{"id":629,"date":"2019-07-29T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/?p=629"},"modified":"2019-07-29T20:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T20:49:19","slug":"july-31-nc-hunger-strike-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/29\/july-31-nc-hunger-strike-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"July 31 – NC Hunger Strike Begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This\n hunger strike is due to begin July 31, 2019 within the solitary unit \nat Scotland Correctional Institution in Laurinburg, NC.

Let Day One be a day of inside-outside solidarity! 

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\"July<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

PHONEZAP<\/strong>
Friday July 31
8am EST – allllll dayyyyy longgg\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/strong>
Requests for notaries necessary for \nlegal actions and grievances against conditions at this razor-wire \nplantation are being consistently ignored. Many of these grievances are \nagainst Scotland denying those held captive in solitary confinement of \ntheir recreation time. Scotland’s staff will simply claim that \nrecreation is “canceled”. NCDOC’s own Policy and Procedures (Chapter C, \nSection .1206 (B)) guarantees that those on “restrictive housing” \n(solitary confinement) shall be allowed to recreation outside of the \ncell five days a week for one hour a day. Scotland is violating their \nown policies and causing severe harm to all those  forced to be confined\n to a small cell 24\/7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, Scotland’s so-called medical staff conducts what \nare called \u201cseg checks\u201d at 1am-2am every night when everyone is asleep. \nThis seg check involves banging on everyone’s window disrupting their \nsleep and startling them. Sleep deprivation is widely recognized as a \nmethod of torture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call (910) 844-3078 and ask to speak to Captain Henderson and Superintendent Katie Poole<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Record calls if possible. Leave long messages on voicemails. Call \nmultiple times and disrupt their operations. Remember that denial and \nobstruction are standard operating procedures for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Report any and all info received to atlantaiwoc@protonmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suggested call script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Hi my name is ________, The world is watching and is in support \nof the hunger strikers there at Scotland Correctional Institution. We \nare well aware of your violations in denying them a legal notary and \nthrowing out their grievances. Multiple grievances have been made \nagainst your “cancellations” of recreation in spite of your Policy and \nProcedures manual stating that those on restrictive housing shall be \nallowed to rec outside of the cell for five days out of the week for one\n hour a day. Many humanitarian organizations have been informed on \nScotland Correctional Institution’s violations that directly torture \nthose you confine to a cell 24\/7. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have also been informed that Scotland’s so-called medical \nstaff has been conducting “seg checks” at unreasonable hours of the \nnight, 1am-2am every night when everyone is clearly asleep. These seg \nchecks involve medical staff banging on everyone’s door, disrupting \ntheir sleep and causing further psychological harm. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These methods of torture will be widely exposed and we not quit until they have ceased.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*”Inmates assigned to Administrative Segregation, and Disciplinary \nSegregation, Intensive Control, Maximum Control, High Security Maximum \nControl, Protective Control, shall be allowed one hour per day, five \ndays per week exercise outside the cell, unless safety or security \nconsiderations dictate otherwise. Medical authorities may grant \nexceptions to the five times per week exercise requirement for specific \nreasons. The exercising of an inmate or the inmate\u2019s refusal to exercise\n shall be documented on form DC-141.”  (https:\/\/www.doc.state.nc.us\/DOP\/policy_procedure_manual\/C1200.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This hunger strike is due to begin July 31, 2019 within the solitary unit at Scotland Correctional Institution in Laurinburg, NC. Let Day One be a day of inside-outside solidarity!  PHONEZAPFriday July 318am EST – allllll dayyyyy longgg BackgroundRequests for notaries necessary for legal actions and grievances against conditions at this razor-wire plantation are being consistently ignored. Many of these … Continue reading July 31 – NC Hunger Strike Begins!<\/span> »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}