by the Pelikan Bay First Amendment Rights Campaign: Abdul Shakur, Ifoma Modibo Kambon, Dadisi Yero Kambon, Raridi Yero, Abasi Ganda, Kijana Tashiri Askari, Yafeu I-Yapo Many within society, and rightfully so, may find what I am about to allege very incredible and absurd, beyond the capacity of their comprehension, but the truth must be told if justice is truly to be served. “Lessons from […]
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Greetings friends and comrades, The New Campaign for Russell Maroon Shoats’s Freedom is starting today. Please take the time to read the information Matt Meyers has sent from Maroon’s comittee, and do what ever you can to help bring him home. Thanks Paulette Jericho National Sec. attached is the full organizing packet – though for […]
23 years of solitary: Beyond ‘cruel and unusual’ April 3, 2013 by Marie Levin I have not hugged my brother in over two decades. His name is Ronnie Dewberry and he goes by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa. He has been in solitary confinement in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison since 1990. Ronnie could have been home […]
by James Simmons Imagine being locked in a cage alone for 22 ½ hours a day, sometimes for decades on end, with no normal human contact ever and no exposure to direct sunlight ever. Now imagine that during this terrible experience you were subjected to being shot with an assault rifle and dumped in a […]
by Imara Mwasi aka De’anthony Chaney I am a 22-year-old young Black brotha currently housed in Corcoran SHU, arrived here Nov. 27, 2012, after the hunger strike. I came from Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI) in Tracy, the Reception Center Ad-Seg – the hole – where I’d been since July 15, 2012. I received my first actual 115 disciplinary […]
GREETINGS TO ALL, I WAS PUT IN THE SHU ON FEB 7TH. THE INCIDENT SHOT WAS FOR ENCOURAGING A GROUP DEMONSTRATION AND CIRCUMVENTING THE PHONE MONITOR, NONE OF WHICH WAS TRUE. STEMS FROM THE BLACK HISTORY DISCUSSION AT THE NORTH RIDGE UNIVERSITY. PROFESSOR KARIN STANFORD. MORE DETAILS TO COME LATER. THE SHOT ENCOURAGING A GROUP […]
PELICAN BAY HUNGER STRIKE RESUMES: The Continued Struggle to End Solitary Confinement in California Tuesday March 19th @ 6:00pm UC Hastings College of the Law 198 McAllister Street Louis B. Mayer Lounge JOIN US this Tuesday, March 19th at 6:00pm at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco for a panel on […]
by a California prisoner February 2013 permalink I’ve enclosed a chrono that documents how these people have chosen to violate my First Amendment right to read a book. I’ve been validated and am awaiting transfer to the Security Housing Unit (SHU). “On Thursday, November 18, 2010, the Correctional Training Facility (CTF) Institutional Gang Investigator (IGI) Unit conducted […]
by Denise Mewbourne Almost two years later, the ripple effect of the 2011 hunger strike organized by the Short Corridor Collective in Pelican Bay prison continues to reverberate throughout California. In protest of solitary confinement torture in California’s Security Housing Units (SHUs), 12,000 people in prisons throughout the state participated in the hunger strike. At […]
by Abdul Olugbala Shakur The following assessment is far from being complete; it is a brief analysis compelled by a question an activist posed to me: How does sensory deprivation (S.D.) impact the psyche of those prisoners who have been subjected to long-term solitary confinement? Actually, this text is but a modified letter that I wrote […]
