http://sfbayview.com/2013/brown-can-release-prisoners-early-without-compromising-public-safety/ by Lizzie Buchen After a year of defying court orders to alleviate the state’s prison crisis, Gov. Jerry Brown seems to have finally pushed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to its limit. In an April 11 ruling, having already “exercised exceptional restraint,” the exasperated federal judges declared the state “will […]
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by Carl S. Harrison Have you ever heard of a prisoner with life insurance or health care? No. This is because every prison sentence could very well end up in death to the inmate. In January, Human Rights Watch reported that from 2007 to 2010 the number of prisoners in the U.S. over age […]
Statement from the Pelikan Bay Human Rights Movement First Amendment Campaign by Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Sondai Kamdibe Dumisani, Abasi Ganda, Ifoma Modibo Kambon, Dadisi Yero, Askari Joka, Mutope Duguma, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Baridi Yero, Kijana Tashiri Askari, Yafeu I-Yapo Preamble: Fascist repression can only flourish when the voices of its victims have been brutally silenced and isolated within the concrete confines of a man-made construct where the scrutiny […]
Please join Mat Callahan, Poet Nina Serrano & surprise guests at The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics located at 518 Valencia on Friday May 3rd @ 7pm. 518 Valencia on Friday May 3rd @ 7pm It was with delighted surprise that a large cache of Looters video, long thought to be lost, was rediscovered […]
SHUs don’t work. Rates of gang activity, yard violence, illegal drug sales and assaults on staff are increasing in California, while decreasing in other states. Maryland has recently closed its SHU. 2. SHUs add violence to the prison system. The psychologically brutal and degrading conditions of long term SHU confinement encourages violence […]
by Emily Harris, Californians United for a Responsible Budget Redwood City – In commemoration of Earth Day, community members from around San Mateo County gathered outside of the new jail site and the County Center wearing hazardous materials suits and gas masks to illustrate the toxic nature of the new jail. Carrying a giant banner […]
On Monday April 8th they ran no yard on 4B facility in Corcoran-SHU. We of course investigated as to why we were, yet again, denied yard access without explanation and discovered staff had all gone to some sort of “training.” By chance, or design, one of the N.C.T.T.-Cor-SHU coordinators was under escort by 2 officers who, […]
Advocates push to bring prisoners home by Emily Harris, Californians United for a Responsible Budget Sacramento – Yesterday’s ultimatum by the three-judge panel puts Gov. Brown and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on notice to present a plan for further reductions in the state’s unconstitutionally crowded prisons within the next three weeks. “The […]
by Arturo Castellanos Greetings to all those men and women of like minds and spirits who are going to volunteer and stand with us in solidarity in the upcoming peaceful struggle to force positive changes to CDCR that will benefit all prisoners and all our outside families and friends. California prisoners who backed up their […]
By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prisons-20130412,0,6359134.story?track=rss April 11, 2013, 9:58 p.m. SACRAMENTO — A panel of federal judges Thursday threatened to hold Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials in contempt of court if they do not quickly produce a plan to remove thousands of convicts from California’s packed prisons. In a blistering 71-page […]
