Skylar Williams is a 22 year-old six nations man currently facing several

skylar williams is a 22 year-old six nations man currently facing several
charges stemming from actions ocurring during the caledonia land claim
where a u.s. border patrol vehicle was raided and documents concerning
undercover police operatives were taken and distributed, and the assualt
of a television camera crew where a video tape was taken. skylar is
currently being held in the hamilton city jail (barton street jail)
without bail:

from the support committee:

Skylar Williams, a Mohawk Wolf from Six Nations has been held without bail
at the Hamilton Barton St. Jail since the illegal arrests at Stirling
Street September 19, 2007. Today we held a rally for him outside the jail
where he has been in the "hole" for two days.

We have reason to believe if Skyler is harmed in anyway, we know he is the
target of planned and deliberate threats and violence by jail institution
staff members.

A few days ago Skylar woke up to find the plumbing in his cell on range 5
was backed up. He notified institution staff on his range. He was accused
by staff of backing up the plumbing. The mess was left. Skylar asked for a
drink of water, he was told by staff to drink from the toilet. Skylar
responded, "there's sh*t" in there. The institution staff's paid
professional advise to Skylar was to "take the sh*t out and then have a
drink." Skylar refused and notified his lawyer of the situation. At this
point Skyler was without clean water for approximately 18 hours.

Skyler's lawyer then notified another institutional staff member with a
higher ranking position. The plumbing was fixed. Skyler left his cell but
at lockdown upon his return, Skyler discovered the plumbing was
mysteriously backed up again. The higher ranking institutional staff
attempted to solve the problem by moving Skyler to another cell.

After this incident Skyler was approached by an institutional staff member
and taken to a room with two other staff. At this point Skyler was told by
the one of the staff that that particular staff member referred to himself
as being "GOD" at Barton St. Jail. He then threatened Skyler by telling
him if he and his lawyer didn't stop causing sh*$ for him, he was going to
"fu*$" Skyler up. He also said he would have it arranged so Skyler's
lawyer would have no access to him.

This staff member went on to inform Skyler of his plan to "fu*$" him up.
(There were 2 other staff present when this threat occurred.) According to
the staff member Skyler's fate is supposed to happen in three steps...


1 Skyler would be given a "misconduct" by the institutional staff.

2 Skyler would then be sent to the "hole" for 3 days.

3 After Skyler was done in the "hole" he would immediately be sent to the
range 3 of the jail.

Range 3 is where the men who are waiting to be tried for rape, murder and
other serious crimes are held. Some of these men have already been
convicted of such crimes and are waiting to be shipped off to federal
institutions.

This is where men who have nothing left to lose are sent. In this range
the inmates do special favours for the institutional staff for as little
as an extra meal or coffee. It's a place where you simply do not "rat" on
the institutional staff. Inmates are pitted against one another. It's also
a place where Skyler was told, there are men as big as 321 pounds that
could really "fu*$" him up. (The jail staff asked Skyler how much he
weighed just to verify Skyler /would/ be quite smaller and at greater risk
of being injured if sent to Range 3.)

Skyler was also told by the institutional staff the last guy they had
"fu*$ed" up had to crawl to the jail cell door covered in blood. Skyler
was told there were men in Range 3 "waiting" for his arrival. Skyler was
advised by this paid government employee to "quit his bitc*ing" and "to
take his lumps."

Skyler's lawyer spoke with the high ranking institutional staff and was
told by him the only thing he could do to guarantee Skyler's safety was to
put him in isolation where he would be under 24 hour video surveillance,
however Skyler would have to give up the staff members' names who were
threatening him.

Skyler's lawyer has already filed a motion for "habeus corpus" to have
Skyler physically present in court tomorrow for his bail review.

Skyler's cell mate contacted his family this morning and informed them in
the last 24 hours Skyler has been given a "MISCONDUCT" by staff and has
been placed in "the hole" for 3 days.

The instituional staff member has kept his promise to threaten Skyler's
life and safety. This staff member's plan is gone passed the first two
stages.

Something needs to be done immediately to guarantee Skyler's safety and
security. If there is interference in Skylers safety and security or if
his life is put at risk we believe it would be the direct result of
mistreatment at the discretion of institutional staff. We believe they are
abusing their authority to ensure Skyler's life and well being is put at
risk. We believe their attempts at intimidating Skyler are deliberate and
being somewhat overlooked by senior institutional staff.

Let's hope Skyler will gets out of Barton St. Jail safely with his life.

Donations for Skyler's legal defense can be sent to:

BMO Ohsweken Branch Transit # 37522
Legal Fund 3014-873 and Site Fund 3014-929

Signatories are Josephine Sandy, Donna Powless and Janie Jamieson

Cheques can be made payable to either the Six Nations Reclamation Legal
Fund or the Six Nations Reclamation Site Fund:

c/o Janie Jamieson
RR#1
Ohsweken , ON.
N0A 1M0


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