Biography
Angel Nieves was an imprisoned organizer at Auburn Correctional Facility in New York, identified in contemporary reports by inmate number 78A1267. With David Gilbert and Mujahid Farid, he helped found the Prisoner Education Project on AIDS and sought prisoner-led education, counseling and humane treatment. Farid’s firsthand account places Nieves among the prisoners submitting the proposal in June 1987; the Fall 1987 issue describes their continuing struggle after the prison administration rejected it in August. The original conviction and the dates Nieves entered and left prison remain unverified.
Angel Nieves was an imprisoned organizer at Auburn Correctional Facility in New York, identified in contemporary reports by inmate number 78A1267. With David Gilbert and Mujahid Farid, he helped found the Prisoner Education Project on AIDS and sought prisoner-led education, counseling and humane treatment. Farid’s firsthand account places Nieves among the prisoners submitting the proposal in June 1987; the Fall 1987 issue describes their continuing struggle after the prison administration rejected it in August. The original conviction and the dates Nieves entered and left prison remain unverified.
The Insurgent, volume 3 number 2, Fall 1987, PDF page 26; The Insurgent, volume 3 number 2, Fall 1987, PDF page 27; The Insurgent, volume 3 number 2, Fall 1987, PDF page 28; The Insurgent, volume 4 number 1, Winter 1988; PEPA press release dated January 17, 1988, PDF page 27.
Source-reported institution: Auburn Correctional Facility.
