Received
November 9, 2018 (written in pencil and cannot be scanned)
Louis
Keys 587473 CCI ( now at KMCI) not dated
On
October 26 at 1:30-2:00 am Officer Goldsmith and Sgt Thompson came to
DS 2 B Lower cell 42 with 18 year old Kyan Barnette and Goldsmith
stated “ hit the lights” to Officer Woodruff who was in DS2
Central Booth/Bubble. The lights came on, Goldsmith stated to Kuan
Barnette, ”We’re here to kill you.”All while Sgt Thompson’s
body camera was recording and Picking up audio. Then the cell door
opened and Goldsmith who had a huge shield, Thompson, 65-66. 387 lbs,
behind him rushed into Kuan’s cell and began to beat him, all while
he was on clinical observation and in a smock. Picked up and slammed
him into metal bed frame with no mattress. This kid screamed and
yelled and begged them to please stop. He’s 5’7”- 5’8”, 145
lbs. Then Lt Olsen, Sgt Reynolds, Sgt Sullivan all rushed into the
cell, beat him all while yelling “stop resisting”, choking him to
stop him from screaming, so he slammed his legs on the bed frame to
make noise. They then put cuffs and leg irons on him, dragged him out
of his cell in a choke hold, by c/o Goldsmith who shook him viciously
like a pit bull hard and fast. C/o had his tongue out making menacing
faces to inmates who yelled and beat on the Doors. Kuan Bleed , his
face, eyes, head and body beaten and bruised while he made desperate
attempts to breathe. It all started by Kuan spitting water on to
Goldsmith’s arm the night before October25th and Goldsmith told him
“ I’m going to rip your fucking heart out.”So he came to SD2
“unassigned” because c/o Woodruff phoned and told him that
Barnett ,”Kuan” had popped open his trap box. So instead of
calling the Capt, Goldsmith and Woodruff came and laid a white bed
sheet on Kuan’s “trap box” which is a meal box 18-20 inches
long and 14 inches wide for feeding high risk inmates.
Kuan,
young and naive, thought it would be funny to take the sheet and
pulled it into his cell which was actually a set up. I told Kuan “put
that sheet back out your cell. They setting you up for a cell
extraction .” He told me he couldn’t because a C/O had rushed
down the tier to close his trap box. So he put it inside the trap
box. So the plan was for them to claim that Kuan had took the sheet
and attempted suicide so they would have a legit reason and way into
his cell. But to their surprise, he was standing in his “door”,
cells, windows, with no sign of a sheet inside the cell. Period. And
they were so desperate that they went into his cell regardless. After
he was dragged out of his cell and off our tier c/o Goldsmith went
into his cell, closed the cell door half way, grabbed the sheet out
of his trap box, tied it into a noose and took it out the cell up
stairs to the DS2 dayroom , to Lt Olsen and began to ask Kuan why he
tried to kill hisself.
At
8:30 -9 am that morning, officers came to allegedly take him to a
hospital. When Kuan exited his cell, both his eyes were swollen shut,
his head and face disfigured, finger broken. Body and feet bruised
and he couldn’t stand or walk alone, or see, they emergency
transferred him to another prison. Myself and inmate Quinn Link saw
the entire incident/attempt murder. Thanks.
Please
email this letter to Scott Walke , Cathy Jess, Lena Taylor ,
Gwendolyn Moore, Fox News. Wis State Journal and the NAACP in
Milwaukee. Please. I’m doing all I can to help these inmates and
myself while I still can. I’ve been on observation for nearly 3
weeks, I bled out several times and went for stitches and blood
transfusions and was only pulled out of myself for a one on one with
a psychologist because Dan Norge was trying to force me to talk to
him on the tier cell side and violate my hippa rights. I was only
offered a shower once this month and no hygiene at all, because in
CCI suicide watch is a punitive status and they kept the heat off in
my cell while I only had a bare mattress and smock.
Also,
you could at least respond to a letter now and then so we know you’re
getting this information and getting out to the REAL public, because
I don’t want to keep writing you with the only stamps I have if
you’re just going to ignore the issues and not respond. There’s
real life horrible shit going on in here and no one’s trying to
help!
(note;
the above paragraph makes me fear that my mail is not getting to him.
I wrote him, Jesse and Governor on October 18th
after
his last alert. He has been a good resource for information. He was
transferred to KMCI after this letter was sent out. )
Letter
from Louis Keys, dated November 2, 2018
I
am in KMCI seg as you can see, which is horrible. I was forced off
of Observation status which I had been on for the last 30 days. I had
self harmed a few times and went for blood transfusions and stitches
and a couple times I didn’t realize that I self harmed and bled
out. I am not at all stable. I’ve lost so much blood that I still
feel weak and off balance because last week they refused to send me
to a hospital for blood because I was on observation each time and
they feel that would make them look even worse seeing that I nearly
died that first time and was on 5 minute checks and staff only check
on obs every hour or so.
And
the nurse told them she couldn’t do anything or stop the bleeding
so they made me sit in seg law library for hours with a dry towel
tied super tight around my cut to force this bleeding to stop,
haven’t eaten in 5 days as of today which is November 2- 2018 and
have been without water for 2 days now. These cells are like Ice
boxes . Before I left CCI I was on obs and wouldn’t come off so
they turned on the air conditioner to freeze me out in only a smock
and torture me. Now here in KMCI they’re threatening to do the same
if I self harm or go on observation.
Like
Peggy , NO BS , these cells are freezing cold and these inmates are
weak and cowards to not take a stand and demand some heat in these
cells, I have on a jumpsuit and a blanket as I write to you with me
vent covered up an I’m still shivering! They took all my legal
mail. All my CCI seg property which reduced me to one small paper bag
with shower shoes, no hygiene, no reading material, books or
magazines , no photos , 5 personal letters. I’ve had mail that was
withheld in CCI because I was on obs in CCI and now I can’t even
get that mail here and don’t even know what it is or if the court
responded to me since my screening. Its freezing cold with large gaps
in the cell doors, and on top of the vents air, they have a huge fan
on the tier turned on high! They claim this stay is temporary, but I
refuse to eat until I can get somewhere with heat and real PSU Stuff
and treatment. I’m so mad and freezing cold that I ready to go
crazy, these inmates are literally programmed t be afraid and
complain about this inhumane treatment. I’m so depressed I feel
like ending my life. This shit is torture.
I
need to find a way out of here, they don’t give us soap or
deodorant, only a little bar of unscented state soap. I have no way
of knowing where my lawsuit is since I have been screened in early
September. Then, I’m trying- never mind. This will most likely be
my last letter. I don’t (want?) my name or personal situation in
any newsletter or all over. It’s no good fighting DOC because NO
inmates in WDOC stick together or litigate.
Louis
Keys 587473 KMCI , Nov 5,2018
On
nov 3 t maybe 3 am I self harmed an KMCI rushed me to the ER by
ambulance. Peg, I need you to pay close attention to what I’m about
to say because your absolutely only person that I have to turn to. On
October 4th
when I first went on obs in CCI I was told by Nurse Gibbons that it
was a black and white policy that observation patients’ medications
had to be crushed prior to taking them. Now the medication that I’m
speaking on specifically is a capsule called Dhyphenhidrimene ( or
something like that).It’s supposed to be like Benadryl. Peg, I had
taken one of these capsules months ago which had been partially open
due to the way staff popped it out of its pack. There’s a thin,
shiny, white powder inside the capsule and the smallest amount will
have your entire mouth numb and painful burning. Now fast forward to
today, for the last month, this lying bitch has been forcing me to
take 4 capsules, crushed, every night, then come to find out from
other nurses and a captain, there is no black and white policy and
the nurse has been injuring me with this medication after I told her
how excruciating the numbing and burning pain was form this med . I
think that medication may have scarred or damaged my lungs, i can’t
take 5 to 10 ten steps without feeling, and I’ve never in 38 nearly
39years had one single health issue or cardiac issue. I can play 10
games of basketball with 19 year olds. Now I don’t think I cold
play 10 seconds and I’m scare t death, Peg. IN 2016 I met a guy
here named Larry Sancher, 61y.o. who sleeps with a ccap machine and
he old me he never had respiratory problems until he did 10 months in
Portage jail with CRUSHED med. So now my mind’s going 100MPH in
that direction and I don’t know what to do. I saw a nurse today who
I believe waited and hour and a half after I reported shortness of
breath and chest pain- to come and see me after my vitals would be
calmed so she can play a mind game on me.
I
just spent a weekend on obs so cold I tossed and turned and begged
for heal. Peg, What the hell’s going on in DOC? I can’t wrap my
mind around this madness, the insanity in order to have obs as a
safety tool and risk management, you have to freeze them to death.
Complains
there is no fight in these inmates, says I should quit trying an
enjoy life. Says he feels he is dying, is lost, asks me to
write-address the envelope ”Sally James “ if I have to, to get it
through.
“I
feel like the DOC killed me ad left me alive to suffer my own death
in a way. But what do I do now, Peg? As a friend, what can I do? ….I
don’t know a soul here and they keep these huge fans on 24/7 to
stop people from talking anyhow. I need to get out of here. I left
here in 2013. This seg is a shit hole, makes CCI seem pleasant.
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