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All eight of Biderman’s methods of psychological coercion appear in Richard Allen’s Westville record. These methods operated simultaneously and continuously, reinforcing one another, throughout the entirety of his 13-month confinement. #FreeRicky #FreeRickAllen

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The warden was literally there. At the July 2024 suppression hearing, Galipeau testified that he "did not remember" investigators coming into Westville to interview Richard Allen in November 2022. Galipeau was literally captured on video standing directly behind Richard Allen at that November 2022 interview. At the same July 2024 hearing, Holeman tried to reduce the November encounter at Westville to: “I attempted [to interview Rick]". But Holeman's own video shows Rick restrained, seated at a metal table, inside some sort of interview or admin room at Westville; the warden is standing in the hallway directly outside the closed door, and Holeman sits right across from Rick at the small metal table. Holeman's video recording device is conspicuously pointed right at Rick's face. Holeman proceeds to ask Rick if he has obtained an attorney (Rick shakes his head "no") before pressuring Rick with a lie about how "the public" and "the media" are accusing Kathy, Rick's wife, of being involved in the murders. Just another example of the State's winning strategy in their case against Richard Allen: repeat a lie enough times, and it eventually becomes “truth” good enough to convict an innocent man. #FreeRicky #FreeRickAllen #Delphi

4 years ago today, the State of Indiana charged Richard Allen with murders that he had nothing to do with. rickallenjustice.com alleyesondelphi.github.io/ri… #FreeRickAllen #FreeRicky

Rick's own words. On March 12, 2023, Richard Allen gave his wife Kathy an instruction from inside his solitary cell at Westville Correctional Facility: "I worry that they're going to take me and drug me or torture me and try to get a false confession out of me," he told Kathy. "If they ever try to say that I confessed, you need to ask to see the video and the audio." Three weeks later, sleepless and disoriented, Rick would tell Kathy he had killed two girls; and the State would build its entire case around those very words. Played in order, however, the recorded calls tell a completely different story. The man who walked in. When Rick arrived at Westville in November 2022, he was 50 years old. He had been married to Kathy since 1991, had no criminal record and no history of violence. He did, however, carry a long psychiatric history: major depression and generalized anxiety since childhood, and a 2019 hospitalization for suicidal thinking. Rick’s own treating psychologist, Dr. Monica Wala, testified under oath that the State put him in the most restrictive placement the facility had: solitary confinement within Westville’s Restrictive Housing Unit (the SHU). Rick’s cell was about 8½ by 12½ feet, his mattress lay on a steel plate inches off the ground, an in-cell camera ran around the clock; the lights never fully turned off, and men screamed "kill yourself" and other abuses at him nearly 24/7. 1/