Tweet And Call For Major Tillery

Make Calls For Major Tillery Now! https://t.co/jAjU0hk1EN #Justice4MajorTillery @WrongfulConvict @therealslimbaby pic.twitter.com/UXkxnnNv04

— Nancy Lockhart, M.J. (@WrongfulConvict) October 29, 2015

URGENT CALL TO ACTION

URGENT ALERT MAJOR TILLERY IN HOSPITAL!

Sometime yesterday Major Tillery, a 65 year-old man, was rushed to the hospital from SCI Frackville. Since hearing this yesterday evening through the prison grapevine, family and attorney have tried to learn more.  Today, the only thing we have been told by Superintendent Brenda Tritt is that this was “a routine admission” and Major is “receiving the appropriate medical attention.” Nothing more to to Major Tillery’s daughter, Kamilah Iddeen--not the hospital, the reason for rushing Major to the hospital, no agreement for family and legal visits.

Major Tillery has liver disease and a liver shunt, arthritis with chronic back and hip pain, and a festering skin rash and open sores. Major Tillery has filed grievance after grievance objecting to the lack of medical treatment and refusal to renew needed medical devices. Major Tillery has been imprisoned for 30 years, 25 in the hole and in the most severe super max prisons in the country. For prison officials his crime is his advocacy for other prisoners and leadership capabilities, including challenging abusive prison conditions and inadequate medical treatment. He has been subject to retaliation by prison authorities since he began his successful legal effort to stop the overcrowding and curb the inhumane conditions in SCI Pittsburgh over 25 years ago.      See, Tillery v. Owens (1990) In early 2015, Major complained about the spreading skin disease at SCI Mahanoy, where he was then imprisoned. He stood up for Mumia Abu-Jamal and other prisoners who were suffering from this. For his acts of solidarity, Major Tillery was transferred to SCI Frackville and then put in the hole on falsified charges. After four months with limited food rations, deprived of commissary, contact visits and allowed less than one-hour a day of exercise, Major was released into general population. This was two months less than his prison sentence of six months in the hole – the prison’s response to an international campaign for Major!  Now Major is in the hospital. He is not being allowed contact with his family or attorney. They are not being given any real information on his condition. Call prison officials and demand: Visits with Major Tillery by his family and lawyer. Full medical information and treatment should be provided to his family and lawyer. Stop the Retaliation Against Major Tillery. He should be exonerated for the false charges of drug possession and this misconduct removed from his record. Transfer Major Tillery from SCI Frackville back to SCI Mahanoy or to another facility in eastern Pennsylvania to remain near his family. Dept. Of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel           (717) 728-4109  Superintendent Brenda Tritt, SCI Frackville           (570) 874-4516  Write to Major Tillery AM 9786 SCI Frackville 1111 Altamont Blvd. Frackville, Pa. 17931 For More Information, Go To: Justice4MajorTillery/blogspot Call/Write: Kamilah Iddeen (Major Tillery’s daughter) (717) 379-9009,Kamilah29@yahoo.com Nancy Lockhart (843) 412-2035, thewrongfulconviction@gmail.com Rachel Wolkenstein, Esq. (917) 689-4009, RachelWolkenstein@gmail.com Justice4MajorTillery/blogspot

RushCard -Thousands of Prepaid Debit Card Users Cannot Access Funds

I have called @RushCard 51 times today. Hung up on 34 times. Dead Air 12 times. And the representatives all say call back in 2 to 3 hours.

— Portia (@Xenafan4ever) October 13, 2015

"A woman in Philadelphia was turned away from a McDonald’s when her card was declined. Another woman, in Decatur, Ga., couldn’t pay for her husband’s heart medication. And an autoworker in Detroit accepted food from colleagues because she had no access to her money.

In 2012, the most recent year available, prepaid cards held $65 billion, more than double the amount from just three years earlier, according to a survey by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Nearly a quarter of these cardholders earn less than $15,000 a year. They are forced to turn to prepaid cards because they lack the standing to get a credit card or are unable or unwilling to open a traditional bank account.

In an email statement on Tuesday, Mr. Simmons said: “We will fix these problems and continue to serve the populations I care deeply about.”

The episode has now attracted the attention of regulators in Washington.

“It is outrageous that consumers have not had access to their money for more than a week,” said Gail Hillebrand, associate director for consumer education and engagement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “We are looking into this very troubling issue. Consumers increasingly are relying on prepaid products to keep their funds, make purchases and manage their money.”

RushCard said that its customers’ money was covered by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance through its issuing bank, MetaBank, and that its accounts were compliant with federal regulations regarding electronic fund transfers.

The company won’t say exactly how many cardholders it has, except to say they number in the “hundreds of thousands.”

Still, the potential market is vast. In its most recent survey, the F.D.I.C. counted 25.4 million people in the United States in 2013 who had no bank account. Another 67.5 million had an account but also relied on nonbank financial services such as check-cashing stores or payday lenders.

Jonathan Mintz, a former commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer Affairs, said a lack of safe banking options threatened to worsen economic inequality.

“Without financial tools that are fair, all you can do is basically tread water,” said Mr. Mintz, who is now chief executive of the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund.

For T’Challa Williams in Decatur, Ga., the problems with RushCard became a matter of life and death. Her husband has heart disease, she said, and needs medication to regulate his condition.

Last Wednesday morning, Ms. Williams tried to withdraw money that her father had loaded onto her card to pay for the medicine. But the money he had loaded was not there.

When Ms. Williams called RushCard, she was on hold for an hour and a half, and on a second call for three hours. "  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/dealbook/after-technical-snag-fury-and-no-cash.html?smid=tw-share

Make Calls for Major Tillery TODAY!! Your calls are the result of him being transferred from solitary into general population. He needs medical treatment and a few other things listed below.

Call prison officials and demand that:

Major Tillery be exonerated for this set-up charge of drug possession and the misconduct be removed from his record.

Major Tillery be transferred back to SCI Mahanoy or to another facility in eastern Pennsylvania to remain near his family.

Major Tillery be given medical treatment for his severe skin ailment.

Dept. Of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel (717) 728-4109
Superintendent Brenda Tritt, SCI Frackville (570) 874-4516

Write to
Major Tillery AM 9786
SCI Frackville
1111 Altamont Blvd.
Frackville, Pa. 17931
For More Information, Go To:  www.justice4majortillery.blogspot.com

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Urgent Call To Action.

Major George Tillery

An Unsung Hero

"I was moved to another cell where heat is coming out of the vents and emits some kind of fumes that smell like car gas." 

 "The Window Is Sealed" - Major Tillery

By Nancy Lockhart, M.J.

Frackville, Pennsylvania -- Major George Tillery is a Pennsylvania lifer who confronted SCI Mahanoy Superintendent John Kerestes over Mumia Abu-Jamal's deteriorating health. Elder Tillery told the Mahanoy superintendent to get Mumia to the hospital, stating "Mumia is dying." Major Tillery faces acts of retaliation daily as a result of seeking medical assistance for Mumia and others. Tillery has been transferred to SCI Frackville, placed in "the hole" (RHU), on false charges of receiving a letter with stamps concealing drugs. Stamps are taken off of mail at this institution before being distributed to inmates.

Tillery turns 65 years old on September 5, 2015 and has been denied medication needed for his failing liver, high blood pressure and a rash which continues worsen. SCI Frackville has denied him medication and legal phone calls. Tillery continues to suffer because he chose to perform the duties of a humanitarian.

According to Tillery's attorney, Rachel H. Wolkenstein, ..."At SCI Mahanoy and SCI Frackville retaliatory action has been taken against Major Tillery's exercise of constitutionally protected First Amendment rights of access to the courts, filing of grievances relating to medical neglect of himself and others on his cell block and for bringing to the attention of SCI Mahanoy Superintendent John Krestes the grave medical condition of a fellow inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who subsequently went into diabetic shock requiring treatment with an insulin drip in a hospital ICU. "

In a letter to DOC Secretary John Wetzel, Attorney Wolkenstein states that Tillery ..."received a Certificate of Achievement for his Peer Specialist Training in November of 2014 and was assigned to the specialist job of "peer specialist." During the past twelve years he has not had a misconduct – until the retaliatory action taken against him at SCI Frackville on April 30, 2015. He has been working on new legal challenges to his 1985 conviction."

"The most recent and serious retaliatory action occurred on April 30, 2015 at SCI Frackville when Major Tillery was falsely charged with receiving a "letter with positive test result for suboxone." In his 32 years in prison Major Tillery has not had even one misconduct for drugs or dirty urine."

I'd like to reiterate these facts, Major Tillery was retaliated against, moved from SCI Mahanoy and placed in "the hole" at SCI Frackville. He is accused of receiving a letter which tested positive for suboxone under a stamp. All stamps are removed from mail entering this institution. He has been denied adequate medical care, the rash on his body is getting worse and heat mixed with vapors that smell like gas is being pumped through the vent while the one window in his cell is sealed.

From the pen of an unsung hero,

In The Name Of Allah

The Merciful

Peace.

..."I'm still in The Hole waiting to see what the D.O.C. Will do with The evidence they were presented with about how i was set up by Staff at S.C.I. Frackville. ...I was move to another cell where the vent emits some kind of fumes that smell like car gas.

"And There's no cold water to drink. ...while at S.C.I. Mahanoy I was threaten by my unit manager Griffin stated if i kept complaining about Mumia or writing Grievances, she would Try and have me desinated a Muslim combatant." "... I have a Metal Food slot which the guards put a toilet brush on my food slot so i won't eat. They know on Ramadan you only get one meal. This happens twice a week. Plus my rash the same one Mumia had is getting worst. "

Tillery filed Grievance# 567683 On February 26, 2015 and it was denied. The grievance response focuses mainly on the toilet brush. Tillery has made clear the response is an untruth, that there is no disinfectant and the toilet brush is used by hundreds of cells. It is inhumane that the prison would place this toilet brush right above the slot which his plate slides through.

Among all other retaliatory practices "The D.O.C. Has started up their old smear campaign telling people I was a leader in The Black Mafia. Which is a lie. I was a member in the nation of Islam in the 60's and 70's which is well documented. ... Peace, Major."

On July 21, 2015 Major Tillery Writes,

... I was placed in a cell with the windows sealed. And hot air out of the vent. Yes I'm still in The Hole. I will never give up the fight for prisoners. I still have the rash and yes the fumes are still strong in the heat. ...They still have not given me my orthopedic boots back. So my hip which is degenerate is getting worse." He goes on to state – "They know that I have respiratory problems and even the young prisoners have fallen out due to the sealed windows and hot air with fumes out of the vent.

You can assist Major George Tillery by contacting the individuals below.

Contact DOC John E. Wetzel's Secretary: (717) 728-4109 Ask her to take a message for DOC Secretary John Wetzel. Explain that Major Tillery languishes in a prison cell with sealed windows and hot air with fumes coming out of the vent. Also explain that he suffers medical neglect. Last, request that Major Tillery is taken back to SCI Mahanoy and placed in general population.

Contact PA Gov. Tom Wolf: 717-787-2500 and by e-mail at: governor@pa.gov Explain that Major Tillery languishes in a prison cell with heated fumes coming through the vent. The Window is Sealed. He suffers medical neglect. His treatment is a violation of human rights. It is unethical and inhumane.

Contact Theron Perez, Chief Counsel Pennsylvania Department of Corrections: 717 – 728-7763

Ask the secretary to accept a message for Chief Counsel Theron Perez. Explain that elder Major Tillery faces retaliation in the forms of medical neglect and torture. Further explain that Elder Tillery was moved to a cell where heat and toxic fumes are pumped from the vent. Request that he is moved back to SCI Mahanoy into general population.

Visit: http://www.justice4majortillery.blogspot.com/ and obtain updates.

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About Nancy Lockhart

I've publicized many cases, spearheaded campaigns and completed strategical determinations with positive measurable results. Imam Jamil Al-Amin,Willie Manning and Marissa Alexander are among a few. Global support grew for Imam Jamil Al-Amin's medical treatment and transfer, a stay of execution for Willie Manning, and a team of pro bono attorneys for Marissa Alexander. I hold a Master of Jurisprudence from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, a Certificate of Technology and Writing from Bread Loaf School Of English – Vermont and a B.A. Degree From Clark Atlanta University. Please visit www.NancyLockhart.net and donate "Help Me To Expand Assistance To Victims Of Injustices." http://gogetfunding.com/help-me-to-assist-victims-of-injustice/