Preface:
This is a statement of fact and analysis written collaboratively between folks on the inside and the outside of Indiana prisons. Our goal here is to contribute to opposing and actively resisting all forms of domination, be they imposed directly by the state or manifested through structural inequalities and prejudices.
Recap of Recent Events:
On the morning of 7-16-2011, an alleged white supremacist was stabbed and killed by two alleged Latin Disciples. The attack took place at Pendleton Correctional Facility in the Maximum Security area of the prison. The murder, coming on the heels of inmate murders at Miami Correctional Facility and Pendleton Correctional Facility earlier in the year, was the stated pretense for putting all institutions in the state on lock down and conducting thorough, far reaching searches.
While many of the lesser security units and institutions have come off lockdown, prisoners at Pendleton, Wabash Valley and the Indiana State Prison are still facing raids and searches. The searches at first seemed to be targeting alleged gang members, in search for contraband materials that could be used in retaliatory attacks, but it has also been used as an excuse to harass and attack inmates across the board, especially those at the Wabash Valley SHU. The SHU houses many of the states political prisoners and the leadership of much of the political organizing that has taken place over the past 3 decades in Indiana Prisons. Continue Reading
On Friday, March 5th an old tale was yet again returned to the media landscape in order to generate capital, and institute cultural markers via entertainment. In a review of Alice in Wonderland 
Though seemingly benign, ‘presence’ and the lack thereof play an interesting role in the human condition. In essence these two states (‘presence’ and the lack of ‘presence’) correspond to the sensory input one is subjected to, but this sensory input has effects on an individual even when the sensory data is no longer present. That is, being Gone does not necessarily correlate with what one would normally imagine (due to the colloquial definition of ‘gone’), because the entity in question is not truly ‘gone’.
