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February 2, 2000
To Whom It May Concern: My name is Joel Brown. I've been in custody since I was 17, I'm now 32. I was challenging my conviction before I ended up in the hole in 1992, and that was the only knowledge I had of filing litigation, but that prompted me to file a civil rights law suit that another inmate helped me with, and became familiar with the judicial system. It took a couple of years but I realized that a prisoner wasn't going to get a fair hearing in the courts, after the Attorney General failed to file an ordered document for 90+ days and the court dismissed the case claiming I hadn't filed. I pointed out to the court that it was the Attorney General that failed to file and should be defaulted, the court gave them 15 days to file from the date the court ordered the case reinstated. That made me turn my attentions to the courts and showing that they aren't fair toward prisoners—probably average citizens too—on abuses and issues. I took every legitimate prison issue I could through the process to the court so I could show a pattern of unfairness, and boy did I. My problem is that the courts are protecting themselves now and won't punish their own and refuse to correct these violations by judges. So I filed a U.S. Grand Jury Complaint on numerous judges for Federal Criminal statute violations—obstruction of justice and abuse of power, but the judges take the complaints against them and order them disregarded saying they've committed no crime. I've reported this to state and federal senators, but never received any reply or action. I've filed a judicial misconduct complaint which was just denied, there is nothing else I can do without the publics help. Included in all that I've filed was a claim of unconstitutionality of statute that allows the Attorney General to defend against prisoner law suits, that costs the taxpayers for that defense, and the court refuses to rule on the claim filed over a year ago. Assuming that everything I've filed and said is correct, then these judges are protecting themselves and the way they administer the system. Why they would take an interest in continuing to let the Attorney General defend against prisoner suits wasting the taxpayers money, I can only speculate. Most judges—not all, but most—are ex-district attorney's of some form or have served in the Attorney Generals that prosecute prisoners or respond to their appeals, and as judges they easily formulate animosity towards us having become emotionally involved in the cases they prosecuted as attorneys, they can have a hardened heart against prisoners lawsuits and allow actual abuses to be committed, I don't know, maybe justifying in their mind an eye for an eye attitude as a taste of our own medicine. But all I've said can be verified by the case files contained in the courts. What I need is for the fact that I tried to take these issues to the People of the United States, in the form of the U.S. Grand Jury Complaint, to be brought out on the Internet—and that the judges blocked these complaints against them—asking people to contact senators and even the courts and question how a judge can rule they've committed no crime. I'm a proud person, but even so, I'm begging for your help and the people's help. Thank you for your valuable time. Sincerely
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