Inmate Medical Emergency in Nevada!-gctid30795

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Everyone who can please call the officials who are responsible for and have the power to stop this torture:
Warden Dwight Neven, (702) 879-6789
Director of Prisons Howard Skolnik, (775) 887-3216

Greetings all,

There is an URGENT situation in Nevada that we need help with, this Bro.'s life is being played with because he is a prison organizer.  Please help with any information at all that you can share that can support this increasingly dire situation, we need something real to happen soon!  Thank you so much for anything you can do on his behalf.

Struggle forward,

Sis. Marpessa
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On Aug 30, 2008, at 4:20 AM, SF Bay View wrote:

Sis, here's a case that's got me real worried. This young man,  
Marritte, like those young warriors in Georgia, is an incredible  
organizer. And you can see (scroll down) that he's paying a heavy  
price - very likely his life if he doesn't get any help.

I'd been appealing to the only person I know at the ACLU, but as you  
can see he's just left them and is out of contact. Since the ACLU  
National Prison Project had worked on Marritte's situation before, I'm  
hoping they'll pick it back up once they know about the retaliation.  
Do you know anyone there? Any other ideas for how we can get Marritte  
some help?

From: messages-noreply@bounce.linkedin.com
On Behalf Of Mary Ratcliff
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:06 PM
To: Mark Schlosberg
Subject: RE: Join my network on LinkedIn

Mary Ratcliff wrote:

Good to hear from you. I think you said recently that you'd soon be  
leaving the ACLU, but of course you know everybody there, so I'm  
wondering if you could give me a little advice.

A prisoner in Nevada I've known for some time and greatly admired -  
he's such an extraordinary organizer that he once raised $1,000 from  
the guys at Ely State Prison for the Bay View! - wrote for the first  
time in quite a while about the shocking retaliation he's been  
suffering to stop his movement. Having read thounited snakesnds of letters from  
prisons all over the country, it takes a lot to shock me.

He's in dire need of help, having been denied any medical treatment  
for an extremely painful kidney problem. He writes: "After numerous  
letters from numerous convicts at Ely State Prison outlining the  
numerous deaths and other issues taking place due to the subhuman  
medical care there to the ACLU's National Prison Project over several  
years, finally an investigation was launched and it was discovered  
that ESP had the worst medical conditions ever witnessed in the entire  
country! Numerous individuals had killed themselves and elected to  
accept lethal injection rather than continue to suffer the horrendous  
medical care at ESP. A group of us were quickly spirited away from ESP  
and sent here to the High Desert State Prison in Indian Springs,  
Nevada. We all thought it was to get the long overdue or proper  
medical care we needed. But really it was just to shut us up and cover  
up the situation. I've been here seven months and have not see a  
doctor ..."

He goes on to describe the filth, total isolation, return of his mail  
to his family marked "refused" so they'd think he didn't want to hear  
from them. Not getting his Bay View was the last straw and what moved  
him to write. (As you may know, we've had to stop printing the paper  
for now for lack of funds.) Thank goodness his letter got through.

Do you think the National Prison Project would resume their  
investigation and contact him? If you know someone there, could you  
pass along his address:

Marritte Funches
#37050, HDSP
P.O. Box 650
Indian Springs NV 89070-0650

He also sent the names and numbers of the warden and state prisons  
director:
Warden Dwight Neven, (702) 879-6789
Director of Prisons Howard Skolnik, (775) 887-3216

Anything you can do would be hugely appreciated, Mark! I'd love to be  
able to tell Marritte that help is on the way.

Mary, editor@sfbayview.com