To all interested parties, friends, family & supporters! For years, I’ve told people that I’m being held hostage by the Commonwealth of Kentucky due to a “black hole” of justice, or more accurately, an undefined area of the law. For the last 11+ years since my conviction, that’s been the case but that may have changed [...]

September 2023 How KY DOC keeps people like me in the Hole for years when the law says we can’t stay in here longer than 30 days at a time Hello to all my friends and supporters! It’s your favorite Prisoner of War here at KSP! Yet another report from the front lines of hell. I [...]

September 2023 It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. Ironically, I’m in the same place I was the last time I wrote an update. I’ve been here in the “hole” for 8 months now and have been put on something called “Administrative Control” which is essentially a license to keep me in Solitary [...]

My name is John C. Buckley IV, my yard name is "Ranger". The reasons for this is because I was a member of the elite 3rd Ranger Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment for deployments to both Afghanistan & Iraq. As we are in the 20th year remembrance of the invasion of Iraq, I am reminded of [...]

7/12/2022 I’ve thought long and hard about how to specifically craft this letter. I’m sitting in a 4x6 cell in isolation, without resources. Just a pen and paper and my brain. Trying to process how COVID 19 has exposed the massive failure that is mass incarceration. Since I don’t have my actual possessions with me or [...]