Tag: IDOC

Body Worn Cameras Police

Body Camera Legislation

In the year of 2022, several correctional officers beat an elderly prisoner to death at the Western Illinois Correctional Center. This is located in Mt. Sterling, Illinois. You can look up the story on line.

With a growing push for legislation to require the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) staff to wear daily body cameras, I bring you this scenario. This to protect the IDOC prisoners from further civil rights violations.

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Level System Still in Place

The cancer treatment is going well. On the 28th of September I was given a complete cat scan of my body. The good news finally came. I caught a break. The cancer has not spread to any other part of me.

Soon I will go out to get the two spots on my liver removed. Then I will finally be cancer free. A long three years of real hell-on-earth there. I beat the colon cancer. My body is finally healing up and starting to work right again. So at sixty-three years of age I am a lean and mean, ready to go another round with the Grim Reaper, not ready just yet to go quietly into that dark night.

So now I can focus again on my prison reform efforts. The website freerockynation.org is a prison platform for all U.S. Citizens, and our foreign neighbors.

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Soy Diet Colon Cancer

Common Sense is Not So Common

From 2008 until April of 2016, I received a medical No-Soy diet. The IDOC industry meat substitutes made me sick. I proved this up. In 2016, my diet was denied. Danville C.C.’s staff saw that the other prisoners wanted the same medical diet I was given. The Health Care Unit administrator in the Danville Correctional Center saw their requests as a problem. The answer was to stop MY diet, and possibly silence the other prisoners. I was told I could eat the soy-laden prison food. 

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Retaliation Cover-Up For First Amendment Activity

Last night I received the final piece of the prima facie evidence to show the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) staff use illegal acts to punish and silence the prisoner who exposes their corruption and malfeasance. [Prima Facie, evidence not requiring further support to establish existence.] These illegal acts are condoned and covered up all the way to the IDOC directors’ office.

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Latest Court Action

I have finally got my case into court. We have moved past the Merit Hearing. Southern Illinois District Judge Michael J. Reagan issued his Memorandum and Order on the Harris-vs-Director Baldwin, et al., 18-cv-0711-MJ-RJD on December 19, 2018. He then handed the case down to Magistrate Judge Reona J. Daly. Latest Court Action.

So I immediately filed a Motion to Serve Defendants at Government Expense…

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The Plea Bargain

Why the Accused Takes the Plea Bargain

My friend, Geoffrey, sent me an article published in the Washington Post, Sunday, January 14, 2018, “Why an innocent person would expect a plea deal.” He was most upset and confused about how an innocent man or woman would plead guilty to some charge they were not guilty of. So I told him I would share my twenty-five years of knowledge with him. For I am the “jail house lawyer,” the “writ writer,” who has helped many a man seek justice in the State and Federal Court of Appeals. Continue reading “The Plea Bargain”

A Day in the Life of a Jailhouse Lawyer

My celly Justin, “Captain Crunchy,” as we called him, was released from the Illinois Department of Corrections on December 8 at 1 a.m. He caught an Amtrak train to Chicago. From there he jumped on the bus for his final leg of his journey. As I draft this blog, I hope my old celly has arrived to see his little girl. For she is the reason I helped him get home on time. Continue reading “A Day in the Life of a Jailhouse Lawyer”

The Right To Be Free From Illegal Punishment

In the prison system you have the cellhouse, a building where four wings intersect at a hub in the center. This hub is a circular control booth with windows facing toward the four wings. The front of each wing, whether it is A, B, C, or D, is full glass from the floor to the ceiling, so that the staff has a complete view of each wing. Continue reading “The Right To Be Free From Illegal Punishment”

The Law Does Not Apply to Prison Staff

People are sent to prison for breaking the law. But prisons have laws also, and the prison staff is obligated to follow those laws. For example, the law has clearly established that prisoners are to get a minimum of five hours of out-of-cell exercise per week, in order to keep their bodies healthy. Exercise is one of the rights given under the Eighth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. This is to prevent cruel and unusual punishment where the conditions of confinement cause the body to deteriorate. Continue reading “The Law Does Not Apply to Prison Staff”