In temperatures in excess of 100. 00 degrees theres no active theres no air conditioning. Theres no aggregation in for us in a ventilated area. And in the actual pods in the sales that whole guys they have no circulation at all so what you normally would seeing is that you see. This and theyre laying on the coal for because you know its when the man is in made out of cinderblocks cinder blocks they hold in either cool air and they hold it so during the summer months theyre holding in all the cool air so the gas just lay bare just like bare chested on the floor is not uncommon to see 5 or 6 guys just laid out and in a sale on the floor vironment is visible in the visiting area rats. Roaches spiders. And little Fire Fighters mosquitoes are fast. Waltz any that you want to see have in the corners of the facility and these are areas where the public are. Allowed i mean theres nothing new about whats happening in march and i would say in very recent history i think 2 summers ago in august there was basically every other day most of them parchin and in a little bit further back history if we look at the 1970 s. Theres this successful suit that they. Are sort of people win against the state that leads to the end of the trustee system and that was around cruel and unusual punishment so as long as the prison has existed there have been these sort of cruel inhuman conditions and what were going to continue to see and have seen in the past is these. Periods where the state violence is sort of most apparent to us but for people who are incarcerated that state violence every day i would never drink the water or i dont like to wash my hands in the bathrooms because when you turned water on its literally the color of my water fountains when they were the same way they were to come on the water fountains scared to drink the guards will tell you not to drink guards give me about water because i didnt have any they went to water but my client that water out of the water barriers between 2 ways is either to chlorinate it or it smells like suge and so all the pipes leak right so the gas had their socks around the leaky pipes and so if thats not so brown. They know not to drink the water if the socks are why they know koreans in the water we can wash our clothes and that if you dont enter into water youre going to drink it at that time period if there is a border notice in the area you guys will get by the water there are still forced to drink that water they take their medication what water that smells like sewage they take medication in water that visibly if you put it in a cup and they think as well take it that they let the water sit and they let all the soil and all of the particles go to the bottom and then they just drink the water that is clarified on top. Conditions that have been this way for. Behind me is the Mississippi State penitentiary known locally as parchment prison where an astounding 9 individuals have died in the past month alone since the start of the new year reports of everything from fights and fires and suicides to insufficient food and Water SuppliesPower Outages and individuals sleeping on the floors have been reported and a mountain of human rights abuses are allegedly going on behind these walls we traveled here today to speak with locals activists politicians celebrities and everyone in between and to try and figure out why these things are happening here parchment and what can be done to fix the problem in order to understand the Current Crisis inside parchment you have to go way back in history and understand the prisons roots of former governor of mississippi and open my supra mrs james k. Vardaman was instrumental in creating the Mississippi State prison he believed that the money made from convict leasing and chain gang should go to the state instead of private entities and thus the Mississippi State penitentiary was born the prison itself is a reform so parchment prison comes about at the turn of the last century as a as a way to sort of. Undo what some people are see as the problems of the comically system and in particular governor the governor at the time James Vardaman who is an unapologetic white supremacist actually runs on a campaign of white supremacy. Believed that the problem with comic leasing was not really the sort of. Human rights abuse that it was but rather that he saw it as sort of lining the pockets of the plantation class that he was a white supremacist populist and believe that this sort of state run plantation style prison would instead be a way of sort of socializing africanamericans to their place which he saw as. Manual labor the reform that led to the establishment of parchment was also way its a crime assist in its intent. As i mentioned james james vitamins the person who established. Parchment and he used to actually incarcerated people on the grounds of parchment with blood for sport so if you think about that kind of context in which this place is born theres really no some training white supremacy. Initially. After the timeline of so there were about 4 or 5 its within 3 or 4 days between december 29th and january 2nd either on january 2nd in the o. C. Issued a statement stating that everything was under control however on january 3rd 2 more people died as a result of the incidents that occurred with. One of the indio see it was still a tease throughout the state we did a timeline breakdown of everything that was occurring once we did that time last week we deployed the article on Twitter Facebook all of our platforms and certainly it began to go really viral we posted a video image of that was sent of several mean being housed in a in a unit 32 of parchment unit 32 a question has been condemned and closed down since 2009 i said to 1000 i suffered for over 10 years and that was closed down when i say you know you entered in agreement with Mississippi State prison for parchment to close it down the reason it was closed down was because it was a hellhole the. Essential it was it was a place where where 6 of the people that were being housed there it was the different facility it was the place where where people who were very sick was also being housed but it was also a. A place that was a violent place to say the least essentially the a. C. L. U. The site it. This facility should no longer be open so for 10 years this this place had been closed down and this was the place that. These these be incarcerated people were moved to this facility now is flooded it has black mold in it they have no mattresses it basically has not been maintained in 10 years it was continue to be able to in years ago but we have video surfaces of these men inside of this facility and we had already told the story that no other new site was telling with regard to those men being in unit 32 nobody else had disclosed it because they didnt have the inside information once we got that we shared it and we share the video and the video went viral on twitter it was shared by. Many hip hop artists and its heinous on twitter and instagram can people like t. I. David banner and big create i think even so a lot of rappers have really been vocal about it parchment is located at least 2 hours away from many major cities making it difficult for lawyers Family Members and having kids to visit in recent months incarcerated people have used contraband cell phones to share videos and photos of their conditions on social media. And incidents of forced transparency in a deadly situation one of the prison officials allege that prison gangs are to blame for the mounting deaths of the merge many many are pushing against that narrative stating that the inhuman conditions are driving people beyond sanity i think now with all of that. Technology that now were going to have people are now going to be able to see inside and i think thats whats threatening to. Do the people that are supposed to be in charge of the prisoners not disappoint i think this is was threatening to one because you cant you get so many people and so much of that is around so much contraband they were going there you cant you cant really control of doubt who would a get rich feed this from whom and so its going to continue to leak were going to teach them no more things that continue to slip because people are getting bold. But now people are also coming up gay the main way their prisons have been able to skirt any type of Regulation Authority around issues involving prisoners and litigation pretty much came out of the night and if im in Congress Passed the prison litigation reform act and what that was is that at that Time Congress was saying in prisons were seeing a large number of prisoners filing suits about the conditions that they lived in and it was causing a backlog in the backlog. In the system and so congress wanted a way to limit the rights of prisoners to bring federal lawsuits about the conditions that they were being confined and so what the p. L. R. A does is that it basically calls for her prisoners to allow their captors time and knowingness to fix issues that are conditions based so basically which you have to do is that you have to say you have to say to the people who are holding you in these conditions hey. This water smells like or this water tastes like chlorine and then you have to give those people a reasonable amount of time to address the issue before you can move on. To even file a lawsuit against the president. The hours. Thanks to the folks who want to pull through probably through the people that come on you know weve all got to be going through really. Really. Ok i want. Now you want to 1st correct that. You know. All the. Social and i was initially subject says something to us and investors but at the. Grocery i say oh shes a mom for from uploaded to detroit from food for. My p. S. P. I didnt do enough to try to accomplish project for the. Problems. It was because of global what was going to have to close to this need so that in you know one would assume most of us have seen the Office Moving the support of the family the new fighting under the sofa cushion have. Something left us the fortunate about 4 to 6 months because of the sound. The system is working. This be clear its not a broken criminal Justice System the criminal Justice System is doing what it was designed to do steal kill and destroy. People its working what needs to happen with the system is tear the system apart and. Thats what needs to happen because if we dont repeal it put some lousy imply were going to keep this repetitive cycle. That only rubio will you bring different people to the table with different absalom and the way to mississippi you could always go boom the good old boy all. Right but i believe this generation whose comin the. Good old boys wont work for me its not the gang leaders who are feeding them only one meal a day its not the gang leaders who are not repairing the. Plumbing where they can get water i mean more than just one water bottle a day its not the gang leaders who are leaving trash everywhere i mean this is obviously a problem with the state of mississippi when we think of prisoners we dont think humans we think criminals we think gang members we think murderers rapists we dont think that over half the population in prison are in there for victimless crimes we dont think that these are indeed humans who deserve human rights. We want to think that theyre terrible people so whenever the state tells us that theyre terrible people we feel like its ok and they get treated terribly. And thats just not the case for most prisoners are not there for any other reason than possibly smoking a plant or doing some others or towards crime harshman for example you have the a. A. R. P. Process which is called the administrative remedy process and the way its supposed to work is that there is supposed to be a box in each unit on each zone in each tier and there are supposed to be these little forms that you can fill out in the end it has to in you can only bring up one issue at a time and it has to be so specific as to give the m. T. O. 3 reasonable notice in time to fix your problem before you can move on and so is this that is a 3 step process 1st you fill out the a. A. R. P. And you tell them what your complaint is and you put it in the box and you hope to get a response if you dont get a response within 30 days you would answer the 2nd step and the 2nd step is i did not get a response i still want to respond. You put that in the box they have 30 days to respond and then and only then if you have gotten no response in 60 days then if you can find somebody to file a lawsuit on your behalf against in b. O. C. To do so it makes it virtually impossible to file to get any kind of remedy legally. You dont have any. Solutions to the problems of parchment are difficult but they do exist Holding Elected Officials and prison officials accountable is on the lips of everyone i spoke with as well as Creative Solutions to addressing the issue people that are making decisions about what should happen with prisons are either dead or have not a clue whats really going on youve got the wrong people at the table you know you need those who play at the table that really care people that are connected to the issue at hand people who have had Family Members behind you know the bars how can you really connect how can you really see what youre willing to see and be human and see people as human if you have not been through the experience one way or the other whether youve been a Family Member if you had a Family Member in there or locked up to hold somebody accountable for whats happening now you almost have to do use because it go back so far it didnt just or it didnt just happen you just keep getting people in position to not change and it is the problem but in order to deal with hold of somebody accountable youve got to go away. So worse havent you got to actually have legislators and people actually going to the facility actually talking to people like their people and not just walk me ignoring them like youre looking at the pain on the wall but actually human masm bring me a you know fact that they asking them. You know make them you. Because they can help you solve the problems they can tell you is needed they can fix it guess who gets to bow light on this not of us not any other organization not even the state of mississippi the inmates the prisoners are 100 percent in charge 100 percent in show it out of the Media Attention has pressurize out the more the abuse the abnormal use the hand the walls we live behind the world and youre going to have offices this going to say oh. Yeah relive a yaml today you get channel 3 for fat. Guy washington whoever he or and guess would they go now. And you last shall i will when i say you can shout. You go eat when i say you can eat and guess would i say take your reckon take it now thats the reality it was going on behind the walls in the prison with luggage and in lockdown in this in a state but especially in mississippi is a time for dio say out to more to allow staff who are rated been overworked. To have time out is a lot of. This going on even more pressure rises a pressure situation. We want you to 29 down we want any brothers and sisters as a side unit 32 to be out of unit 32 we were partially shut down in the interim. Immediately what we want is for those brothers and sisters aside to have Better Food Better Health care Better Mental Health care we want them to be treated like human beings we want them to be able to have access to their family existed to their representation because these are things that theyre being deny right now just as here value of which you have to try and do in the here manage time and the amount of money that it takes to even if out in the litigations about conditions we can take the Alabama Department of corrections case as an example thats a 6 year lift you know organizers and have attorneys its 6 years to even get into a point to where they can bring Alabama Department corrections to the table in mississippi burgess can start question when he will let the Health Department here last week the reason is the Health Department is can the on them before. But since that time they refused to allow those brothers access to to the necessary things and we want people out of there ultimately we want them to immediately reinstate parole for those who have the ability to have access to parole we want them to a media Early Release those who have been held on not in the fences on drug offenses to de coster rate this system ultimately and ill be honest with you to goal is to abolish the system and start it over you know what i mean like reboot because weve never had a say in this process our brothers and sisters is that never had a say in this process but this process has always come down on us is very necessary we demand that whatever changes come come in. Transformative way the problem of the prison and prison organizing has remained the same over time which is visibility its how do you draw attention to these dark sites across the country when theyre specifically designed to sort of prevent the public from understanding and empathizing in and knowing how to. Address the problem so i think a starting point for all of these campaigns is greater connectivity between people outside and inside so we make sure that we are responding to peoples needs inside and also aware of the conditions and creating sort of networks. So that when we have these episodes of extreme violence were able to better address the sort of every day violence as well as it gets more and more attention and we get more and more leaders stepping up who are using their voices and using their their power stepping in their power to you know create a voice for for the incarcerated were still trying to be centric on the voices of the actual prisoners i know they are bringing in celebrities who are taking their own actions and whatnot but our thing is were talking directly right now to incarcerate people and to direct Family Members of people who are cars rated because when we look at the root causes and the Root Solutions of what needs to be done these are the people who are closest to the issue theyre going to know what they need done bring a lot of people who are able to listen to speak. For a good noble wall. Who because they have knowledge or heard someone speak about it they may feel is deliverable voice book them to you want to merge. Arguing with the right its hard to explain to people. You expert. If you went to school to learn criminal Justice Reform or you went to law school or you now been elected now this you you want to be the expert you want to have the answers you pay. The price of educating yourself to be the expert and then when you have some matter come alone you did time in prison. Tell you what you need this is what you need and thats a lot of why. The criminal Justice System in whats happening here in mississippi is happening because we have deafen our sadness the voices of the people they need to be heard because here we are 30 plus years in the gang and we still havent been hurt although i hope that we have being heard you heard your ear. 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