FIVE-Day HUNGER Vigil and Rallies to Demand Justice FOR SAM HARRELL

April 21 will mark one year since Sam was beaten to death at the Fishkill prison in Beacon, NY.

Sam was a beloved husband, brother, uncle, and friend to many who live in Kingston, NY. He was diagnosed bipolar and was serving time in Fishkill prison on a drug charge. The week of April 21, 2015 he was released from two weeks in solitary confinement, had not been given his proper meds, and had an episode where he believed his family was coming to get him and prepared to leave. As many as 20 COs handcuffed him, beat him, shouted racial slurs, and threw him down a flight of stairs.

A year later those COs are still on the job and nothing has been done to prevent anything like this from happening again.

To honor Sam and support critical changes in the prison, ten members of Sam’s

family plus more than a dozen friends and supporters, including Soffiyah Elijah, one of the nation’s most important voices in prison reform, will be fasting for five days, starting on the year anniversary, April 21.

Join Us!!!

NYC Commemoration Ceremony &

Final Day of the Hunger Strike

The Harrell Family
Senator Bill Perkins Truthworker Theater Company

Monday, 4/25, 4-6

The plaza in front of the State Office Building, 125th and Adam Clayton Powell

Soffiyah Elijah of the Correctional Association

Hip Hop Artists Mister Five and Mysonne Poet Tiffany Van Dyke Rabbi David Ingber and more…

Please share the FB event page: beaconprisonaction.org/nyc For more information: [email protected]