Marty Gottesfeld has sent another allegation of significant malfeasance at the Communication Management Unit (CMU) in Marion, Illinois.
The CMU is akin to a black site prison where communication is restricted.
It primarily houses terrorists and other danger folks, but there are a handful of- mostly white- non-violent offenders the inmates call “balancers.”
Here is part of a conversation with Schaeffer Cox, who also previously was an inmate at the CMU in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Shortly after winding up in federal prison, Marty has gone on a campaign to expose its many secrets.
He previously went on a hunger strike and got published in the Huffington Post.
On the 43rd day of my hunger strike I was told the U.S. Marshalls had ordered my transfer to a facility in New York that was better equipped to handle my medical condition. At that point I had gone about four days without any fluids whatsoever and to make my wishes and refusal to provide medical consent crystal clear, I had written “No IV DNR” on the inside of both my elbows. Hey, if the DOJ wanted to allow notorious federal prosecutor Carmen Ortiz and her lackeys, to keep holding me because I tried to protect innocent, learning disabled teenager Justina Pelletier from abuse, torture, and an agonizing death, then I wanted to make sure they were fully committed to backing Ortiz up as she makes a pet toy and total mockery of our justice system yet again. After all, when Justina was suffering, Ortiz’s office couldn’t be bothered to even make a phone call to inquire as to whether her civil and human rights were being upheld (and they weren’t). But I digress, I was not allowed to call my wife before the prison transfer, but I was promised I’d be able to call her upon my arrival.
Dubious, but still hopeful the move was a sign of the increasing pressure of my very public hunger strike. I’m cuffed, shackled, and loaded into a van with an unusually heavy complement of three officers for one inmate. On the way, they refused to stop and get food for themselves even when I told them I wouldn’t mind and that I could no longer simply just return to eating normally when I wished. You see, word of the cause I’m fighting for had gotten around to some of the staff and I had actually discussed it with the sergeant in charge of my transport in detail before.
“We’re not doing that to you,” he told me.
Shortly into the trip, mystery set in. Everyone in the van had assumed that “facility in New York” meant MDC Brooklyn, which would have been the usual next stop in the federal prison system. However ,when the officers put the address into the GPS, it was on Manhattan Island. The sergeant made a phone call to confirm the location and told me that in all his years he’d never heard of The Federal Bureau of Prison’s “MCC New York,” our apparent destination.
In 2019, he got moved to the CMU and promptly filed a lawsuit arguing he was moved there because he was “politically inconvenient.” Here is part of that suit.
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