got-tridag pathicity Because you need to get stuff done! ‘Monday, November 17, 2014 Prison Author Under Fire Federal Bureau of Prisons Retaliates Against Christopher Zoukis (ver the past month Federal Bureau of Prison officials at the Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg, have issued incarcerated author Christopher Zoukis a series of incident reports in a seeming attempt to sensor his critique ofthe prison sysiem. All ofthese disciplinary actions came on the heels ofthe release of his latest | book - College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons (McFarland, 2014) —in What some ate calling systematic retaliation, ‘The allegations have all come in the vein of him allegedly conducting a business. The incident reports were all issued by members ofthe Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg’ Special Investigative Advisor Department, the investigatory component ofthe Federal Bureau of Prisons. Specifically, they were issued by department head SIA J. Negron and co-worker SIS technician A. Holderield, ‘The allegations at hand are that Mr. Zoukis is allegedly operating three distinct businesses: ‘+ publishing uncompensated articles at on a popular news media blog and inquiring about their aumber of Facebook likes ‘+ sending a single letter in which he attempted to obtain the rights to an out of print prison preparation manual, in an effort to update it and publicize it online for free, so tha it could continue to help soon to be fre prisoners and their families ‘+ having a personal bank account outside of prison and asking 2 friend to use funds from itto obtain his eredit report in an effort to prepare for his release Many of Mr. Zoukis’ supporters are viewing the current disciplinary actions as @ continuation of those that occurred two years ago. In 2012, the same SIS department led a campaign of retaliation against Mr. Zoukis following the release of his frst book Fiducation Behind Bars: A Win-Win Strategy for Maximum Security (Sunbury Press, 2012), Then, three separate incident reports —all of which concerned alleged ‘business activity — were issued and Mr. Zoukis was remanded o solitary confinement for five months. SIS technician P. Vaughan led the effort atthe time. After months of appeals, which were coordinated by sttomeys, Alan Ellis and Todd Bussert, all ofthe incident reports were overturned and Mr. Zoukis" record was expunged. AAs it currently stands, Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg actors ~ namely Unit Manager Angela Tomlinson — have held two disciplinary proceedings in which Mr. Zoukis was not permitted to call any witnesses, present any evidence, or even make a statement on his ‘own behalf. He was summarily sanctioned to the lass of visitation, email, and commissary, This week it is anticipated that Mr. Zoukis will be seen by his Unit Disciplinary Committe and the case will be referred to Disciplinary Hearing Officer W. Bennet. Zoukis is hopeful the ‘outcome will not include confinement to the Federal Correctional Institution Petersburg Special Housing Unit 300 ‘To book an interview contact Rachel Sentes, Publicist 604-366-7846 rachel@gal-fridavpublicty com Bio of Christopher Zoukis Cristopher Zoukis is the author of Education Behind Bars (Sunbury Press, 2012), the Directory of Federal Prisons(Middle Street Publishing, 2014), College for Conviets (MeFarland and Company, 2015). Mr. Zoukis is regularly called upon to write articles and be the subject of interviews for national and specialized criminal law outlets. Hes aregular contributing writer at Prison Legal News, Blog Crities, and AND Magazine, and has been published by The Kansas City ‘Star, Sacramento Bee, Midwest Book Review, among other national, regional, and specially publications. He's the recipient of two PEN ‘American Center Prison Writing Awards, Mr. Zoukis is often quoted on matters concerning prison law, criminal law, prisoners rights, and prison education. Recently, he was the focus of an article at Salon.com concerning America’s broken criminal justice system and potential solutions fo the current crisis of over incarceration, and recidivism. ‘When not in the thick ofthe battle for prison reform, prison education, or prisoners’ rights advocacy, Mr. Zouk can be found blogging on popular news blogs including hrip/orisoneducation.com and hitp/prisonlawblog.com, ‘You can also visit his website a htn:/iwww.christopherzoukis.com! egal-friday publicity #308- 1114 Howie Avenue Coquitism, B.C Val V1 ‘This email was created and delivered using Industry Mailout