Blog Beat: Prison Hunger Strike; Grand Jury Rips Central Subway Plan; Death...
From The Informant: A report on the hunger strike that’s spread to a number of California prisons From Streetsblog San Francisco: The San Francisco Civil Grand Jury’s report on the planned Central...
View ArticlePrisoners on Hunger Strike Show Signs of Starvation, Official Wants to...
Hundreds of California prisoners are approaching three weeks on a hunger strike, including a few showing signs of starvation. The strike protesting the conditions in Security Housing Units began at...
View ArticleDept of Corrections Says Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay Prison Over; Interview:...
The department sent out a statement about 10 minutes ago: SACRAMENTO – Today, Matthew Cate, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), announced that inmates at...
View ArticleWhat Did Prisoners on Hunger Strike Want, What Did They Get?
After most of the state prisoners on a hunger strike ended it last week, attorney Carol Strickman of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, who represented the demands of the strikers to the...
View ArticleSecurity Housing Units, Extreme Isolation at Heart of Inmate Hunger Strike,...
Corrections officials told state lawmakers today they’re committed to changing the state’s controversial use of isolation units at four prisons, including Pelican Bay. At an Assembly Public Safety...
View ArticleInmates Vow to Resume Hunger Strike
from California Watch Corrections officials are taking security precautions and gearing up medical staff in response to growing indications that inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison will resume a hunger...
View ArticleThousands of Prisoners Renew Hunger Strike
This tweeted about 15 minutes ago by KQED News’ Michael Montgomery: http://twitter.com/#!/MichaelMontCW/status/118803359460360193 Update 4:10 p.m. The strike has been confirmed by the California...
View ArticleState Officials Warn of Discipline For Inmates on Hunger Strike
State corrections officials yesterday threatened to discipline thousands of inmates who have resumed a hunger strike over conditions at California’s highest-security lockups. A state Department of...
View ArticleRaw Video: Freed Iran Hikers Talk to Occupy Oakland, Support Prison Hunger...
Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal, the three UC Berkeley grads who were taken captive by Iran while hiking near the border, spoke to the Occupy Oakland protesters at their encampment in front...
View ArticleHundreds of California Prisoners Could be Transferred From Isolation Units...
by Michael Montgomery and Sarah Terry-Cobo, California Watch Hundreds of California prisoners locked in stark segregation units could be transferred to regular prison cells under new policies being...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Prison Policy: Document on New Isolation Rules Annotated
Last year hundreds of inmates staged two hunger strikes that spread to 13 prisons in California. The prisoners were protesting conditions in super-maximum security units known as SHUs, where a majority...
View ArticleDoes 22 1/2 Hours Alone in an 8 x 10 Cell Every Day Amount to Torture? Video...
“I haven’t seen the moon since 1998.” That’s inmate Jeremy Beasley, talking to me while sitting–shackled–in an interview room at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s highest security lockup. Beasley,...
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