PUBLIC NOTICE: TRANSFER OF LIABILITY
TO: M. Strassel, Acting Warden / Associate Warden, FCI Milan
FROM: Adrienne Rockenhaus, Wife, Caregiver, and Next Friend of Conrad Rockenhaus
DATE: January 2, 2026
RE: IMMEDIATE MEDICAL EMERGENCY – INMATE #39400-480
Associate Warden Strassel:
Warden Eric Rardin has fled the jurisdiction of the Eastern District of Michigan. His official auto-reply designates YOU as the authority responsible for “matters that require immediate assistance.”
Associate Warden M. Strassel: Consider this your formal notification of an IMMEDIATE LIFE-THREATENING EMERGENCY:
- The Patient: Conrad Rockenhaus (Reg. #39400-480) is a 100% Disabled Veteran with a documented Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Seizure Disorder.
- The Risk: He is currently held in the SHU (Solitary Confinement), unmonitored, where he is at imminent risk of “SUDEP” (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy) or aspiration during a seizure.
- The Knowledge: You are now in possession of the same “Actual Knowledge” that Warden Rardin fled to avoid: that FCI Milan cannot treat his neurological condition and that his continued isolation is a violation of the 8th Amendment (Farmer v. Brennan).
THE TRANSFER OF LIABILITY:
Warden Rardin’s departure does not pause the Constitution.
As of December 29, YOU, Associate Warden Strassel, are personally liable for the safety of every inmate at FCI Milan.
- If Conrad Rockenhaus seizes and dies in your SHU, from the head injury inflicted by U.S. Marshals during the illegal raid on my home, while Rardin is in New York, YOU will be the named defendant in the resulting Bivens action for Deliberate Indifference.
- You have the authority to transfer him to a hospital right now. Failure to do so means that you are deliberately allowing the death of an inmate, having full knowledge of the facts. That is murder, and I will see to it that you face the full criminal penalty.
THE DEMAND: Transfer Inmate #39400-480 to a VA Hospital or authorized ER for immediate neurological stabilization.
The clock is ticking on your watch, not Warden Rardin’s.
Regarding the custody of Inmate Conrad Rockenhaus (#39400-480):
See the attached comparison of SAUSA Lambert’s brief vs. the Official Court Transcript. The public record now proves the U.S. Attorney’s Office misled the Appeals Court regarding the retaliation complaints on record.
WARNING: Any movement of Mr. Rockenhaus this weekend to anywhere besides a local VA hospital, civilian ER, or his home, will be viewed as a direct attempt to bury this contradiction and destroy evidence while an expedited appeal is pending.
If he is moved out of the jurisdiction of the Eastern District of Michigan (e.g., to an out-of-state BOP facility), it will be cited immediately in court filings as further proof of the very retaliation SAUSA Lambert denied existed.
Stabilize him locally today. Do not transfer him out of state.
Illegal Violent Raid that Caused Untreated Injury
The video of the violent, illegal raid caught on my home security camera can be seen here. My husband, Conrad Rockenhaus, was injured badly during this illegal violence, and suffered a grand mal seizure in court, hours later. He has not been evaluated, nor treated, for this head injury. Conrad Rockenhaus is dying slowly, in horrific pain, seizing to death in the SHU as a retaliatory punishment for speaking out against the Neo-Nazi guards FCI Milan employs. This is now your responsibility. If you fail to act right now, and my husband dies, you will be held personally and criminally liable. Qualified immunity does not protect you from murder.