Vol. 71/No. 42      November 12, 2007

Ivory soap (4.5 oz. bar) is listed at a rate of $0.80 each. However, the most recent order, filled on Sept. 4, 2007, exhibited a price increase to $1.80 each without prior notification or recourse.

Inmates are provided with only bare minimum of personal hygiene items by the state, but the soap, one bar each week, is too caustic for most skin types.

I refuse to sit on my hands and allow this company to prey upon the weak, myself included, without so much as a mention.

A prisoner
Pearl, Mississippi

Vernon Bellecourt
Vernon Bellecourt (Wabun-Inini) died October 13. Note should be taken of the energy with which he led the American Indian Movement and sought to win worldwide recognition of this struggle.

During the 1980s, Bellecourt defended the Nicaraguan Revolution and solidarized with the Palestinian and Irish struggles. Bellecourt campaigned for political rights and civil liberties, particularly in the case of Native American prisoners in U.S. jails, like frame-up victim Leonard Peletier, who is still in prison. He was in the forefront of trying to get sports teams to drop their racist names and insignias.

David Salner
Frederick, Maryland

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