Pelican Bay SHU representatives respond to CDCR’s proposed gang management...
by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, Sitawa Jamaa (s/n R.N. Dewberry) and Antonio Guillen Supporters of the mass California prisoner hunger strike marched on July 25, 2011, to a rally outside CDCR...
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by Brian Keith Barnett As a convict commentator, I would be remiss if I failed to provide an analysis of my own observations and those from various sources relative to the prisoncrats’ response to our...
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by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (Dewberry), Arturo Castellanos, Todd Ashker and Antonio Guillen Preface Pelican Bay prison guard George Sherman carries a rifle whenever a guard enters a cell pod in the SHU. –...
View ArticleCDCR to prisoners: Submit to force-feeding to get demands met
by Paul Redd/Mume, Ruben Williams/Jitu Joka Kambon, Richard Wembe Johnson, Charles Coleman/Ghais As a representative of the Pelican Bay SHU hunger strikes in 2011 and a signatory on the “Agreement to...
View ArticleHunger strikers denied right to read: Pelican Bay officials just don’t get it
by Mutope Duguma, Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement Mutope Duguma in a photo taken June 14, 2013. The right to a photo was one small victory won by the 2011 hunger strikes. Previously, many SHU...
View ArticleLawyers Guild honors prison hunger strikers
by the PHSS Media Committee On the evening of April 5, hundreds gathered in downtown Oakland for the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter’s (NLGSF) annual fundraising dinner. The...
View ArticleCalifornia prisoner representatives: All people have the right to humane...
Main reps mark the first anniversary of suspension of the 2013 Hunger Strike and the second anniversary of the Agreement to End Hostilities by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos and George Franco We...
View ArticlePrisoners United of Silicon Valley thank each other and supporters for a...
by Mary Ratcliff In late September, prisoners in the Santa Clara County jails who are part of what they then called the Prisoners’ Human Rights Movement sent a letter to Sheriff Laurie Smith with a...
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