Sgt. Shawn Franklin

letter · Apr 20, 2022

Handwritten daily log/journal by Ryan Nichols documenting his time in SMU-A (Special Management Unit / segregation) from Wed 4/20/22 through Thu 5/5/22 after refusing to sign a non-animosity form. Names multiple DOC officers (Lt Lancaster, Lt Allen, Cpl Pittman, Cpl Wilson, Sgt Franklin, Lt Bruce, supervisor refused to come). Documents denials of recreation, phone calls, showers, water shutoff, suicidal ideation, and ICPs filed electronically.

other · Mar 18, 2022

Page 6: Officer Ugwe admits clippers delivered to C2A and other pods but not theirs; Capt Saunders writes 5 DRs about masks; Guy Reffitt gets clippers via court order, others denied; Sgt Franklin and Ms McCain refuse to add Ryan to haircut list until 3/11 when he is 'called an insurrectionist'; Major Marr brushes off grievance; Marvin T. Buckner from DOC/US Marshals confirms grievance process broken — directs to FOIA Internal Affairs.

grievance_form · Jan 22, 2022

DC DOC Inmate Informal Resolution Complaint Form filed by Ryan Nichols (DCDC# 376795, Unit C2B) on 1/22/22 regarding food service: dinner trays contained literally rotten eggs as main source of food. Sgt. Franklin came to inspect and left with sample tray.

exhibit · Oct 19, 2021

Page 7 of jail town hall notes. Notes Mrs Hubbard and Sgt Franklin admitted they had to overcome racist preconceptions, and treat detainees fairly. Documents extreme mail delays - mail being passed out 1-4+ months after USPS timestamps; Ryan still receiving March mail in August/September.

exhibit · Sep 1, 2021

DC Department of Corrections Inmate Work Performance Rating for Ryan Nichols (DCDC# 376-795), evaluation period 3/8/21-present, Squad In-house. All Excellent/Outstanding. Recommended for promotion. Signed by Sgt. S. Franklin.

grievance_form · Sep 1, 2021

DC DOC Work Performance Rating - Inmate (PP 4210.2 Attachment J). Inmate Nichols, Ryan, DCDC# 376-795, dated 9/1/2021. Evaluation Period: 3/8/21-Present. Position: In-house. All five categories rated Excellent (Quality, Quantity, Initiative, Dependability/Safety/Care of Equipment); Response to Supervision: Outstanding. Overall Job Proficiency: Promote this inmate to a more demanding job at a higher rate of pay. Supervisor Sgt. S. Franklin signed 9/1/2021; Ryan Nichols signed 9/1/21.

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Letter (likely from defense team) detailing longstanding discovery access problems for Ryan Nichols at DC Jail: hard drive confiscated by Sgt. Franklin in November, Evidence.com access only recently restored, no Relativity access. Argues for 60-day continuance.

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Page 2 of Sept 8 update. Black mold in air vents, in tile, on walls. Tried to explain to guards: "Get back in your cell!" Asked Bigach for cleaning supplies: "I dont give a fuck what you need, get back in." April at CTF: black mold, cold/wet/burned/moldy food. Guards laugh when issues brought to attention. Names: Hays, Franklin, Pinky, Dillion, Robinson, Lt. Shomake. Night roving guards bang on cells all night. Dan & I pulled from cells for "Gestapo interrogation" by ERT — asked about living conditions, food, water, bedding. While shackled in dental hall hears guards: "Fucking Trump, man, I cant wait until they leave! Yeah, shit, fuck these motherfuckers." Strip search dehumanization with inmates yelling "Dead man walking, he be a Trump supporter! Hays a Trump supporter! Inmates: Fuck you white boy! We be fucking you up!" LTs come into cell area screaming about masks even when worn, write his name down for disrespect.

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Ryan update Sept 8: water diaphragm broke in cell 32, water floods like Red Sea fills entire cell block. Names ERT and guards on duty: Franklin, Cobb, white shirt Hays, Pinky. Identifies "Dr Walls & Dr Coffman, chiropractors both here in DC, both Democrats, both on video beating police, both released for picketing." Two inmates have discovery video showing beating to death of two women during riot — never shown on TV, no officers held accountable. Names officer who allegedly assaulted/assisted in suicide: "Taylor Etcaranto: Responsible for death of officer who committed suicide; Assault & assist in suicide on officer." Recounts again March 18 intake — "the only white man taken into roach infested, dimly lit, holding facility...inmates figured out I was a white Trump supporter...we be ass fucking you white boy."

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Page 4 of Ryan timeline: every medical visit involves spit, trash, graffiti, guards sleeping, racial slurs and threats. Shackled, pushed down halls while Hays, Pinky, C. Adams escort: "Dead Man Walking, here Trump, he be Trump supporter." Inmates allowed to roam halls hurling racial/sexual threats while guards laugh. Legal tablet denied for four months. Grievance against guard returned by same guard, prompting two-day lockdown — names Alexander, Hays, Pinky, Franklin. Guards wear windbreakers to hide name tags.

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Work Performance Comments (second/shorter narrative) by Sergeant Shawn Franklin, C Building Zone Supervisor. Inmate Nichols, Ryan, DCDC# 376-795, housed in C2B since entering Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF). Outstanding in-housed detail squad member since assignment 3/9/2021. Ensures cleanliness of entire housing unit with little to no supervision. 100% effort. Positive institutional behavior with staff and population. Mentor and morale booster. Likely a companion to scan 031.

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Ryan letter. Led down hallway into telephonic meeting w/ lawyers at 13:42 met with distain, mean mugging, talk-down by guards: "What you looking at? Shy! Wah! Talk! Dont stand shy!" "I am no longer a human being." When water diaphragm or toilet breaks, met w/ lock down, told how lucky to be there, told other side of door = ass-raped, killed, stabbed, robbed. Guards extort money & food from inmates for special privileges & favors. "I am a political prisoner in my own country!" Names Hays, Armstrong, Pinky, Holmes, Franklin — "list is goodless w/ guards who commit crimes!" "I am a white Christian male in a 98% African American ran facility, everything I say and do is met w/ extreme measures of resistance. I have been called: honkey white boy, Trump cracker, on & on." Cant trust anyone working here. "This is my message in a bottle." Asks where the ACLU/NAACP/BLM/Nancy Pelosi & others would be beating down his door to get him out — if he were a black male in an all-white facility. Notes ex-wife got document allowing her to buy/sell/trade in his name — lost home, car, clothes, accounts.

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Page 3 of Ryan letter: chained, shackled, slurs continue ("shithead, honkey, cracker, Trumper, threaten"). Describes "The Final Call" newspaper promoting radical Islam, white hate, racial violence, downgrading America — "the entire staff of 98% black read this paper every week." Asks "Where are my civil rights? Where is the ACLU, NAACP, civil rights attorney?" Names guards: Pinky, Hays, C. Adams, McDade, Franklin, Robinson, Armstrong, Holmes, Hauser, Lt. Shumer, Brown — "most female guards dont wear name tape." Describes "Gestapo intimidation techniques / SERE School textbook tactics": pulled from cells (Robinson is ERT boss), May 2021 mean-mugged: "How are you, how are living conditions?...WTF am I suppose to say? Answer incorrectly you go to the hole." March: shackled, two female guards (Hays, Pinky) yelling "Trump Boy, supremist, you people on & on, led down hallway to remote room."

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Page 2 of Ryan Nichols timeline: cell #11 with black mold over all walls, denied potable water, female guard aimed body cam at him while changing and laughed. "Almost three days w/o sleep." March 24 - April 28 guards beating on cell during checks. Names guards Pinky, Hays, Armstrong, Holmes, Adams. 23/1 lockdown with choice between phone or shower. ERT (Emergency Response Team) sleeps in cell block back room — names Hays, Pinky, Adams, Holmes, Hauser, Franklin.

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Page 3 of Ryan timeline (May 1 - Aug 1): toilet water diaphragm fails 5 times, flooding cell block. ERT comes with mace cans, Guard Franklin screams "Lock it down! Step back in! You people are all alike!" Ryan, a 70% disabled veteran, denied VA care — took 8 months to get sleep meds and acid reflux meds. Put into isolation cell 25 with human fecal matter, urine smell, jizz dried on wall, black mold. Guards send detainees to "the hole" for arguing.

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Ryan page: ERT Capt C/Lt C.D. Jordan from cell, handcuffed, searched cell, took all his discovery and left. "Gestapo tactics communist block manuver." Was sent about 200 pages of discovery — was led down hallway by Hays & another female. Refill of acid reflux meds: name told hidden, attitude issue, being spoken to like a dog. Listen to my breathing - WTF, does my breathing have to do w/ acid reflux. "Every time I am seen by medical I am met w/ disdain, racism, rude, minimal care, attitude issues." Names video Vintoqadyzah cut e 105-100 ft (?) - video of woman beat to death by police, cut & edited. Dental: told he didnt want to be operated on, they cancel him back next time. Female Lt came in yelling about masks, inmates wearing masks correctly but she was screaming. Notes inmates eating dandelion leaves & stems to supplement nutrition. Franklin/Mandae mask enforcement: "If we dont comply w/ mask Mandate we will go to the hole. We never leave Pod. Only came in contact w/ other guards who leave building."

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Ryan timeline (page 1 of fresh sheet): March 18 cavity check of rectum, mouth, hands, feet; X-ray with K-2 burning through facility. March-June "Gestapo interrigation": Dan & I pulled from room, questioned by ERT and white-shirts/employees Armstrong, Holmes, Abdullah, Hays, Pinky, Franklin. 23/1 hrs in cell (winter), wet walls, human fecal matter, urine, jizz smashed/sprayed/smeared around/under. Medical uses outdated equipment, treated like an animal. Multiple requests for VA Rep per handbook p18 — told "there is none."

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Work Performance Comments narrative authored by Sergeant Shawn Franklin, C Building Zone Supervisor at Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF, DC DOC). States inmate Nichols, Ryan, DCDC# 376-795, has been housed in C2B since entering CTF, has been outstanding, natural leader, 100% effort. Since entering CTF, Inmate Nichols hasnt had any adverse action or any Disciplinary Reports for negative institutional behavior. Mentor used daily by uniform and non-uniform staff. Morale booster and counselor. Recommends Nichols be given next position based on excellent work ethic and positive institutional behavior.

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Ryan letter (demand list). "Where is my change of prosecutors? Change of judge? VA Rep? Civil Rights Defense Attorney? Divorce paperwork/identification? Medical & Dental Rep? Why am I being treated like a dog, pig, beast in a cage? "The Final Call"." White-shirt came into cell block yelling about mask, wrote him up for violence & disobedience. Franklin came in playing good cop/bad cop, pulled aside, claimed he put a stop to paperwork. Cites case: "627 F.3d 345 (9th Circuit 2010) United States v. Waters: 3.5 yrs for burning, building & distruction. Crime of violence then reversed conviction. Environment Earth Liberation Front (ELF)(ALF) as well as Vail Colorado Ski Resort burning 10 million." "No plea w/ no lawsuit! Im swing the fuck out of this place!" Heard on news Prince Georges County inmates sued jail for 12 million for no hand soap & face masks. Sick call: spoken to like dog. Another copy of Honorable Louis Farrakhan The Final Call #44 Aug 10 issue. Water break - inmates work together to stop diaphragm break before guards run everyone back into cells.

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Blank DC Department of Corrections Sick Call Request Form (PS 6001.1) annotated by Ryan or fellow detainee. Notes: "Record Keeping - Follow up - Continue." "D/+/G - Grievances/Actions." In bottom comments: "Franklin told 3 filed grievance for food quality." Used as record-keeping template for filed sick call and grievance follow-ups.

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Page 3 of Morss letter. No bail/bond despite no criminal record or arrests. Notes news showing murderers, rapists, arsonists, even women who abandoned newborns getting bond in DC. No video visits despite promise. Denied haircut/shave (told to use chemical cream Veet on face). Inconsistent Quarantine - 2 weeks isolation, lawyers can serve civil suits but inmates of C2B ignored. Names jail staff Franklin, Proctor, Lee re grievance forms with "Trump Related" statements, refused to produce documents, locked down as punitive action. Stab victims daily on regular Jail side - K2 frequent.

exhibit · Oct 19, 2021

Notes from a 10/19/21 town hall meeting between J6 detainees and DC jail staff. Lists attendees including Debby Clark (case management), Ben Pellorin & Marvin Brown (Aramark), Shirley Smith (litigation), Annisica Point (mailroom), Captain Cobb, Sgt Franklin, Sgt Robinson, Officer Sorwanni. Shane Jenkins opened with prayer. Bryan Mock spoke about issues as pro se attorney; case manager Nesbitt refused to help with motions, phone lists; controversy over a Trump Won case management form.

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Letter from Jeff McKellop dated Sept 13. Opens with mail backlog problem — facility controls all incoming/outgoing mail, holds all keys to all locks, doubts mail will make it out. Identifies himself: "My name is Jeff McKellop. I served 22 yrs in the Army, 10 yrs in 3rd (Grp) Special Forces ODA (Operational Detachment Alpha) 394 & 396. 3 tours Afghanistan, 2 Iraq, Bosnia, Kuwait. I worked as a high threat mobile security for State & Agency 10 yrs. I am a political prisoner." Says employer told him to pack his shit when his face appeared on screen. Recounts intake at FBI HQ: hand cuffed, shackled, slurs (white boy, honkey, shit bag, motherfucker), pawed by inmates threatening rape/beat/steal. At CTF chained, names guards: Pinky, Hays, Armstrong, Franklin, Robinson, Holmes, Hauser, Adams C, Adams A.

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Letter page signed by fellow J6 detainee Jeff McKellop. Two inmates got into a fight 2 months ago, never seen again. Asks to call his children Davis & Paige at 540-290-6917 to say I love them. Ex-wife Sara 434-989-4362 got court order to dispose of his property: sold home, car, clothes, carbon fiber bike; killed his plants & keeps his retirement. "Murders, rapists, thugs, punks, killers get bond & some how Im Public Enemy #1, Ive never been arrested in my life." Uncle Harry McKellop 213-321-2731 helping with finances & legal. "We (all Jan 6 inmates) need help! We have gave & lost all." Lists guards: Franklin, C. Adams, Pinky, Holmes, Hays, Hauser, Robinson, McDade.

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Page 2 of Meggs testimony. Sgt Franklin & CPL Hubbard ("both great people") had preconceived white supremacist/racist notions from staff/media. No bail at 52 with no prior arrests, designated terrorist at FL bond hearing over "destruction charge" DOJ now says no evidence of but won't drop to keep him detained. Heard screams at 3:15-3:30am - found out next day Ryan Samsel had been brutally beaten in next pod. Lonnie Coffman age 72 several times 3-4 hrs late for medication every 12 hours. In June AC turned off 4 days in C2B at 95+F, slept on concrete floor in underwear.

other · Oct 18, 2021

Single-entry note that Sgt Franklin warned Ryan he has one week left with his laptop & discovery; per attorney Joseph McBride Ryan needs longer, must request through Ms Wilson at general counsel.

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Glowing character/work performance statement from Sgt. Shawn Franklin, C Building Zone Supervisor at the Correctional Treatment Facility, regarding Inmate Ryan Nichols (DCDC 376-795). States Nichols has had zero adverse actions or disciplinary reports, serves as mentor/morale booster, mediates disputes, and recommends him for next position.

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Character/work performance statement from Sgt. Shawn Franklin (C Building Zone Supervisor) regarding Ryan Nichols (DCDC 376-795). States Nichols has been outstanding in-housed detail squad member since March 9, 2021, mentor, morale booster.