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Together with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), National Lawyers Guild and others, HRC's campaigning to free Shoats from isolation and return him to the general prison population.
On his behalf, a letter-writing/petition campaign was launched. Support him by signing the petition for humane treatment. Now 68, he's held at Pennsylvania's:
State Correctional Institution (SCI) Greene
175 Progress Drive
Waynesburg, PA 15370
724-852-2902
Prison authorities call him a security threat because of past attempted and successful escapes. In fact, he's kept isolated based on false allegations about planning a 1980 prison takeover. He's also persecuted for his activism, leadership, and human rights support.
America's Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It's prison system commits it ruthlessly with impunity. Shoats is one of many victims. Locked up, they're out of sight and mind.
Everyone deserves justice. America's most vulnerable get none, especially those in the maw of a racist, brutalizing, dehumanizing prison system.
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