Raw 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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