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September 8 will be a date Pete Wilson, a Black Oregon State Penitentiary prisoner, will never forget. This was the day Percy Wilson almost lost his life just for being a 29-year old Black person in this prison. Percy was thrown in the "hole" for a previous fight with a white inmate in February of this year and was given nine months for an incident at the prison's annex.
Wilson was jogging aroung the Segregation and Isolation unit one morning, when all of a sudden he found himself under attack by another white prisoner. It was only natural for him to defend himself to the best of his ability. having been the object of the racial insults and verbal abuse by many of the white prisoners on his tier.
But to Wilson's surprise, 10 other white prisoners came flaring upon him with sharp and pointed instruments, penning him against the fence as they stabbed him."
"I thought I was dead," stated Wilson, "The only thing I could recall is trying to keep fighting them off."
Wilson...
