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From the belly of the beast
by Gustavo Chavez, Pelican Bay State Prison SHU This is the view from inside a cell in the Pelican Bay SHU. The front wall is made of perforated steel, providing no privacy. - Photo: CDCR I have a...
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Nobody deserves to be tortured: a response to CDCR’s STG-SDP plan
by Mutope Dugma The new “Security Threat Group Prevention, Identification, and Management Strategy” will instigate new and more aggressive attacks against prisoners and their families, friends,...
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How CDCr scams California taxpayers
by Mutope Duguma Prior to our two hunger strikes in 2011, we prisoners who are suffering indefinitely in solitary confinement for being validated as prison gang members or associates, held in these...
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It’s time to replace prison oppression with prisoner solidarity
by Ajene Nkrumah, Abdul O. Shakur, Sondai Kamdibe, Abasi Banda and Mutope Duguma It’s time that we prisoners take advantage of this End All Hostilities Agreement between our racial groups and our...
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Torture in Israeli jails
A report based on interviews with former Palestinian prisoners and detainees by UFree Network Media centre Israel is considered by both international human rights organizations and media polls as one...
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Institutionalized racism and censorship are relatives
Statement from the Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement First Amendment Campaign by Sondai Dumisani, Abasi Ganda, Mutope Duguma, Abdul O. Shakur, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa Drawing by Michael David Russell,...
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Peaceful protest
by Mutope Duguma CDCr is only resorting to desperate acts because we, as an oppressed prison class, have removed the justification that normally under these types of circumstances allow CDCr to...
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Herman Wallace, who gave his life to end solitary confinement, got no mercy
by Mutope Duguma The system, whether it is in the state of California or Louisiana, has demonstrated that those of us held in solitary confinement will receive no mercy. The recent actions surrounding...
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Humanity indicted for our silence in the face of torture
by Abdul Olugbala Shakur As imprisoned activists we’ve often asked society: What have your eyes seen to wish to see no more? And what have your ears heard to wish to hear no more? Your self-imposed...
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Moving forward with our fight to end solitary confinement
by Todd Ashker Greetings of solidarity and respect to all similarly situated members of the prison class unified in our struggle to end long term solitary confinement and win related long overdue...
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‘13th’ and the culture of surplus punishment
by Victor Wallis Michelle Alexander, author of the game-changing book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” plays a major role in “13th.” Ava DuVernay undertook the...
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Liberate the Caged Voices
Pelican Bay Prison Guard George Sherman, perched in his “control booth,” carries his assault rifle whenever a guard enters an eight-cell pod. Pelican Bay, the world’s first “supermax” prison, is...
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