A cesspool of Judicial Corruption

NINE letter to the adx warden

On February 7, 2008, I sent a letter to Ron Wiley USP Florence ADMAX U.S. Penitentiary (PO Box 8500 Florence, CO 81226).

Dear Warden Wiley:
It has come to my attention that certain personnel at ADX are in violation of the provisions of the LEGAL RESOURCE GUIDE TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS (2008) concerning treatment of inmates. I am not writing to you to register a grievance as an informal or formal complaint. Nor am I seeking a review by the “Bureau of Prisons Administrator Remedy Program.” However, I am involved in an investigation of abuses of inmates at Federal penal institutions. Since I have a son incarcerated at ADX under BOP’s custody and care, and since you have the responsibility as custodian of ADX I am beginning my focus there. I also commend the competence of some personnel I’ve met at ADX.

Yet, I understand that staff may take disciplinary measures against inmates if they pose a disturbance to the safe and orderly management of a facility. Of course, violations carry "sanctions corresponding to the severity of the offense." By the same token, rules and regulations must be consistent with Statutory Law. If known that unlawful abuses by staff do occur within the confines of prison walls, the public may likely become incensed. As you know for authorities to exacerbate such abuses by inflicting retaliatory or capricious disciplinary actions against an inmate "is not permitted under any circumstance."

My familiarity with the Bureau of Prison [BOP] Guide helps me to be of service to you. I assume that you wish to carry out your responsibilities in an honorable manner and that you would appreciate any valid input that is offered. My intent is to identify and expose those who misunderstand their stewardship. The public is entitled to know the names and behavior of each violator. My allegiance is to my readers, not to any agency of the government.

I plan to visit my son next Thursday or Friday (pending weather conditions) but will make myself available at your convenience most any time or place. I’m hopeful that we may spend a short time together and that such a meeting will be mutually beneficial. Please accept my concerns as intended.

Sincerely yours, Roland Hinkson.
He made no response nor arranged any meeting. I felt that he ignored the BOP rules and made lame excuses.

After a year without any "misbehavior," an inmate may possibly make five fifteen-minute calls in a month. But frequently those calls are interrupted within seconds. Seldom–if at all–do the guards allow the inmate to redial to reestablish a connection. For example, while calling me and Faye, they cut him off within 30 seconds–of making a treasured call. It happened too often, but maybe it wasn't intentional.

Prison Counselor Richard Madison demanded that David sign over $20 per month from his commissary account. We sent a book (November 19, 2005) entitled Betrayed by the Bench, but they refused to give it to David. One year later (November 30th, 2006) they allowed him to make one extra call for the month. But on February 12, 2007, he said they allowed no shower–no reason was given. On March 29, 2007, David expressed how depressed he is getting: "I don’t know if I can stand it much longer." Even though they no longer chained him hand and foot whenever they moved him about, he was growing bitter.
In the ADX dungeon here's the way they maintain discipline. In a report written by a staff member of a violation of a rule he said, "On June 22, 2007, SIS staff became aware of a 3-way telephone call that had taken place at 7:40 a.m. this date. Hinkson had made a telephone call to his father in Ouray, Colorado. Three minutes into the phone call Hinkson’s father verbally stated he would call a third party and get them on the line. At 3:57 into the call Hinkson got his third party on the line, and Hinkson began speaking with this third party from that point on."

That third party was David's attorney, Wes Hoyt. The reason I made the call to Wes while on David's call was due to the fact that the staff at ADX had refused over nearly a month to allow David to notarize a document required by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in a lawsuit against a shyster lawyer. David responded to the Report which stated as follows: "I asked my dad to call the attorney, but I did not ask him to call the attorney while I was on the phone with him. I was talking to my dad on his home phone and he called the attorney on the speaker phone [cell phone]. I could hear my dad talking to the attorney and I could hear the attorney. I did talk to the attorney too."

"On line 19, [the] "Committee's Decision" is based on the following information:
Based upon the written report and also in the UDC listening to the recording, the inmate did not ask his father to place a 3rd party call, but once the father placed the 3rd party call the inmate participated in a 3rd party call by communicating directly with the attorney in this phone call.

"On line 20, Committee Action: Recommend[ation was] removal from K-Unit in Step Down Program in J-Unit of Step Down Program [in other words, David was to spend another year in solitary confinement. It was signed by UDC Chairman K Fluck and Member Wilma Haygood."

This so-called UCD Committee Report investigation they held in the hallway outside David's solitary cell. Fluck and Haygood commented to David: "You and your father are stupid." The result of this episode was that for another year they would move David to a SuperMax Control Unit with fewer phone privileges, to be chained hands and feet even when taken to the 10 minute shower during the one remaining hour of solitary confinement of each 24 hours.

Of interest, David learned that Fox News aired an episode (July 31, 2007) where high profile inmates at ADX were playing bingo. This reminds me of the Nazi propaganda during World War II where the Jews were set up in a fake city for the world to see how humanely they treated their captives–then afterwards took them to the gas chambers. Good press is important to the Administrators of BOP facilities. So, is BOP’s ADX, in fact, as they claim, "encouraging inmates to participate in a range of programs that have been proven to reduce recidivism and to help offenders to become law abiding citizens?"