DETAILED UPDATE FROM IMAM SIDDIQUE ABDULLAH HASAN & CONFINED MUSLIM CITIZENS AT OHIO STATE PENITENTIARY
The conduct report described below is
here.
They have given me thirty (30) days restrictions. It was a deliberate
plan to cut off my direct communications with the outside world prior to
the national event/action, notwithstanding their own policy only
permits them to suspend my privileges for a period of up to two hundred
eighty-eight hours (See paragraph (C) of rule 5120:1-10-12 of the
Administrative Code or disciplinary isolation.) This restriction policy
became effective 2/16/2016.
I agree that prison officials are "so
used to being invisible and hiding its corruption and abuses from the
public"; however, we must reveal what happened in my recent situation.
Thus continue to work with the media and attorneys to expose the
problems in my case. (I plan on filing my appeal to the Warden on
Monday.)
There are three of us--Keith Dewitt Jr., David Martin
and myself--still on hunger strike. We are all Muslims and are
dissatisfied with the contract Imam's work performance, treatment of
Muslims, and using his position to remove Muslims from their services
merely because they disagree with some of his teachings. The others that
were on the hunger strike were showing their solidarity about me being
wrongfully put in the hole. They were demanding that I be released from
isolation. When that materialized, they ended their strike.
Hereunder are some of the problems in my case:
1. The incident allegedly took place on July 22nd; however, an incident
report was not written until August 1st. The charge is very, very
serious and no one would wait for 10 days before writing an incident
report if it was true.
2. They then waited 8 more days before
placing me in the hole (on August 9th) with a conduct report for a Rule
59 violation: Any act not otherwise set forth herein, knowingly done
which constitutes a threat to the security of the institution, its
staff, other inmates, or to the acting inmate.
