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So The Public Will Never Know (3:57) Dontie Mitchell

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"So That the Public Never Knows." I'm currently litigating in federal court, three civil rights lawsuits on my own because I get no help from any of these so called prison legal services, organizations that claim to stand up for the rights of prisoners. This puts me at a severe disadvantage. For one, federal judges are biased against incarcerated pro se litigants and often give us unfair rulings, but what can we do? Not only must we pay $350 just to file a civil rights lawsuit to protect and vindicate our constitutional rights. We must also pay $505 just to appeal a unfair ruling. So we incarcerated pro se litigants who are poor, we can't really afford to fight in federal court. To do so is a tremendous sacrifice for us. This is all in thanks to our- the Prisoners Litigation Reform Act signed into law by our good old pal Bill Clinton. The reason I'm mentioning this is because the New York state prison officials know how difficult it is for prisoners to expose how pervasive and widespread the abuse and mistrea