Prevention of Injury (POI)

Prevention of Injury (POI) is a short film written and directed by Kyle Broom and produced by Alexandra Spector through Poly- Blue . It is inspired by the events taking place during the detention of PFC Bradley E. Manning. Bradley Manning is a United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed restricted material to the website WikiLeaks. He was charged in July that year with transferring classified data onto his personal computer, and communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source. An additional 22 charges were preferred in March 2011, including "aiding the enemy," a capital offense, though prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty. He was found fit to face court martial in April 2011, and currently awaits the first hearing.

Manning had been assigned in October 2009 to a unit of the 10th Mountain Division, based near Baghdad. There he had access to the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet), used by the United States government to transmit classified information. He was arrested after Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker, reported to the FBI that Manning had told him during online chats in May 2010 that he had downloaded material from SIPRNet and passed it to WikiLeaks. The leaked material is said to have included 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables; footage of a July 2007 Baghdad airstrike, released by Wikileaks as "Collateral Murder"; and footage of the May 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan.

Manning was held in maximum custody beginning in July 2010 in the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico, Virginia, which in effect meant solitary confinement, conditions that Amnesty International called harsh and punitive. In April 2011, 295 scholars, including legal scholars and philosophers signed a letter saying the conditions he experienced amounted to a violation of the U.S. Constitution; later that month the Pentagon transferred him to a medium-security facility in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, allowing him to interact with other pre-trial detainees.

An article 32 hearing will be held on December 16, 2011, in Fort Meade, Maryland.

www.preventionofinjury.com

[sighing]

[sniffing]

[sighing]

[pages turning]

[sniffing]

Eh… They're one o clock

Haven't seen anything since then

Once you get on to them…

Come on, fire

Prisoner, sleeping between 0700 and 2200 hours is prohibited by the regulation

[slams the book on the bench]

[hatch closing]

[knocks head against wall]

[plastic spoon scraping against tray]

[From TV:] Well, I think Caroline and I particularly are hootie together.

[knocking on window]

Sir, could you put the news on, please?

The news isn't on right now.

How about putting it on a news channel?

Those channels are not operational with this machine.

May I have my TV call at an hour when there is the news on?

Your TV call is between 1400 and 1500

Prisoner! Exercising at any time other than your mandatory supervised recreation call

violates the regulations of this facility for subjects being detained with POI status

[murmuring]

[sighs]

At ease, prisoner

Yes, sir

I see there have been no incidents of behavioral conduct infractions

in the last segment of your series term intermediary review period

Sir, no, sir

What's your assessment of the detainees psychological state, doctor?

I met with him twice since our last review, and I've reviewed the daily reports from the shift guards

He's not a risk for himself

I advice removal of his POI status

We will subject that suggestion to our security status assessment

and determine the proper course of action going forward

Marines

[Prisoner:] Permission to address that chief warrant officer?

[sighs]

Aye, prisoner?

Sir, has there been any news about the date of my pre-trial hearing?

I've been briefed neither on the date of your hearing,

nor on the date when your hearing date will be determined

It's my suggestion that you confer with your attorney when it comes to those matters

Sir, I haven't been able to talk to…

Permission to address the CWO 4 is revoked

[clears throat]

Leave, private

[…] report to CWO 4 Abraheart

Aye, Corporal

[door sliding, keys rattling]

Turn left, prisoner

Not your left, my left

[Shouting] Do not turn left!

[Shouting] I said turn left, prisoner!

Yes, Corporal

This is the marines, prisoner. In the marines we respond to commands with 'aye', not 'yes'

[Shouting] Do you understand?

Aye, sir

[Shouting] No, in the marines we answer questions with 'yes', and responds to commands with 'aye'

Are we clear, prisoner?

Yes, sir

[huffing]

Stand still while we remove your restraints

[Shouting] He told you to stand still!

I didn't move, sir

[Shouting] Are you calling him a liar, prisoner?

No, sir