Alejandro Campos
#1000453
Jail: 899 fm 632
Connally Unit, Kennedy, Texas 78819
Telephone: 1-830-583-4003
Background: He was born in Mexico; both parents are Mexican. He was born in December 17, 1979. Alejandro Campos is 28 years of age. His father worked as a police officer. His mother did not have a profession, she was a housewife. His father had a history of being very abusive towards Alejandro's mother even at times when she was pregnant with Alejandro. As a result, Alejandro's mother moved back to her birthplace in Chihuahua, Mexico. Fortunately, Alejandro's grandmother did not allow the father to practice domestic violence in her home. Later, Alejandro's mother decided to migrate back to the United States with Alejandro and his older brother. Eventually, Alejandro's mother remarried and as a result Alejandro suffered physical and emotional abuse through domestic violence by his stepfather especially when the stepfather did not consider Alejandro to be a good listener. Alejandro's stepfather punished him by handcuffing him and not providing food and water for him, for days at a time. There was an incident when Alejandro was 5 years and his school teacher noticed bruises on his hands. Alejandro's school teacher asked him wheo was responsible for the bruises and Alejandro replied it was his stepfather. Subsequently, a social worker was called upon and a court order was issued requesting for Alejandro's mother to depart from the relationship with her husband if she were to maintain full custody of Alejandro and his brother.
Years later, at the age of 21, Alejandro's life was in disarray as he was sentenced to 40 years in prison by a court judge.
The 40-year sentence stems from Alejandro committing robbery while on probation. The court judge accounted 10 years prison time for each probation violation related to robbery charges.
Alejandro has spent 7 years in prison to this day. He will be 61 years of age by the time he will be released.
VERSION EN ESPAÑOL
June 6, 2007
Saludos,
The following enclosed documents are a collection of statements and material items regarding the SHU. I hope it provides proper enlightenment and are useful tools. These documents are for your use in the subject matter of the SHU as well in the interest of justice. Also, the enclosed items will coincide with my previously sent statement.
Now each of the documents and statements are numbered 1-23 on the left-hand corner. The items that go together have letters marked next to the numbers so you know which documents go together. The numbering of documents is a precaution based on the interference of mail just in case any of them happen to get lost or come up missing. So please inform me ASAP that the documents were received.
The material items are pretty self-explanatory. However, if there are any questions that need to be answered feel free to ask and I will do my best to respond to the best of my ability and if any interests or inquiries are required regarding the materials the individuals of said documents all reside in this building.
On another note, I also wanted to inform you on the current status of my last 602’s appeal that for some “miracle” actually made it to the last level (Director’s level) of process. Unfortunately, and to my surprise my Complaint (In Re: Bogus Inactive Review Involving Lt. Cronjagar) was denied. Although, all the evidence necessary was presented they stated that I failed to support my claims. Not even the proven fact that said Lt. Cronjagar’s lack of credibility. What can you expect from a corrupted system?
Sincerely, Jose Luís Aviña
Declaration of Tomas Perez
1. I, Tomas Perez, declare as follows:
2. I am 18 years of age.
3. I am currently confined at Corcoran State Prison in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) as an alleged “active prison gang” prisoner.
4. On March 30, 2004, I was removed from general population and placed in the Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU) based on prison official’s claim that I was a “danger to the institution and to others” (See segregation order attached as Exhibit “A”).
5. I had committed no rules violation (minor or serious) and had programmed successfully at that prison (substance abuse treatment facility) for (3) three years without an incident and had a job for those (3) three years as well.
6. The segregation order stated: “sufficient evidence had been compiled”. However, nothing was provided to Declarant before or after initial segregation, even though Declarant made repeated request to be given or shown the alleged evidence to properly defend him, he was denied at initial removal from general population. Three days later at his segregation order hearing and again at his classification committee hearing one week later, in violation of the department’s own rules and regulations, as well as state and federal due process right to defend against allegations and to be provided notice of evidence used prior to being segregated on that evidence.
7. I was in (A.S.U.) for a month before I was finally given the evidence mentioned in the initial segregation order. This evidence consisted of (3) three C.D.C. confidentiality disclosure forms. (See Exhibit “B – D” attached hereto) provided on May 4, 2004.
8. All (3) three 1030 forms claimed “confidential nature” yet failed to state why they were considered confidential, how this information was reliable, how they were corroborated, as much information as possible etc. The only thing stated is a one sentence statement that is vague and insufficient with a claim of “investigation” that is contradictory to the Segregation orders claim of ‘sufficient evidence’ compiled that indicate involvement/association with the prison gang known as the Mexican Mafia, which is a conclusory statement and not a statement referencing investigation.
9. Two weeks later after being given this alleged confidential evidence, I was given a ‘violation packet’ which consisted of the (3) CDC 1030 forms and (1) CDC form 128 B-2 that stated I was validated (see Exhibit “E” attached) this packet was given on May 17, 2004 by ASU Floor Staff.
10. The evidence mentioned and used is:
a. Item #1 (used as communication/association): the two names were found in my address book and the names were pointed out to me by the correctional sergeant who confiscated by address book: a Sgt. A. Perez who never returned my address book. These names were an old friend and a direct relative who I knew prior to any “gang” labels and had not been in contact with either.
No evidence has or can be provided by prison officials to establish I was in actual communication much less active in any association of a prison gang in violation of the first Amendment of the Constitution. Furthermore, the fact that this evidence used was found in my address book and the names pointed out by the correctional sergeant shows the evidence isn’t confidential and obviously known to me and does not threaten institutional security.
b. Item #2 (is an informant) who claims I’m conducting “M” gang-related activity at SATF. This prisoner does not state anything specific, I’m aware who he is and know he was on the Mental Health system and taking medications known as cccms or “hot meds” and mixed that medication with other medication, “flipped out” and thought someone had poisoned him, requested to be protected and made accusations and statements to prison officials to gain the protection by them. Involving prisoners (he knew or had met) in gang relations and activity fabricating information for his own personal interest to please and earn protection from correctional officials receiving and documenting his psychotic episode.
c. Item #3 (staff information). This claim that I’m “a member of the mesa on the upper yard for the Mexican Mafia”. This (along with all the other alleged evidence was spun together to segregate me) is also not consistent in it’s documentation because I’ve never been housed on the “upper yard” as this staff information claims and was in Building 3 for the three (3) years I was at that prison Buildings 1-4 are known as yard 1 or lower yard and Buildings 5-8 are known as yard 2 or the upper yard by all staff and prisoners. Furthermore, Buildings 1-4 and 5-8 all divided by a 10 to 15 foot concrete wall that runs the length of the prison yard with barbed wire at the top. Prisoners on one side of the yard cannot access the other and vise-versa. For this information to be true I’d have to be actually housed on the upper yard.
d. 10.State and Federal Law require “some evidence’ to segregate a prisoner and had I been provided the evidence/given notice timely and an ability to refute the allegations I could have discredited 1-2 or all of these Items as unreliable and incorrect. However, because it’s almost impossible to reverse a gang validation, prison officials rush to validate as quickly as possible regardless if the information is true, correct or actually indicating activity that furthers, promotes, finances a prison gang. Knowing once validated any due process violations or challenges to the evidence will be difficult to win.
10. My case clearly shows that prison officials failed to properly document the alleged evidence, find if it was actually true and reliable, provide the evidence and allow for a rebuttal and that all department personnel who viewed and considered the evidence, made any decisions based on it, failed/refused to practice diligence and merely signed off on it regardless of these deficiencies stated herein.
11. Furthermore, I appealed the validation on CDC 602 appeals form the day following my validation on May 18, 2004 submitted all proper documents to the Appeals coordinator. This appeal was never answered and likely destroyed. The fact that it was never returned establishes that since I had submitted the only copies of all documents with that 602, I asked for an “Olsen Review’ to gain all the documents again and resubmit it. By the time I got the “Olsen Review’ and resubmitted my 602 appeal, not surprisingly, the appeals coordinator returned it with a stamp stating “untimely” even though the first sentence explained why there was a delay in filing.
12. On or about November of 2004 I was transferred here to Corcoran SHU and again made attempts to appeal my validation/segregation. Those appeals were also never returned. I then appealed my I.C.C. hearings to be provided a Review of the Evidence and those appeals were impeded and screened out (by the Appeals Coordinators here) at the second level every time stating to appeal institution gang investigators. But as just stated the appeals do not return. Exhaustion of my administrative remedies has become illusionary and impossible.
13. On August of 2005, I filed a Civil Complaint 1983 in Pro Per and as a layman will attempt to raise the claims of violation myself against the multi-million dollars Department and its representation/lawyers.
14.I am currently awaiting the commencement of this litigation and everything stated herein is supported by evidence and documents I will be using in that case.
15. The Dept. of Corrections continues to violate prisoner’s due process rights, equal protection and the liberty interested created by the state (California) and deny us exhaustion of our state remedies. Thus deny court access and if we try to defend or push our right to defense, I will be harassed, intimidated and discouraged with excessive ridiculous antics, well established and practiced by prison officials against the prisoners. For example, loss of property, moving to other buildings/cells while your at a visit, denial of already approved visitors, loss of mail, and most recently the new retaliation tactic of producing alleged confidential information that says a prisoner’s safety is in jeopardy, then single celled indefinitely.
I, Tomas Perez declare under the penalty of perjury that the above is true and to that believed to be true I believe to be true. Dated: May 14, 2007 Tomas Perez
1983 filed in the Eastern District of California (Fresno) Case No. 06-CV-01022-OWW-WMNPerez v. Scribner, et al.
Greetings and Salutations,
I am a prisoner here in Corcoran State Prison SHU. I have bee doing SHU time in and out since 1996. I did years in Pelican Bay SHU and I have done years here in Corcoran SHU. However, according to the Governor of California and CDC, “SHU’s are built for those who are a threat to other prisoners and their staff”. But once this law was passed, CDC started to abuse this law for their own personal gain by labeling a lot of prisoners being members of a prison gang and association of prison gang members. Because of friends we talk to and hang around with. Nonetheless, they got so petty that CDC started putting prisoners in the SHU for their tattoos they had gotten when a teenager. I’m a prime example. I got validated and placed in SHU for my tattoos and for people I associated with that I have known for years. This is preposterous, outlandish, and very atrocious. Yes, we understand that prison is to punish us for the mistakes we’ve done in society. But to place us in SHU’s is cruel and unusual punishment. The C/O’s in the SHU abuse their power with physical and psychological torture, inhumane conditions and discriminatory and oppressive policies. SHU isolation imposes such an “a typical and significant hardship”, especially for those who are surviving a life sentence. SHU’s kill a person’s hope! They are nothing but a dead zone.
However, modern science has confirmed that with electroence phalograms showing that after a few days in solitary SHUs, prisoner’s brain waves shift toward a pattern characteristic of “stupor and delirium”. Is this the kind of open-ended mental-health experiment the government should be running? They’re taking criminals who are already unstable and driving us crazy? SHU’s drive us prisoners in one of two directions: catatonia or rage…..
Furthermore, although people come from Sacramento to observe our conditions in the SHU they’re not fully abreast of how things really are in the SHU, and if those who try to talk to Sacramento people, the C/O’s here in the SHU will start to mess with us, mentally and making our time more miserable than it already is!!
Although we are prisoners placed in the SHU’s, we have rights that are fully ignored and not acknowledged. Just like in the SHU’s there are rules and regulations and a Title 15 we as prisoners as well as C/O’s have to comply to. But this as well isn’t obeyed. Here in the SHU the C/O’s are corrupted. They make it seem like they give us prisoners what we got coming but that’s honestly untrue. They don’t even give us cleaning supplies to clean our cells, toilets and so forth. This alone is unsanitary, our clothing we get is old, we shower every (3) three days. As far as medical situations they don’t give us the right treatment we’re entitled to. It takes (1) one year to get some prescribed glasses. As for our visits it’s behind a glass window with an intercom to talk through. CDC fails to take people doing life into consideration and allows us to be able to have physical contact with our family and loved ones. So you see SHU’s are built to make people go insane, not help us, and for those less fortunate to buy supplies like a T.V., radio, or even go canteen to buy necessities your locked in a cell with nothing but cold concrete and your cloths. So you see all SHU’s do is drive people insane, it doesn’t help us, nor is it good for our physical and mental well-being. So we ask all those in society not to look down on us prisoners because we all make mistakes and no one is perfect. So we ask for your support and stand by our side and help get things better in the SHU’s or eliminate them so we are given the chance and the opportunity to endure and participate in self-help programs the mainline has to offer us to help better ourselves with our problems as well as to be able to attend schools to help educate ourselves, mostly importantly to be able to learn a trade for those who will go back in society. But instead CDC would rather slam us down in SHU’s and treat us like animals. We need all the support we can to help overcome the abuse and tragedy that we endure everyday in the SHU’s. Thank you for all those who support us and not turn your back on us.
J. Martinez
My name is Grad A. Williams. I am a prisoner in 4D-4R SHU here at Corcoran State Prison. Since I’ve been in the SHU I Have been threatened by I.G.I. Institutional Gang Investigators by way of 1030’s Retaliation for filing an Appeal of my illegal validation. I’ve been back here going on six (6) years now for four (4) items alleged to be gang activity and have appealed it of number of times but the institution has continued to lose and/or destroy my appeal. So now I am currently in the Federal Courts with my Appeal. I have written to the Department of Justice and a number of other agencies trying to expose the corruption of Corcoran’s IGI unit in regards to illegally validating prisoners. I was validated without due process rights. I have been given rule violation reports (RVR’s) 115’s since being back here in the SHU. The IGI retaliates against prisoners for trying to appeal their illegal validations. This is common practice of IGI who in fact do not investigate the alleged material that is allegedly to be confidential. I declare under penalty of perjury that this statement is true and correct.
May 14, 2007
Brad A. Williams
K-47504
4B-4R-26
On September 16, 2006, I was interviewed and issued a 1030 Disclosure Form based on association by IGI (Correctional Officer) C/O M. Espinoza stating it would be used to deny my inactive review. The item was a postcard I had authored to my mother to if she could send money to another individual in my section (B) in 4B-4R for the purchase of items from the canteen.
I told C/O Espinoza that I wasn’t aware that sending money to another prisoner was against the policy of CDC but if I indeed violated any rules in regards to this subject I should be issued a 115 because this is an administrative issue and has nothing to do with gang activity. I went on to explain that due to my $5,000.00 restitution from 1993 and no type of work assignments available in SHU where I’ve been housed for 12 years, my mother is my sole provider when it comes to purchasing items from canteen. She’s a single hard-working mother who also supports younger siblings and grandchildren. I feel its unfair that any money she’s able to send me gets suffers a deduction of 55% due to a restitution order I owe and am responsible for paying. So it has become necessary to find other individuals who do not pay restitution to purchase store items for me. Race or gang affiliations do not become a factor in this process of selection on my part.
I asked C/O Espinoza if she believed or had any suspicions that this money I requested from my mother was to be used for illegal purposes. She stated “no”, she had no reason to believe anything illicit was going on and although she was sympathetic to my situation, the item (1030) met the criteria to deny my inactive status for another 6 years. She did have her doubts and assured me she would double check with her superiors before submitting my active/inactive review OCS-Sacramento. The next day she informed me it did meet the criteria for association. The denial was granted using this (1030) by OCS-Sacramento giving me an eligibility date of September 12, 2012 at which time I will have 18 years in the SHU.
Steve Gonzales, J39297
4B-4R-62
P.O. Box 3481
Corcoran, CA 93212
May 11, 2007
Greetings and Salutations:
I write this letter with hopes of justice, relief and to enlighten all those whom are unaware of what this so-called “state of civility” is doing to its citizen’s. I am a first timer with absolutely no background of gang activity, juvenile or adult. I graduated from high school in Davis, California and went on to finish Culinary School. I committed a crime of passion and was sentenced to 15 years to life. I’ve been in prison now for 14 years and have reduced my points to 24 which is level 2and only have one rules violation 115. My current residence is Corcoran SHU and has been for the last 7 years. I was initially validated by A.R. Perez who used/fabricated false evidence against me for personal issues. I possess numerous pieces of evidence yet cannot attain justice due to the corruption/ignorance that resides within. The public needs to learn about CDC and how it strives to steal money from the taxpayers. It costs approximately $14,000.00 per year to house a prisoner on the mainline and $29,000.00 per year to slam us in the SHU. Common sense dictates that it is impossible for there to be three (3) SHU’s filled to capacity with true/real prison gang members. I have lost my wife, my daughter and most family members because of the SHU and CDC’s draconian policies. I would give anything for the aforementioned but due to the catch 22, it is not possible. You would be astonished by how many prisoners are currently taking psyche meds and yet CDC calls itself a rehabilitation center!!! The union has too much power and this is against democracy and what this country stands for. Our First Amendment gives us the right to talk and communicate with other people. Yet, CDC states to do so is gang activity and punishable by death in isolation. I attach this violation of my rights to show you that writing a prisoner of one year, a friend, is considered gang activity, even though no crimes were carried out, people harmed or injured. One cannot maintain sanity without friendship or interaction with other humans. Thank you for your time and patience.
Respectfully,
James Stevenson
J69464
Yes, I am a prisoner here in Corcoran SHU doing 6 years. According to CDC, IGI, I am labeled as being in a prison gang of (Northerners). Therefore, I was validated in 1997, why they (CDC/IGI) labeled me as being in a prison gang? Because of my tattoos that I put on me when I was a juvenile growing up and because of friends that I talk to who are also labeled as being in a prison gang due to bogus information that CDC and IGI label us as. So we can’t enjoy the privileges and incentives that the mainline has to offer us prisoners. So to lower the population on the mainlines they always find a source to validate anyone. They’re so outlandish and so petty they validate us for tattoos and so forth. For example, see attached paper (CDC-128B) copy. Since I have been validated over 6 years I was eligible for that new program they established on that in-active program. Now just because I had wrote my female friend a letter to see if a friend of hers could write my own cellie so he could have a pen-pal to write to. Due to all the turmoil and the insanity we endure in the SHU’s a pen-pal friend to write to help ease stress and believe it or not it brings us happiness to receive a letter. But according to CDC/IGI they took that in-active status away from me and revalidated me as a member of a (Northern) prison gang all because my cellie is validated and I put his name in my letter so I can get him a pen pal. So now I am no longer qualified for in-active program and got to wait for another 6 years to be eligible. Again, this is cruel and unusual punishment.
Anything that helps us ease our mind, they (CDC) try to find a way to eliminate it from us, they put up a front and make things sound good when Sacramento people from CDC come to investigate matters. But one they depart they resume their abuse and those that talk to Sacramento people they will start to mess with our mail and when we depart from our cells the C/O’s will enter our cells and destroy our personal stuff like pictures of family, books, and so forth. This is just one of the kind of tragedies that we face and endure. We the prisoners in the SHU need all the support we can get to help us overcome their abuse. But most importantly shut down these SHU’s that CDC and the governor are building. Thank you much for your love and concern that you have for us in the SHU’s as prisoners.
Respectfully,
Jonas Martinez F32288