Ffup

This is main blog of FFUP, Forum for Understanding Prisons, a non profit that has been working with prisoners for over 18 years. Look in the page tabs directly below and at the side to find links to the subjects you need. Despite solitary confinement having long been recognized as being torture by neuroscientists, former U.S. President Obama, Justi... ces of our Supreme Court the U.N., etc., the State of Wisconsin, "God's Country," continues to house people in Solitary Confinement, calling it "Restrictive Housing" (RH) so they can claim "We don't house people in 'Solitary Confinement.'" In 2011 I began posting my writings about my experiences/observations in Wisconsin's main Solitary confinement facility, WSPF, on my blog, Prometheus Writes: https://betweenthebars.org/ blogs/540/ . Then, in 2018, with a friend's help, with a friend, I expanded my blog to facebook.com/PrometheusWrites , where I was able to post more details, including the names of corrupt/abusive prison staff. That same year, while I was working on a comprehensive lawsuit that challenged the condition/practices in WSPF's RH unit as being inhumane, on 8 Oct., I was stabbed in my head three times by another prisoner while at rec (despite WSPF officials labelling us as "high-risk" prisoners, they required/require us to go to rec, in small, locked rooms, with other high-risk prisoners, to prove that we are safe enough to be let out of RH; that has resulted in numerous stabbings & assaults. (You can see photos of the foot-long steel knife, its tip curled up from impacting my skull, on @PromWrites on Twitter; I was also stabbed in my lip & gumline, left leg, arm, finger & eye socket.) Despite many cultural differences, Wisconsins prison system has a similar negative impact on people in both under-resourced rural communities and Milwaukees northside. Those who have been cut out of the jobs economy, whove been marginalized and neglected by political elites, business owners, and corporations, are more likely to struggle with addiction, despair, and ...Read More