Biography
Shaka Shakur was community organizer in Gary Indiana. Due to his activist involvement he was placed under police surveillance and was the victim of increasing harassment from law enforcement. After the murder of his son in a random shooting police refused to investigate the case prompting Shakur to organize his own investigation into the murder. After this Shakur was ambushed by police and fired a single warning shot into the air prompting officers to unload on Shakur until they ran out of bullets. He was charged with attempted murder of a police officer and sentenced to 63-years. While incarcerated he became a jailhouse lawyer and helped expose abuse through organizing with Human Rights Watch. He and five other inmates were eventually labeled a threat by the Indiana Department of Correction for their leadership and organizing capability and transferred to the Westville Maximum Control Complex (MCC) Supermax prison, in 2018 he was transferred out of Indiana to a prison Virginia in an attempt to disrupt his organizing and cut off his support networks.
