PLEASE READ AND TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!!!

Sherman Austin has been moved into protective custody at the San Bernardino Central Detention Center. The guards moved him into isolation because of death threats against him by white supremacists. In order to secure Sherman’s safety, we are demanding his immediate transfer to a permanent facility. The white supremacists responsible for this crime have been located, and we plan on taking legal action against them. Please mail, fax, and/or e-mail the attached letter to the following institutions and follow-up with a phone call. If you have any questions please e-mail jmi4678@netscape.net.

Please send the attached letter AS IS. Please do not modify, alter or add to its contents.

Institution where Sherman is being held:

Warden Captain C. Burris
Central Detention Center
Western Divison, San Bernadino
630 E. Rialto Ave., San Bernadino, CA 92408
Phone: 909-386-0969
Or send an email cdc@sbcsd.org
For more information regarding the Central Detention Center please go
to:
http://www.co.san-bernardino.ca.us/sheriff/Det_Corr/CDC/CDC.asp

In addition, you can also send letters, emails, fax, and/or phone calls to the following people:

Harley G. Lappin, Director of U.S. Bureau of Prisons
320 First Street
N.W. Washington , D.C. 20534
Phone: 202-307-3250
Fax: 202-514-6878

Harlan Penn, Regional Counsel
7950 Dublin Boulevard, 3rd Floor
Dublin, CA 94568
Phone: 925-803-4700
Fax: 925-803-4802

The first contact information is the most important! If you can only send one letter, send it to the Warden at the CDC.


HERE IS THE TEXT OF THE LETTER. FEEL FREE TO COPY/PASTE IT INTO A WORD DOCUMENT FOR MAILING. PLEASE DO NOT MODIFY IT IN ANY WAY, THANKS!

Date



Dear ,

I’m writing out of concern for the safety and welfare of Sherman Martin Austin (Booking #0309300141), a federal prisoner currently located at the Central Detention Center in San Bernardino County, California. He is due to be transferred to a Federal penitentiary within six to eight weeks. However, he is currently the target of death threats from several
white-supremacist groups and is being kept in solitary for the ostensible purpose of protecting him from these hate groups, some members of which have placed a price on Sherman’s head.

Sherman is a non-violent offender. He is only twenty years of age and has been evaluated by a court-appointed psychologist as being completely non-violent and idealistic. A county detention facility is not the place for a non-violent offender who is in danger of being killed for his color and beliefs. I am afraid that should Sherman remain in CDC he will be injured or killed. We feel that by being placed in a Federal penitentiary there is less likelihood of Sherman being harmed or even killed.

We demand the immediate transfer of Sherman Martin Austin to a Federal detention facility, for his own safety and well-being, and in the meantime the continuance of protective custody to ensure his safety and survival. I will appreciate an immediate response concerning this letter.

Thank you,



THIS IS ONE OF THE POSTS THREATENING HIS LIFE:

One of the highlights of my days are coming to this site and seeing the post about Sherman Austin's sentence. Now he's trapped, ready for the murdering by his inmates, in which many of my colleagues are unfortunatly participating in. One more of your "revolutionaries" has been taken from you all. That is a sign of your weakness. My colleagues are there because they showed no weakness. I read that in Texas, a nigger approached one of my fellow party members, threatening him, and when the first punch was thrown the pigs arrived, taking my fellow party member away for fighting. All though he didn't through the punch, he was still arrested. What I find is funny is two days later the niggers were found shot to death in their homes, along with their nigger families, shows what niggers are. Dumb. Thinking they could get away. But the man arrested is still there, waiting for some black pride or "anarchist" to come along his path, possibly the same prison as little ol' sherman. Good Luck old pal. It's also quite sad I have to put Austin's name up to be considered relevant. FUCK YOU N*****S.
Hail Hitler
Himmler


PLEASE TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!
WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED!
SILENCE IS DEFEAT!

THANK YOU!!

Ill send him some condoms, and some lube so that they dont have to use hair conditioner on his little puckerhole, okay? Then I could send him some books on the history of anarchists, so that he could see what has happened to them over the centuries. Perhaps then he could realize that anarchy is against the laws of nature, and that's why no anarchist society has ever existed in human history.

Then, perhaps I could send a psychiatrist to him and help him deal with his aversion to authority, and his propensity to create conflict. But first, we have to get his body clean of all that THC from the pot he has been smoking on a daily basis.

Who knows...maybe the Fab 5 from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy could help him deal with those awful "dreads" he wears. The boy needs work.

WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE

Not a goddamn motherfucking thing. Thats what. You DONT know who I am, where I work, or anything about me. You never will. Got it?

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