Political Prisoners of Allied Struggles
There are over fifty political prisoners and prisoners of war held in the US, and many more politicized prisoners. The following are some of those prisoners from struggles that are allied with the Earth First! movement. See the recommended resources for more information and contacts for additional prisoners not listed on this site, and check out our suggestions for supporting prisoners.
To update the information listed here, please email us at collective [at] earthfirstjournal.org with ‘PRISONER PAGE CORRECTION’ in the subject line.
Last updated April 30, 2020
ANTI-CAPITALIST PRISONERS
Cleveland 4
Accused of plotting a series of bombings, including an area bridge. However, the real story is that the FBI, working with an informant, created the scheme, produced the explosives, and coerced these four into participating.
Brandon Baxter
[The Earth First! Journal Collective and EF! Prisoner Support Project have removed Brandon’s address from this support list until further notice because of Brandon’s continued use of abusive and manipulative behavior towards women who have reached out to him to offer support. See NYC ABC’s statement of their withdrawal of support for more info.]
Serving 9 years and 9 months (until 11-18-2020).
Birthday: April 27, 1993
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Joshua “Skelly” Stafford
#57976-060, USP McCreary, P.O. Box 3000, Pine Knot, KY 42635, USA
Serving 10 years (until 10-05-2021).
Birthday: October 3, 1988
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Connor Stevens
Released July 2019
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Douglas “Doug” Wright
#57973-060, FCI Victorville Medium II, PO Box 3850, Adelanto, CA 92301
Serving 11.5 years (until 7-14-2022).
Birthday: May 31, 1985
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NATO 5Targeted by two undercover Chicago cops for preemptive, politically motivated arrests prior to the NATO summit and charged with planning to, “destroy police cars and attack four Chicago Police district stations with destructive devices,” in an effort to undermine the police response to planned activist actions.
Jared “Jay” Chase
M44710, Dixon Correctional Center, 2600 North Brinton Avenue, Dixon, IL 61021, USA
Originally serving 8 years on NATO charges, however, was sentenced to an additional year in prison and loss of one year good time credit due to an additional charge for a pre-trial incident while incarcerated. Medical experts have testified that Jay’s behavior is likely related to the fact that he has Huntingdon’s disease which is terminal and extremely debilitating especially under stressful prison conditions.
Birthday: June 12, 1987
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Brent Betterly
Released April 2015
Brian “Jacob” Church
Released November 2014
Mark “Migs” Neiweem
Paroled 12/12/2013
Sebastian “Sabi” Senakiewicz
Released and deported to Poland
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Marina Cugnaschi C.C. Bollate, Via Cristina Belgioioso 120, 20021 Milano, Italy [Updated 03/27/14]
Sentenced to 11 years and 9 months on appeal.
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Alberto Funaro Released on Probation in February 2015
Francesco “Jimmy” Puglisi C.C. Rebibbia, (Wing G9/Second floor), Via Raffaele Majetti 70, 00156 Rome, Italy [Updated: 03/27/14]
Serving 14 years (until 06-2027) after being arrested on June 5, 2013.
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Luca Finotti Released under house arrest in February 2014
ANTI-FASCIST PRISONERS
International
Released in March 2020
Vadim is an anti-fascist supporter of FC Partyzan from Minsk. He was detained on March 22, 2016 together with other people on suspicion of participating in the attack on the right-wing hooligans that happened about two years ago. On March 10, 2017 he was sentenced to 4 years (until 03-2020).
Roman Bogdan ul. K. Marksa, 86, Brest, SIZO-7, 224030, Belarus
Originally sentenced to 8 years, his sentence was reduced to 6 years on December 15, 2015 after he paid restitution and he is due to be released on March 23, 2020.
Dzmitry Stsyashenka – Released
Originally sentenced to 5 years, his sentence was reduced on December 15, 2015 after he paid restitution and he was released on parole in 2016.
Paroled, but banned from leaving Bulgaria
Served 11 years of a 20-year sentence in Sofia/Bulgaria for defending two Roma boys from a racist mob. Jock helped start Bulgaria’s first prisoner union, the Bulgarian Prisoners’ Association, and is now subject to a punitive travel ban.
Birthday: November, 13, 1986
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HACKTIVIST PRISONERS
In Transit
Jeremy plead guilty to conspiracy to use his computer savvy to attack the website of Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) as well as other conservative groups and State operators. He is serving 10 years and is due to be released in 2020.
Birthday: January 8, 1985
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INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE PRISONERS
#07909-051, USP Victorville, P.O. Box 3900, Adelanto, CA 92301, USA
Oso Blanco funneled money he stole from banks in the US to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Mexico. Originally serving 80 years for aggravated assault of federal agents, escape and bank robbery, 25 years were taken off his sentence in 2016 when he won his Johnson v. U.S. appeal so his projected release date is now 09-16-2049.
Birthday: February 26, 1967
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#89637-132, USP Coleman I, P.O. Box 1033, Coleman, FL 33521, USA
American Indian Movement activist serving life after being framed for murdering two FBI agents during the 1975 Pine Ridge siege.
Birthday: September 12, 1944
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MOVE PRISONERS
Smart Communications/PADOC, Mumia Abu-Jamal/#AM-8335, SCI Mahanoy, P.O. Box 33028, St. Petersburg, FL 33733, USA
Mumia is a former Black Panther and vocal journalist supporter of the eco-revolutionary group MOVE who was framed for the murder of a cop in 1981. He was originally sentenced to death, but was taken off death row and is now seeking a retrial based on withheld exculpatory evidence.
Birthday: April 24, 1954
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IMPRISONED COMRADES
The following are prisoners who Earth First! folks are in some form of contact with, but their cases do not fit in one of the above categories.
Eric King
#27090-045, FCI Englewood, 9595 West Quincy Avenue, Littleton, CO 80213, USA
Eric was charged with an attempted firebombing of an unoccupied Congressperson’s office in Kansas City, Missouri in September 2014. He was sentenced to 10 years (until 06-02-23), but is now facing up to 20 additional years one count of assaulting a government official for an incident that occurred in August 2018 at FCI Florence.
Birthday: August 2, 1986
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243-205, Warren CI, P.O. Box 120, 5787 State Route 63, Lebanon, OH 45036, USA
Serving a life sentence for the self-defense killing of a court official’s relative who broke into Sean’s home and threatened his life. He is an anarchist/indigenous prisoner and former union organizer fighting his conviction by citing the US government’s illegal occupation of native land, and ran for governor of Ohio from prison as a Zapatista candidate. His most recent parole hearing was to be held in late 2016.
Birthday: September 12, 1969
FIGHT TOXIC PRISONS INCARCERATED SUPPORTERS
Keith “Malik” Washington
#1487958, McConnell Unit, 3001 S. Emily Dr., Beeville, TX 78102, USA
Malik has been actively exposing pollution in the TX prison system, from tainted water to factory farming.
Bryant Arroyo
Smart Communications/PADOC, Bryant Arroyo/#CU-1126, SCI Frackvile, P.O. Box 33028, St. Petersburg, FL 33733, USA
Bryant launched a successful effort to get prisoners involved with the fight against a coal gasification plant next door to SCI Mahanoy, and has since been battling water contamination issues at his current prison as well as the new PA mail regulations that require all mail to go through a processing facility in Florida.
Keith Cole
#00728748, Jester III Unit, 3 Jester Road, Richmond, TX 77406, USA
Keith has been involved in legal challenges to the extreme heat of Texas prisons, and spoke at the 2017 FTP Convergence.
Wayland Coleman
#W65484, MCI Norfolk, P.O. Box 43, Norfolk, MA 02056, USA
Wayland has been a point person for addressing the toxic water crisis in MA prisons.
Nancy Mitchell
#543266, Gadsden Correctional Facility, 6044 Greensboro Highway, Quincy, FL 32351, USA
Nancy has spoken about and organized others against the proposed phosphate mine in Union/Bradford Counties that would neighbor FDOC’s Reception and Medical Center prison.
Clarence Green
#92A4009, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, 354 Hunter St., Ossining, NY 10562-5442, USA
Clarence is a jailhouse lawyer working to expose toxic water conditions that may be linked to the nuclear power plant, Indian Point, which is close to the prison.
Prisoner information changes frequently as people are shuffled through different facilities. The location of any federal prisoner may be confirmed using the BOP inmate locator. If you have updates to the information listed here, please email us at efpris [at] riseup.net with ‘PRISONER PAGE CORRECTION’ in the subject line.
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