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My name is Christopher Trotter, and I'm a political prisoner held inside the belly of the beast at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. I came into the prison system with a four-year sentence for theft. And with just three months to go, I was involved in a prison uprising. As a result of my participation- as a result of my participation in the prison up- riot, I received a multitude of charges ranging from attempted murder, criminal confinement, and rioting. All because I came to the defense of a prisoner that was being beaten savagely by racist prison guards while he was hand-cuffed and shackled. I went to trial, which was nothing more than a political lynching. And the jury was prevented for hearing the whole truth. Ultimately, I was found guilty and sentenced to 142 years. And no one was killed in the riot! My life was basically over. It was like they had given me a slow death sentence. Then I was placed in isolation. In a windowless cell. And I spent 20 years there because of my participation in the priso