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June 14, 2004

Dear Ms. Shine:

I would like to introduce myself. My name is La’Barius Williams, inmate number 07442-003. I am currently at Talladega F.C.I for a food strike that have suppose to of taken place, on April 9, 2004. I know that I was wrongfully transferred away from Yazoo. I was not involved in anykind of food strike or whatever they want to call it. I feel like all of my rights were stripped away from me as soon as this lockdown occurred. We were told to go to our cubes and remain in them until further notice. The so called incident took place on the weekend of Easter. I was denied my rights for visitation of my family because we were on lockdown. Therefor my family had to turn around and go all the way back home, for what I don’t know. I was denied telephone and shower the last couple of days I remained at Yazoo. On April 15, 2004, I was transferred away from Yazoo to Talladega and placed in the Special Housing Unit. They didn’t even give me a specific reason of why I am being shipped away. This have took a major effect on me mentally because I have lost a lot of support from others because of lack of communication. I am from Moss Point, Ms. I think Yazoo was the closet place to my home, and I feel if I go anywhere else I will not be able to see my family like I was at Yazoo. My family doesn’t have that type of income to be traveling a far distance. I have also been sitting in a 6X9 cell alone for the last two months, getting fed through a food slot, 23 hours a day. We was denied phone calls for the first three weeks that I was here, because they said Yazoo said that we couldn’t make any calls. Still having not received a sanction. I feel like I am getting punished for nothing. Now I am able to make two phone calls a week, and that is on Saturday and Sunday. How can I keep in contact with my family members and the ones that is supporting me in prison. It has been times when I call home, and my mother asks me what is the deal or when am I getting out of the hole. I cannot find myself to be able to give them an answer, because I do not understand the situation, and plus when I ask the officers in command here they can not even answer me. Being not able to use the phone from April 9 until May 4 was unjustified. How can they take you phone privileges away from you, when you have not received a sanction. I also ended up losing a job in Unicor that was helping me pay off a fine. The job also helped me to be able to talked on the phone every month, and also go to the commisary and shop, so if they did have something in the cafeteria that I didn’t like, I was able to go cook me something. I have lost most of my property because I was not able to see it packed away properly, therefor I have no account of what happened to it. Maybe it was misplaced, or even maybe it was stolen. I had just spent $150 in the commisary, and now I feel like that too was taken away from me. I wouldn’t mind going back to Yazoo, because I will be close to my family and plus I can try and get my job back. A job that I really depended on, so it would take the pressure up off of my family. I have three children, and I believe if I end up somewhere to far, it will be a long time before I be able to see them again. I don’t know what made the people pick me, but I strongly know they got an innocent man. I have to sit up in this cell, hoping everyday that I get mail through the week for some kind of communication. When I was at Yazoo I didn’t have to do these things because I could use the phone everyday. At last, that is why I write you to inform you that, I was wrongly mistreated in this food strike situation.

Thank you,

La’Barius J. Williams

07442-003