Coleman II Legacy
This section is being developed to give you insight of the government tactics the Federal Bureau of Prisons (B.O.P.) will go to deny me, a political prisoner, a politically neutral parole hearing.
It will also show a practical example of how The African in America, New African, and Latins from our community are intentionally being isolated from their incarcerated relatives.
The section will offer a multi-platform expression of the issues and facts involved in the conflict, and hopefully will expose various educational, entertainment and political programs which impacted the prison population by the uses of workshops, forums, summits and entertainment. Evidence of the progress can be objectively confirmed by demanding a statistical account of the stabbings and deaths between Coleman I under a different vision (essentially warehousing) and Coleman II under the administration of Warden Carlyle Holder, during a one year period February 2K6 to February 2K7.
Coleman II was guided by an innovative leader who believed that the old method had been a failure, based on his 27 years of experience. His method of action with the inmates was constantly rejected and undermined. Many supported a position that prisoners should be warehoused instead.
The positive outcome of our programs resulted in a lack of disruptions, fights, and introduction of contraband into the prison. This actualization of the programs was halted by an administration with alterior motives. They hated in their hearts the very sight of inmates working out their problems to avoid violent conflict. That the various races, contrary to other prisons, were able to develop a managerial process of dealing with conflict. That we were moving to a higher form of human dignity.
As you will see an error in judgment created an opportunity for a diabolical administration to create rumors and lies in order to undermine the collective consciousness of the entire prison population. A population who had attempted evolving to become better people, by rejecting all destructive stereotypes.
The attack has been waged on myself and John 'Strap' Harris,
and maybe others. I do know that in U.S.P. Atlanta, Lateef Varo Brooks was also
questioned about me with a host of allegations. Mind you, Latif has never been
to Coleman II. Also attacked was staff deserving of the upmost respect, Chaplin
Beston and the inspiring Unit Manager Mr. Martin - the allegations were numerous
and anything that the administration could use to taint my reputation to inmates
and staff to give
my incident a report, which would impact my crucial parole
hearing in a negative light.
The first allegation, as you will later see in the Q&A between myself and the South East Regional B.O.P. representative, was to determine what I knew of how a film clip (which I haven't seen) of a workshop held at the July 29 2K6 "Hip-Hop Summit" at Coleman II got on Myspace and on a DVD being sold on the streets of Atlanta (a). The second allegation was that I made a DVD of the clip for personal financial gain (b). The third allegation was that I was in violation of prison rules by running a business while incarcerated by way of my web site (c). The fourth allegation was that the clip of the workshop from the July "Hip-Hop Summit" was meant to promote a gang rivalry (d).
Mind you while I was incarcerated in Atlanta a number of years ago, I was put in the "hole" along with 13 other poets when a group of poets on the outside decided to read our poems at a club as a fundraising for N-Cobra, a community activist group in Atlanta. Further allegations that there is support of Horizontal Aggression and Sexual Exploitation of Women in my projects is not even an issue - there's no shred of evidence to support any of the above accusations. All of you who are aware of my presence on the internet know my positive objectives quite well, and it's those objectives that the administration wants to smother even though my free speech is constitutionally protected.
I do also believe that I have an obligation to carry on my commitment to support the generation that is effected and inspired by Hip-Hop. As a continuation of my son Tupac's Legacy, your support for our recent "Dare 2 Struggle" project ensures me that you agree it is an important part of the process. The community based non-profit projects that we contribute our share of the proceeds to are very relevant and serve an important purpose in our community. And we're proud of that association.
We offer this section on the Coleman II Legacy to offer a focused view of our struggle. This multi-platform presentation should give you a actual feeling of our past prison work and the devastation of its dismantling. You will also see and hear those who will explain the administration's manipulation such as forgering records, and dissapearing myself into a maze from prison to prison that completely isolated me from my personal and legal files prior to a May 1st parole date.
While you likely participate in digital advancement and can see the use of cyberspace in the electoral process by citizens to gain advantage for their candidate, we should be able to at least focus our online efforts to demand answers from the proper agency as to why policies were violated, endangering the ordinary running of an institution that had a ray of hope. Asking for transparency of records, staff have even been demoted and insulted, so our sacrifices will likely be discarded to the file of irrelevance.
Try to pay attention to this section, if you're inactive in a struggle you can still be a part of this history. Once you know, the burden is yours! Speak truth to power.
Stiff Resistance
Dr. Mutulu Shakur