Rand argues that his conviction should be vacated because all state courts in Michigan were deprived of jurisdiction entirely when the state boundaries were omitted from the Michigan Constitution of 1963.
With the advent of the opioid and opiate crisis in America, Suboxone in the form of sublingual film, i.e. “strips”, has apparently become one of the tactical weapons used by prison administrators to maintain control inside prisons across the country.
I’m presenting you with seven strategies which, if effectively and aggressively carried out, are well within reach in Michigan, based on the rapidly evolving situation which has engendered the collapse of its school systems and roads, brought about in part by the massive expenditure of $2 billion a year on its state prison system, give or take a few millions.
Re: Open Letter on: HB 4129, HB 4130, HB 4131, and HB 4132; Repeal of Disciplinary Time; and Gus Harrison C.F.
Rand has been transferred to Central Michigan Correctional Facility. He says that despite the transfer process being disruptive, it’s a better facility than Gus Harrison. If you want to write him, his new address is: Rand W. Gould C-187131Central Michigan Correctional Facility (STF)320 N. Hubbard St. Louis, MI 48880
Ever since Michigan prisoners finally figured out that Truth-In-Sentencing (TIS) was not so truthful and, in reality, was enacted as “disciplinary time” which meant those sentenced for crimes committed after December 15, 1998 would serve their entire minimum before becoming eligible for a shot at parole, rumors have circulated among them that a new
In January of this year Rand had his request for parole denied by the Michigan Parole Board. He is asking his supporters to read the letter below and then to email the parole board and Anthony King as soon as possible urging them to reverse their decision.
This article, from March 2019, details the death of Brian Rodriguez at Harrison CF when medical staff wouldn’t treat his heart attack. Rand also writes about the fake flu quarantine that they imposed in the wake of this case of medical neglect.
Download a PDF of “Inside Michigan Prisons” Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden: As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been
“[M]easures devised and executed with a view to ally and diminish the anti-slavery agitation, have only served to increase, intensify, and embolden that agitation.” -Frederick Douglass Back in April 2010, I wrote the article, “Your Right Not to Work in Michigan’s Prisons” where I pointed out state criminal statutes did not include a sentence
