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    Carlos A. Sanders aka Siddique Abdullah Hasan - Ohio Death Row


    Robert Vallandingham





    Summary of Offense:

    During the riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility ("Lucasville"), Sanders murdered prison guard, 40-year-old Robert Vallandingham. Sanders was the leader of the Muslims at the prison, who along with other prison inmates, held prison guards and inmates hostage. On April 15, 1993, Sanders, Jason Robb, who was the leader of the prison's Aryan Brotherhood, and James Were, another inmate, ordered inmates to strangle Mr. Vallandingham to death with a cord and baseball bat. At the time, Sanders was serving a sentence for aggravated robbery. Robb and Were also received a death sentence for the aggravated murder of Mr. Vallandingham.

    For more on Robb, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...ght=jason+robb
    For more on Were, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...Ohio-Death-Row

    Also sentenced to death for murders committed during the riot were Keith LaMar and George Skatzes.

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    Death-Row Inmates Go On Hunger Strike Over Conditions

    3 Ohio inmates sentenced to death have begun a hunger strike to press for less restrictive prison conditions.

    Carlos Sanders and Keith Lamar stopped taking meals Monday at the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown and Jason Robb joined the protest Tuesday. They are taking water and coffee.

    Prison spokesman Brian Niceswanger said Thursday that medical staff was monitoring the inmates' conditions and that forced-feeding might be considered, depending on their health.

    The 3 want transfers to less restrictive units allowing them contact visits with relatives and giving them more access to materials for their appeals.

    The 3 are under death sentences for killings during the 1993 Lucasville prison uprising that left 1 guard and 9 inmates dead.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    According to Denis O’Hearn of San Franciso Bay View National Black Newspaper, Sanders has started eating again.

    http://sfbayview.com/2011/a-great-ra...nger-strikers/

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    Judge permits condemned Ohio prison riot killer to request evidence that could exonerate him

    A federal judge is allowing an Ohio inmate sentenced to die for ordering a guard's killing during 1993 prison riots to request evidence the inmate claims could exonerate him.

    Death row inmate Carlos Sanders was convicted of Robert Vallandingham's slaying during the riots in Lucasville that also killed eight inmates.

    The 48-year-old Sanders maintain a leader of the Black Gangster Disciples and two other prisoners killed Vallandingham and that affidavits and statements from other Lucasville inmates back this up.

    U.S. District Court Judge Susan Dlott (duh-LOT') said her order Thursday didn't determine that Sanders is innocent, only that evidence suggests his claim is serious enough to allow him to obtain the evidence.

    The state says the inmate affidavits lack credibility and there's no proof other evidence could exonerate Sanders.

    http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...io-Lucasville/

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    3 convicted in historic Lucasville prison riot in Ohio launch hunger strike for media access

    Three of five Ohio inmates sentenced to death for an historic prison riot plan a hunger strike starting on the uprising’s 20th anniversary Thursday to protest the state’s refusal to allow them sit-down media interviews on their cases.

    The state has had two decades to tell its side of the story and the inmates known as the Lucasville Five should have their chance, Siddique Abdullah Hasan said in an exclusive telephone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday.

    “We have been suffering very torturous conditions for two decades,” said Hasan, formerly Carlos Sanders. “We have never been given the opportunity completely to speak about our cases, to speak to the media — because the media has an enormous amount of power. They can get our message out to the court of public opinion.”

    Twelve staff members were taken hostage on April 11, 1993, Easter Sunday, when inmates overtook the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. Hasan was convicted for helping plan the murder of Corrections Officer Robert Vallandingham, among 10 who died during the 11-day uprising, the longest deadly prison riot in U.S. history. Hasan denies he was involved in planning or carrying out the killing.

    Hasan, Keith LaMar and Jason Robb, all sentenced to death after the uprising, will take their last meals Wednesday evening ahead of their protest at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown, Hasan said. Also participating will be Gregory Curry, a participant in the rebellion sentenced to life in prison.

    James Were, another of the Lucasville Five, is diabetic and will not take part. The fifth man sentenced to death after the riot, George Skatzes, is at a different prison in Chillicothe.

    Hunger strikes have been periodic among high-security prisoners in recent years. Some 12,000 prisoners in California went without food for about three weeks twice in 2011, winning a new process for leaving indefinite solitary confinement.

    Hasan, LaMar and Robb staged a short hunger protest in 2011 that resulted in access to full contact visits with their families. Hour-long phone calls, like Wednesday’s with the AP, were also permitted after that protest, Hasan said. LaMar used that access to speak about the riot to a recent gathering at Youngstown State University.

    Factors considered when deciding whether an inmate can be interviewed include the nature of the case, his behavior while in prison, the safety of the facility, and potential impact on staff and victims, said JoEllen Smith, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

    The department denied an AP request for sit-down interviews ahead of Thursday’s anniversary.

    Among the department’s concerns have been that the five would bring up prison conditions such as overcrowding that led to the 1993 riot or try to elicit sympathy for being held in super-maximum security, Hasan said.

    “I’m not concerned about overcrowdedness. It doesn’t affect me because I’m always going to be isolated,” Hasan said. “They said they didn’t want us to talk about indefinite confinement in a super-max prison. I could care less about that. I’m not trying to make prison a paradise for myself. I’m trying to get the hell out of prison.”

    Hasan, now 50, was 10 months from his parole hearing at the time of the riot.

    He was among Muslim inmates in Lucasville who objected on religious grounds to a mandatory test for tuberculosis containing phenol alcohol. Hasan said they never envisioned their protest would reach such proportions.

    “We didn’t ever have an intention to have a full-scale rebellion, just barricade ourselves inside a pod, get the attention of Central Office to hope that we could resolve the situation amicably,” he said.

    Instead, the violent uprising involving more than 450 inmates ultimately prompted then-Gov. George Voinovich to call in the National Guard. Vallandingham was murdered on the fourth day of the standoff after inmates’ threats they would kill a hostage if certain demands weren’t met.

    Hasan said he became involved in negotiations after Vallandingham’s death, in his role as prayer leader for the Muslim inmates, after several representatives were appointed and talks faltered.

    In contradiction to accounts provided by the state, Hasan claims that inmates never got together and decided a guard should be murdered.

    “Prior to the guard’s murder, there was not any discussion for a guard to be killed. There was never a vote,” he said. “The prosecutor sold that line to the jury and they swallowed the hook, the line and the sink.”

    He said the Lucasville Five are uniquely classified to deny them in-person media interviews and other privileges that fellow death row inmates earn through good behavior.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...695_story.html
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    An interview with a Lucasville riot leader about the notorious events of 1993

    Twenty years ago, what would become the longest deadly prison uprising in U.S. history was just beginning at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

    Four inmates involved in that riot are on a hunger strike to protest a lack of access to reporters. Siddique Abdullah Hasan is one of them.

    In 1993, he was Carlos Sanders, and he was sentenced to death for killing 40-year-old corrections officer Robert Vallandingham on the fourth day of the riot. Hasan is on death row at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown.

    He and some other inmates do have access to a phone for an hour a day – and he called Karen Kasler at the Statehouse News Bureau to talk about what the inmates hope to gain through their hunger strike.

    (Audio interview found here)

    The Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections has never allowed Hasan and four other inmates involved in the Lucasville riot to do official media interviews. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections says there are a number of reasons why, including behavior and security concerns.

    http://www.wksu.org/news/story/35240
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    2 convicted in OH prison riot end hunger strike

    An inmate sentenced to death for his role in a historic Ohio prison riot and a fellow prisoner ended a nearly one-month hunger strike this week without winning the direct media access they sought.

    Through a spokesman, Siddique Abdullah Hasan said he and Gregory Curry ended a protest Monday that began April 11, on the 20th anniversary of the deadly Lucasville uprising. Hasan was sentenced to death, Curry to life for their roles in the riot.

    The two were the last of several original participants in the protest to resume taking meals at the Ohio State Penitentiary, the Ohio Department of Rehabiltation and Correction said. Three of the so-called Lucasville Five sentenced to death for their roles in the 11-day uprising took part, the two others for a shorter period.

    The 1993 rebellion was the longest deadly prison riot in U.S. history, leaving 10 dead, including prison guard Robert Vallandingham.

    Hasan, formerly Carlos Sanders, said in a statement that the strike drew attention to his constitutional concerns over being denied on-camera interviews.

    "While both death row and non-death row prisoners in Ohio are granted on-camera access to the media, those who have been railroaded and convicted of crimes stemming from the Lucasville uprising have continuously been denied equal protection under the law," he said.

    He said Warden David Bobby bargained in good faith but top officials at the prisons department could not be swayed.

    Department spokeswoman JoEllen Smith denied recent AP requests for sit-down interviews with the Lucasville Five surrounding the riot's anniversary. She said many factors were weighed, including safety, security, the effect on staff and the nature of the case.

    Under recent policy changes, Hasan and other inmates may make telephone calls of up to an hour, including to reporters. But hunger strikers argued that in-person meetings captured on video are a more powerful way to tell their side of the story.

    Hasan said he expects litigation.

    http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/art...#ixzz2SirU1vXj
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    Ohio defends policy banning riot inmate interviews

    Allowing prisoners convicted for their role in Ohio's deadly 1993 prison riot to conduct face-to-face media interviews could give them too much "notoriety and influence" among fellow prisoners and cause problems throughout the correctional system, the state argues in a new court filing.

    The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction calls a lawsuit seeking such interviews frivolous and wants a federal judge to throw it out.

    The interviews are banned because of the state's concern "regarding safety and security and the fear that these prisoners would thereby gain a disproportionate degree of notoriety and influence among their fellow inmates," according to documents the state filed Monday in a Columbus court.

    That influence could lead "to substantial disciplinary problems that could engulf large portions of the prisons," the filing said.

    The Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sued the state in December, arguing the prison system's policy is inconsistent, especially when the backgrounds of other high-security prisoners granted access to reporters is reviewed.

    The only plausible reason for granting interviews to other prisoners while denying access to the Lucasville ones "is the desire to stifle public discussion of the 1993 Lucasville prison uprising," according to the ACLU.

    Under recent policy changes, Lucasville riot prisoners may make telephone calls of up to an hour, including to reporters. But the prisoners have argued that in-person meetings captured on video are a more powerful way to tell their side of the story.

    The ACLU lawsuit was brought on behalf of Noelle Hanrahan, director and producer of Prison Radio in Philadelphia; Christopher Hedges, an author and former New York Times reporter in Princeton, N.J.; Derrick Jones, a former Bowling Green State University professor now at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colo.; and James Ridgeway, co-editor of a website, "Solitary Watch" in Washington, D.C.

    The lawsuit was also brought on behalf of death row inmates Siddique Abdullah Hasan, George Skatzes, Keith Lamar and Jason Robb, and prisoner Gregory Curry, who is serving a life sentence for the Lucasville riots.

    http://www.the-news-leader.com/ap%20...ate-interviews
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    Man on death row punished after appearing in Netflix show ‘Captive’

    Soon after Netflix aired a documentary about one of the country’s deadliest prison uprisings, Ohio corrections revoked the email and phone privileges of a man on death row for appearing in it.

    The documentary disclosed that it did not have permission to record Siddique Abdullah Hasan at the state penitentiary in Youngstown for its first episode of “Captive,” which reenacts the 1993 Lucasville uprising — but Hasan is the one being punished. The episode aired in December and shows him talking about some of the issues leading up to the uprising. Then in February, correctional officers handed him a conduct report that said he had been in an unauthorized video.

    “You’re telling me I’m not allowed to talk about my case?” Hasan said in a phone interview with the NewsHour in February. “You got to be 14-karat crazy.”

    About a week later and after a formal hearing, the facility decided to suspend his phone and email privileges, according to his case lawyer Rick Kerger.

    A federal lawsuit claims that the incident is illustrative of the discrimination that Hasan and others have faced since they were accused by the government and convicted of being the organizers of the uprising more than 20 years ago. On Friday, lawyer Raymond Vasvari filed further details in his case at the Southern District of Ohio court about the state’s alleged attempt to silence inmates affiliated with the uprising by prohibiting on-camera and face-to-face interviews.

    Lucasville but have the same security clearance have not. Even though they are allowed to write and talk on the phone to media, prohibiting video and in-person interviews is a tool to block investigations into what exactly happened during the uprising, Vasvari wrote in the filing.

    “Permitting face-to-face media access,” Vasvari wrote in Friday’s response to the defendants, “would facilitate the search for truth, in the best traditions of the First Amendment.”

    The Ohio attorney general’s office maintains that it restricts Hasan because he “uses media access to encourage support, both internally and externally, for organized group disturbances,” and to “justify his own actions.”

    “Not surprisingly, [corrections] policies prevent inmates intent on disrupting orderly operations from obtaining on-camera interviews,” the defense contests.

    It also claims that allowing Hasan and others to appear on TV could exacerbate trauma felt by the 19 state-registered victims – those who were harmed as well as their friends and relatives.

    Vasvari says both those arguments support his: that Hasan and others are being denied media access based on what they might say, which constitutes discrimination.

    “It’s content-based,” he said. “You can’t moderate among potential speakers based on the content or the expected content of what they’re going to say.”

    Hasan said the woman who taped him was approved for his visitation list by corrections. They talked through the prison’s video messaging system. She made it clear to him that she was interviewing him about the uprising for a documentary, but he did not see a camera or know the conversation was filmed, he said.

    “You can’t hold me responsible for something I didn’t do myself,” he said. “Y’all trying to excommunicate me.”

    About 10 minutes into the episode, right before it introduces Hasan and he starts talking about the tuberculosis test, an on-screen disclaimer reads, “Permission to film them was denied.”

    The woman who taped it deferred the NewsHour to a “Captive” spokesperson, who wrote in an email, “the commentary makes clear that the prison authorities did not authorise interviews.”

    An Ohio corrections spokesperson echoed the sentiment in an email saying that, “This interview was conducted unofficially using the prison video-visitation system. Recording the video visit is a violation of the visitation policy.”

    Neither provided further comment or responded to questions about whether the producers of the documentary had been contacted by corrections.

    Vasvario said the state has two weeks to respond to his filing.

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/...tflix-captive/
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