FL DR Prisoner Gregory Mills Report of Abuses

[CCADP]

GREGORY MILLS (FL death row) report to Kay Lee :

BACK AT FSP
Some things never change.
MILLS, GREGORY L 747233 BLACK MALE 01/20/2007 UNION C. I. 10/06/1970


Gregory Mills-- Feb 11, 2005

Dear counselor Lee,

This is an emergency letter and I am praying that it reaches your location the way I am addressing the envelope.

James V. Crosby had me seeing an illusion that almost cost me my life on Feb. 7, 2005, while standing at my cell window looking outside. At this time I was housed on C-wing (1215s).

Lt. Oscar E. Pearce approached my cell with the nurse to give me my medication. Lt Pearce verbally attacked me saying "Every time I come to your cell, you are always yelling out your door and window." So I told Lt. Pearce if he and his crooked administration wouldn't have lied on me in the first place I wouldn't be on disciplinary confinement. This made him very angry and he threatened to spray me with chemical agent. So he walked away from my cell and continued to make rounds with the nurse.

About three minutes went by and then the wing supervisor came to my cell. Sgt. John Bell, whom I have had problems with before, started selling me out. He called me "pussyboy, f*ck boy", and even let the "nigger" word come out. I responded negatively and traded words with him. He told me that the gas was coming so get ready for it, and he walked away from my cell.

He returned with another officer whose name I didn't get because he wasn't wearing an ID card. So they kicked my cell door and talked trash to me. This went on for about ten minutes before Capt. William C. Muse approached my cell. He didn't say one word to me; he was letting the security camera system on the wing see him at my cell door, then he walked away.

A few minutes later Lt. Pearce etc. came back and sprayed me through the food flap. They returned about five minutes later to juice me up again. After a while Capt. Muse came again to my cell door and didn't say a word to me. The next thing I know my cell door opened and the cell extraction team ran into the cell. I picked up my mattress and rushed the officer with the shield and the fight was on from there. They finally brought me down to the ground and placed me in handcuffs and leg irons. I was then taken to medical. Before this though, one of the cell extraction team members threw a blow using his palm bone, trying to push my nose bone up my skull, but I snatched my head away from it and it caught me in my top lip.

When I exited C-wing they had two nurses and a stretcher waiting outside the wing. That's when I realized how close to death I had just come, once I made it to medical and the nurse checked me out. They took me straight to Q-wing and guess what cell I was placed in, Frank Valdez' cell that he was murdered in (Q2202), and that adds up to the mark of the beast.

Do you think James V. Crosby and his klan comrades are so mad with me for writing the truth about the racial abuse and discrimination within the Fla. DOC, that they are ready to kill me? The first amendment right under United States constitution gives me the right of freedom of speech. I have only used my ink pen and paper to express the abuse that I faced and continue to face while incarcerated.

I was ten months clean from April 2004 til January 2005 and the state classification officer gave me a 90 day review. I was one week from going up for close management review and this administration sent a black officer to write me a 9-1. He straight up lied on me. They knew if he wouldn't written me any other disciplinary report I still could have made close management two, but not with the most hated Dr. on record.

Now counselor Lee, I find myself in a rough position because James Crosby has put some African-Americans in control of the colonel office and asst. warden of operation but I still find myself being a target of my enemies' abusive games physically and mentally. Counselor Lee, I need you to send this letter to anybody that will listen to my cry for assistance because I do not know who to trust and there is another story that will blow your mind. Keep me within your prayers and I will do the same for you and your loved ones. Stay and angel and thank you for caring about us inmates.

Sincerely yours,
Gregory Mills

PS: The captain position must be changed at this prison. The ones that are here have been in this position for a number of years now have many old uses of force that are very abusive. They still have that old Crosby mentality and don't mind breaking the rules.... Make sure you send these letters to the new United States attorney general, Albert Gonzales, for Frank Valdez.

Gregory Mills-- Feb. 13, 2005

Dear counselor Lee,

On Feb 8, 2005 at approximately 8:05pm I was attacked on the most secure wing in this prison. Yes, I am talking about Q-wing where this type of assault is not supposed to happen because of the audio recording and video security.

But on the above date Sgt. T. Rhue, wing supervisor, and Officer William Shirrmacher came to my cell Q2202 for a shave. So I came out of my cell and walked out to the front where they do the shave. Once the barber started shaving me Officer Schirrmacher started putting me down out of nowhere. He stated that this is a new crew on Q-wing and things are ran differently and if I don't com out for shaves and showers once a week they will run the cell extraction team on me.

Finally I responded to his verbal attack and told him I was tired of him and his homosexual buddies trying to put me down. He ordered me to sit down and receive a haircut. I was so mad about his out of nowhere harrassment that I refused to get a haircut. At this point Officer Shirrmacher ordered me to return to my cell. As we entered the wing we exchanged a few more harsh words between each other.

Gregory Mills Returned to FSP
(This information was current as of 5/1/05)


As I entered my cell (q2202) and walked over to the food flap opening so the handcuffs could be removed Sgt.Rhue secured the cell door. At this point Officer Shirrmacher(sp) took the handcuff off my right arm and I turned around to the front and gave him my arm with the handcuff. Once he grabbed the free handcuff this nasty officer snatched my arm up. My arm caught the edges of the grill that covers the bars. Five of the edges cut into the top inside of my forearm leaving five long bloody cuts. When he snatched my arm I told this officer clearly that the camera was right outside and he stated that it wasn't inside here. He was referring to the catwalk outside the cell.

When Lt. McGregor arrived at my cell and he asked me what happened. I showed him my arm and told him that the officer had assaulted me. He asked me who and I said the fat one because I didn't know his name at the time. He left my cell q2202 and returned a few minutes later with two nurses. The older nurse checked my arm. She asked me how it happened and I told and showed her. The nurse then took her hand and felt through the food flap opening. Then she said okay, but my wounds were never cleaned.

They wrote me two disciplinary reports for unarmed assult saying I spit on the officers butno one has said anything about officer Shirrmacher assaulting my arm. They have me on B-wing in cell B1201S on R-status and my arm is turning yellow and swollen.

This had to be a hit because it was a very bold move to attack me on Q-wing. Since this took place on the 4-12 shift capt. Seacy is the guilty party of sending it at me. This captain has a history of abuse and he is a part of James V. Crosby's crew of hit men. He doesn't care if his officers are in the wrong. This guy backs everything they do. (A minority officer cannot hold this position here at FSP and when they do move up in rank from Lt. to captain they are to be transferred away from this prison before an inmate gets out with the wrong mentality and hurts a lot of innocent people.) Even the minority officers are being oppressed by the white power organization that controls the Florida DOC.

Take care of yourself and stay beautiful!!

Sincerely,
Gregory Mills
Florida State Prison
7819 NW 228th St
Raiford, FL 32026

PS Capt. Seacy is the last Crosby hitman left here and he has a number of forces with chemical agent on these mental inmates. His record is very shocking.

[ex member]

Stories like this burn me up. I'm speechless at the moment. my heart goes out to all those in prisons who experience abuse, whether it be verbal, physical, racial or in any other form. May God watch over them.

Pam

[truth1]

It sounds horrible. However, I am hesitant to believe that this man was minding his own business when the officers "assulted" him. If you ask the officers, I am sure they would say the inmate was at fault. The truth is probably down the middle, with both sides antagonizing the other.

[jj]

Well, after what happened to Frank Valdez, I'm sure the guards feel they can do whatever they want and nothing will be done about it. I have a tendency to believe the inmate over the guards right now.

[truth1]

I don't think it is a good idea to take the words of a multiple felon at face value.

[jj]

I will take what a felon says as truth more than I would a guard. Especially the guards in Florida. As I said, do a google search on Frank Valdez and see what you find. Guards were arrested for his murder, but they were aquited because the jury couldn't decide who was the one that actually killed him.

[truth1]

Frank Valdez had a history of violence. He was housed in the "X-Wing" unit because he was out of control and extremely violent. He was there because he killed a prison guard. He had a history of fighting police and correction officers. I do not know the truth of what exactly happened; however, I think Frank got exactly what he deserved. Why feel sorry for him? This guy was the "worst of the worst". He died the same way he lived--violent.

[jj]

If you call being beaten to death while handcuffed deserving. The guards kept telling the courts he did the injuries to himself. Yet, they couldn't explain the boot prints on his body............ read up on the case..

Yes, he fought back a lot. But once a prisoner is subdued, the fighting is supposed to stop. The guards did not stop

[truth1]

He was a violent person. Even his wife said he was not nice. That is his wife! Someone that loved him! He got what he deserved.

[jj]

So tell me truth1.... you think it is right then for guards to kill someone who is already cuffed and subdued?

[jj]

Here is just one of many reports on his death.......

THE DEATH OF FRANK VALDES
by Carol Strick

Early in the morning of July 17, 1999, nine guards at Florida State Prison in Starke, Florida, entered the cell of Frank Valdes. Trying to justify their behavior, they were screaming, "Where's the knife?" Armed with stun-guns, pepper, mace, and shields, they took turns beating him and stomping on his body with their boots, crushing every bone in his body and destroying every organ.

Nobody should die like Frank did. Witnesses heard him moan like a wounded animal. They could tell, with his last breaths, that his lungs had collapsed. One prisoner, looking out from the bottom of his door, saw an unidentified object. He realized after staring at it that it was Frank's bloody head. After he was dead, they tried to clean him and up and put him on a food cart. At about 10.00 a.m., the guards passed the visiting park on the way to the medical area. Prisoners and visitors saw a corpse with his eyes rolled back. The Medical Dept. said that he didn't need medical care.

Two prisoners, one after the other, spent a day removing the blood from Frank's cell with Clorox.

Frank was a good candidate for what had taken place. He was poor, Latino, abused, and unwanted. His mother had tried to abort him and his father had little to do with him. By the time he was 15, Frank was in a youth facility. By 16, he was diagnosed as schizophrenic.

Frank was a lonely person, but he had a good heart. He could be a loyal friend even though he heard voices.

In 1987, he was released from a halfway house in Miami where he met his friend Billy. When they left the house, Frank was free and Billy was on life probation. Billy asked Frank to help him free a friend who would be traveling in a van with 2 guards from a nearby prison on the way to a cancer doctor in West Palm Beach. Frank admired Billy and agreed to help him. The two were strung out on booze and cocaine when the van appeared. According to the newspaper, they were in the parking lot of the doctor's office. One of the guards came out with the keys, pretending to open the back door. The other guard ran away. Instead of opening the door, the guard threw the keys in the bushes. Billy became enraged. The guard was shot three times and died. Both Billy and Frank were found guilty and sentenced to death.

Both men were arrested. Frank was offered a plea deal for 25 years, but he refused to testify against Billy. While he was in the county jail in West Palm Beach, awaiting sentence, guards from Florida State Prison sent him a message that they would beat him and put him on X-wing. When the media went into F.S.P. to see Frank's cell, they saw another one. The prison didn't want the media to see where Frank died.

The day before Frank's death, he spent the whole day screaming for help for the prisoners from the Hamilton, C.I. Seven Black prisoners who were accused of leading a riot at Hamilton, C. I., were brought to FSP. The prisoners were severely beaten. One prisoner, Willie Mathews, who was falsely accused of shoving a pregnant guard in the riot, was put into a burlap bag and beaten. Guards put a rope around his neck and beat him.

They put the prisoners from Hamilton in dunce caps and photographed them. They had Willie walk down the steps in his dunce cap and threatened to beat him if the hat fell off. When it did, they broke his jaw. Guards used baseball bats and batons to beat the prisoners. The guards refused medical aid for the victims. Willie was writhing in pain from his broken jaw. Frank was screaming for help. A sergeant passed and asked Willie what was going on. And threatening to call the media. "These guys are hurt," he yelled.
A month before, guards had tried to hang Frank in the bathroom with a sheet. People had called the prison and called the D.O.C. in Tallahassee to say that Frank's life was in danger. Nobody paid any attention.

A guard named Montez Lucas was working on the tier that day. He said to Frank, "Shut up or I'll get your ass." Frank kept yelling for help for the guys from Hamilton. Lucas went to the phone and called the sergeant for help. He lied that Frank had threatened to kill him. Lucas opened Frank's door and cuffed him. He entered the cell with a guard named Griffith.

At a subsequent trial against Lucas by the state, Griffith testified that after cuffing Frank, Lucas hit him in the face. Frank didn't move so he kept hitting him until he collapsed on his bed/slab. Later, after he died, guards tried to say that he killed himself by constantly jumping off his bed. The slab is attached to the floor. Griffith testified that with the last punch he heard Frank's jaw crack. He was eventually found not guilty because "it couldn't be proved exactly when the jaw was broken" (if you can believe this logic!)

A prisoner witness testified that he heard Lucas say to Griffith, "Okay, his number is up. We'll get him in the morning." The jury at Lucas' trial asked Griffith what Lucas had meant by that. He said that it meant "We'll kill him. "

Very early the next morning, the guards killed Frank. The witnesses were sent to other prisons, including prisons in California, Virginia, and Florida.

The state would like to keep the trial of the guards in this inbred town, home of 9 prisons. The guards do not want their reports of Frank's death to be used as evidence. They had taken their photos of the prisoners from Hamilton in dunce caps home, along with their log of Frank's murder. An inspector general had to go to their homes to retrieve the evidence.

Willie Mathews was eventually taken to Shands Hospital where they replaced his jaw with a steel plate. He is at Charlotte C.I. trying to get follow up treatment ordered by Shands without any luck.

Wanda Valdes, Frank's widow, was asked how much she wanted to settle the case. She wants a trial so what happened to Frank will not happen to anyone else.

If there is any purpose to the life of Frank Valdes, who, at 36 years old, was beaten to death by guards, it is that the guards who murdered him be found guilty and prison conditions at F. S. P. and everywhere be changed.

The state cannot keep making believe that cruelty, brutality, and sadism can continue under the guise of "justice."

There is no way that there can be a fair trial in Bradford County, the home of 9 prisons. Every person in the county is directly or indirectly employed by the DOC. A few nonaligned souls would be intimidated by guards to make a decision in Frank's behalf.

Was there a purpose to the life of Frank Valdes? He will not have died in vain if the guards who murdered him are found guilty and conditions at Florida State Prison and all prisons change drastically.

[truth1]

I am not saying it is right--but I understand.

[CCADP]

understand WHAT? State employees murdering people they are paid to care for???

State employees becoming common murderers?

You know there is at least one guy on DR - an ex prison guard now on DR in the state where he worked. He's not very popular with the others there I here (its ok; we have a page for him!)
I guess you should be his biggest advocate then; as prison guards are allowed to engage in violence by your code.

[truth1]

Remember--I said it is NOT RIGHT. But, I do understand. You see, cops and correction officers have a brotherhood unlike any other. They really tend to take care of their own. Next time you watch cops and there is an officer down, see how long it takes to get back-up units there. Pay back may not be right, but I do understand. So, no, that is not my "code". My code is personal responsibility. If they were able to figure out which guard was responsible, then that guard should be brought to justice.

[CCADP]

"You see, cops and correction officers have a brotherhood unlike any other. They really tend to take care of their own. Next time you watch cops and there is an officer down, see how long it takes to get back-up units there. Pay back may not be right, but I do understand. " - truth1

that the same philosophy most gangs go by. If one guy is shot; his gang members will go shoot the guy who shot them. Sometimes an innocent person will even get in the way and get killed.

(hey; sounds like the whole death penalty system!)

But we need to expect just a little more from police officers and prison guards than what we hear from the mouths of violent teenage gang members.

I do appreciate your saying that a guard guilty of attacking a prisoner should be convicted of assault or murder though.