Kevin Olliff arrives at prison
Animal liberation prisoner Kevin Olliff sentenced to a prison with a prisoner-run dairy and meat plant.
After a few weeks at a reception facility, where his communications were limited, Kevin arrived at his prison destination this week. And it’s a strange one.
Kevin was sentenced last month to 2.5 years in prison for possessing wire cutters and cammo clothing prosecutors say were to be used in the raid of a fox farm the night of his arrest.
Good news and bad news
The bad news is, Kevin is at a prison. And a good portion of the population works at on-site “dairy processing” and “meat processing” facilities.
The good news is, it’s a minimum security prison. Often animal liberation prisoners are sent to higher security prisons that are not consistent with their “crimes.” This happens in response to prisoners whose crimes the prisons don’t understand, or to alarmist “terrorist” rhetoric in the media.
Prison has an on-site “meat processing” facility
It is a twist of cruel irony, the prison where Kevin was designated has an on-site flesh-processing plant, where prisoners process animal flesh for the prison system. There is also a dairy facility at the prison. View a video about all of this here:
He can receive mail again, so please send him a letter at his new address:
Note: Kevin’s legal name is “Kevin Johnson.”
Kevin Johnson
M42382
Vandalia Correctional Center
Post Office Box 500
Vandalia, Illinois 62471
Mail rules at Vandalia Correctional Center:
Here are the mail rules lifted directly from the Illinois State Prison’s website. They seem to indicate books can be mailed directly to prisoners, provided they are in the correct type of envelope.
“Inmates can receive correspondence, legal mail and publications, which are reviewed to determine whether they are obscene or constitute a danger to safety and security. The institutional Publication Review Committee reviews all publications that are not on the approved list, and will disapprove materials that do not meet criteria. Inmates can receive publications, including books, periodicals, magazines, newspapers and catalogs in accordance with department regulations. Inmates can receive publications from a vendor, friend or family. There is no limit through the mail. Publications brought to the facility shall be limited to 5 per visit.
Guidelines need to be followed for envelopes and packages.
- Envelopes that are padded with clear bubble wrap will be accepted. Envelopes that have this type of padding can be easily scanned.
- Envelopes padded with gray diamond dust and corrugated cardboard boxes mailed from family and friends will not be accepted and will be returned to the sender without being opened.”
What a cruel irony, reminiscent of the stalags & concentration camps in WWII when able prisoners dug pits, carried the corpses of their gassed comrades, cleaned furnaces off the fragments left from their killed friends and kins, trembling in fear and disgust.
Felons working in a meat plant? What a dark, ugly environment in which to immerse men who are expected to repent their previous violent actions.
THIS is against HUMAN RIGHTS. It’s a disgrace. Thoughts are with Kevin – a TRUE HERO!
These psychotic people (government and hunters etc) should expect more mink raids….. I am not inciting illegal activities either but its inevitable.
What are the rules re. sending $$$ to Kevin ? Must it be in the form of a money order and where exactly should it be mailed so it will be accepted by the prison administration and go directly to Kevin?
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Cruel irony indeed.Although I don’t feel it was so much a role of irony as cruel intention.I believe the judge who sentenced him to there done so as revenge sentencing for his crime.But I also believe he could have been imprisoned here as sign of fate.Where better for an AR activist to be to educate and try open some minds and beat the devil at his own game,than the very core of hell itself.He’s an activist, there’s nothing he hasn’t seen and nothing makes us more determined than to see it up close and personal.So show them they can’t break you and come out of that place knowing you done what you came for…..Changed some hearts and educated some minds.Praying for you… Thank you for your devotion to animals and their cause.Til every cage is EMPTY!<3