NEW HELL HOLE NEWS
JUNE 3, 2009
New Hell Hole News - #12 STEP ONE GRIEVANCE FILED 06.03.09 State Grievance: This is an eighth amendment complaint implicating the first, fourth, fifth, sixth and fourteen amendments. For 13 + years I’ve been subject to near constant, incessant abuse at the hands of state officials including but not limited to: Being held in conditions of confinement which are substandard to the point of being torturous; being subjected to punitive level II and III placement on spurious or contrived basis for 13 + years; subjected to sensory, sleep, spiritual and other deprivations; locked in a solitary confinement cell with no electricity, water or ventilation where the temperature reached 127° F and I lost consciousness and had to be revived by medical after becoming dehydrated to the point of being crusted with salt; infected with a deadly disease (Hepatitis C) intentionally by a TDCJ officer then denied treatment for it for over 6 years until I won a suit in federal court for treatment; physical and mental abuse which has left me with permanent scarring and debilities; subjected to constant retaliation over my writings and civil activism to include assaults, confiscation of my personal and legal property including books and my family photo album; having my hands stomped until they broke and split by sort team members; being housed improperly in the midst of mentally ill prisoners; being subjected to denial of life’s basic necessities, to include food, love, clothing and shelter and human/social companionship and fellowship; having my thermal clothing confiscated in middle of winter, denied access to soap and toilet paper, towels, etc; being held up and subjected to public ridicule in the media, on false and embellished allegations and likewise my wife, who was taken off my visit list and placed on negative mail list, over spurious and specious allegations; having my mail denied/interdicted on false pretenses; subjected to interference by state officials in my access to courts, counsel, officials and grievance procedure; subjected to poisonous and noxious chemical agents which blind, choke and gag me, burn my skin, when I’ve done nothing wrong nor anything to warrant it; subjected to repeated retaliatory shakedowns/cell searches over 33 times in less than 30 days where officers confiscated my stamps, pens, clothes, books and food. Scher vs Engelke, 943F2d 921; Hudson vs Palmer, 468 U. S. 517; Allen vs Thomas 388 F3d 147; Rhodes vs Robinson, 408F3d 559;Abu-Jamal vs Price 154 F3d 128. Also denial of medication for life threatening illness. Action requested to resolve your complaint: Wardens Simmons, Hirsch, Lester and Major Smith, Captain Bryant, property officer Smith, the shakedown teams et al must be restrained from such practices described above; because I was sentenced only to death, not torture then death (VACCP TX Art 43.24). My death sentence must be vacated and my immediate release from these squalid conditions ordered. /s/ H W Hank Skinner June 3, 2009 999143 Polunsky Unit H W Hank Skinner 3872 FM 350 South Livingston TX 77351-8580 http://www.hankskinner.org