The John Greschner Defense Committee/The Prison Educational Foundation

Why This Is Important

The picture you see here is one of my husband when he was being housed at the Florence Colorado ADX before we got married he sent me this picture and told me that every mountain is climable. I certainly hope so, please sign his petition. Namaste! Roxanne

This petition is important because it address the issue of Torture in US Prisons.

The John Greschner Defense Committee/The Prison Educational Foundation
This committee is dedicated to freeing prisoners who
have been incarcerated for more than 20 years. Both Federal and State justice system hand out sentences that are unjust and need to be reduced. All of these prisoners are asking for clemency and pardons, and/or commutations. except for the State Prisoners. They are asking for sentence reductions and freedom. We are asking for their freedom. Also my husband John needs letters written for compassionate release and so do others on this list. Please send in your letters of support for their freedom to the officials listed below. You may also write letter of support to the attorney at the National Prison Project listed below.

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Complaints
Office of the Inspector General
U.S.Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Room 4706
Washington, D.C.
20530

Thomas Kane, Acting Director

Federal Bureau of Prisons

E-Mail: info@bop.gov

Web Site: www.bop.gov

Phone: (202) 307-3198

Fax: (202) 514-6620

Address: 320 1st Street, NW

Washington, DC 20534 

Kathleen M. Kenney
Assistant Director/General Counsel,
Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 First St. NW,
Washington, DC 20534

Morris L. Thigpen, Sr..
Director National Institute of Corrections
320 First St. NW,
Washington, DC 20534

Attorney General Eric Holder
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

US Pardon Attorney
Roger C Adams
500 First Street NW Suite 400
Washington DC 20530
Phone: (202) 616-6070

Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
USA
Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700

US State Department
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
2201 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20520

Fax number: 1-202-647-2283
Phone number: 1-202-647-4000

U.S. Department of Justice - Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Special Litigation Section, PHB
Washington, DC 20530
(202) 514-6255 - Fax: (202) 514-6273 or (202) 514-0212

We need sponsors and Donations. Please send donations for printing legal materials to be sent in to the prisoners. and for photo copying the materials for the prisoners and to assist us in becoming a non-profit. They send us materials that need to be photo copied and we lack funds and stamps.

The address of the Committee is
PO Box 3256
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
Please make donations pay able to
routing number121122676 Account number 253454684171

swift routing number for the bank account is USBKUS44IHT

the phone number of the committee is 707-568-1082


John Greschner has been incarcerated for 43 years and has been tortured at the hands of a repressive regime that has stolen his life. Since the time in his life when he was housed at USP Marion Ill and tortured there, he has done much to better himself and other prisoners. He and many other Prisoners have suffered years of abuse, such as medical neglect. His friends have all been harmed by the same type of treatment while being housed by the FBOP and State prison systems. John is being housed in a State prison facility.

Ironwood State Prison
John Greschner
V-12545
A-1 110L
PO BOX 2199
Blythe, Ca 92226


John is not at this address CCM Sacramento and you can not send funds to the Federal Po Box listed below they will not forward the funds.

John Greschner federal Reg 02550-135
CCM SACRAMENTO
COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS OFFICE
501 I STREET, SUITE 9-400
SACRAMENTO, CA 95814

Please send Stamps for John I will forward them to him. I just sent him a book so he can write to people. And please sned him some envelopes and writing paper.

Please send all funds to routing number121122676 Account number 253454684171

The swift routing number for the bank is USBKUS44IHT

The funds for federal prisoners will not work for John here. You must send them to the committee and I will send them to him. I am his wife.
He is being housed in a State prison.

Federal Prisoners

Ronald Del Raine, Federal Reg 85462-132, is serving a 209-year sentence for a crime that happened almost 45 years ago. And letters to the US Pardons Commissioner would help us in fighting for his freedom. He is 80 years old and needs assistance from folks all over the world. He can only receive money and he cannot receive stamps. I recently received a letter from Mr. Del Raine asking me to write to Elizabeth Alexander an attorney in Washington, DC to ask for a 30 year parole hearing. He never got one. He has been incarcerated for almost 45 years, please write to Elizabeth Alexander, her address is

National Prison Project
Elizabeth Alexander
Attorney at law
915 15th Street
N.W.
Washington, D.C 20005-2112

His current address is
Ronald Del Raine Federal Reg 85462-132
USP FLORENCE – HIGH
U.S. PENITENTIARY
P.O. BOX 7000
FLORENCE, CO 81226
.
There are many other prisoners who we will put on our list to free at a later date. These prisoners are now on our list to aid in their freedom. Send them funds The location of these Federal Prisoners can be obtained at www.bop.gov -click on to the inmate locator and type in their Federal Reg Their current addresses are

Robert Hanssen, Federal REG 48551-083
USP FLORENCE ADMAX
U.S. PENITENTiARY
P.O .BOX 8500
FLORENCE, CO.
81226

Edgar Hevle Federal Reg 13950-116
USP FLORENCE ADMAX
U.S. PENITENTIARY
PO BOX 8500
FLORENCE, CO 81226

Tyler Bingham Federal Reg 03325-091
USP FLORENCE ADMAX
U.S. PENITENTIARY
PO BOX 8500
FLORENCE, CO 81226

Barry Byron Mills Federal Reg 14559-116
USP FLORENCE ADMAX
U.S. PENITENTIARY
PO BOX 8500
FLORENCE, CO 81226

Tommy Silverstein Federal Reg 14634-116
USP FLORENCE ADMAX
U.S. PENITENTIARY
PO BOX 8500
FLORENCE, CO 81226

The United States holds tens of thousands of people in long-term solitary confinement, but the case of Tommy Silverstein is perhaps the most extreme. He has been kept in isolation for the last 27 years, more than anyone else in the federal prison system. Laura Rovner, a law professor at Denver University, represents Silverstein, 58, in his case to have his treatment recognised as “cruel and unusual punishment” under the US constitution.

Jeffrey MacDonald Federal reg. 00131-177

FCI Cumberland
Federal Correctional Institute
P.O. Box 1000
Cumberland, M.D. 21501

Dr. Jeffrey R. MacDonald
Dr. Jeffrey R. MacDonald was falsely convicted in August, 1979 of the murder of his wife, Colette, and two young daughters (5 year old Kimberley, and 2 year old Kristen MacDonald) in a bloody and grisly satanic style murder scene that took place in their home in the early morning hours of Feb. 17, 1970 on Ft. Bragg Army base in North Carolina. The murders were committed by a local satanic cult of drug users (referred to as "hippies" in the newspapers at the time) which included five active duty enlisted army men who had targeted the MacDonald family because Dr. MacDonald was perceived by this group of drug users as a "snitch"; as MacDonald was adhering to the base commander's new policy of reporting the names of Army personnel who were being admitted to the Emergency Room for overdosing on heroin or other serious drugs .One of those cult members (Greg Mitchell) had even threatened a pregnant Colette MacDonald, Jeff's wife, at the Ft. Bragg college learning center where she was taking a course in psychology, on the very evening before her murder.

The Army CID
Investigators from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID), from the very beginning of their 'investigation' of the crime scene at the MacDonald home, were intent on setting up MacDonald to take the fall for the killings. It wasn't until some years later that the reasons behind the CID's mishandling of the crime scene, their concealment of key evidence (that would have proven the presence of other people in the MacDonald home at the time of the murders), and their "losing" of physical evidence under their control (which would have allowed MacDonald to establish his innocence), would begin to emerge.

Initially, MacDonald was exonerated of all charges following a long (nearly four months) Article 32 military hearing in the Summer of 1970. While the CID was trying their best to hang the murders on MacDonald, the fortuitous presence and oversight of a straight shooting Army hearing review officer by the name ofColonel Warren V. Rock saw through the devious machinations of the CID investigators and declared MacDonald innocent of the charges. Rock ruled that the CID charges against MacDonald were simply "nor true". But MacDonald made the mistake of publicly lambasting the vendetta prone CID investigators during an interview on the Dick Cavett television show in December of 1970 and that set in motion a decision to go after MacDonald with all of the advantage, might, and authority available to government prosecutors.

Despite the utter lack of legal authority and a violation of the Posse Commitatus Act, the same Army CID investigators who tried to frame MacDonald at the Article 32 Army hearing now launched into a 're-investigation' of MacDonald; following him into civilian life after he was discharged from the Army. This eventually led to a 1975 indictment and a 1979 jury trial (spearheaded by ex-CID investigator turned US Justice Department prosecutor Brian Murtaugh and North Carolina state prosecutor James Blackburn) that resulted in a conviction for MacDonald and the imposition of three consecutive life term sentences (the death penalty was outlawed at the time). Attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Harvey Silverglate have called the MacDonald railroading one of 'the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct' in the history of United States jurisprudence.

Ronald Crowder Federal reg 34303-118
USP Colman 2
US Penitentiary
P.O. Box 1034
Colman, Fl.
33561

MICHAEL PATRICK MCELHINEY

  Federal reg 04198-097

USP FLORENCE ADMAX
U.S. PENITENTIARY
PO BOX 8500
FLORENCE, CO 81226

Leonard Peltier 89637-132
USP-Lewisburg
US Penitentiary
PO Box 1000
Lewisburg, PA 17837

Leonard Peltier can only receive money and not stamps. He is a prisoner who survived USP Marion Ill. And the torture that happened there. Please send him money and please write letters to representative in the State of PA where Leonard is located as well as the London office of Amnesty International listed below. Please write to and say action requesting that "the funds for victims of torture (an international effort to assist third world victims of gov torture) be utilized to assist with medical, psychotherapy and recovery in the case of the Native American, Leonard Peltier that this request is based upon the documented incidences of gov employed tortures spanning 30 years of incarceration and documented in State and Federal investigations and the current and past denials of medical care by prison officials. Please write to

Pilar Gimeno
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London, WCIXO DW
United Kingdom

Oscar Lopez-Rivera 87651-024
FCI TERRE HAUTE
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 33
TERRE HAUTE, IN 47808

Bill Dunne 10916-086
USP POLLOCK
U.S. PENITENTIARY
P.O. BOX 2099
POLLOCK, LA  71467

David Correa Fed reg 03627-068
Federal Correctional Complex
P.O. Box 1032 Medium
Coleman, Florida 33521

George Martorano 12973-004
FCI COLEMAN MEDIUM
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 1032
COLEMAN, FL 33521

John Perotti 39656-060
USP FLORENCE – HIGH
U.S. PENITENTIARY
P.O. BOX 7000
FLORENCE, CO 81226

State prisoners

Garrett Linderman 288749

FB 15

Stanford Creek Correctional Institution

191 Constantine Way

Aberdeen, Wa. 98520

Please send Garrett money for stamps. You must say on the money order that it is for stamps only. Please send funds for stamps to Garrett.

Colin Anditon, H11073.
KVSP
PO Box 5104.
Delano. Ca. 93216

Colin has serious medical issues not being attended to and I have written to receivership in Ca. I await reply. Eye injury caused by beating Torn Retina. needs laser surgery to correct. as yet not been done. Eye specialist diagnosed injury caused by blunt force trauma.Colin is already blind in other eye from childhood caused by optical nerve damage. If left untreated he may well go blind.  Colin was beaten at  Salinas Valley State Prison.  His family lives in the UK and can not visit him.  Please call every one you can to help this young man.  Also, Colin is innocent of the crime he is in prison for.   Please protest this.

colin had his laser surgery to re attach retina, sadly the white flashing spots in the vision and the painful pressure like the right eye is being pushed forward are permanent damage as a result of blunt force trauma caused by guards in the excessive force beating september 2009 at SATF.

Jeff Weisheit

233-190

Trumbull Correctional Institution

PO BOX 901

Leavittsburg, OH 44430

Ziyad Yaghi A/121
P.O Box 399
Lillington, NC 27546

Ziyad Yaghi is an Arab American who traveled to Jordan in 2007 to visit family members when he was 19 years old. After coming back from his trip (two years or more) he was arrested for conspiracy and material support. How can a simple trip my son took overseas amount to this? He has been incarcerated for two years now awaiting trial! This profiling of Muslim people needs to stop! We are a normal American family who lived a normal American life. Ziyad is innocent.

Clinton Young 999447

Polunsky Unit DR
3872 FM 350 South
Livingston TX 77351

Clinton is on Death Row Please write our President and ask him to commute this death sentence. We believe this man to be innocent.

Anthony Medina 999204
Polunsky unit, D/row
3872 FM 350 South,
Livingston, Texas 77351
USA

Anthony is also on death row. We believe that he is innocent.

KARL LOUIS GUILLEN # 77614

 ARIZONA STATE PRISON COMPLEX EYMAN

SMU I
P.O. BOX 4000
FLORENCE – ARIZONA 85132 - 4000
U.S.A

Shawn C. Reynolds

D10250/ C9-223
PO Box 7500
Crescent City, Ca 95532-7500

Michael Brown
H99023/ D8-122
PO Box 7500
Crescent City, Ca 95532-7500

JOHN CASTILLO JR.
1045776
GEO FACTILY
4000 N. 10TH. ST.
BRIDGEPORT,TEXAS 76426

John Robert Cline
#071101
ASPC-LEWIS-BARCHEY
P O BOX 3200
Buckeye, Az 85326

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