*This message was sent by Josh on 5/23/24, however the mailroom at Jefferson City Correctional Center did not release it to Missouri Prison Reform until 5/30/24.*
Tonight at 2030 hours, my cellmate Toby Gregory #296785 and I were targeted for Urine Analyses (UA). There are 72 prisoners in HU-2-D where we’re housed, only nine prisoners were selected for a UA. Its not odd that Toby and I were targeted, we just had a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 lawsuit (Judicial Challenge) against the Jefferson City Correctional Center’s Mailroom Supervisor, et. al. censored, rejected, then returned to the paralegal whom we had sent it out to to have it typewritten. The MoDOC/JCCC labeled our paralegal a drug dealer, and said that our paralegal couldn’t be verified as being a legitimate legal professional, so therefore by default our paralegal is attempting to introduce contraband into the institution. The MoDOC was provided notice that the lawsuit paperwork was being sent back in after being typewritten, so when the envelope containing said lawsuit paperwork arrived, the Mailroom already knew what it was. When the Mailroom was questioned about the whereabouts of this lawsuit paperwork from a loved one calling on our behalf, the Mailroom denied having any knowledge of it’s existence although Toby received a rejection of mail notice that same night through institutional mail. The Mailroom generated the rejection of mail notice but yet they had no knowledge of the mail even existing that they had rejected.
Since the UA isn’t going to work as a deterrent given as we can provide negative samples at anytime, what are they going to try next? Bogus investigations, transfers, free case, will they use prisoners to carry out their dirty work? It wouldn’t be the first time, I have firsthand knowledge of that being done.
I could go on for hours about how the policy that the Mailroom operates under is illegal and all of the different ways that the MoDOC has tried to silence us, but I’ll save that for later. Retaliation is the causation for the lawsuit, and now JCCC is stepping up their retaliation campaign by not just hindering our access to the courts but actually stopping our access, labelling our paralegal a drug dealer and then targeting us for UAs in an attempt to justify placing us in segregation even knowing that neither one of us have ever used drugs even once in our lives.
Submitted by,
Joshua Maylee #1258314
