Georgia, land of peanuts, pecans and prisons, has always been a penal colony
October 26, 2015
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by Kelevin J. Stevensonhttp://sfbayview.com/2015/10/georgia-land-of-peanuts-pecans-and-prisons-has-always-been-a-penal-colony/
Thanks for all the help you have given me in getting my story out and the story of all the comrades suffering in this slave system.
The reason the Bay View is not hearing from prisoners here in
Georgia is because the Georgia Department of Corrections has taken
deliberate steps to silence prisoners by withholding incoming and
outgoing mail, especially if it’s addressed to Bay View or any
media outlet that exposes this system for its cruel and corrupt
treatment of humans trapped in its grasp.
The Georgia Department of Corrections is operating a behavior
modification torture program designed to break a prisoner’s mind,
body and spirit in order to instill fear and docility into each
prisoner placed in the program. Prisoners are deliberately denied
proper nutrition, media access, medical services, religious and
political expression, access to the courts etc.
There is nothing positive about this program. I and others see it
as a tool to keep prisoners from organizing and revolting against
this oppressive system.
Since Dec. 9, 2010 (the day thousands of prisoners across the
state staged a one-day work strike against the slave system that
requires them to work without any wages at all; the strike was put
down with unprecedented brutality), the Georgia Department of
Corrections, along with the Governor’s Office, attorney general
and lawmakers have implemented procedures and policies that are
retaliatory in their nature and in their operations.
The Georgia Department of Corrections is operating a behavior modification torture program designed to break a prisoner’s mind, body and spirit in order to instill fear and docility into each prisoner placed in the program. Prisoners are deliberately denied proper nutrition, media access, medical services, religious and political expression, access to the courts etc.
Georgia’s economy is sustained by the “Three Ps”: peanuts, pecans
and prisons. It has always been a penal colony, and it is operated
and protected as such.
Through federal subsidies and grants, Georgia’s Department of
Corrections is financed; thus, the inhumane treatment we are being
subjected to is condoned by the federal government and U.S.
citizens are tortured under the guise of public safety, when the
true criminals are the very ones wearing the judges’ robes and
police and correctional officers’ uniforms.
We cannot receive paper, stamps or envelopes through the mail. It
is deemed contraband and will be destroyed. Those things are
available only off the commissary, and the only outside help
allowed is placing money on our books, either through JPay or by mailing a money
order addressed to the prisoner’s name and number at Georgia
Department of Corrections, Prisoner Accounts, P.O. Box 405699,
Atlanta GA 30384.
The reason things must be done like this is because GDC doesn’t
want prisoners to have outside support.
Tell all the comrades to keep their heads up!
Kelevin “Ona”
Send our brother some love and light: Kelevin J. Stevenson,
570391, GSP, 2164 GA Hwy 147, Reidsville GA 30499.
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