AL Qaeda in the Big House, Part 2
Jonathan King
August 22, 2005
I closed part one of this series with four questions California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Secretary Roderick Q. Hickman should be asked concerning the prison inmates at New Folsom and paroless in LA County who made up the "JIS" Islamic teror cell. The answers were not very hard to find.
1) What steps, if any, did Hickman and CDCR senior management to control the Islamist hate group prior to the arrests?
As far as i know, none.
2) Was the JIS allowed to conduct their in-prison activities using the cover of sanctioned inmate activities?
Yes. The JIS Islamo-fascists were free to recruit and organize during Muslim religious activities. They may remain so today.
We don't know [yet] if JIS had its own "inmate activity group" complete with approved community activist-advisors and staff sponsors.
3) Can Hickman produce any officer safety bulletins CDCR issued concerning the JIS group?
I think not. If any were issued they did not get down to the prison officers, sergeants, lieutenants, counselors and managers who would need the information to protect themselves and identify JIS gang members.
Parole agents were kept in the dark as well.
Institutional staff at at least two prisons identified the JIS as a group to be concerned about, forwarding information about them up the chain of command. Sacramento provided no guidance and took no action.
4) How many JIS gang members have been removed from prison mainlines and given indeterminate Security Housing Unit terms since Hickman became Secretary of the CDCR?
Probably none. For the reasons outlined above, the JIS has not been validated as a "prison gang" by the CDCR. Therefore, being a jihadist is not a reason to be isolated from other inmates and placed in the prison system's prison.
Any proactive effort to validate the gang will run into serious problems in the form of legal challenges from the inmates' rights crowd and operational security problems that are best not disclosed.
There are about 54,100 convicted felons from LA County locked up in state prisons. The statewide total is about 163,800.
There are 35,529 released felons in LA County being supervised by CDCR parole agents. The statewide total is 113,768.
CDCR is not represented on the Joint Terrorism Task Force that broke up the JIS terror cell.
1) What steps, if any, did Hickman and CDCR senior management to control the Islamist hate group prior to the arrests?
As far as i know, none.
2) Was the JIS allowed to conduct their in-prison activities using the cover of sanctioned inmate activities?
Yes. The JIS Islamo-fascists were free to recruit and organize during Muslim religious activities. They may remain so today.
We don't know [yet] if JIS had its own "inmate activity group" complete with approved community activist-advisors and staff sponsors.
3) Can Hickman produce any officer safety bulletins CDCR issued concerning the JIS group?
I think not. If any were issued they did not get down to the prison officers, sergeants, lieutenants, counselors and managers who would need the information to protect themselves and identify JIS gang members.
Parole agents were kept in the dark as well.
Institutional staff at at least two prisons identified the JIS as a group to be concerned about, forwarding information about them up the chain of command. Sacramento provided no guidance and took no action.
4) How many JIS gang members have been removed from prison mainlines and given indeterminate Security Housing Unit terms since Hickman became Secretary of the CDCR?
Probably none. For the reasons outlined above, the JIS has not been validated as a "prison gang" by the CDCR. Therefore, being a jihadist is not a reason to be isolated from other inmates and placed in the prison system's prison.
Any proactive effort to validate the gang will run into serious problems in the form of legal challenges from the inmates' rights crowd and operational security problems that are best not disclosed.
There are about 54,100 convicted felons from LA County locked up in state prisons. The statewide total is about 163,800.
There are 35,529 released felons in LA County being supervised by CDCR parole agents. The statewide total is 113,768.
CDCR is not represented on the Joint Terrorism Task Force that broke up the JIS terror cell.
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