Dallas 6: Peaceful Protesters Charged with Riot in Solitary Confinement

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In April of 2010, a group of inmates at SCI Dallas prison in Pennsylvania placed bedding over their cell door windows in order to draw the attention of high-ranking administrative personnel to the abuse they were suffering at the hands of prison guards in the solitary confinement unit where they were being housed. Instead of receiving the help they sought, they were beaten, pepper-sprayed, tased in the genitals and then slapped with riot charges. The group of men are known as the Dallas 6.  On February 17, 2015, they will be fighting those charges in court and in the process present testimony describing details of their and others’ brutal treatment while in Dallas’s solitary confinement. Such mal-treatment ranges from food tampering and meal with-holding, to beatings, use of a torture chair, and death.  The trial of the Dallas 6 will represent a moment of truth and exposure about wide-spread use of solitary confinement and torture in prisons.   We call on all who believe in justice and equality to support the Dallas 6.