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First off, I like to give my appreciation to those on the outside for the doing what you do to help us prisoners, however little or big. But to introduce myself, my name's James Ward, but everybody calls me J. I'm 29 years old, and I've been locked up since I was 15, unjustly tried as an adult. And since I've been in here, I've been through many struggles and hardships, with hardly any real outside help, besides a few recent friends. I've been beat on by guards, put in solitary confinement for things I didn't do, and forced to pay debts I can't pay. I was also an active participant in the 2018 National Prison Strike. On June 14th, 2018 five COs in SWAT style uniform came in my cell and beat on me, dislocating my left shoulder. Then I was refused medical treatment that was ordered by the outside hospital. I put in a lawsuit concerning all that was involved and as a result, I was beat on again, several months later. On February 22nd, 2019, while in the infirmary on a hunger strike, protesting my issues, three C