Prison

 Schizophrenia. Drug addiction. Abusive behavior towards women. These are pre-sentencing determinations and evaluations from the sentencing hearing in Philadelphia September 2021 in response to the Kensington Corridor Attacks of 2016. He was charged with a single felony one aggravated assault for three rapes, with all possible charges rolled into one. What is still to be determined is if Byron Shamor Allen (jr) is guilty of murder one and all related charges down to aggravated and simple assault for the brutal slaying of Natasha Gibson in Delaware County.

Thus one company will lie about slavery, use modern day prisoners as slave labor, charge families hundreds per month to speak to their loved ones and reap tremendous profits. All the while they pay off cops and politicians to keep the engine of repression oiled. On July 14th and 15th investigative journalist Jared Bennett released two stories on WFPL. The latter story coincided with a major corporate acquisition connected to his investigation that one can not fault him for missing.

The Mockingbird has previously reported on a nationwide campaign of work stoppages, labor strikes and hunger strikes began on August 21 in dozens of prisons. As the campaign was about enter it's third week local organizers from Black Queer Intersectional Columbus and the Incarcerated Workers Committee of the Industrial Workers World held a demonstration on September 4th outside the Franklin County Court and Jail complex on High Street.

Tomorrow, August 21st, there will be another nation wide Prison Labor Strike. The Strike, which is slated to last until at least September 9th, mirrors a strike that began on the date this one ends in 24 states in 2016, with over 24,000 prisoners participating.

On June 30th and number of political groups are calling for a national day of action at ICE facilities around the country in opposition to America's growing network of public and private concentration camps for both adults and children.

Today is the 8th of September. The conditions reported below were still happening as of the 5th of September. No word has come out of the Federal Prisons in Beaumont Texas since as mail, phone and visits are cut off or severely restricted. Hurricane Harvey has turned the Federal Prison Complex in Beaumont into a slow motion death camp. Other Prisons run by the state of Texas may also be facing similar constructed circumstances.

There are forgeries and there are fakes. In the Art world, the difference is quality. Extending that metaphor, the Ohio Department of Corrections just made a Mona Lisa knockoff using finger paint on a paper bag. One might laugh, pat them on the head and blood test them for lead poisoning, but this is not art, this is retaliatory discipline. Their fake charges have placed one man in isolation without contact with his family, lawyer and access to phones. Other prisoners are on hunger strike in support of him.