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Unfortunately, you can't send colored cards, the facility has been rejecting colored cards. Any letters must be 9 pages max., you can include photos 5x7, colored pictures, print outs not cut outs, and you have to write on white paper (not lined paper). Meanwhile, you can only mail white envelopes, but you can mail books. Matt DeHart can receive books ordered from Amazon in white and brown/manila packing, from any other publisher only in white packaging. People have asked, but Amazon wouldn't ship anything in white packaging (Amazon packaging explained). The switch to white packaging, and white envelopes, may be implemented in every facility soon, a nonsense against the adoption of environment friendly materials or recycling. The last straw, something bad like a program that would let outside for-profit vendors control and restrict what books prisoners can have access to. Send your friends and loved ones what you want NOW, while you still can. Include a return address and name inside on the letter, the facility may "trash" the envelope.
What is character assassination?
Snippet of Freeing Julian Assange: Part One, written by Suzie Dawson.
This is a tactic often applied in social media as well as in print. Other towering figures in activism and whistleblowing have been tarred with the same brush. Matt DeHart had highly questionable child pornography charges manufactured against him. So did the alleged Vault7 whistleblower. Even Edward Snowden has trolls online baselessly attacking him along the same lines, despite there being zero suggestion whatsoever of such thing ever having occurred.
Why is this tactic utilised time and time again? Because it works. Because we continue to let it work.
Our failure to protect those who put themselves in the firing line on our behalf, sharpens the sword used to cull us.
This is a tactic often applied in social media as well as in print. Other towering figures in activism and whistleblowing have been tarred with the same brush. Matt DeHart had highly questionable child pornography charges manufactured against him. So did the alleged Vault7 whistleblower. Even Edward Snowden has trolls online baselessly attacking him along the same lines, despite there being zero suggestion whatsoever of such thing ever having occurred.
Why is this tactic utilised time and time again? Because it works. Because we continue to let it work.
Our failure to protect those who put themselves in the firing line on our behalf, sharpens the sword used to cull us.
Please send him a few books.
He was moved from Pontiac, where he was in solitary confinement for a year, to Dixon prison in January '18 and placed there in segregation for a long while. This year '19 he has been moved back to Pontiac. Segregation is very tough on anyone as you are confined to your cell at least 23 hours a day. You can find more information at Free the NATO 3. Prisoners in Illinois can receive used books in the mail and Jay also has an amazon wish list. See wish list. Jay likes to read sci-fi, fantasy, fiction and history. Please send him a few books if you can.
Last Member Of NATO 3 May Die In Prison
Jared Chase is the last member of the “NATO 3,” who remains in prison. Chase suffers from Huntington’s disease and faces additional charges for alleged aggravated battery against a prison guard. He is set to go on trial in April. If convicted, there is a significant chance Chase could die in prison because of how his imprisonment has compounded the effects of this neurodegenerative disease.
State prosecutors allege that on October 4, 2013, Chase sprayed “human waste” on a Cook County prison guard, Officer Trevor Hapanionek. He was charged with four different charges for one alleged act.
Multiple Cook County guards testified during sentencing about the basic details of what they claim happened on October 4, but Dr. Kathleen Shannon, a neurologist who had assessed Chase, testified that his misconduct against guards was likely a result of Huntington’s disease.
Shannon informed the court the disease makes it difficult for a person to avoid outbursts. It makes one easily irritable and can lead to mania. On average, a person who develops the disease can die in 17 years. A person usually goes through multiple stages of disability until spending the final 8 years of their life in a nursing home or hospice care.
It is hereditary. Chase’s dad died from the disease, and according to Shannon’s best estimate, the onset of Huntington’s disease began in 2008.
According to the letter, Chase was given one year in solitary confinement, lost his phone call privileges, lost one year of his good conduct credit, and received three months of yard restriction, nine months of audio/video restriction, and six months of contact visit restriction.
The full article is available here.
State prosecutors allege that on October 4, 2013, Chase sprayed “human waste” on a Cook County prison guard, Officer Trevor Hapanionek. He was charged with four different charges for one alleged act.
Multiple Cook County guards testified during sentencing about the basic details of what they claim happened on October 4, but Dr. Kathleen Shannon, a neurologist who had assessed Chase, testified that his misconduct against guards was likely a result of Huntington’s disease.
Shannon informed the court the disease makes it difficult for a person to avoid outbursts. It makes one easily irritable and can lead to mania. On average, a person who develops the disease can die in 17 years. A person usually goes through multiple stages of disability until spending the final 8 years of their life in a nursing home or hospice care.
It is hereditary. Chase’s dad died from the disease, and according to Shannon’s best estimate, the onset of Huntington’s disease began in 2008.
According to the letter, Chase was given one year in solitary confinement, lost his phone call privileges, lost one year of his good conduct credit, and received three months of yard restriction, nine months of audio/video restriction, and six months of contact visit restriction.
The full article is available here.
