TUESDAY! Call for Maliki Shakur Latine!

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CALL FOR MALIKI SHAKUR LATINE!   END MEDICAL NEGLECT!

* Black Panther * Community Activist * Muslim * Prison Organizer * 
Prisoner of War

TUESDAY DECEMBER 16th, 10AM - 3PM EST

Demand from state officials,
In regard to inmate Maliki Latine #81-A-4469
at Great Meadow Correctional Facility,

1) Maliki Latine’s diet must be corrected immediately. He is not 
diabetic but he has life-long multiple food allergies which require a
 very specific diet as documented and mandated by the doctors in NY 
State Department of Corrections since 1983. I am deeply concerned 
about his health at this time.

2) It is essential that your office speak to Mr. Latine personally 
about this matter as soon as possible and that you do everything 
within your power to expedite his pending transfer to a facility 
equipped to handle his needs.

518-474-8390       NY Governor David Paterson

518-457-7072  NY DOCS Deputy Commissioner/Chief Medical Officer, Dr. 
Lester Wright

Maliki Shakur Latine- 81-A-4469 - has long-standing dietary needs 
that have been well-documented by doctors, medical staff, Department 
of Corrections officers, and a multitude of concerned outside 
observers since 1983.  The sustained incapacity of Great Meadows to 
provide a humane and healthy diet for Mr. Latine, who is highly 
allergic to many common foods, is troubling. Mr. Latine has recently 
been designated for a medium-security prison. I ask that his transfer
 to a different facility be expedited.  While I trust this
information  is in good hands, and proper, humane action will be
taken by you  accordingly, this is also being voiced to other
offices, so that I  can be sure that Mr. Latine's maltreatment will
be rectified by an  immediate transfer to a facility where he can
prepare his own food  with a careful eye to his own legitimate and
well-documented health  needs.

Who is Maliki Shakur Latine?
Maliki Shakur Latine is a Bronx-born community activist who has 
served in organizations such as the Nation of Islam and the Black 
Panther Party. Latine was driven underground by repeated arrests and 
FBI repression, including the infamous Panther 21 frame-up, until 
charged with wounding a police officer in a Harlem shoot-out. Latine 
is currently serving 25-to-life as a Prisoner of War in Great Meadow 
Correctional Facility where he serves as Secretary of the Inmate 
Liaison Committee and helps to represent the concerns of prisoners to
 the administration. His role in raising concerns as well as in 
helping to plan a Family Day helped to land him  in Segregated 
Housing Unit (SHU) where he is on a harmful and inappropriate diet 
pending a transfer to a Medium security facility.

Read more at http://www.abcf.net/prisoners/latine.htm

Background on the dietary needs and negligence. . .

Mr. Maliki Latine has been put on a “Controlled B” limited-
carbohydrate diet requested on August 26, 2008. This particular 
therapeutic diet would be appropriate for a patient with diabetes but
 it is inappropriate and harmful for Latine who does not have
diabetes  but rather, multiple food allergies. In efforts to address
this  problem, Mr. Latine has complained to medical staff,
“sick-call”  nurse, and filed three grievances with no response .
Latine has a  life-long history  of allergic urticaria associated
with various  foods (high titers of IgE antibodies against foods).

He is allergic to
peas, peanuts, beans, soybeans, lettuce, cucumber, carrots, cabbage, 
tomatoes, oranges, peaches, strawberries, black pepper, mustard, 
wheat, pork, and coffee.

Numerous doctors working in NY Department of Corrections have 
recommended that these foods be avoided, that a special meal plan be 
followed, that Latine receive vitamin supplements, and that he  be 
allowed to prepare his own food. His restrictive diet has included 
Ensure supplements, goats’ milk, tuna, rice, potatoes, and bananas. 
This diet was instituted successfully at Clinton Correctional 
Facility by allowing Mr. Latine to prepare his own food under the 
instruction of Food Service Administrator John T McCloud. A facility 
such as Downstate or Sing Sing should be able to accommodate Mr. 
Latine’s needs without a problem.

Mr. Latine’s dietary needs have been documented in the following 
correspondences available upon request if not on file in your office:

December 19, 1983 recommendation to Clinton Correctional Facility by 
Dr. James A Phills / August 26, 1986 memorandum to Auburn 
Correctional Facility by Dr. Raymond Broadus/ July 15, 1993 NY DOCS 
Therapeutic Diet Order Form by Dr. Recht/ July 17, 1993 Memorandum to
 Clinton Correctional Facility  from John T McCloud, Food Service 
Administrator/ February 16, 1999 Clinton Correctional Facility 
Allergy Evaluation by Dr. Jocelyn Celestin/ August 2, 2000 Clinton 
Correctional Facility Interdepartmental Communication by John T 
McCloud, Food Service Administrator/ September 28, 2001 and November 
20, 2001 Interdepartmental Communications to Great Meadow 
Correctional Facility by Dr. Albert Paolano/ November 29, 2001 Letter
 to Mr. Maliki Latine from Lucien J Leclaire Jr, Deputy
Commissioner,  NY DOCS

In Solidarity,
NYC ABCF
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