Ojore Lutalo

Ojore Lutalo is a recognized United States Political Prisoner. He was held in new Jersey's State Prison's infamous Management Control Unit for 22 years of day in and day out, month in and month out solitary confinement.  He was interned in this unit in an effort to break his mind and neutralize his radical political beliefs stemming from the Black Liberation Movements of the 1970's. Ojore is a political anarchist believing that people have the capacity to govern themselves through the process of consensus. Ojore, and other political radicals in US prisons have evidence of ongoing government surveillance. His release from this documented torture was ordered in 2009 via a court order. Ojore's freedom was interrupted last January 26 when he was "disappeared" from an Amtrak train, arrested and charged with "endangering public transportation". All of those charges were dropped. His story is the story of how the US uses psychological and physical torture for political reasons. Ojore's story is embedded in a report submitted to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review Working Committee which is due to review US political repression and the existence of US political prisoners this November.