Stand With Me In Solidarity

by Khalfani Malik Khaldun

March 10, 2017

Dear Comrades,

After being segregated again for the fourth time since my release to general population on Nov. 21, 2014, from a stretch of 20 years doing 23-1, news came today of a small victory.

My two disciplinary appeals were ruled on. The first level appeal of Providing Inadequate Urine Sample was denied. I’m preparing the second level appeal to be sent to the IDOC headquarters in Indianapolis, IN.

We won this one! The B-215 Unauthorized Possession of Property (TV Remote Control) got modified down to a C-353 Unauthorized Possession of Personal Property. This change caused my new release from segregation to be April 4, 2017 instead of July 1, 2017.

If we can cause the final reviewing authority to thoroughly scrutinize the appeal by writing him to advise him to correct this injustice, maybe he will do so. My contact visits were taken away because of the guilty urine test. So I am pleading with you to write to: Robert D. Buggher (Final Review), Legal Services Director, Indiana Dept. of Correction, E334 Indianian Government Center-South, 302 West Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204.

Please state the following: “Leonard McQuay, 874304: 1) Case No. 17-01-0013 was not conducted in compliance with the policy and procedures 01-02-107 Urinanalysis Program. The test cup was faulty and did not temp. That is not Leonard McQuay’s fault. He did not test for drugs either. 2) He was denied evidence meant for preparing my case for his hearing, and was denied the requested picture of the sample. Plus there was a statement from Ofc. Ewers, a key witness during the test. 3) Appeal should be granted on these bases alone. An alternative to it would modify the charge B-203 Refusing to Test. Yet as the conduct report clearly states, he provided a Urine Sample. We feel it could be modified to a C-347 Refusing to Obey an Order. Doing this would allow him to regain contact visits with his family.”

Thank you for your continued support. Peace and Blessings to you all.

In Solidarity,

Bro. Khalfani Malik Khaldun

874304 Leonard McQuay

PO Box 1111 Q-512

Carlise, IN 47838

Please call Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Superintendent Richard Brown and Indiana Department of Corrections Acting Commissioner Custer and demand that inmate Leonard McQuay #874304 be released from segregation and that staff stop harassing him.

Richard Brown: (812) 398-5050
Acting Commissioner Custer: (317) 232-5711

Script:
“I am calling to demand that Leonard McQuay #874304 (in Wabash Valley Correctional Facility) be released from segregation and that staff stop harassing him. Thank you.”

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Leonard McQuay, aka Khalfani Malik Khaldun, is a long-term prisoner from Indiana and a long-time New Afrikan activist. He is currently locked up at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, the most notoriously racist and abusive facility run by the Indiana Department of Corrections. Like many other New Afrikan prisoner activists, who refuse to forsake their dignity and rights, he is constantly being harassed by the prison staff and authorities.

Currently, Khalfani is being held in Segregation, which is essentially solitary confinement used to punish rebellious inmates, on the spurious charge of “failure to provide an adequate urine sample.” The punishment he is undergoing is harassment for his activism and his refusal to snitch, pure and simple. Khalfani submitted to three separate urine tests, and passed all of them without a trace of drugs in his system, and then he was charged with “failure to supply an adequate urine sample,” because they couldn’t get him on anything real.