The Kaibab 21 – Part III

Ever since the first of the year there have been random assaults taking place at various complexes throughout the state.Along with these beat downs there have been a few homicides not publicly reported since their deaths occurred off prison grounds and in the community hospitals were they are reported quietly through a news release that is muted for political and embarrassment reasons.  Some news releases identify these as natural deaths while others report them due to complications during treatment of an injury or illness. Either way, these deaths (of all races) are muted and kept under wraps to minimize the violence inside prisons. 

Shortly after a racial attack at the medium unit in Lewis, the agency decided to divide the Black inmates and dispersed them to all the other general population yards in the state. Their ideology was to divide and conquer those housed and Lewis as they were beginning to organize themselves in order to protect themselves from the predatory Mexican Mafia and associates on their yards. Attacks were frequent and also included assaults on staff as they knew attacking staff would give them automatic protective custody at a level 5 unit and not be in imminent danger of being confronted or killed by Mexicans. It was a survival tool they had learned doing time. 

Those dispersed to other yards were vulnerable and outnumbered by Mexicans and Whites. They had to find a way to protect themselves. It was reasonable to conclude they formed a circle or groups of individuals all Black so they had the ability to defend themselves when attacked. Heavily outnumbered they fabricated shanks and other weapons to equal the threat levels imposed by the majority of Mexicans eager to attack them due to the mandate to injure or kill Blacks on sight.

Months passed and the Blacks were divided among the general population yards and left to defend themselves as the administration was oblivious or ignorant of the threats made against them. This “green light” by the Mexican Mafia was enforced by the strictest codes out there and numerous attacks continued to occur. At Kaibab there was a lot of tension and a pending war brewing. To quote those that were housed there at the time it was a time of political strife and what appeared to be encouragement by the administration to engage in a cultural war or better yet a “racist culture” conflict. 

These attacks were kept “under wraps” according to these Kaibab prisoners who were all transferred to the Special management Unit I in Florence after the riot jumped off in Kaibab and resulted in 21 blacks being locked up for possession of weapons, inciting a riot, participating in a disturbance and many other charges. These 21 Kaibab black prisoners called their new group the New Afrikan Revolutionary group and began a political campaign to publicize their issues and concerns. This article is a direct result of such pleas to bring this matter to the sunlight and out of the darkness.

Reaching out to the media failed as they claimed their “politically in-correct tragedies” would spread to the community streets just like it did decades ago in California. The fact is that this may be more correct than anyone would want to admit as prison violence often spreads into street violence.  The Revolutionary group is predicting great potential of these civilian killings of Black and Mexican people because of this racial war inside of prisons. 

The bottom line this group is claiming is this statement that will likely get them all housed in an administrative segregation unit forever doing their time at the most restrictive setting. Saying boldly “just like their struggle the State and Imperialism, we fight to the death and stand up for what’s right + our Human Rights.” Claiming the ADOC are “using their policies and laws to attack and diminish our humanity; we use the pen as a sword as well”