Florida Prisoner Solidarity
Oakland IWOC’s recent disaffiliation from the IWW has brought up questions and concerns that Gainesville IWOC has been grappling with for a while. The dysfunction and shortcomings of the IWW working group structure in relation to supporting inside resistance was easy to overlook because of the support offered within a network of dedicated IWOC comrades. […]
While most state agencies are scrambling to mitigate the effects of COVID-19, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) is taking the opportunity to capitalize on the chaos by pushing through new, fucked up rules about how they are allowed to treat incarcerated people. During the same week that fdoc saw its first COVID related prisoner […]
April 17th, 2020 Governor Ron DeSantis700 N Adams St.Tallahassee, FL 32303 Dear Governor DeSantis: Floridians inside prisons and their loved ones on the outside are depending on you to act. It is the State’s responsibility to protect the people in their custody. The majority of incarcerated people are not serving life sentences, but in the […]
April 17th, 2020 A protest took place outside Governor Ron DeSantis’ mansion in Tallahassee, FL demanding the Governor take immediate action to protect prisoners from COVID-19. Protestors are demanding that Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Mark Inch take immediate steps to: 1) Release people from state prisons, juvenile and immigrant detention […]
By Melvin In this article I will give a basic introduction of a prisoner’s right to medical care. However, this information would be of very little help without information as to the enforcement of such right. Therefore, some basic information about civil rights litigation will be covered in this article as well. Still, before a […]
4/11/2020 Dear Governor Desantis, My name is Keith Soanes, DC# 191981. A Florida prisoner, housed at Martin CI, serving life sentence for robbery with a firearm. By now you may have come to the conclusion the type of prisoner I am. It may be true that I do not fit the Florida DOC or any […]
The time for prevention has passed; the COVID-19 pandemic has reached Florida prisons and the depravity of letting prisoners lay in wait for certain death is unacceptable. With 37 confirmed cases of infected prison staff, COVID19 has already entered the Florida prison system and it will continue to spread like wildfire unless immediate collective action […]
Javoney Roberts is asking for help from the community in raising $3000 in order to settle a lien that has been placed against his inmate trust account for legal and medical services. This lien prevents him from ever receiving ANY financial support from friends or family because the state automatically takes it! When prisoners attempt […]
A comrade inside a Florida prison wrote up this petition so that prisoners could file to appeal the ability for CO’s to confiscate tablets for people in solitary/closed management. Please feel free to use this form and spread it around. Tablet petition
Julius Smith is a freedom fighter incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections. Julius has been continuously retaliated against by prison officials and staff for continuing the fight to inspire unity and radical education among his fellow incarcerated people. Julius has been instrumental to the national prisoner resistance movement and is currently serving an 18 […]