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Leonard Peltier Now in Florida

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Now in Florida Prison

COLEMAN, FLORIDA - The Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee confirm Leonard Peltier has been moved to the US Penitentiary at Coleman, Florida.

The following information was provided late Wednesday to the Native News Network by the Committee:

The United States Penitentiary I in Coleman is a high security facility located in central Florida approximately 50 miles northwest of Orlando, 60 miles northeast of Tampa, and 35 miles south of Ocala.

LEONARD PELTIER #89637-132

USP COLEMAN I

US PENITENTIARY

PO BOX 1033

COLEMAN, FL 33521

This is nearly 2,000 miles from Leonard's Nation, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, in North Dakota! Tell the Federal Bureau of Prisons that the only acceptable transfer is one to a medium security facility in close proximity to (within a 500-mile radius of) his family and Nation. Ideally, Leonard should be moved to the medium security facility at Oxford, Wisconsin.

Dr. Thomas Kane, Acting Director

Federal Bureau of Prisons

320 1st Street, NW

Washington, DC 20534

Phone: (202) 307-3250 (Director); (202) 307-3198 (Switchboard)

Fax: (202) 514-6620

posted September 15, 2011 7:30 am edt