Mohaman Koti
Biography
Mohaman Geuka Koti, also known as James Johnson, was a Black liberation prisoner held for decades in New York. Official state records identify him as DIN 80A0808 and record admission on March 18, 1980 and release on December 18, 2014. That state endpoint did not end all custody: an older federal obligation kept him imprisoned afterward. His signed National Archives correspondence bridges his state identity to federal register 94755-131, under James Johnson. BOP records verify departure from federal custody on March 16, 2016. The first arrest and exact sentencing dates remain unverified. His existing identified portrait is retained.
Birth-year source
Freedom Archives parole appeal, June 2014.
Verified state and federal custody endpoints
The authorized official New York DOCCS lookup for public DIN80A0808 identifies KOTI,MOHAMAN G and supplies March18,1980 original reception and December18,2014 actual state release. His signed National Archives correspondence, physical20–21, bridges MohamanGeukaKoti/J.J.Johnson and public federal94755-131. The authorized BOP number lookup returns JAMESJOHNSON and March16,2016 departure from federal custody, independently matching ReneeFeltz's June29,2016 reporting and lawyer interview. State parole and later federal release are separate endpoints, not a continuous single-facility stay. Exact original arrest/sentence and later federal admission remain unverified. The undated extortion-conspiracy legacy row is retained with attribution unresolved, unsupported institution/counters removed. No namesake photo or new photo asset assigned.
A letter published in The Black Panther in June 1976 addresses Mohaman Koti as a prisoner in Marion’s control unit. The writer describes him as a revolutionary leader whose removal from the general population disrupted organizing, and says that officials refused requests to return him. This documents an earlier Marion imprisonment, separate from the New York state custody beginning in 1980; its original charge and custody endpoints remain unestablished.
The Black Panther, June 12, 1976, volume XV no. 9, PDF page 25.
The original prison-treatment account explicitly prints the full name Mohaman Geuka Koti, matching the existing profile’s middle name and historical prisoner identity. Renée Feltz’s June 29, 2016 Indypendent report, including an interview with his longtime lawyer Susan Tipograph, reports his death in May after release that March. The existing 2016 YEAR death is refined to May 2016 MONTH only; May 1 is a storage placeholder, not a claimed death day. No custody endpoint, birthday or age is changed.
