Help These Victims of "Justice" System Injustice
My friend Roxanne, a Buddhist and devoted prison reformer, has asked me to post this information about some incarcerated men who are in great need of assistance. Some have been incarcerated unjustly, some denied medical care, some kept in prison long after they've paid their debt to society, and some even tortured....
One of these men is her cousin Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has been unjustly imprisoned since the 1970's.
[Leonard in prison]
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The following is from Roxanne:
The John Greschner Defense Committee
This committee is dedicated to freeing prisoners who have been incarcerated for more than 20 years. Both Federal and State justice system hand out sentences that are unjust and need to be reduced. All of these prisoners are asking for clemency and pardons, so please send in your letters of support of their freedom to the address below.
US Pardon Attorney
Roger C Adams
500 First Street NW Suite 400
Washington DC 20530
Phone: (202) 616-6070
The address of the Committee is
853 #2 Sonoma Ave Santa Rosa, CA. 95404
Please make donations pay able to Roxanne Davenport Greschner.
John Greschner has been incarcerated for 40 years and has been tortured at the hands of a repressive regime that has stolen his life. Since the time in his life when he was housed at USP Marion Ill and tortured there he has done much to better him self and other prisoners. He and many others Prisoners have been the blunt end of years of abuse, such as medical neglect. His friends have all been harmed by the same type of treatment while being housed by the FBOP and State prison systems. His current address is
John Greschner
V-12545/ federal Reg # 02550-135
CSATF/SP
D-1-130u
PO Box 5244
Corcoran, CA. 93212
Please send stamps and funds.
Ronald Del Raine is serving a 209-year sentence for a crime that happened almost 41 years ago and he is 77 years old. Federal Reg # 85462-132. He is 77 years old and needs assistance from folks all over the world. He can only receive money and he cannot receive stamps. But letters to the pardons commissioner would help to aid us in fighting for his freedom. You can find his current address by going to www.bop.gov and clicking on the inmate locater. Many prisoners have been indicted for crimes that they have already been tried for in the past and this group will seek financial aid from the public to help them with obtaining legal references as well as attorneys for their appeals. Send them funds. There are many other prisoners who we will put on our list to free at a latter date. Please send $ 5.00 donations for printing legal materials to be sent in to the prisoners. and for photo copying the materials for the prisoners. They send us materials that need to be photo copied and we lack funds. These prisoners are now on our list to aid in their freedom. The location of these Federal Prisoners can be obtained at www.bop.gov click on to the inmate locator and type in their Federal Reg #.
Edgar Heval Federal Reg # 13950-116
Tyler Bingham Federal Reg # 03325-091
Barry Byron Mills Federal Reg# 14559-116
Tommy Silverstein Federal Reg #14634-116
Leonard Peltier # 89637-132
Oscar Lopez-Rivera # 87651-024
Bill Dunne # 10916-086
George Martorano #12973-004
Scott Seeley
oid# 100679
970 Picket ST. N.
Bayport, MN. 55003-1490
Scott Seeley can only receive money and not stamps. He is a prisoner who survived USP Marion Ill. And the torture that happened there. Please send him money and please write letters to representative in the State of MN where Scott is located as well as the London office of Amnesty International. Please write to and say action requesting that "the funds for victims of torture (an international effort to assist third world victims of gov torture) be utilized to assist with medical, psychotherapy and recovery in the case of the Native American, Scott Seeley and Leonard Peltier, that this request is based upon the documented incidences of gov employed tortures spanning 30 years of incarceration and documented in State and Federal investigations and the current and past denials of medical care by prison officials.
Pilar Gimeno
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London, WCIXO DW
United Kingdom
Send a copy to Rep Karen Clark
MN House of Representative Room 303
175 State Office Building
100 Rev. Dr. M.L. King Blvd
St. Paul, MN 55155 USA
JOHN PERROTTI
TCI*167712
PO BOX 901
LEAVITTSBURG
OHIO 44430
JOHN CASTILLO JR.
#1045776
GEO FACILITY
4000 N. 10TH. ST.
BRIDGEPORT,TEXAS 76426
One of these men is her cousin Leonard Peltier, the Native American activist who has been unjustly imprisoned since the 1970's.
[Leonard in prison]
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The following is from Roxanne:
The John Greschner Defense Committee
This committee is dedicated to freeing prisoners who have been incarcerated for more than 20 years. Both Federal and State justice system hand out sentences that are unjust and need to be reduced. All of these prisoners are asking for clemency and pardons, so please send in your letters of support of their freedom to the address below.
US Pardon Attorney
Roger C Adams
500 First Street NW Suite 400
Washington DC 20530
Phone: (202) 616-6070
The address of the Committee is
853 #2 Sonoma Ave Santa Rosa, CA. 95404
Please make donations pay able to Roxanne Davenport Greschner.
John Greschner has been incarcerated for 40 years and has been tortured at the hands of a repressive regime that has stolen his life. Since the time in his life when he was housed at USP Marion Ill and tortured there he has done much to better him self and other prisoners. He and many others Prisoners have been the blunt end of years of abuse, such as medical neglect. His friends have all been harmed by the same type of treatment while being housed by the FBOP and State prison systems. His current address is
John Greschner
V-12545/ federal Reg # 02550-135
CSATF/SP
D-1-130u
PO Box 5244
Corcoran, CA. 93212
Please send stamps and funds.
Ronald Del Raine is serving a 209-year sentence for a crime that happened almost 41 years ago and he is 77 years old. Federal Reg # 85462-132. He is 77 years old and needs assistance from folks all over the world. He can only receive money and he cannot receive stamps. But letters to the pardons commissioner would help to aid us in fighting for his freedom. You can find his current address by going to www.bop.gov and clicking on the inmate locater. Many prisoners have been indicted for crimes that they have already been tried for in the past and this group will seek financial aid from the public to help them with obtaining legal references as well as attorneys for their appeals. Send them funds. There are many other prisoners who we will put on our list to free at a latter date. Please send $ 5.00 donations for printing legal materials to be sent in to the prisoners. and for photo copying the materials for the prisoners. They send us materials that need to be photo copied and we lack funds. These prisoners are now on our list to aid in their freedom. The location of these Federal Prisoners can be obtained at www.bop.gov click on to the inmate locator and type in their Federal Reg #.
Edgar Heval Federal Reg # 13950-116
Tyler Bingham Federal Reg # 03325-091
Barry Byron Mills Federal Reg# 14559-116
Tommy Silverstein Federal Reg #14634-116
Leonard Peltier # 89637-132
Oscar Lopez-Rivera # 87651-024
Bill Dunne # 10916-086
George Martorano #12973-004
Scott Seeley
oid# 100679
970 Picket ST. N.
Bayport, MN. 55003-1490
Scott Seeley can only receive money and not stamps. He is a prisoner who survived USP Marion Ill. And the torture that happened there. Please send him money and please write letters to representative in the State of MN where Scott is located as well as the London office of Amnesty International. Please write to and say action requesting that "the funds for victims of torture (an international effort to assist third world victims of gov torture) be utilized to assist with medical, psychotherapy and recovery in the case of the Native American, Scott Seeley and Leonard Peltier, that this request is based upon the documented incidences of gov employed tortures spanning 30 years of incarceration and documented in State and Federal investigations and the current and past denials of medical care by prison officials.
Pilar Gimeno
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London, WCIXO DW
United Kingdom
Send a copy to Rep Karen Clark
MN House of Representative Room 303
175 State Office Building
100 Rev. Dr. M.L. King Blvd
St. Paul, MN 55155 USA
JOHN PERROTTI
TCI*167712
PO BOX 901
LEAVITTSBURG
OHIO 44430
JOHN CASTILLO JR.
#1045776
GEO FACILITY
4000 N. 10TH. ST.
BRIDGEPORT,TEXAS 76426
Have you read The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham yet? I picked it up thinking it would be a nice murder mystery to read at the gym while doing my cardio. I like light reads for that. I'm about 1/2 way through the book thinking, this is too far fetched. I went home and looked up the description of the book and was shocked to find out it was true. I thought it was too far fetched for fiction! In the book, the main character Ron Williamson spends years on death row after being framed for a murder he knew nothing about.
I lived in Illinois when they stopped all executions and I was never prouder of my government.
I will write my Senator about this issue. Unfortunately I live in Florida and I think our prisoners have less of a chance than most.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, as they say.... If a novel had been written about my story before it happened to me, I would have called it totally implausible and unbelievable. But sadly, these things do happen - and all-too-frequently.
I have a copy of Grisham's The Innocent Man in my library, but I haven't read it yet. Believe it or not, it's hard for me to read such stories. They make me relive it. So most of the books I've read about such cases, I read in prison or before prison. Now I can make myself read an article - but I'm not ready for a whole book yet. Too much to relive... though I suspect I will read it eventually after more time has passed, because I believe it's important to be educated about such cases, and I've heard good things about the book.
I applaud Illinois for issuing that moratorium!
And I greatly appreciate your comment and your offer to write your senator. Thank you, Kelly!
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I think one of our gringo friends here got in trouble with Peltier.
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Too bad Peltier didn't have a chance to skedaddle to Mexico.... I wonder if they would have extradicted him back to Los Estados Unidos.
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If bill C would have taken his head out of his ass long enought to take monicas head off of his lap then he might have dont some good at the end of his term like legalize, or even better use his presidential pardon to free Leonard, Its a matter ive cared about for some time, Unfortunatly george is a racist and an idiot on top of that, so we will have to wait EVEN LONGER!!!!
Peace out Munchie
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You're right: Bill should have done it and George doesn't seem to care. So much for his so-called "compassionate conservatism"!
Thanks for your comment, bro!
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I agree!!
I have written many letters trying to get Peltier set free! I think he has been done very wrong!
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You are a very kind and good person.
I find it strange that America is so swift to demand for other nations and other leaders (Saddam Hussein comes to mind) to atone for their "sins" and atrocities, when America has never been too interested in atoning for its own, especially against the Native Americans and the slaves from Africa.
Land of the free? Depends on who you ask....
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I just finished innocent man 15 min. ago,and I am glad to live in Canada with no death penalty. I just cannot understand the death penalty. Death is the absolute final thing, all we really have is life. I can not understand how one person or group of people can consider taking a life, if only they could wear a death row pair of shoes and feel the horror and finality of the coming date,I cannot see how they could not change their mind.
Years ago I thought the death penalty was the right thing. I think I thought this from ingnorance and media cramming these thoughts in my head. When all you do is work with very little down time to read and think outside "normal ways," you sometimes just follow the pack.
I never have seen much up here in Canada about criminal rights but that is probably becauce I have not been looking. I am looking now.
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Excellent observations....
I have to admit that once upon a time I believed in the death penalty as well. The older I get - and the more I see, read, and experience - I am appalled by capital punishment. And I'm amazed by this irony: that most of the biggest believers in the death penalty here in America happen to also be staunch so-called "pro-lifers" when it comes to abortion.
There were folks in the Bible who believed in the death penalty - and if I recall correctly, Jesus told them "Judge not" and "let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
I appreciate you stopping by my blog and sharing your thoughts, Brian!
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I learn something fresh everyday or get to read about other people's experience which is why I love reading blogs.
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