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On Feb.5th I was written an unjust disciplinary case by an Officer Skinner, who denied me my rec, shower & breakfast. Ranking officials refused to investigate the circumstances on what created the problem allowing Officer Skinner to lie in a disciplinary case as an attack upon me for requesting to speak with a sergeant. On Feb.9th I was gassed, moved to F-pod cage 76, made to sleep on the floor wearing nothing! - this injustice & abuse of authority began the protest & hunger strike...
Since: on Feb.18th 2010 I was informed Major Smith wished to speak with me. As I walked toward Smith's office, Lieutenant Duff, who has been investigating the circumstances, asked the escorting officers to allow him to speak with me inside his office. I sat patiently, as Duff looked through his papers. Finally he said: "Daryl Wheatfall, I don't give a fuck about you, but I do care about the truth. I believe you're telling the truth." Even the supporting words of Duff aren't enough when he's not the head man running the show. Speaking with Major Smith, nothing was accomplished from our discussion.
Smith wanted to know why I was on hunger strike. I pointed out there's too much procedural abuse allowed to go on by guards & ranking officers - guards create the problem by violating procedures. This causes a prisoner to react to what the guard has done. Now the prisoner's reaction becomes the problem. When the sergeant arrives, he won't acknowledge what created the problem - he'll only recognize the prisoner's actions.
The guard's actions never matter. only the actions of the prisoner. The guard writes the disciplinary case against the prisoner, who'll be punished behind a lie & a problem created by the guard. After explaining this to Major Smith, in Smith's opinion it's the prisoner's word against his officer's word. Why would a prisoner create a problem when he hasn't been disruptive, hasn't received a disciplinary case going on two years, Major Smith?...
Smith stated: "It doesn't matter that a prisoner hasn't received a case in two years, at any time a prisoner's behavior may change". Both Captain Stanger & Lieutenant Duff listened, saying nothing, observing the discussion. The major seemed more interested in my hunger strike moreso than acknowledging the truth surrounding the guard's violating procedure. Smith made it clear his guards were doing as he instructed them to do so. "Wait, give me time to look off this, Wheatfall..."
At that moment the words of a great man, Martin Luther King, rang out inside my head: "I've never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was wll timed according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation for years, now I've heard the word 'wait' ".
Before leaving, I made my intentions clear to Major Smith. I would not continue accepting procedural abuse, not when I'm following procedures as policy instructs me to do so, i.e. offenders should always try to solve their problems with staff first, if the incident cannot be resolved, offenders are to request the supervising officer. If the supervising officer cannot resolve informally, offenders are to submit grievance...
These steps were taken when trying to get my rec ever before the Feb.5th incident ever took place. Something made clear to Smith, who was supporting his guards' actions, they were only doing what he told them to do. I made it clear, no matter the cost or how much I had to suffer, my non-violent protest would continue.
Since: Feb.9th 2010, the morning in which I was gassed & removed by a five-man extraction team, thrown into a dark cage for 3 days with nothing on, no shower for 3 days. I was taken to disciplinary, a.k.a. Kangaroo Court, on Feb.11th found guilty. Afterward I refused to walk back to the cage I was housed in; coming from the shower I sat down on the run, jacked the handcuffs refusing to return them, once the team arrived the cuffs were returned. The day I left Major Smith's office I sat in the hallway refusing to walk under my own power. A statement to this administration, I refused to be abused by guards violating procedure - this protest was to generate attention to the problem. I ask you to support me. Order "The Psychological Affect of Life", the newest InCaged issue. This issue explains how prison officials are abusing their authority where I was punished over a mattress I wasn't responsible for destroying.
My level would be dropped, a loss of all privileges, I was made to sleep on the floor 8 days, typewriter & radio taken away, questioning ownership for things I paid for. Made to endure 90 days on level 2, denied the privilege to go to commissary & rec privileges taken away, confined inside a cage 24 hours a day. To make matters worse, as if things could not get any worse, $26.13 was removed from my inmate account for a mattress I did not damage!
The grievance written against this injustice proved I wasn't guilty of destroying state property as the disciplinary case written against me claims I did. This incident exposes the abuse myself & other prisoners are subjective to through non-objective bias/prejudice by ranking officials who ignore the facts.
Please take time to learn about what's going on by reading "The Psychological Affect of Life". It shares an insight of the injustice taking place behind these walls of Polunsky Unit, home for death row prisoners. Your support will allow InCaged to help many learn how prison officials on the Polunsky Unit are supporting officers who create problems once an inmate reacts angrily/disrupted, disturbed over the guard(s)' actions - he'll be punished! As a form of punishment officials are now embellishing fictional violation to take away prisoners' personal property: typewriter, radio, hotpot, fan, multi-outlet, etc. My typewriter was taken in 2008 questioning proof of ownership, when I went to look where I kept my property slip for my typewriter, it was gone!...
Now the Property Officer, Ms. Smith, has taken away my multi-outlet questioning ownership & when I went to get my ownership paper, it was gone! Here's a fact: in October 2008 my property was taken away, everything I owned. My typewriter & radio confiscated under proof of ownership - yet my multi-outlet wasn't taken. Now, 2 yeras later, it's confiscated under proof of ownership! Doesn't this explain why guards are allowed to create problems against prisoners?
Abuse of authority is clearly revealed inside these actions: guards & ranking officials are abusing their positions; just as police officers & city officials did in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, in a march led by Martin Luther King Jr.: police officers used high power water hoses, billy clubs & guard dogs were released upon innocent children. Here, on Polunsky Unit, deliberate problems are created where prisoners' property is stolen once inside the Property Room. Ownership papers are taken, prisoners are prevented from showing ownership, either the property is sent home or lost to the state under policy violation.
I would like to challenge the anti-death penalty communities (TCADP, TDPM, CEDP, LHP, CTJ Alive, PRC, to mention just a few): I ask you to seek the truth - through the many death row prisoners those of you are exchanging letters with. Discover if their property was taken away from them, questioning ownership when attempting to show ownership papers - it was missing.
I have been on hunger strike for 13 days since Feb.9th until the 21st today, I've not eaten. Prison officials refused to acknowledge my hunger strike the first 6 days. Officials began to record my strike Feb.14th, all my personal envelopes were taken, preventing me from communicating with the outside world...
I'm asking you to become involved now! Help shine the light of truth on the corruption taking place behind these walls of the Polunsky Unit. Share this information, encourage others to join in a struggle for justice!
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed"...Encouraging words by Martin Luther King Jr. pushing me forward as I continue this hunger strike seeking to shine a light to what's taking place behind these wall on the Polunsky Unit - home to death row, As the hunger strike continues, so will an updat sharing details with what's going on. In the struggle...
To order "The Psychological Affect of Life" send an e-mail to daryl.wheatfall@hotmail or via this blog! A donation, any amount is also very welcome.
27-02-2010, 00:00 geschreven door Sunshine 
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