California Assembly reviews solitary confinement policies as prisoners...
by Sal Rodriguez On Monday, Feb. 25, the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee, chaired by Assembly Member Tom Ammiano, held a hearing on the state’s Security Housing Units (SHUs). The hearing...
View ArticleCalifornia prisoners launch new hunger strike to protest solitary confinement
by Sal Rodriguez July 8, 2013 – Hundreds of people held in California prisons are expected to launch their third large-scale hunger strike in two years today. The current strike, announced by leaders...
View ArticleAppeal for hearing on California prisoners to the Inter-American Commission...
by Peter A. Schey, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law The following letter was sent Aug. 23, 2013, to Dr. Emilio Álvarez Icaza, executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human...
View ArticleMissouri prisoners in solitary confinement follow California’s lead, begin...
by Shyheim El-Mumin I am a prisoner being held captive here in the state of Missouri at the Potosi Correctional Center’s Ad-Seg (Administrative Segregation, a form of solitary confinement) unit. Since...
View ArticleSeven months after historic California prison hunger strike, opponents of...
by Victoria Law Tomorrow, California lawmakers will hold a hearing about the use of solitary confinement inside its state prison system. February marks seven months since people incarcerated throughout...
View ArticleGov. Jerry Brown, AG Kamala Harris and CDCr officials, you have the power to...
by Prisoner Human Rights Movement Local Council Open letter to senior officials at CDCr headquarters: We are sharing our express concerns as the CCI Prisoner Human Rights Movement Local Council –...
View ArticleGood men, not worst of the worst
by Johnny Aguilar We are coming up on three years since the End of All Hostilities with all races has been implemented. I am feeling mighty proud for this historic mark in history that has no doubt...
View ArticleEnd prison slavery in Texas now! Part II: Class consciousness and...
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington, chief spokesperson for the End Prison Slavery in Texas Movement and deputy chairman of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party Prison Chapter (NABPP PC), Texas Region “Largely...
View ArticleOld Folsom prisoners hunger strike for their 8th Amendment right – freedom...
by Ann Garrison KPFA Weekend News, broadcast May 27, 2017 “Administrative segregation” is prison bureaucratese for solitary confinement. On Thursday, prisoners in solitary at California’s Old Folsom...
View ArticleEmergency action alert: The men who wrote the historic Agreement to End...
by Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity “Support Our Fight to End Solitary Confinement” – Art: Michael D. Russell, C-90473, HDSP C2-122, P.O. Box 3030, Susanville CA 96127 In October 2017, the two-year...
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