April 25, 2010
URGENT UPDATE ON CHIP FITZGERALD!
CHIP ON HUNGER STRIKE!
Chip is demanding a transfer out of the hole at Corcoran State Prison where he has been for over a year.
In response to his unfair housing in Administrative Segregation (“the hole”) Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald is currently refusing food. In support of Chip we ask that you call Warden Raul Lopez to DEMAND that Chip be transferred out of Ad Seg and into general population immediately.
April 19, 2010
Since February 2009, Chip has been held in an isolation chamber, “the hole,” on an administrative charge he has appealed. Even though the required term of punishment ended in February of this year, Chip remains in the hole, transferred now from Centinela to Corcoran State Prison, in Corcoran, California.
And, Chip’s situation is now worsened by the ongoing refusal of the CDCR to provide him urgently-needed medical care, in violation of his Constitutional rights, under the Eight Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishments.”
The Committee to Free Chip has engaged Attorney Keith Wattley of Oakland, California, to petition the local superior court to release Chip from the hole immediately. We need your help.
The Honorable Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor of California
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, California 95814
Re: Romaine Fitzgerald—B27527
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:
Pursuant to Article V, Section 8, of the California Constitution, you have the extraordinary executive power to affirm, modify or reverse a decision of the California Board of Prison Terms (the “Board”) as to parole for people serving indeterminate life sentences. And, you have exercised that power in denying parole to hundreds of inmates to whom the Board has granted parole, including in the case of Sandra Lawrence. Of course, in 2008, the California Supreme Court overruled your decision in the Lawrence case, and ruled that the Board’s charge is to grant parole except where there is a showing of present dangerousness.
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