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Despite threats, most strikers at New Folsom standing strong
Letters written by prisoners since the hunger strike began are arriving at the Bay View. Here are two from New Folsom in Sacramento. A once political empire rises again by James Flournoy When I first...
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Call and response: Supporter responds to Corcoran SHU hunger strikers’ plight...
From a letter by Zaharibu Michael Dorrough to a friend (response follows) July 14, 2013, Corcoran State Prison Security Housing Unit – Forgive me for not being able to write sooner. It has been very,...
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Arturo Castellanos’ update on Pelican Bay’s response to hunger strike demands...
by Arturo Castellanos Authorized Personal Property Schedules Letter dated March 3, 2014 – I’m one of the four main SHU reps here at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP). I’m writing this brief article about...
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Review Board suggests Pelican Bay prisoner stop political writing for...
by Joe A’Jene Valentine “I will not leave a word for railers. And I will not ease the hearts of my enemies by the violation of my honour. I have been born with misfortune till I have discovered its...
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Corcoran SHU prisoners start hunger strike for decent healthcare; support...
by Annabelle Parker The men on hunger strike are family men, whose loved ones need them alive and well, and they demand treatment for their life-threatening conditions. Is there any compassion at...
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California 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...
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California transfers Pelican Bay SHU prisoners to general population despite...
by Mutawally Joka Kambon It has been a few months since my release from 20 years of solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison (SHU) to Step 5 of the Step Down Program (SDP). I thought I should...
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Prison artist uses ‘visual language’ to inspire his brothers
by Guss Lumumba Edwards First off, thank you for being there every step of the way over all of these years. I cannot even begin to mention every place you’ve been, but I do know that behind these...
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Four years since our hunger strikes began, none of our core demands have yet...
by Mutope Duguma, Pelican Bay short corridor Let’s not forget that CDCr can lock you up for being an alleged leader, as an influential individual – on just this alone. Pen pals Mutope Duguma and Annie...
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CCI Step Down Program is bogus
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa Is this the way CDCr sees prisoners? The CCI Step Down Program is trying to play the men in Steps 3 and 4 for fools, and they aren’t having it. The artist writes, “The symbol...
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The Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Conference comes to Oakland
by The People’s Minister of Information JR All of Us or None’s upcoming Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Western Regional Conference is Sept. 20-21 at Oakstop, 1721 Broadway in downtown...
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Revolutionary eulogy by Texas Chicano POW-political prisoner Alvaro Luna...
by Alvaro Luna Hernandez Power to the people! Power to our fallen Comrade Brother Hugo “Yogi Bear” Pinell! We were saddened by the news that Yogi was murdered last Wednesday, Aug. 12, during an alleged...
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Assassination of Hugo Pinell: One guard asked another, ‘Did they get him?’
by Tyrone White I’m a 38-year-old native of South Sacramento currently incarcerated in Lancaster, Calif. I would like to expose injustice and further educate you and your readers on the events...
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Black August 2016
by NABPP-PC Minister of Justice Bobby Marion Dixon From behind the enemy lines of the California State Prison System, from within the “belly of the beast” that is the Amerikan injustice system, I greet...
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Un-ban the Bay View!
This mural, called “Strike 4 Freedom,” which recently appeared in Oakland, signals to prisoners everywhere that your community will accept nothing less than an end to prison slavery and your imminent...
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Baridi X Williamson: I went inside my heart to survive the torture in the...
by Baridi X Williamson Part I: Upon leaving Pelican Bay SHU solitary confinement, my firsts (of many) Baridi X Williamson 2016 Leaving out of Pelican Bay solitary confinement torture prison...
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CDCr must effect genuine changes in its old policies, culture and practices
by Baridi and Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa Baridi X Williamson Sitawa hugs his sister, Marie Levin, a leading advocate during the struggle against solitary confinement, for the first time in 31 years. He was...
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PTSD SC: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Solitary Confinement
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and Baridi J. Williamson California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) had been locking classes of prisoners up in solitary confinement since the ‘60s as part...
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Asm. Sydney Kamlager-Dove pushing law to end slavery in California’s prisons
Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager-Dove with Jamilia Land, co-founder of ASAP and wife of imprisoned humanitarian activist Samuel Brown. Together, Jamilia and Samuel made a significant contribution to the...
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Remembering the mighty hunger strikes: 10th anniversary salutations!
Mutawally Joka Kambon is serving a sentence of life plus 19 years. One of our unsung Elder heroes of the historic California Hunger Strikes, survivor of 22 years of solitary confinement torture in...
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