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Amid a week of rallies in support of prison hunger strikers, California...
by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Oakland – California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano issued a statement Thursday urging the California Department of Corrections and...
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Hunger strikers, supporters vow to continue fight as mediators conclude...
by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Sacramento – Mediators working on behalf of California prison hunger strikers concluded their meeting with CDCR Secretary Jeffrey Beard...
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Mediators talk with prisoners as hunger strike reaches one month mark,...
by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Oakland, Aug. 8, 2013 – Today marks one month for prisoners on hunger strike throughout the California prison system. Earlier today, the...
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Day 33: Prisoner hunger strike countdown for humane conditions
by Dr. Ronald Ahnen Aug. 9, 2013 – Today marks 33 days that over 200 prisoners have gone without eating. Most of those who have been strong enough to continue to this point are feeling the very dire...
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Hunger Strike Day 35: Crank up the cruelty and let them die
by Carol Strickman on behalf of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Mediation Team Some California prisoners got good news on Friday: The Federal Communications Commission agreed to limit how much...
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Hunger strike reminder: SHU isolation cell awaits California lawmakers as...
by Stop Mass Incarceration Bay Area and Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity As California legislators return to work this week, prisoner hunger strike family members, loved ones, advocates and supporters...
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Lawyers, advocates: Prison hunger strike force feeding order is a political...
Strikers vow to continue, prisoners rejoin strike, supporters redouble efforts by Azadeh Zohrabi and Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Oakland – As prisoners enter their 46th day of...
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Appeal 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...
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On Day 50 of the California prisoners’ hunger strike, I wonder, will change...
by Dolores Canales, California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement As a member of the Mediation Team, never did I think I would be a part of a Hunger Strike that would enter into its 50th day....
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Agreement to End Hostilities benefits both the streets and the prisons
A discussion on the Agreement to End Hostilities as a basis for socio-economic empowerment and inter-communal independence by the NARN Collective Think Tank, Corcoran SHU “To overcome the intelligent...
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Public Safety chairs Ammiano, Hancock announce hearings on hunger strike issues
by Carlos Alcalá, Communications Director, Office of Assemblymember Tom Ammiano Sacramento, Aug. 30, 2013 – Today Sen. Loni Hancock and Assemblymember Tom Ammiano announced that they will hold public...
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California prisoners suspend 60-day hunger strike – families, legislators...
Isaac Ontiveros and Claude Marks, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Oakland – After 60 days on hunger strike, prisoners at Pelican Bay have suspended their peaceful protest. Representatives...
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California legislative hearings take on solitary confinement, address hunger...
by Azadeh Zohrabi and Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Sacramento – A rare joint session of the California Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committees held this afternoon...
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35 years anchoring the prison abolition movement: Legal Services for...
by Wanda Sabir Dr. Angela Davis speaks to a capacity crowd celebrating the 35th anniversary of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. LSPC is a leader in the Prisoner Hunger Strike Support...
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Women in solitary confinement: ‘The isolation degenerates us into madness’
by Victoria Law A mass prisoner hunger strike rocked California’s prison system this past summer, drawing international attention to the extensive use of solitary confinement in the United States....
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We are relying on the legislature to rein in CDCR’s gross abuse of power,...
by Todd Ashker As a principal representative of the PBSP SHU (Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit) Short Corridor Collective Human Rights Movement, I begin this personal perspective update...
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Prisoners and advocacy groups oppose Sen. Loni Hancock’s prison reform bill,...
Lawyers from the LA-based Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law recently spent two days at Pelican Bay discussing with prisoners bills now introduced in the Senate by Sen. Loni Hancock and in...
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Prisoners and advocates commemorate the one-year anniversary of the hunger...
by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law A year ago on July 8, over 30,000 people inside California prisons began a hunger strike to bring an end to the state’s use of indefinite solitary...
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California’s savage system of confinement: An end to solitary is long overdue
by Marie Levin Marie Levin holds a picture of her brother, Sitawa N. Jamaa. Less than two weeks ago the United Nations Committee against Torture issued a report strongly criticizing the U.S. record on...
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Stop strip searching my mom!
June 5 deadline is looming! The deadline to comment on new – and unacceptable – rules for prison visiting is Friday, June 5! Issued by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCr)...
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