Biography
James Edwards (Jaribu) was held at Florida State Prison, where a fellow prisoner reported that guards beat him after a protest.
The July 1975 Black Community News Letter identifies Jaribu as James Edwards, a prisoner at Florida State Prison. An unnamed Q-wing prisoner’s account alleges guards beat him after the September 23, 1974 peaceful eating-utensil protest and that he subsequently faced an assault-on-guards prosecution. The account is attributed, not an adjudicated finding; original conviction, admission, release and total duration are unstated. Black Community News Letter, volume13, July 1975, Awakening of a Dragon, original PDF page 5. Source: https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC32_scans/32.BlackComNewsletter.AwakeningofaDragon.pdf#page=5
