From: Mumia <Mumia-AT-aol.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:29:32 EDT
Subject: Example Letter to Ridge and Horne re Hunger Strike


Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge
225 Main Capitol Bldg. 
Harrisburg, PA  17120

Martin F. Horn, Secretary Commissioner 
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections 
2520 Lisburn Road 
P.O. Box 598 
Camp Hill, PA  17001-0598 

Acting Superintendent 
SCI Greene 
1030 East Roy Furman Highway 
Waynesburg, PA  15370-8020	

	Re:	Death Row Hunger Strikers

Gentlemen:

	I am writing you again to express my solidarity with the hunger
strikers on Pennsylvania's death row.  Your state's policies are denying
the most basic of human rights to the inmates on death row.  The
Constitution of the United States grants the right to one's personal
papers and effects.  Of all the people in the country, those on death
row need all of their legal papers more than anyone else as they are
trying to save their lives from the state's henchmen.  I am appalled and
outraged at the repressive policies that the Department of Corrections
has implemented.  

	I join with hundreds of thousands of others in demanding that
you reinstate all of the policies that were in effect before the
disastrous March 5, 1998 change in policy:  Return all of the prisoners
papers and effects, return all of their clothing, permit the full time
allotted for family visits and phone calls and all other provisions that
the Pennsylvania DOC has taken away.

	I am now and have been all of my adult life an activist for
social justice.  Let it be known that the Pennsylvania Department of
Corrections will remain the focus of my ire and I will maintain
solidarity with the prisoners and support their hunger strike until the
state rescinds these inhumane measures.

	
Towards justice,




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