Biography
Kataza Taifa 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.
Kataza Taifa 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.
The official Indiana August 2005 clemency/parole agenda identifies Kataza Taifa, register 10417 at Wabash Valley, and records a Marion County murder life sentence dated September 22, 1977. This adds the underlying sentencing history; it does not date initial admission or prove that a parole hearing resulted in release. The later prison-organizing account remains separate.
