MARK JORDAN 48374-066
Allenwood USP
P.O. Box 3000
White Deer, PA 17887
Mark Jordan is a a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1994, at the age of 18, Mark was arrested on federal bank robbery charges. In 1995, he was sentenced to 26 1/2 years in federal prison.
His first several years behind bars, Mark subjected himself to a cloistered life of study and reflection. He obtained degrees and certificates in law, Paralegal Studies, Psychology, Psychotherapeutic Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Community Planning, and Political Theory. By 1997, Mark began to take an active role in the fledgling prisoners’ rights movement and criminal justice reform. In the summer of that year, after taking part in a non-violent protest at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, he was transferred to the U.S. penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.
While at Florence, Mark employed himself as an educator to his fellow convicts within the prison’s Education Department and participated in the development of ”Neutral Block,” a prisoner collective that virtually eliminated the practice of forcible gang induction throughout the Bureau of Prisons. He also organized his fellow prisoners toward vindicating their rights in the courts, exposing prisoner abuse, challenging flawed administrative policies, and advocating for non-violent resolution, self-education/rehabilitation, and social/political awareness.
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