Sleep deprivation intensifies torture conditions for prisoners in advance of...
by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Oakland— Less than a month before statewide hunger strikes are set to resume, the California Department of Corrections has instituted a new policy...
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by Mutope Duguma and Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa This is a glimpse into torture by prison staff, using any means available, of which solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison in California is only a...
View ArticleWe can’t breathe! Thoughts on our Agreement to End Hostilities
by Kijani Tashiri Askari and Akili Castlin The Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary defines the word “hostility” as 1) a hostile state, condition or attitude; enmity; antagonism;...
View ArticleSummary of settlement terms in anti-solitary confinement class action, Ashker...
by the Center for Constitutional Rights When Ashker v. Brown (Governor of California) was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security...
View ArticleCritical Resistance and IWW support prisoner resistance at Holman, call for...
Tear down cages by Critical Resistance Our attention has been turned this week to Holman Prison in Alabama where rolling uprisings inside have led to prisoners taking control of certain areas of the...
View ArticleFolsom hunger strike begins today, May 25 – your support is needed
by Anthony Estrada via a family member Supporters rally in front of CDCR headquarters in Sacramento on July 18, 2011, 10 days into the first mass hunger strike to end longterm solitary confinement led...
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