he was shot and i heard and i read that as the blame fell on on leonard peltier and my question is are these type of small infractions is it typical for a prisoner to be put in solitary confinement for them now this is this is not this is a typical what we had to remember who later tell us leonard is a leader and activist and he has been throughout his adult life in the american genyen move. it is his whole focus of his being is helping his people on the pine ridge reservation where the be a huge out occurred in night and nine hundred seventy s. that led to his boss them ventured years donors and. unemployment rate there is right at ninety percent as ninety percent of people resumes really aren't just he was there a silly elders to our help or people we think they're good for us this whole thing was a set up they happen here. just say oh this is a court on monday when they charged randy to spell. didn't remove dental strewing liches objects rolling around. this was just after the anniversary of the shoot out also the leg that weekend just one day was the anniversary of the what america

this sixty six years old diabetes partially blind and put in solitary confinement where this is leonard peltier he's in order to spend twenty three to twenty four hours a day for the next six months on approach a is the american indian movement activist has been in prison for more than thirty five years after being convicted of killing two f.b.i. agents but his supporters it is a different story his supporters who range from foreign parliaments to the dalai lama to the late mother teresa all of them he is a political prisoner and as i mentioned at the sixty six he's suffering health conditions that are very terrible and now he's suffering and what he calls his lawyer call it a hellhole and you are not going to believe why he's been ordered to stay there robert brian is here to tell us about his attorney for the cia thank you for being with us so i read a little a little about the offenses that led the prison to put leonard peltier in solitary confinement confinement can you sum them up well. i think the point is that the. they are very minor offenses of waste litter is not guilty but aside from

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another prisoner and pennsylvania has been placed into solitary confinement and that prisoner is leonard peltier that's a man that we've spoken about many times on this show a native american activist a man who was convicted of killing two of the i agents in one nine hundred seventy five who to this day maintains his innocence his trial has been questioned for decades about his fairness. and you countless figures around the world consider a political prisoner but this isn't even about peltier as a legit innocence or his guilt this is about his treatment here's a man who's sixty six years old he suffers from diabetes from hypertension he's exhibiting signs of cancer according to his doctors and since june twenty seventh he's been in solitary confinement at a u.s. penitentiary lewisburg and he's been ordered to stay in solitary for six months it's something that he's described as a cement steel hot box that's got a lot of a half inch slot under the door and that's the only source of cool air getting it healthier spends twenty three hours in the solitary cell five days a week with one hour of exerc