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Aaron Isby

Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1990s
State:Indiana
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Biography

Aaron Isby is individually named in the May–June 1997 Crossroad account of prison resistance at Indiana’s Maximum Control Complex. The article identifies this person among the prisoners who continued the September 1991 hunger strike into its court-ordered force-feeding phase. The source describes resistance to isolation and alleged mistreatment of politically active prisoners. It establishes actual imprisonment and participation in political prison organizing, but does not identify this person’s original offense, admission, release or complete duration.

Aaron Isby is individually named in the May–June 1997 Crossroad account of prison resistance at Indiana’s Maximum Control Complex. The article identifies this person among the prisoners who continued the September 1991 hunger strike into its court-ordered force-feeding phase. The source describes resistance to isolation and alleged mistreatment of politically active prisoners. It establishes actual imprisonment and participation in political prison organizing, but does not identify this person’s original offense, admission, release or complete duration. No imposed sentence or completed custody total established. The article’s 37 days describes the collective hunger strike, not a separately calculated imprisonment total.

Crossroad, volume 8 number 1, May–June 1997, page 12.

Shaka Shakur’s contemporary account in Crossroad, May–June 1997, PDF page 12, explicitly identifies Aaron “Cab” Isby as New Afrikan. Demographic source.

Case

Charges: Original offense unverified; actual imprisonment at Indiana Maximum Control Complex and September 1991 hunger-strike participation documented in contemporary prison-movement account.
Incarcerated: 1988
Sentence: No imposed sentence or completed custody total established. The article’s 37 days describes the collective hunger strike, not a separately calculated imprisonment total. The Indiana Court of Appeals explicitly records that Isby began serving his robbery sentence in 1988. That year is recorded as the start of the underlying imprisonment, which predates the separately documented 1991 prison-organizing activity. The exact admission day and complete custody endpoint remain unresolved. Source: https://public.courts.in.gov/Decisions/api/Document/Opinion?Id=eTiMixqlvx8fT3HM7JPiHT1owuEhbYAgOOKQqw6EMddvYEFxynd4JXQgWuX9MRKZ0 (December 18, 2023, page 2, paragraph 3).