[wvns] Imam Jamil Moved to Federal Custody
INMATE ONCE KNOWN AS H. RAP BROWN TRANSFERRED TO FEDERAL CUSTODY
GREG BLUESTEIN
Associated Press
http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/080207/D8QOVTSG0.shtml
ATLANTA - The 1960s black militant jailed for alegedly killing a
deputy has been transferred into federal custody, Georgia corrections
officials said Thursday.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a 63-year-old once known as H. Rap Brown, was
transferred after state officials decided his high profile status
presented "unique issues" that the prison system could no longer
handle, said spokeswoman Yolanda Thompson.
"No specific incident served as a trigger," said Thompson. "We assess
our inmate population daily, and we assess the needs of our inmates.
This is an ongoing case, involving the best interest of our overall
population. And he's a very high-profile inmate."
Al-Amin is now waiting at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma,
said Felicia Ponce, a Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman.
He has been serving a life sentence without parole for the March 2002
shooting death of Fulton County Sheriff's Deputy Ricky Kinchen, 38.
The Georgia Supreme Court denied his request to overturn his
conviction in May 2004.
Kinchen was killed and his partner, Deputy Aldranon English, was
wounded when they went to serve a Cobb County warrant to Al-Amin on
March 16, 2000. The warrant was for failing to appear in court for
charges of driving a stolen car and impersonating a police officer.
Al-Amin was captured by U.S. marshals in Alabama four days after the
shootings.
His family and friends have claimed that state prison wardens had
mistreated Al-Amin.
In August 2005, a group of about of his supporters protested outside
the headquarters of the Georgia Department of Corrections, claiming
that Al-Amin was being subjected to solitary confinement
23-hours-a-day and forced to submit to humiliating strip searches in
front of female guards.
A state prison spokesman had said Al-Amin was under lockdown because
of his security risk level, which is based on an inmate's criminal
history and behavior in prison, and denied that Al-Amin would be
subjected to strip searches in front of female guards.
Many still know Al-Amin as H. Rap Brown, a 1960s militant who served
as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1967,
he characterized violence as a vital tool for blacks, "as American as
cherry pie."
Brown changed his name when he converted to the Dar-ul Islam movement
in the 1970s while serving a five-year sentence for his role in a
robbery that ended in a shootout with New York police.
He later emerged as a leader of one of the nation's largest black
Muslim groups, the National Ummah. The movement, which has formed 36
mosques around the nation, is credited with revitalizing
poverty-stricken pockets such as Atlanta's West End, where he owned a
grocery store.
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