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What's Happening: Zachary Evetts and Benjamin "Champagne" Song are still being held in Segregation and future phone zaps may be necessary. Rowan Gibson is being held in an infirmary cell with snitches and urgently needs to be moved to gen pop.

Today we are focusing on the situation faced by Maricela Rueda, who was threatened by Licensed Clinical Social Worker Joy White after asserting her right to counsel. This is unacceptable, and has lead to Maricela suffering repeated strip searches, leg and hand shackles when leaving her cell, limited phone and tablet access, and the violent and alienating isolation of Segregation.

A Pattern of Abuse: Lt. Gross, the cop who was allegedly shot in the Prairieland Case, was sued in 2021 for stripping down an incarcerated man and holding him naked in a refrigerated suicide cell to make him talk without his lawyer present. This coercive, violent, humiliating behavior is normalized in Johnson County. After returning from sentencing, Maricela was interviewed by mental health coordinator, LCSW Joy White who started asking intrusive questions about the defendants plans for appeal. . Maricela asked if she could call her lawyer. White responded: “You’re not going to be calling anyone. You’re going to be naked in a padded cell for 4 days”.

if you plan on calling, please look at this form first and get an idea of how to make the most of the call: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/OmLcDPdhvabZSp0f72gz2ob7YTWsRXSpJ+bEe6VfMFA/

Keep calm, don't say or imply anything illegal, but don't back down. We have to get results for Mari!

Call Script: Hello, I’m calling on behalf of people incarcerated at Johnson County who are facing horrendous conditions. All of the Prairieland defendants need to be moved to general population immediately.

Holding people in administrative seg violates due process. Are you aware of that? (Wait for response). Maricela Rueda is being held in administrative seg yet she has no disciplinaries against her and was in gen pop with co-defendants for months pre-trial. Why can't she be housed in gen pop now? (Wait for response) Are you aware that jail staff, LCSW Joy White, threatened Maricela with being placed naked in a suicide watch cell when she asserted her right to have legal counsel present for an interview? (wait for response) Threats in response to Maricela asserting her legal rights are highly inappropriate, and she needs to be placed in general population immediately.

Due to the threats against her, we also demand that Licensed Clinical Social Worker White not be allowed contact with Maricela.

Maricela also urgently needs to see her state lawyer, George Lobb, who has been turned away by the jail. She is being denied legal counsel and is being threatened by staff. Move her to gen pop immediately and assure her access to legal counsel.

(cw: incarceration)

hi everyone, i wanted to ask you to please consider supporting the prairieland defendants by donating to their legal fund and/or writing letters to those incarcerated. they're innocent folks who've just been given terrible, long prison sentences for simply being at an anti-ice protest/having anarchist zines in their possession. it was my birthday so if you want to get me anything for my birthday, please contribute to this: