Within days of winning a federal court case in Colorado against his treatment at the hands of the Federal Bureau of Prisons staff, Eric is in the process of being transferred to USP Lee, a high security prison across the country in Virginia. Eric, who is eligible for placement at a medium security facility, reasonably fears that this move to Lee is punitive and that once he’s at Lee, he will lose all ability to communicate with loved ones and acess to reading materials.
Eric King needs our help!
Elements in the BOP have already shown their petty desire for vengeance against Eric through multiple instances of him being moved across the country, pitting him against racist white supremacist prisoners, being beaten by guards and suffering years of bans on mail, phone, visitation and books. During the trial, Eric’s safety and health were disrupted, and property for his case destroyed by BOP staff so blatantly that Judge Martinez noted how it would be far reaching to say the disruptiveness wasn’t intentional on the part of the BOP. The judge also noted that the BOP was “setting itself up for a civil suit”, which is currently underway by the CLDC.
In the meantime, Eric needs our help. As Eric isn’t set for release until December of 2023, we need to keep the light on him to avoid Eric being isolated and further harmed. Below you’ll find a script and contact information for public officials in the Federal system who must be pressed to check in Eric’s well being and demand to know:
- Why is Eric King, who is at a medium security level according to the BOP, being moved to a maximum security facility across the country, when Eric has had no disciplinary sanctions the last two years?
- Why is this move coming so quickly after Eric successfully won a lawsuit showing Eric acted in self defense when the BOP was closing ranks, setting Eric up for 20 years of additional prison time, as he approached a transfer and release date in 2023?
- What will you, as a public official, do to challenge the impunity of the federal prisons to persecute prisoners and violate their human rights?;
CONTACT INFORMATION
DSCC Office
Designation & Sentence Computation Center
U.S. Armed Forces Reserve Complex
346 Marine Forces Dr.
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
Email: GRA-DSC/[email protected]
Phone: 972-352-4400
Fax: 972-352-4395
Mid-Atlantic BOP Regional Office
302 Sentinel Dr,
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 301-317-3100
Fax: 301-317-3119
BOP National Office
320 First Street, NW
Washington, DC 20534
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 202-307-3198
BOP Director Michael Carvajal
Michael Carvajal
Director
Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 First St. NW
Washington, DC 20534
Email: [email protected]
USP Lee
Main public contact: [email protected]
Warden Breckon: [email protected]
Assistant Warden Streeval: [email protected]
Phone: 276-546-0150
Fax: 276-546-9115
Mailing address:
LEE COUNTY INDUSTRIAL PARK
HICKORY FLATS ROAD
PENNINGTON GAP, VA 24277
BOP Mid-Atlantic Regional Director James Petrucci
Virginia Senators to Contact (USP Lee Jurisdiction)
Tim Kaine
Email: https://www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/share-your-opinion
Twitter: @TimKaine
231 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
PHONE: (202) 224-4024
Mark. R Warner
Email: https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactPage
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkRWarner
Twitter: @MarkWarner
IG: https://www.instagram.com/senatorwarner/
703 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-2023
VA Congress
Morgan Griffith
https://morgangriffith.house.gov/contact/contactform.htm
Twitter: @RepMGriffithAbingdon
Phone: (276) 525-1405
540-381-5671
(202) 225-3861
Missouri Senators (Eric’s original sentencing district)
Josh Hawley
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/contact-senator-hawley
Office: 202-224-6154
Twitter: @HawleyMO
Roy Blunt
https://www.blunt.senate.gov/contact/contact-roy
Phone: (202) 224-5721
Twitter: @RoyBlunt
Missouri Congress and Members of House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security; Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Cori Bush
Phone: (314) 955-9980
Phone: (202) 225-2406
Twitter: @coribush
Links to find your State’s Representatives:
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Judiciary subcomittee that oversees the Bureau of Prisons and sentencing:
https://judiciary.house.gov/subcommittees/subcommittee/?SubcommitteeID=14927
DRAFT MESSAGES / TEMPLATES
To whom it may concern,
I am writing about my friend who is a prisoner in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. His name is Eric King, inmate number 27090-045. He was recently found not guilty on all counts at a trial in the U.S. District of Colorado. Eric was moved from FCI Englewood and has been told he is en route to USP Lee, a maximum security prison in Virginia.
I am writing because I believe Eric should not be sent to USP Lee, and would be in danger if he were sent there. He is scheduled to be released from prison in December 2023, and wants to avoid anything that would infringe on this release date.
There is an active threat against his life. A few years ago, before being sent to Colorado, Eric was held in the Segregation Unit at USP Lee for approximately two weeks. Before that, at USP Atlanta, a white supremacist gang member told him he would be killed at USP Lee if he was released into general population. This was documented at USP Lee. Eric was originally transferred to USP Lee under the US Marshalls after he was attacked by white supremacist gangs at USP McCreary.
It is imperative that Eric not be put in harm’s way. I am asking that you not send him into a situation that is so dangerous. The Bureau of Prisons knows this and there is established case law regarding the BOP sending someone into dangerous and life threatening scenarios. See Fitzharris v. Wolf, 702 F.2d 836, 839 (9th Cir. 1983); Gullatte v. Potts, 654 F.2d 1007, 1012-13 (5th Cir. 1981); Roba v. U.S., 604 F.2d 215, 218-19 (2d Cir. 1979).
Additionally, Eric is in this situation because of a bogus maximum management variable on his security profile. This has him erroneously being sent to a facility beyond his actual security level. He has no pending charges and no incident reports. He intends to be released to Colorado to live with his wife and his two children in just over a year. I ask that this management variable be removed so that he can be sent to a medium- or low-custody prison close to home and begin preparing for release.
I am afraid for my friend Eric’s life, and I am asking that you intervene with the Bureau of Prisons and ask them not to send Eric King into harm’s way by sending him to USP Lee.
Please help my friend.
Sincerely,
_____
If additional info helps you with conversations or if you would like some responses to BOP pushback here is some additional info
Talking points in response to questions or pushback
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) may give a response saying that Eric is a maximum custody prisoner with a vast disciplinary record, and therefore needs to be designated for imprisonment at a maximum facility to be held in segregation with his communication strictly limited.
- Per the BOP response to Colorado Senator Michael Bennett inquiry (3 separate inquiries in total)
- Eric is being held indefinitely in segregation (currently for 3 years 9 months total) because of these three things:
- “Mr. King is currently pending prosecution for assaulting a Lieutenant at FCC Colorado”
3/21/22 ERIC KING FOUND NOT GUILTY; ACQUITTED
- “Mr King is a maximum security level inmate”
- The only reason Eric is designated as a maximum security prisoner is due to the BOP giving Eric a disciplinary write-up for the incident that he was acquitted for in March 2022. The truth is when his life changed the day he was grabbed into a broom closet by the Lieutenant, he was a mere week away from his ‘case management evaluation’ where he was going to be placed in a low security prison. Even with the 3-month period of torture when the pandemic hit where he accrued a number of disciplinary infractions, he still is at a medium/almost low point level of security.
- “Inmate King has received over 20 disciplinary infractions for the past 2 years”
- In fact, Eric has not had a disciplinary infraction in almost 2 years. There was a period of time that began in March 2020 when the BOP shut down visits and began to wage war: Everyone across FCI Englewood prison and in the segregation unit was allowed to conduct their visitations over the phone due to the federal government passing the CARES Act. However, Eric was not allowed any visitation, mail, magazines, newspapers, or any news of the outside world. He found himself suddenly with no communication with his family and terrified. Through March and April 2020, the Bureau of Prisons rejected over 30 pieces of mail between him and his wife for erroneous reasons; all BOP has to do is check a box for rejection slips. Then June of 2020, BOP refused to investigate an officer that attempted to assault him, the same officer who authored most of the disciplinary write-ups, an officer that then went on to take him into the showers handcuffed and break his head open. The assault was so blatant that they couldn’t even attempt to charge Eric in their own disciplinary system. The officer that wrote the majority of Eric’s disciplinary write-ups tried to kill him in June of 2020. https://supportericking.org/2020/06/24/eric-assaulted-by-guard-at-fci-englewood/
More on the disciplinary infraction history:
Eric’s (ignored) words to the court about the abuse he was suffering:
Eric has been under communication restrictions since May of 2020. Englewood decided that the best thing to do, as soon as the pandemic hit, was cut off Eric’s phone calls, his visits and his mail. Up to his most recent communication restriction, the reasoning has been incredibly vague. We learned a lot more with the most recent one; if he’s such an “inspiring figure”, the BOP has a prison built specifically for people who they need to limit and monitor communication for: the CMU.
That is not where they are sending Eric; that is NOT what USP Lee is.