YOU CALL THIS A DEMOCRACY!
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Ojore N. Lutalo

P.0 861-59860
SBI#901548

Trenton, NJ 08625-0861

| was held incommunicado for six

days in New Jersey's Trenton

State Prison draconian and night-

marish mental health unit, called
4.C by prison workers and the boom-boom room by
most prisoners. | was not allowed to shower, change my
clothing, have soap, toothbrush, wash cloth or towel. |
was not allowed to make telephone calls, send out or
recelve personal or legal mail. | was also not allowed to
teceive personal or legal visits or take part in any inside
or outside recreational activities.

Here's my Story:

New Jersey State Prison Administrative Segregation
Unit (AD-SEG) 7-Wing-7-Right-6-Ter-Cell #22.

On Monday, September 12th, 2005, 6-tier was slated for
afternoon yard. | approached 6-tier gate to be stripped
earched and | was told by the security guard conduct-
ing the strip searches that | could not take in yard move-
ment because | was on "NO CONTACT STATUS',
which meant that | could not go to the yard or get visits
with any other prisoner's in AD-SEG.

| asked the security guard why | was on NO CONTACT
STATUS and who gave the order for my placement on
such a draconian police state status and he told me that
he did not know the answers to my questions. | was not al-
lowed to go to the yard or receive visits by myself either! |
was only allowed out of the cell once a day for ten minutes
to take a shower!

| addressed this repressive situation by way of the attached
adminisirative remedy form dated September 1th, 2005 and
the person who responded said: "the writer will attempt to
address this situation.” My thoughts were things could not
get any worsel Litte did | know, the worse was yet to
come......

Around 1:30am on Thursday, October 13th,2005, the fol-
lowing events transpired:

LOCK uP LOCK DOWN

The lock and lock down stated around 1:30 am, when a cell
extraction team of several security guards, dressed in com-
bat gear, woke me up and the extraction team sergeant
called out my name and said: “per orders of the warden,
you are {o be moved to 1-C (the so-called mental health
unit)” without telling me why! So I started thinking, why the
boom-boom room?, since it is well known that | do not suf-
fer from or with any psychological decompensations.

I'get up and I start to feel around in the darkness of the cell
for my clothing to get dressed (I sleep naked) because they
turned the power off for some reason. The sergeant told me
to turn the cell light on. I tell him | can't because the power
is off. He asks for a flashlight, but they don't have one
among themselves.

| finally get dressed for the unexpected, but | could not find
any thermal underwear in the dark, which | regretted during
my six day stay down in the boom-boom room. | moved to
{he front of the cell to_have my hands cuffed behind my
back through the bars. The sergeant told me to back out of
the cell when the cell door opened and face the wall. As |
am backing out of the cell, | looked down the tier to my right
and | saw this agent from the prison's Special Investigation
Division (SID) squad, recording the action. One of the ex-
traction team members_ place his hand between by back
cuffed hands and I'm escorted off the tier. 2

ENTERING THE LIVING NIGHTMARE OF 1C, THE
BOOM-BOOM ROOM THAT NO LIVING PERSON
SHOULD EVER BE SUBJECTED TO!

As | enter 1-C, | see that 1-C have four or five cells located
behind a floor to ceiling fence, with the first cell behind the
fence, but with another built around the first cell. They put
me In the first cell and ask me if 1 am going to comply with
their orders once they remove the hand cuffs. | said yeah.
They uncuffed my right hand and tell me to place my hand
behind my head and they do the same with my left hand
and then tell me to turn around and strip. i go through the
strip search motions: raise my hands, open my mouth, stick
my tongue out, Iift my private parts, tum around, raise my
right foot, then my left foot, bottoms up and then | spread
the cheeks of my ass. Then they tell me to tum around and
face the wall until they leave. They leave and | tum around
to put my clothing on, only to find out the took my clothing
with them! There | stand, ass out, butt naked, in a cold cell,
standing next to a puddie of water!

| look around the cell to do a survey of my repressive sur-
rounds and | find the following: the cage is twenty feet tall,
twenty feet long and fifteen feet wide, with two celling
mounted observation cameras! It dawn on me that | am in a
"close watch celll One camera is over the dirty, uncovered
foam mattress on the floor, which is also dirty. The other
camera is located over the cell door. The cell light is fo-
cated, high up against the wall and the white burning light
stays on twenty four hours a day, making sleeping difficult
and your eyes start feeling like they have sand undemeath
your eyelids. Focusing becomes difficult after your eyes are
exposed to the twenty four hour burning white light. Back to
the cage. The cage has built into the wall stainless steel toi-
let and sink with the window in the cage (7 feet long and 6
inches wide) situated eight feet high in the back of the cage.
The vent in the cage is located high up against the wall and
the vent blows out freezing cold air twenty four hours a day.

The cage fioor is painted gray, the bottom half of the walls
are gray and the upper walls are painted white, with a win-
dow in the door (five feet long and six Inches wide). The
only bedding | am given is lying on top of the dirty uncov-
ered mattress. | move towards that, bare footed, to check it
out. What | find are two paper thin sheets, that are white,
six feet long and twelve feet wide. | tear up a sheet to cover
up the puddle of water on the floor, to keep my bare feet dry
and wrap the other sheet around my body.

| start pacing up and down the cage to generate some body
heat because | start to feel the coldness of the cage as-
saulting my naked body. When | grow weary of pacing the
cage, i sit atop the stainless steel sink hugging my body
with paper sheet and thinking: * the way that | am now be-
ing treated is illegal.” The coldness of the cage is setting in
again because | can feel my body starting to shake like a
pair of loaded dice in a crap game, so | get off the sink and
start pacing the floor again.

I entered the woes of the boom-boom room at 1:30 am and
at 9:30 am they gave me back my clothing! The telephone
is ringing off the hook. Calls are coming in from other prison

security guards wanting to know if Lutalo has bugged out,
went crazy. .

| grow weary of pacing the floor and sitting atop the sink, so
around 9:30 pm on the 13th, i cover up the dirty foam mat-
tress with a paper‘sheet and lay down fully dressed and
doze off. Shortly after, | wake up to the sound of splashing
water, to see water leaking from the ceiling and running
down the wall, seeping under the matiress.

1 jump up and tear up the other paper sheet to soak up the
water. | call the guard, who is watching me on the camera
from his desk. He opens the gate and comes to the cage
door. | point to the problem and ask him for some more pa-
per sheets. He tells me they ‘don't have any more. | ask
him, could he move me to another cage? He tells me he
has to check with the sergeant. Now the water i running
undemeath the cage door. “The sergeant came and saw the
problem and two hours later, they ‘move me into gag #2,

another dirty foam mattress with two paper.sheav.s atop it.
Cage #2 is just as cold as cage #1, SO | start pacing
floor to generate some body heat.

Just like | was illegally piace in 1-C. the boorn-boom room.
it was illegal for the warden to have placed me in a cage
that was condemned! | stay in cage #2 untl Saturday after-
noon of October 15th. That afternoon @ sergeant came 0
the cage and told me | was being moved to 1-C overflow. |
would at last have a bed to sleep in- | rolled up my paper
sheets, got handeuffed and was escorted o 4-C overflow.

1-C overflow is the left side of 1-C. They put me in cage #
on 1-C overflow. | entered the cage to find a steel bed
frame bolted to the wall ‘and floor, with a dirty foam mattress
on it and a working light switch. The cage also had two. wal
mounted close watch cameras in it and the cage was jus
as cold as the other cages in the main section of the boom

boom rooms, 1-C.
change of clothing. A

| stayed in 1-c overflow until 8:30 am Tuesday moming,
October 18th, Tuesday morning of the 18th at 12:40 am,
five guards came into the cage with o nurse. The sergeant
told me that the nurse Wanted to take my vitals. | thought

cage is another "close watch* one, with another dirty foam
rnam:ssonmafiootanda%sewa(mmmra mounted in
the cailing by the door. The stool ang cage shelves were
veroved, the light switch has a steel piate over It and the
Wall sockets have steel plates over tham. The cage light
stays on twenty four hours a day. The floor, the toilet and
the sink are filthy! | request cleaning equipment and a tele-
phone call and both requests are negated by the guards in

the sink as best | can | do not endeavor to clean the inside
of the toilet because it it so dirty!

This MCU close watch cage is smaller than the close watch
oges down in the boom-boom rooms, 1-C, so my eyes are
hurting more from the glare of the twenty four hour bright
white lights! You call this a democracy?

Today is Thursday October 20th, 2005 and | still do not
know why | was placed on no contact status on September
12th, 2005 or why | was placed in the boom-boom room, 1-
C on Thursday October 13th, 2005 or why | was re-interned
in the Management Control Unit on Tuesday October 18th,
2005. You call this a democracy?

Per orders of the warden, | was placed on no contact
status, per orders the warden, | was illegally interned in the
prison's so called mental health unit, per orders of the war-
den, | was interned in the Management Control Unit. All of
this without ever "BREAKING A SINGLE RULE!" You call
this a democracy?

If they came for me this way on the inside, they can come
for you the same way on the outside. Al in the name of de-
mocracy! Do you siill call this a democracy? | need outside
legal help to get a transfer to a prison out of state...

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