MAJOR TILLERY BACK IN THE HOLE!!
FEDERAL RETALIATION LAWSUIT FILED!!
SCI
Frackville prison officials put Major Tillery back in the hole!! This is more
retaliation against Tillery who is now fighting to get Hepatitis C treatment.
Tillery was able to get word out through another prisoner who told us that
several guards in the “AC annex” have been verbally harassing and trying to
provoke men with racist comments. The “AC annex” is a cell block that houses
both general population and disciplinary prisoners together. We don’t have the
particulars of what falsified charges they put against Major. His daughter
Kamilah Iddeen heard that he got 30 days and should be out of the RHU (restricted
housing unit) on March 2.
Last year
Major Tillery stood up for Mumia, telling John Kerestes, the Superintendent at
SCI Mahanoy, that Mumia is dying and needs to go to the hospital. Soon
afterward, Mumia was rushed to the hospital in deadly diabetic shock. For that
warning and refusing to remain silent in the face of medical neglect and
mistreatment of all prisoners Major Tillery was put in the hole in another
prison and denied medical care for his arthritis, liver problems and hepatitis
C.
Major Tillery was denied medical
treatment, transferred and put in the hole “because of something prison
administrators hate and fear among all things: prisoner unity, prisoner
solidarity.” -Mumia Abu-Jamal
Major
Tillery didn’t stop fighting for medical treatment for himself and other
prisoners. On February 11, Major Tillery filed a 40 page, 7-count civil rights
lawsuit against the Department of Corrections, the superintendents of SCI
Mahanoy and SCI Frackville and other prison guards for retaliation in the U.S.
District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Major Tillery demands that the DOC stop its
retaliation, remove the false misconduct from his record, provide medical
treatment and transfer him out of SCI Frackville to a different prison in
eastern Pennsylvania so he remains near his family.
This lawsuit is just part of Major Tillery’s
fight for medical care and to protect himself and other prisoners who are
standing up for justice. He has liver disease and chronic Hepatitis C that the
DOC has known about for over a decade. Tillery is filing grievances against the
prison and its medical staff to get the new antiviral medicine. This is part of
the larger struggle to obtain Hep C treatment for the 10,000 prisoners in
Pennsylvania and the estimated 700,000 prisoners nationally who have
Hepatitis-C and could be cured.
Major Tillery’s daughter, Kamilah Iddeen
appeals for our support:
It is so important that my Dad filed this
lawsuit– it shows what really goes on inside the prison. Prison officials act
as if my father is their property, that his family doesn’t exist, that he isn’t
a man with people who love him. They lied to us every time we called and said
he needed treatment. They lied and said he hadn’t told them, that he hadn’t
filed grievances. The DOC plays mind games and punishes prisoners who stand up
for themselves and for others. But my Dad won’t be broken.
The DOC needs to learn they can’t do this to a
prisoner and his family. Justice has to be done. Justice has to be served.
Please help.
Major Tillery needs your calls to the DOC. He
also needs help in covering the costs of the court filing fees, copying and
mailing expenses amount of over $500.
Please help.
Send money: Go to: www.JPay.com Code: Major Tillery AM9786 PADOC
Demand the Department of Corrections:
Stop the Retaliation Against Major
Tillery.
Exonerate Major Tillery for the false
charges of drug possession.
Remove the false misconduct from
Major Tillery’s record.
Transfer Major Tillery from SCI
Frackville to another facility in eastern Pennsylvania near his family.
Provide decent medical care to Major
Tillery and all prisoners!
Call and Email:
Brenda Tritt, Supt, SCI Frackville,
(570) 874-4516, btritt@pa.gov
John Wetzel, Secty of the PA DOC,
(717) 728-4109, ra-contactdoc@pa.gov
Send Letters of support to:
Major Tillery AM9786
SCI Frackville
1111 Altamont Blvd.
Frackville, PA 17931
For More Information:
Call/Write:
Kamilah Iddeen (717) 379-9009, Kamilah29@yahoo.com
Nancy
Lockhart (843) 412-2035, thewrongfulconviction@gmail.com
Rachel
Wolkenstein, Esq. (917) 689-4009, RachelWolkenstein@gmail.com
Contribute: Go to www.JPay.com Code:
Major Tillery AM9786 PADOC
