4 to 6 hours  Monday through Saturday in Kenosha, Zion, and Waukegan. I tried to be a hero my whole life. I took a job as a cop to try to continue this and was in the police academy. 

One night at bar closing time I was taking the trash out and cutting up recycling as I had to do. my work and commuting schedule left me a night owl .But I was very ill then and heavily medicated. I was barely conscious. The neighborhood was mostly a good one, mostly elderly and young couples with children. except one house- the kwiakowskis. Tim was divorced twice for domestic violence. Jon was a known drug dealer and  in a death metal band called “courtesy flush”,. a lewd inference to the toilet humor. They blasted music all day, sat drinking in the driveway revving up motorcycles,. let their dogs visit neighbors’ yards.. Jon painted” Nigger” on a mixed couples house. Worst of  it  had drag races down the street, old ladies and kids playing on. They killed a lot of pets intentionally running them over also.

 

While I was taking the trash out and they came racing down the street 80 mph. They swerved to hit me as if it was a joke: I had to jump into the grass. They were my neighbors. They got out of the car talking like they wanted to fight and threaten me. Tim was drunk clearly. I tried to ask them to calm down but when it was clear that it wasn't going to happen I turned to go inside and call 911. They circled me, then hit me in the head from behind and everyone jumped me. There was never less than four people holding me down on the ground. I never got up. I never swung even one punch. I was in a ball on the ground being held on both arms on the ground. Corey  beat me in the face with a skateboard and ½ of a tooth was knocked out.Lori yelled for him to go inside now and get a knife which he did. Tim pulled my shirt over my head hockey-style and Lori stabbed  me multiple times as did Cori. I was stabbed with a kitchen knife and a pair of scissors in the right arm and in the right lung all the way through. My lung collapsed  I had to do something to get out of there.They were going to kill me. Ice 1 one punch from the ground up but didn't hit anyone. it got me out of my shirt and I was able to Runaway shirtless. in the melee Lori stabbed Jon  in the neck. when a lot of people are swinging at one person, they always hit one of their own.

 

In video interrogations my attackers actually admitted to all of this except that they didn't know who stabbed me or Jon. Lori even described what it looked like when she stabbed me ,almost admitting she did it and realizing what she was saying stopped. I never should have been charged. The evidence showed I was the only one with any injury and cuts and bruises were all over my body, especially on my neck and arms and legs proving I was on the ground being beaten.

 The problem was it was Richard c h a p e t e as his first case as head DA. and judge Alan Tochorst.(?).C h i a p e t e, you remember, as the DA 4/ 14/ 14  that got drunk and crashed his car into someone, tried to flee the scene and wrapped his car around a pole. Got out and. Went home. When his own cops arrested him he  lied  on-camera ibn interrogation for 4 hours that it wasn't him. He was asleep at home all the time. He lied in his case and. he  lied in mine. He does whenever he wants and gets away with it. In any other state my conviction never would have been allowed due to his, his police and judges misconduct. He  destroyed evidence, lied and newspapers  and in the courts. Told the jury to ignore testimony and I and another witness for lying as we were on the stand,. lied about evidence and more And the judge acknowledged it all but allowed the trial to continue.

  Before the trial he and the Kwiakowski's gave media events at bars passing out t-shirts and bracelets claiming John had a charity company it was found he didn't.The church Lori belonged to went to the newspapers that they were lying. even kick them out of .Church.They tried to make themselves look like me.

 A mold of my Stab Wound was taken that would prove it was done by the missing knife in the kitchen set. All the police car camera footage showed Lori wiping blood off of knife and scissors with paper towels- all was catalogued to prove it existed and was sent to chiapete’s office and it disappeared never to be found again.

  In the opening and closing statements he told the jury not to listen to me and all I would do is lie and deny doing anything. Tim got so mad on the stand, he pointed out to me and admitted he had never been so mad in his life and was trying to kill me.I cried on the stand and said how horrible I felt that someone else got hurt but I did not do it and even if I did it would have been self-defense and they were trying to kill me. Chiapete stood up and started clapping  and told the jury I was lying.--

The state forensic expert stated the DA’s theory was “part impossible part improbable.” He lied in closing  She supported his theory. He put a guy on the stand where lawn furniture was destroyed by teenagers and ask if I did it. Guy said no, he never seen me before. Also that he lied he lived over a mile away. In closing c h ia p ete said  he was my neighbor and I did that.

 The judge denied a mistrial over this which is beyond against the law. and told the jury if you take longer than 10 minutes to deliver it you'll be sequestered over the weekend and no one wants that. “I want this out of my courtroom as fast as possible, let the appeal courts figure this mess out” he literally told you the jury to find me guilty. All this isn't even close to all this state's misconduct.

  The worst part is Chiapete and his detectives  K n a u s and Dobesh knew I was innocent. They had video interrogations of the witnesses, my attackers, and. on camera, admitting that they jumped me but they  convinced them to lie at trial that  I somehow jumped all of them. And they never even match.. It is clear they lied. Lori said I hit  Tim and then they jumped me. Tim said I hit lory etcetera but the night of the fight they all had the same story that they jumped me and I never had any weapon. which is why no one ever called the two witnesses who would testify to my innocence. The head  detective from my County Mike Merrill knows I'm innocent and wants to testify to that. Attached to this is a letter from him. Cop states I'm innocent, How often do you see that?

 As my mother was an eyewitness to this and the only person there that was not in the fight making her the most. if not only credible Witness. She will testify that it all happened as I say  proving I'm innocent ..Neither witnesses were ever called to the stand nor have not been heard yet. My case should be easy to win but tragedy robbed my lawyer’s life. Rob Shellow knew I was innocent and picked me up as a client for nearly nothing, what was –..She got covid and died before moving forward in my case. My DA and judge no longer work for Racine.Noone has and invested interested in my conviction except K n a u s & D o b esh. But I don't have a lawyer I need one to move forward. I am serving  life sentence for a crime I did not do but also for a crime that was done to me. I was assaulted and stabbed. They tried to kill me. I'm a person running away. Someone help. I can't do this any longer. I need a lawyer  fast before it's too late. .There has to be someone out there. They can have whatever they want from my lawsuits and the wrongful conviction  lawsuit If they pick up my case now. Or if DA Patricia Hanson in Racine or Attorney General Josh Kaul have a heart and logic to do the right thing and Release Me,  I pray these words find them or a good lawyer to pick up my case.

 Now in the meantime the DOC and  GBCI are literally killing me and keeping me in life-threatening Danger. As a  professional athlete, I got many injuries and a skin disease. I got MRSA so much I became symbrote (?)To it. I always have it and have to  shower no less than two times a day with an antimicrobial soap or I get outbreaks. They are fatal if unattended eventually, like now..I also spread it to others. The DOC. policy 500. 60. 8  and CDC laws are clear on my condition. I have to be single celled on a medical unit, shower at least twice a day, Eat in cell and all linen has to be changed aidly. I also have permanent internal  Fissures from spinal injuries. I have to shower to clean after I use the toilet or they get infected. The same policy and laws mandate the same treatment.

  I suffered many broken bones, stab wounds, gun shot wounds and head injuries, I got neuromuscular disorder the same as Parkinson's causing serious and severe pain and an intestinal disorder. It's what used to be called “ shell shocked” It also leaves me intense skeletal, muscle, nervepath pain. It is a form of MRSA and comes with suicidal depression. I often due to being in prison hang myself or cuttmy wrist- not for attention- I just can't take it anymore.

  Between the issues I usually am  on  36 medications and restrictions ..I'm also supposed to be an ultrasound for the broken bones and I'm not supposed to be at Columbia or Waupun or Green Bay Correctional Institutions. as their Health Service units I below standard even for the DOC. They don’t even  have a medical unit at these prisons much less ones with single cells.

 As to the security issue, it's obvious. It doesn't matter if I was in Police Academy are working a job f For years, I'm a cop to everyone. And as I am fighting a self-defense case I can't fight back to assault  by guards or inmates. I have to just take it. Since County jail I've been assaulted regularly-always  by groups. As a result of inmates getting in trouble for it , 4 gangs put hits on me to rape or kill me.The Vicelords in pariticular,  but also ?,?,Blackstone. Anyone gets paid to assault me. I don’t  only get assaulted regularly, I've been stabbed three times over those hits. one in the face, 1 in the throat and I have scars to prove it.  Per DOC 306.S.1. I'm always supposed to be PCed and the only maximum prisons are supposed to be in Dodge Correctional or WSPF. as the others can’t keep me safe. I'm at  GBCI and intentionally not being protected. 

  

Here's how this happened:.

 When the DOC makes mistakes, they don't fix it, they retaliate on you to try to scare you into being quiet about it. And the cycle starts. I was at DCI and getting Health Care and .PC. .A new captain tried changing the way DCI runs, Captain Nichols. She transferred out the long-term inmates. They said wspf would be safe. But when I got there security director Hartman took me off PC. I was recognized day and I was assault. I was stabbed twice before they moved me to the unit a little safer. I had a lawyer then before she died. she started a lawsuit over letting me be assaulted and stabbed for years. Kartman head ,Hsu manager Waterman, and ACP mecardle canceled all my health care in retaliation. When she threatened to file another lawsuit, ,kartment sent me to WCI knowing they had no medical unit barely and Hsu and I would be in great Danger.

 I was assaulted in 1 hour of being there and none of my Healthcare was returned. I got MRSA all over. It’s on my body, in my Fissures and blood. It's on my gums and is now eating holes in the roof of my mouth. My body feels like acid burns all over and inside. It will kill. Instead of treating it they kept sending me to 4 different hospitals hoping one would play ball with them. And all 4 said I need  my treatment back or I'll die. after 11 months due to it and the constant assaults and a third stabbings, they transferred me.  But security director Falke retaliated and sent me to the worst prison in Wisconsin =GBCI.  The most unsafe prison with almost no HSU. They don’t even have a doctor! But before they transferred me, they crippled me. 

 Due to the constant assaults and death threats I have spent most of my time WCI. They don't have PC. At WCI, in the hole ,staff retaliated by assaults and sexual assaults. Staff literally raped me many times- Sgt Beahm, Cpt Birdishaw, CO Roper, CO Bublitz, Lieutenant Stannick- dozens of dozens of times, would put me in leg shackles, handcuffs, waist shackles and either put me in a cell with no camera, shower stalls, or closets- chain me to a door so I couldn't move and group assault me. 5 times I was able to crawl just enough into the hallway to get it caught on camera. In the assaults my right fibula wrist, and hand were broken so many times they will never heal. I have no feelings but severe pain in my hands now the nerves were severed. Two surgeons said surgery can't be done on my leg due to the nerves so I need many months of ultrasound therapy to heal. I was given the machine a year later when I was transferred to gbci but GBCI won’t give it to me.

  These guards did more than beat on me and use the Cuffs to snap my bones broken. They raped me. Roper used his thumb to penetrate my anus and thrust it over and over so hard it bled and I have permanent Cuts in hemorrhoids from it. Then he would pushed the dirty thumb  in my eyes and gauge them with thumb and feces.  He and Beahm  would crush my testicles and penis hard with their hands and say “you know you love it”. I actually have that on camera. One can imagine I tried to kill myself many times due to this.The emotional scars are worse than the physical ones and  I can no longer walk anymore. ACP Moore, RN Weinman went out of their way to make sure I got no medical or psychological help. PSU psychological staff has not even seen me at all since this started. I get no help medically, clinically or security.

 WCI did a dirty trick when they sent me to GDC I. Captain Cushing is in charge of PC at GBCI He used to work at WCI and is friends with the staff that assaulted me. WCI made it look like la fixed situation and in the transfer it's States it's for me to get my health care and PC needs met. But the day I got here Cushing took me off PC and had HSU cancel all Healthcare again. Not one of the 36- medications, 11 restrictions or therapy is given to me. One could say it is bad care if it's for one or two things but everything is intentional. It is clear I was sent here for Crushing to kill me.

  Before I left WCI I was shown .via email on tablet that gangs told GBCI that  I was coming and to kill me and they would get paid. One inmate that  stabbed me at wspf a Vice Lord is here.  He spread it out. Staff has written 15 reports proving with investigation I'm not safe here and need to be transferred. and my health needs can’t be met here. Incident reports for 43725 documented staff hearing not just staff but inmates promising to rape and kill me. The ADA disability Brown wrote a DOC 2430 stating I need to be transferred for all this. Internal affairs caught staff promising to kill me. Even the corrupt complaint staff( i c e) affirmed 3 complaints that I'm not safe here. I have to be transferred and returned to PC and returned my health care on file numbers gbci 2021 4191, gbci 2022 9816, gbci 2022 1100. Yet no one will do it. Administrative Captain Swickatoski, security director Kind, Warden Haese and Radke openly ignore policy and even these DOC orders. They even made fun of me for asking them to.  it's intentional. But staff doesn't just threaten me; I get assaulted regularly.

  Captain Cushing,. LT Matushak,. Co Fruchbrodt, CO Hoffman, CO Sangrave, Sgt  Haupt,regularly assault me. They rebreak my broken bones, slammed a door on my hand slicing my wrists open- 2 in and doing prominent nerve damage.

 Same  routine as WCI and there is nowhere for me to go. It's an on camera 4 whole gangs,, most of the prison promises to rape and kill me., GBCI 2022 9816 caught it on camera, I can’t go to GP or  I'll be killed and  inmates get raped and stabbed daily here. GBCI is like a horror movie. but staff do the same in RHu to me, ACP lavoie, tizebiatowski,wachhol, RN malushole make sure I get no medical help. When I  try to file a lawsuit Hoffman ripped up all my paperwork even the files for my criminal case and family pictures.  .

 So I'm dying of MRSA, falling and seizures all day, in too much pain to live in. While  in life or death  Danger- forced to take tickets to stay in RHU to not get killed; denying me TV , visits and  phone. While staff assaults me regularly. I'm going to die of MRSA soon if someone doesn't do something, .

  So I started a hunger strike. I was 222 lb. I'm 100 lbs, now. I lost around 120 lb. I can't walk on my own. so I'm limping on broken leg. I'll die soon. I vomit blood it's so bad. Per DOC 300.00 .57 the doc had to get a court order to feed me when my BMI ( body weight ) got to 16.- 4 9:22. it was 16 BMI and my blood glucose level wouldn't go over 48 proving my kidneys failed and the Doc still won't get a court order to feed me. As they are killing me with MRSA they are killing me now. I can't come off hunger strike as I’ll die here otherwise if not transferred out of gbci .I'm going to die of MRSA if staff won’t kill me first..Until I'm transferred, I'm pretty much going to die,

  So I humbly beg everyone help me. I need a lawyer for my criminal case and to handle a lot of lawsuits on the DOC. to save my. Life. My family has a crowdfunding page, please donate to it. Please any lawyer out there, pick any case. any case . Please attorney general Kaul and district attorney Hanson dismiss my conviction. Please everyone command them and demand they do so. Please  contact the DOC to transfer me and return my Healthcare and PC. I'm going to die soon if not and I can't live in prison any longer. I'm innocent and can prove it. I just need a lawyer or the AG or DA to do the right thing. But time is a factor. I need hem to release me immediately. and I have to be transferred and treated today. Please everyone help me and I need all your prayers . I'm the most devout religious man so I don't know why God would let this happen to someone that spends his life helping others. But I'm going to die soon if someone doesn't fix this.So please I beg you help me before it's too late. An innocent man is about to die  in prison. Spread this story to everyone and fast.

 I humbly beg you for your help

  Shawn Forester- Hoare  590081 

 Green Bay Correctional Institution

 legal mail po box 19033, Green Bay Wisconsin 54307 

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Personal mail PO Box 189 Phoenix MD 21131/ phone 920- 432- 4877

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much more coming as needed.