Free Russell Maroon Shoatz!

Russell Schoatz was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on the 23^rd of August, 1943. He is a former member of the Black Unity Council and later Black Panther Party. He has been imprisoned since 1972 and is being charged with murder. He has spent much of his incarceration in Solitary Confinement, although it is said that he has now, at the age of 70, been released to the general population.

He is accused of being a member of a group who is said to have attacked a police station and murdered a police officer, and wounded another officer. It is thought to have been a retaliatory action, for an African American youth that was killed by a police officer. Russell Shoatz has twice escaped from jail and this earned him the nickname „Maroon“.

He has a published book of his writings it is called „Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoaz“. I read the book and highly recommend it, while Mr. Shoatz offers a history lesson from a different perspective. I feel that there is not enough proof to pin this crime on this man, and I feel this man has been incarcerated for way too long, and that he should be allowed to return to his 7 children and grand children immediately.

Contact Russell Shoatz:

RUSSELL MAROON SHOATZ
#AF-3855
SCI Graterford
PO Box 244
Graterford, PA 19426 – 0246