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Maloney neglected to mention the fact that the
murder indictment against Sundiata had been
dismissed, on the Attorney General's own
motion, in November, 1978 .
Maloney flatly stated to the Appellate Division
that the New Jersey Department of Corrections
would never permit Assata to enter general
prison population in any institution in any state
or-jurisdiction .
History dictates that, as usual, Assata Shakur
will be shipped to a state institution without
notice to her attorney or family, and will be first
advised of her destination when she arrives .
Assata Shakur has been classified as one of the
Political Prisoners in the United States in the
Petition to the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights and Sub-Committee on
Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities, entitled Human Rights Violations in
the United States, filed by the National
Conference of Black Lawyers, the National
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My experiences, my observations, and
knowledge of the United States' judicial and
penal systems have left me with a bitterness and
commitment which I shall always bear . My heart
cries out to our valiant brothers indefinitely
entrapped in the bowels, the penitentiaries, of
this rancid society in which we live : Sundiata
Acoli, Pedro Monges, Sha Sha Brown, Ben
Chavis, Anthony Bottom - a full list would be
seemingly endless .
My tolerance becomes stretched to the point of
breaking, however, when I witness the acts of
blatant cruelty inflicted upon one of our sisters
or children - Randy Evans, Richard Glover,
Assata Shakur . Assata (JoAnne Chesimard) still
lives, however . For how much longer is
questionable though, as she deals with the
sadistic, diabolical forms of harassment and
coercion inflicted upon her by prison officials -
all designed to slowly waste her away . She is now
incarceratgd in Administrative Segregation at the
Federal Women's Prison in Alderson, West
Virginia .
My eyes first fell upon Assata Shakur in the
Fall of 1976 in the Supreme Court of Brooklyn,
where she was on trial . She seemed to be
perpetually on trial . I was awed by the image of
strength and beauty that she displayed in spite of
the preponderant cross she had to bear .
Assata's last trial was in New Brunswick, New
Jersey . It proved to be her ultimate downfall .
The charges against her stemmed from a fatal
Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
and the United Church of Christ, Commission
for Racial Justice in December, 1978 .
The political considerations which define and
control the conditions of Assata's confinement
have even stripped the classification of
"prisoner" from her . She has no prison in which
to be contained : a prisoner without a prison :
Flotsam, mercilessly tossed by the ebb and flow
of the State of New Jersey's murky waters ; an
institutionalized nomad .
If the vindictiveness toward Assata -remains
unchecked, there will be unparalleled, arbitrary
moving of prisoners across the United States at
any time, to any place, absent of any reason,
entirely dependent on the willful and
irresponsible aberrations of state correctional
officials .
The question that must alarm is, after nowhere
-where? Or what?
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Political Prisoner Joanne Chesimard :
The Struggle Continues Sekou Kinshasa
shootout with the notorious New Jersey state
troopers . Accompanying her on that fateful day
in May of 1973 was Sundiata' Acoli and Zayd
Shakur . One of the state police was killed with
his own gun . Zayd was shot and allowed to bleed
to death by the troopers . Assata was shot in the
first volley of gunfire, with her arms raised in the
air, before she even realized what was
happening . To this day she carries an
irremovable bullet in her chest cavity, and upon
her body the permanent physical scars of that
vicious police ambush .
In spite of her obvious and proved innocence,
she was found guilty by an all white jury of the
state trooper's death and given a life sentence
(plus 33 years) . In a prior and separate trial
Sundiata Acoli was also found guilty and given a
similar sentence .
Except for Assata's confinement at Rikers
Island in New York, most of her time from May
of 1973 to April of 1977 had been, spent in
solitary confinement in the basement dungeon of
the Middlesex County Jail in New Jersey . After
her conviction in April she was sent to the
women's prison in Clinton, New Jersey, where
she was kept in solitary confinement . She was
then shipped to an all-male facility in YardviIle,
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