Millions for Prisoners Urges America to Finally Forsake Its Most Profitable Practice by Amani Sawari

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Serving The Interests Of Prisoners And Their Loved Ones On The Outside For Twenty Five Years Millions for Prisoners Urges America to Finally Forsake its Most Profitable Practice By Amani Sawari | SawariMi jail. At the same time, public education has been de-funded prison population. In business, profits are calculated by America’s greatest sin, slavery, is a practice that by $74 million, blatantly exhibiting Seattle's commitment focusing on a market: our criminal justice system’s market continues to plague our community into the 21st century. to the national trend of incarcerating rather than educating is in black and brown bodies. This is why people of color The rate of incarceration has steadily increased since our youth, an obvious illustration of the public school-toare arrested, sentenced, and incarcerated at an alarmingly slavery’s ‘abolition’, or rather, re-appropriation. How prison pipeline. disproportionate rate:1/3 of Black men can to expect to be could we think that the United States would simply give How can we stop this trend? We must call out those locked up in their lifetime. up its most lucrative business? Slavery has been the corporations who contribute to mass incarceration in order With last year's release of Ava Duverney’s 13TH country’s most profitable economic strategy since the to reverse the cycle of dehumanization and enslavement for documentary, many people are looking for a way to fix first Africans were forced onto the Americas in 1619. profit in his country. Knowing that the 13th Amendment our ‘broken’ institutional systems. We must realize that the Although the 13th Amendment is said to have abolished provides legal motivation for corporations to profit from criminal justice system is not broken - it’s operating exactly slavery, it is actually the first place in the constitution mass incarceration, we must focus on the exception clause as it was intended. The 13th Amendment was written with where the word “slavery” is mentioned, and therefore of the 13th Amendment. In line with this, organizers across an exception clause that has been used to influence every it in fact wrote slavery into the constitution, read as the nation on both sides of the prison wall have been aspect of our society, from the coffee we drink at Starbucks, follows: planning the Millions for Prisoners March for the past to the underwear we buy at Victoria’s Secret. The deals we “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a two years. The protest focuses on the removal of the 13th see at Wal-Mart are sustained by our government’s interest punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been amendment’s exception clause, on the grounds that it is in in mass imprisonment and our system has succeeded in duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or violation of international law, which states, in the Universal producing the world’s largest prison population. 1 in 25 any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Declaration of Human Rights Article 4: “no one should Americans are behind bars. That’s at least one student out The wording of this amendment is not only be held in slavery or servitude, slavery in all of its forms of every classroom. Because the prison-industrial complex contradictory but also heavily derogatory and offensive. should be eliminated.” There are no exceptions. This is is so deeply ingrained in American culture we have to be Knowing that slavery as an institution was responsible because when slavery or servitude becomes accepted in any active and intentional about our resistance to this system. for the violent dehumanization, degradation, abuse and form or fashion within a society, it has myriad social and For those interested in participating in the march on California Prison Focus is a grassroots organization death of an entire race of people; its preservation in political consequences. In America we’ve seen these some August 19th, local representatives are organizing in the constitution as legalized ‘punishment’ for criminal of these consequences in the form of businesses such as several states throughout the country. 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and AA make up ⅓ of United States general population population general States United of ⅓ up make AA and of me reminded worst” the of “worse the of falsehood

for help but the system was so chaotic and punitive that it it that punitive and chaotic so was system the but help for

or support to adjust (p. 168). A weakness of Reiter’s book book Reiter’s of weakness A 168). (p. adjust to support or eliminated 1976 in courts the discretion, officials’ prison

60,000 Immigrants...... ,,,,,,,....Continued on page 15 page on Immigrants...... ,,,,,,,....Continued 60,000 disproportionately negatively impacts minorities. Latinos Latinos minorities. impacts negatively disproportionately the perpetuated CDCr that realize To beings. human as

threats to be kicked out of programs. Patients were asking asking were Patients programs. of out kicked be to threats

SHU inmates directly to the community without a transition transition a without community the to directly inmates SHU curb to attempt an In protection. more for need perceived the

Eliminate the discretionary application of the law that that law the of application discretionary the Eliminate criminals these see to begin we SHU, the of out and in

for not progressing enough, or for filing grievances, by grievances, filing for or enough, progressing not for

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through restorative justice programs. Protest injustices. injustices. Protest programs. justice restorative through face they struggles unnecessary the of hear we As prison. In a statement GEO Group says they “strongly refute” refute” “strongly they says Group GEO statement a In

shameful part was that at times, patients were then penalized penalized then were patients times, at that was part shameful

unconscionable. unconscionable. overcrowding created turn in which minorities, of especially

felons as people first and criminals second” (p. 64). Heal Heal 64). (p. second” criminals and first people as felons of constraints the escape to descriptively so wrote or cells other company worldwide. company other

not knowing if their therapist would be gone tomorrow. The The tomorrow. gone be would therapist their if knowing not

prisoners have been held in the SHU for over 40 years is is years 40 over for SHU the in held been have prisoners incarceration, in increase an to contributed attitude crime on

and connections instead of fear and hatred. “Redefine “Redefine hatred. and fear of instead connections and barren their into life drew some how language, new a or prison operator, incarcerating more immigrants than any any than immigrants more incarcerating operator, prison

care everywhere. Patients were hesitant to begin therapy therapy begin to hesitant were Patients everywhere. care

as a semblance of control over their lives. To think some some think To lives. their over control of semblance a as hard political reactionary the and unrest community evolving

We need to define and defend our values. Nurture hope Nurture values. our defend and define to need We skills new learned some how routines, strict through body centers operated by GEO Group, the second largest private private largest second the Group, GEO by operated centers

immediate needs of another which disrupted continuity of of continuity disrupted which another of needs immediate

life, or provoked cops to kill them, or harmed themselves themselves harmed or them, kill to cops provoked or life, The prisoners. the and environment their over control more

people must expect more from ourselves and our leaders. leaders. our and ourselves from more expect must people and mind of discipline developed prisoners these how

The Aurora facility is one of more than 140 detention detention 140 than more of one is facility Aurora The

often pulled from one skeletally staffed program to cover cover to program staffed skeletally one from pulled often

“snitched, ” guaranteeing them death, or took their own own their took or death, them guaranteeing ” “snitched, secure to attempt an in officials prison by actions defensive

more than ever, with Donald Trump as president, we as a a as we president, as Trump Donald with ever, than more respectfully and beautifully describes She worst.” the of a private prison to fight claims of forced labor in court. in labor forced of claims fight to prison private a

or anger management had long waiting lists. Therapists were were Therapists lists. waiting long had management anger or

confinement. Others in attempts to escape such horrors, horrors, such escape to attempts in Others confinement. provoked has uprising bloody Facility Correctional Attica

fail to do. As harrowing as this book is, it is inspiring. Now Now inspiring. is it is, book this as harrowing As do. to fail “worse of myth the support to evidence little found Reiter It’s the first class-action lawsuit in U.S. history obligating obligating history U.S. in lawsuit class-action first the It’s

recreational. The “core” groups for trauma, substance use, use, substance trauma, for groups “core” The recreational.

confinement are leveraged by CDCr to justify such restrictive restrictive such justify to CDCr by leveraged are confinement York New 1971 9, September the by followed killing,

prohibits forced labor under threat of harm. of threat under labor forced prohibits was that we are equally accountable for what we do and and do we what for accountable equally are we that was unsettling. was behavior violent or violation rule any of

not an issue, the treatment groups available were largely largely were available groups treatment the issue, an not

and resentment have assaulted others; thus results of the the of results thus others; assaulted have resentment and Jackson’s to led that riot Prison State Quentin San 1971

violates the Trafficking Victims Protection Act which which Act Protection Victims Trafficking the violates apparatus of deceit. In the end, this book’s message to me me to message book’s this end, the In deceit. of apparatus absence in gangs with associated being allegedly for there

led to restricted services delivered. Even when space was was space when Even delivered. services restricted to led

from. When released from the SHU, some filled with rage rage with filled some SHU, the from released When from. 21, August the Jackson, George prisoner revolutionary the

The case argues threatening solitary confinement confinement solitary threatening argues case The when they are just contributing through their silence to the the to silence their through contributing just are they when were majority the that book the from learn To offenses.

refused appointments when they had not. Space limitations limitations Space not. had they when appointments refused

creates the “monster” CDCr claims to be protecting us us protecting be to claims CDCr “monster” the creates of memories distressing recurrent the how uncovered she

to die in there.” in die to themselves into thinking that they are doing something something doing are they that thinking into themselves violent for there” way their “earned SHU the in inmates

to confidential offices. At times guards would say patients patients say would guards times At offices. confidential to

dangerous than a man who has nothing to lose.” The SHU SHU The lose.” to nothing has who man a than dangerous officials prison key interviewing By anxiety. and fear of grip

like hell on earth. If you’re not strong enough you’ll want want you’ll enough strong not you’re If earth. on hell like and at times bring more harm than good. Staff deludes deludes Staff good. than harm more bring times at and that told repeatedly was I PBSP at working While SHU. the

window of opportunity that custody could escort patients patients escort could custody that opportunity of window

illness. Patients would often lament, “There is nothing more more nothing is “There lament, often would Patients illness. the from themselves release to unable been has past violent

anonymous detainee say carries a lot of weight: “It was was “It weight: of lot a carries say detainee anonymous

programs that never unfold into the promise of healing, healing, of promise the into unfold never that programs of purpose real the to as perplexed left are We conditions.

Access to patients for treatment was limited by the narrow narrow the by limited was treatment for patients to Access

long lasting and can devastate even those without mental mental without those even devastate can and lasting long its by hostage held staff prison traumatized a how revealed confinement. A threat immigrants like this former, former, this like immigrants threat A confinement.

and actions, while supervisors create more ill planned planned ill more create supervisors while actions, and SHU and policy validation gang CDCr the of protest in

not scanned into the electronic system in a timely manner. manner. timely a in system electronic the into scanned not

injurious behaviors. 8 Some of these adverse effects can be be can effects adverse these of Some 8 behaviors. injurious Reiter began. it as is PBSP see I book, Reiter’s reading In Those who refuse are threatened with solitary solitary with threatened are refuse who Those

avoid discussing the ethical dilemmas of some policies policies some of dilemmas ethical the discussing avoid California across prisoners 30,000 of strike hunger 2013

Chart documentation was often incomplete, with notes notes with incomplete, often was documentation Chart

(p163). Inmates in segregation have the highest rates of self self of rates highest the have segregation in Inmates (p163). reality. distorted a be may obtained information and for free or $1 a day. a $1 or free for

out fires that it becomes very easy to look away and away look to easy very becomes it that fires out the organized peacefully they as silenced be not could they

Routine labs were restricted to Tuesday and Thursdays. Thursdays. and Tuesday to restricted were labs Routine

2,3,4,5,6,7 In 2014, 79% of suicides were in isolation units units isolation in were suicides of 79% 2014, In 2,3,4,5,6,7 truth, the reveal than rather conceal actually to ways find will janitorial work, clerical work, landscaping and other jobs jobs other and landscaping work, clerical work, janitorial

them from the urgency of action. Staff is so busy putting putting busy so is Staff action. of urgency the from them proved inmates SHU The 194). (p history by supported

admitted to the inpatient unit or sent to an outside facility. facility. outside an to sent or unit inpatient the to admitted

hopelessness, helplessness, suicide, and suicidal behaviors. behaviors. suicidal and suicide, helplessness, hopelessness, exposure resist that those that such is transparency of politics detainees held at the Aurora ICE facility were forced to do do to forced were facility ICE Aurora the at held detainees

the daily demoralizing prison experience that removes removes that experience prison demoralizing daily the not is too this but 1970s” the in Attica the and Jackson

anorexia. I could not order urgent labs unless a prisoner was was prisoner a unless labs urgent order not could I anorexia.

to normal stimuli, startled responses, hyper vigilance, vigilance, hyper responses, startled stimuli, normal to the how exposing examples multiple provides Reiter wait. to for a lawsuit alleging at least 60,000 past and present present and past 60,000 least at alleging lawsuit a for

compartmentalization that many staff utilize to survive survive to utilize staff many that compartmentalization George by characterized resistance collective widespread

during hunger strikes, paranoia driven refusal of food, or or food, of refusal driven paranoia strikes, hunger during

concentration difficulties, dissociation, hyper-sensitivity hyper-sensitivity dissociation, difficulties, concentration have will change meaningful real and enforced, selectively In March, a federal judge approved class-action status status class-action approved judge federal a March, In

Reiter uncovers reminds me of the detachment and and detachment the of me reminds uncovers Reiter the eliminating in “succeeded has SHU the that argues

speaking patients, or a scale to monitor patient’s weight weight patient’s monitor to scale a or patients, speaking forced to keep this place spic and span. and spic place this keep to forced obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, memory and and memory behaviors, compulsive thoughts, obsessive be will discretion administrative effective, minimally remain

very existence of solitary confinement. Each discovery discovery Each confinement. solitary of existence very Reiter 13 violence. prison of reduction a in result not did

phone to provide translation services for non-English non-English for services translation provide to phone detainees themselves may be a non-consenting work crew crew work non-consenting a be may themselves detainees

depression, paranoia, anger, impulsivity, hallucinations, hallucinations, impulsivity, anger, paranoia, depression, will oversight misplaced, be will accountability questioned,

Keramet Reiter masterfully provokes us to question the the question to us provokes masterfully Reiter Keramet disruptive or dangerous as labeled prisoners of isolation

ept rpae rqet b m, nvr o a speaker- a got never I me, by requests repeated Despite staff to keep it so well-maintained. But as it turns out, the the out, turns it as But well-maintained. so it keep to staff

weight loss, diarrhea, constipation, fatigue, anxiety, panic, panic, anxiety, fatigue, constipation, diarrhea, loss, weight be will transparency behavior, ethical guide to compass

get worse. get the that shown has confinement solitary of introduction the

a large, kempt looking institution would employ a large large a employ would institution looking kempt large, a a disciplinary letter that was placed in their personnel file. file. personnel their in placed was that letter disciplinary a

palpitations, headaches, muscle deconditioning, joint pains, pains, joint deconditioning, muscle headaches, palpitations, moral broken a with culture a In recommendations. Reiter’s

our leaders accountable nothing will change and will only only will and change will nothing accountable leaders our after and before violence prison on data However violence.

older government-run facilities. One would assume such such assume would One facilities. government-run older first. Anyone that objected to this unsafe practice received received practice unsafe this to objected that Anyone first.

in the sleep-wake cycle, diaphoresis, dizziness, heart heart dizziness, diaphoresis, cycle, sleep-wake the in impedes CDCr and PBSP of culture the Likewise, oppress.

As long as we the people fail to do our civic duty and hold hold and duty civic our do to fail people the we as long As prison reduce to was SHU the for argument original The

a bright blue. It looks very new, not at all like lot of the the of lot like all at not new, very looks It blue. bright a in the psychiatric hospital unit without evaluating them them evaluating without unit hospital psychiatric the in

little as ten days in solitary confinement can cause disruption disruption cause can confinement solitary in days ten as little and divide to continued that behaviors or attitudes the

of the fragmentation costing much suffering and money. money. and suffering much costing fragmentation the of policy. is it yet good

called the Denver Contract Detention Facility – is painted painted is – Facility Detention Contract Denver the called to write discharge medication orders for unknown patients patients unknown for orders medication discharge write to

of rehabilitation or the facilitation of social reintegration. As As reintegration. social of facilitation the or rehabilitation of change to little did but crimes) of convicted those (except

different systems (legal system to mental hospitals) speaks speaks hospitals) mental to system (legal systems different than harm more to points practice this of assessment risk

The ICE Detention Center in Aurora, Colorado – also also – Colorado Aurora, in Center Detention ICE The

1992. Due to limited psychiatrists, supervisors ordered us us ordered supervisors psychiatrists, limited to Due 1992.

Solitary confinement placement is at odds with the goal goal the with odds at is placement confinement Solitary nation the across so did Amendment th 13 the later and

Incarceration is not treatment, and cycling through through cycling and treatment, not is Incarceration benefit thoughtful A less. not suicide increase for recipe

Hannah Leigh Myers reports. Myers Leigh Hannah

as when the Madrid vs. Gomez case was underway in in underway was case Gomez vs. Madrid the when as

suffering. suffering. states confederate the in slavery abolished Proclamation

jail-prison system. This is a disgraceful abandonment. abandonment. disgraceful a is This system. jail-prison a like sounds recommendation This immunity. lowered for little or no pay under threat of solitary confinement. confinement. solitary of threat under pay no or little for

psychiatrist remained for the entire facility, the same number number same the facility, entire the for remained psychiatrist

would cost the public much in expected lawsuits and human human and lawsuits expected in much public the cost would Emancipation The action. direct to orders court and laws

homeless, criminalized, and traumatized as they enter the the enter they as traumatized and criminalized, homeless, and psychosis, for risk increased stress, for tolerance for-profit detention company of forcing them to work to them forcing of company detention for-profit

its opening. When I left PBSP in July 2016, two full time time full two 2016, July in PBSP left I When opening. its

would this be absolutely detrimental to patient care, but but care, patient to detrimental absolutely be this would on much too relied have we believe I However, discretion.

our communities. As a result, many patients have become become have patients many result, a As communities. our reduced have moody, be will sleep reduced with people Colorado, where at least 60,000 immigrants accuse the the accuse immigrants 60,000 least at where Colorado,

It took PBSP 2 ½ years to get an on- site psychiatrist after after psychiatrist site on- an get to years ½ 2 PBSP took It

not allow CDCr to expand into greater acute care. Not only only Not care. acute greater into expand to CDCr allow not administrative on balances and checks provide and oversight

comes as the GEO Group faces a class-action lawsuit in in lawsuit class-action a faces Group GEO the as comes needed to be empowered and integrate into the fabric of of fabric the into integrate and empowered be to needed Most torture. of method known a is and health, mental and

Planning for program needs seemed to be afterthoughts. afterthoughts. be to seemed needs program for Planning

system, Governor Brown and other state legislatures should should legislatures state other and Brown Governor system, improve to transparency better 1970s, in did others as urges,

in Conroe, Texas – just north of Houston. The contract contract The Houston. of north just – Texas Conroe, in without building the intensive services the mentally ill ill mentally the services intensive the building without physical to hazardous is deprivation sleep that stated have I

pattern only increased risks for all and led to conflict. conflict. to led and all for risks increased only pattern

CDCr cannot manage effectively and humanely their current current their humanely and effectively manage cannot CDCr She 72). (p tool management standard a as confinement

to build a new 1000 bed, $110 million immigration prison prison immigration million $110 bed, 1000 new a build to

Health Act prematurely closed psychiatric hospitals hospitals psychiatric closed prematurely Act Health suicides. reduce to intention reported the with segregation,

in crisis mode, a grave error as its reactionary defensive defensive reactionary its as error grave a mode, crisis in

mental health care is not unique, it crosses all sites. When When sites. all crosses it unique, not is care health mental solitary on reliance over an and practices harsher and hidden

Thursday it has secured a contract with the government government the with contract a secured has it Thursday population. The 1963 Kennedy Community Mental Mental Community Kennedy 1963 The population. in prisoners on clock the around checks welfare minute

conditioned to tolerate. The mental health program operated operated program health mental The tolerate. to conditioned

care would be improved. PBSP's substandard medical and and medical substandard PBSP's improved. be would care more to contributing reform prison sabotaged has orders

Trump-era crackdown. The GEO Group announced announced Group GEO The crackdown. Trump-era mental illness compared to the four percent in the general general the in percent four the to compared illness mental 30 do to CDCr advised psychologist a Recently

in PBSP continued with endless deficiencies that staff was was staff that deficiencies endless with continued PBSP in

Valley, Stockton and Vacaville) arguing that continuity of of continuity that arguing Vacaville) and Stockton Valley, court to resistance” “compliant officials’ prison that argues

Private prison operators are already cashing in on the the on in cashing already are operators prison Private

ill. Twenty five percent of the prison population have population prison the of percent five Twenty ill. risk. mortality

Despite court oversight, the provision of psychiatric care care psychiatric of provision the oversight, court Despite

state mental hospitals (Department State Hospitals-Salinas Hospitals-Salinas State (Department hospitals mental state she Furthermore, 203). (p discretion” bureaucratic and or for traveling in the same car. same the in traveling for or

are the de facto mental health hospitals for our mentally mentally our for hospitals health mental facto de the are and morbidity increasing were combinations medication

truth, as painful as it may be. may it as painful as truth,

Of more recent news, CDCr is attempting to take over three three over take to attempting is CDCr news, recent more Of transparency, of lack prisoners, violent uncontrollably of fear be used against them for things as basic as living together together living as basic as things for them against used be

most vulnerable and marginalized. Our prisons and jails jails and prisons Our marginalized. and vulnerable most dangerous the that or programming, in participate to cell

Integrity is not just the absence of lying, but telling the whole whole the telling but lying, of absence the just not is Integrity

Leaders are expected to embody and execute moral integrity. integrity. moral execute and embody to expected are Leaders supermax: the forged factors “Three concluded: and inmates members of mixed status families fear that provision could could provision that fear families status mixed of members

and “freedom” yet incarcerates the most, especially the the especially most, the incarcerates yet “freedom” and his leaving not was or care, basic for provide to prompting

of PBSP. Cover up is worse than the crime as it erodes trust. trust. erodes it as crime the than worse is up Cover PBSP. of

rationalize unethical behavior based on current needs. needs. current on based behavior unethical rationalize some and lawyers, judges, officials, prison interviewed While the stated goal aims to target people smugglers, smugglers, people target to aims goal stated the While

hypocritical system. Our country preaches “democracy” “democracy” preaches country Our system. hypocritical needed they that sedated so was patient the if matter to

court visits would be more revealing of the true functioning functioning true the of revealing more be would visits court

“Dr McCall present” to comply with regulations. You cannot cannot You regulations. with comply to present” McCall “Dr She it. of naming the about debate legislative 1988 a than in transporting or harboring undocumented immigrants. immigrants. undocumented harboring or transporting in

economic, social, and political policies that legitimize a a legitimize that policies political and social, economic, seem not did It violations.” rules getting not are they as

in this manner if the truth was in compliance. Unannounced Unannounced compliance. in was truth the if manner this in

cooperation, CDCr would fill that psychiatrist line by writing writing by line psychiatrist that fill would CDCr cooperation, other supermax the on records no found she legislations, guidelines also call for the prosecution of anyone involved involved anyone of prosecution the for call also guidelines

have racism and discrimination that creates oppressive oppressive creates that discrimination and racism have long “As be to seemed success of measure greatest The

meaningfully. Supervisors would not have needed to deceive deceive to needed have not would Supervisors meaningfully.

did not participate in the discussion. With or without my my without or With discussion. the in participate not did California researching in Shockingly, units. lockdown repeat entrants be charged with felony crimes. The new new The crimes. felony with charged be entrants repeat

the contradictions of our nation we will continue to to continue will we nation our of contradictions the on. arrived patients polypharmacy of “cocktail” based

to a low of 2-4 with purposeful intention to discuss each plan plan each discuss to intention purposeful with 2-4 of low a to undocumented immigrants when possible and directed that that directed and possible when immigrants undocumented was to list anyone present in the meetings even if they they if even meetings the in present anyone list to was in increase an to leading was that system classification

transformative systemic change. As long as we ignore ignore we as long As change. systemic transformative evidence- non complex the reduced often I value. face at

treatment plans would be reduced from the usual weekly 14 14 weekly usual the from reduced be would plans treatment He ordered additional charges be brought against against brought be charges additional ordered He

not a team player. Their way around this “inconvenience” “inconvenience” this around way Their player. team a not existing the questioning and programming, and treatment

what feeds and maintains CDCr, there can be little little be can there CDCr, maintains and feeds what reports take not to learned I resistance. collective violent

maneuver to appear favorably to auditors was when patient patient when was auditors to favorably appear to maneuver new guidelines for ramped up immigration enforcement. enforcement. immigration up ramped for guidelines new

thinking of how my actions affected others, and that I was was I that and others, affected actions my how of thinking humane more recommending were experts and conditions

Prison is a tentacle of society and without addressing addressing without and society of tentacle a is Prison non- for support building peacefully and/or frustration

Mexico border in Arizona this week, where he issued issued he where week, this Arizona in border Mexico to move quickly and make exceptions. Another blatant blatant Another exceptions. make and quickly move to

gets accused. I was told I was being irresponsible, not not irresponsible, being was I told was I accused. gets facility lockdown condemning were time the at courts that

repression. Vigilance is in order. order. in is Vigilance repression. understandable expressing were they when “agitators”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to the US- the to traveled Sessions Jeff General Attorney PBSP take months but this pending audit inspired officials officials inspired audit pending this but months take PBSP

Instead, as often happens in CDCr, the whistleblower whistleblower the CDCr, in happens often as Instead, considering especially reached was supermax a build to

ouain my rv b mr efcet ntuet of instruments efficient more be prove may Population, them labeled custody because them restrain chemically to

Published by Free Speech Radio News, April 14, 2017 2017 14, April News, Radio Speech Free by Published was reduced by twenty patients. Normally transfers out of of out transfers Normally patients. twenty by reduced was

the PBSP and CDCr chain of command without support. support. without command of chain CDCr and PBSP the decision the how understand to wanted Reiter transparency.

alternative to SHU, the Restrictive Custody General General Custody Restrictive the SHU, to alternative refused I evaluation. through substantiated not was that r o b la

inmates in overflow areas receiving little to no treatment treatment no to little receiving areas overflow in inmates

another program. Again I explained my reservations through through reservations my explained I Again program. another veiled CDCr’s to due fragmented remains shares she story

The newly adopted 2-year step down program and the the and program down step 2-year adopted newly The misrepresentation a obviously was There medications.

had been operating over capacity for months with some some with months for capacity over operating been had

to provide PBSP protection when I was asked to do this for for this do to asked was I when protection PBSP provide to the that cautions She 1989. December in PBSP, supermax,

d rce fo r fo oup r G merited continuation in such restrictive environment. environment. restrictive such in continuation merited adjust to indication clinical no see would often and

pending court audit, one of the mental health programs which which programs health mental the of one audit, court pending

this was not in the patient’s best interest and finally refused refused finally and interest best patient’s the in not was this first California’s birthed that context historical the of picture

arbitrary was CDCr’s criteria, and how few prisoners prisoners few how and criteria, CDCr’s was arbitrary realistically, risks perceiving calm, thinking, in linear

until auditors are at the door.” I saw how within days of a a of days within how saw I door.” the at are auditors until O O GE e su ility c fa

and therefore could give no meaningfully input. I explained explained I input. meaningfully no give could therefore and cohesive a provide to attempts ambitiously Law, of School

settlement. 15 This astonishing reduction illustrates how how illustrates reduction astonishing This 15 settlement. coherent, be to patient the assess would I riot. a start to

confided: “Administration turns a blind eye to irregularities irregularities to eye blind a turns “Administration confided:

team meetings even though I never evaluated these patients patients these evaluated never I though even meetings team and Society & Law Criminology, of Department Irvine’s at

confinement has dropped by 99%” one year after the after year one 99%” by dropped has confinement trying and paranoid, manic, was patient the custody, per ado r Colo at ld he

my PBSP experiences (p. 199). CDCr credentialing staff staff credentialing CDCr 199). (p. experiences PBSP my

I was ordered to participate in the weekly PSU treatment treatment PSU weekly the in participate to ordered was I California of University the at professor assistant an Reiter,

numbers of California prisoners in indefinite solitary solitary indefinite in prisoners California of numbers supposedly, because medicines patient’s increase to asked

workarounds to avoid external oversight” is supported by by supported is oversight” external avoid to workarounds

after crisis, from the PSU to the inpatient psychiatric hospital. hospital. psychiatric inpatient the to PSU the from crisis, after CDCr. in working started I before me to available been had ts n a gr immi 60,000

According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, “the “the Rights, Constitutional for Center the to According was I Often principles. our or patients our of expense

complied with court orders and has “designed creative creative “designed has and orders court with complied

these very ill PSU patients were cycling back and forth, crisis crisis forth, and back cycling were patients PSU ill very these book this wish I answers. disturbing some and validation

or validation status may remedy this grave injustice. injustice. grave this remedy may status validation or the at purpose CDCr’s advance to used be to ourselves

Reiter’s assertion that PBSP has only superficially superficially only has PBSP that assertion Reiter’s

one. Without an assigned psychiatrist to see them as needed, needed, as them see to psychiatrist assigned an Without one. found I pages, those Within 2 Confinement.” Solitary

inmates into a SHU based solely on gang affiliation affiliation gang on solely based SHU a into inmates allow cannot Physicians psychiatrist. CDCr a as abound

with a desired result. result. desired a with

assigned psychiatrist. The last year I was at PBSP neither had had neither PBSP at was I year last The psychiatrist. assigned Long-Term of Rise the and Prison Bay Pelican “23/7: book,

settlement which now prohibits CDCr from placing placing from CDCr prohibits now which settlement dilemmas ethical confinement, solitary from Aside

requires honest portrayal of the facts, not a misrepresentation misrepresentation a not facts, the of portrayal honest requires

Unit (PSU). Both the SHU and the PSU are required to have an an have to required are PSU the and SHU the Both (PSU). Unit 2016 Reiter's Keramet upon stumbled I reform, prison about

slowly exterminate them. The 2015 Asher vs Brown Brown vs Asher 2015 The them. exterminate slowly 3,6,7 torture. constitute can and health,

Rights. Rights. solitary confinement itself unconstitutional. Court oversight oversight Court unconstitutional. itself confinement solitary

serving a SHU term are housed in the Psychiatric Housing Housing Psychiatric the in housed are term SHU a serving myself educating started I As oversight. court of years 22 after

intent to steal their lands and demean, marginalize, and and marginalize, demean, and lands their steal to intent individual’s an to harmful and degrading, inhumane,

1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” 15. Center for Constitutional Constitutional for Center 15. Jail” Birmingham from “Letter 1963 told her that not enough evidence was presented to find find to presented was evidence enough not that her told

Those excluded with one of the exclusionary diagnosis but but diagnosis exclusionary the of one with excluded Those shambles in remain could PBSP how wondering CDCr left I

through Christianization and reeducation, with the real real the with reeducation, and Christianization through cruel, is days 15 than longer segregation prolonged that

Criminology, Vol.41 (4) pp 1341-1376. 14. Martin Luther King King Luther Martin 14. 1341-1376. pp (4) Vol.41 Criminology,

appointed to monitor court ordered remediations. Henderson Henderson remediations. ordered court monitor to appointed

was suspect” so minimal help was even requested from staff. staff. from requested even was help minimal so suspect” was 1 danger.” in be to is committed be to and committed, be to

security prisons on aggregate levels of institutional violence’, violence’, institutional of levels aggregate on prisons security

Americans as uncivilized savages in need of “saving” “saving” of need in savages uncivilized as Americans agree all which position Nations United the and NCCHC,

staff condoning these transgressions, a special master was master special a transgressions, these condoning staff

share much. I learned from those in the SHU that “psych “psych that SHU the in those from learned I much. share is act “To wrote: Baldwin’s James as was reality unfortunate Program” 13. Briggs et al. (2003) ‘The effects of supermaximum supermaximum of effects ‘The (2003) al. et Briggs 13. Program”

oppression reminded me of how colonizers defined Native Native defined colonizers how of me reminded oppression Organization, Health World the with solidarity in more be

solitary confinement. Because of the code of silence among among silence of code the of Because confinement. solitary

at all confidential so often understandably patients will not not will patients understandably often so confidential all at The CDCr.” with war a start to want don’t “You warned: Harm: Health Professionals’ Central Role in the CIA Torture Torture CIA the in Role Central Professionals’ Health Harm:

and the SHU has been a tool for social control. This This control. social for tool a been has SHU the and would so Doing 5 policy. current its modify to and illness,

8(2):90-7. 12. The Physicians for Human Rights 2014 “Doing “Doing 2014 Rights Human for Physicians The 12. 8(2):90-7. unconstitutional housing of prisoners with mental illness in in illness mental with prisoners of housing unconstitutional

a psychiatric technician at cell front. Cell front visits are not not are visits front Cell front. cell at technician psychiatric a representative union physician the Even intentions.” “good

Prison is a by-product of society’s racist’s underpinnings, underpinnings, racist’s society’s of by-product a is Prison mental have they not or whether of regardless beings

Man against man: Brainwashing.” Correct Psychiatry J Soc Ther Ther Soc J Psychiatry Correct Brainwashing.” man: against Man

2) inadequate medical and mental health care; and 3) 3) and care; health mental and medical inadequate 2)

monitoring for decompensation every other week largely by by largely week other every decompensation for monitoring misguided supervisor’s some to objected or policies CDCr

Punishment: the Prison Business. 11. Schein, Edgar H. 1962 “ “ 1962 H. Edgar Schein, 11. Business. Prison the Punishment: threat to justice everywhere.” 14 14 everywhere.” justice to threat human all for confinement solitary categorically and

proved: 1) guards using excessive force against prisoners; prisoners; against force excessive using guards 1) proved:

Once in the SHU, prisoners would receive rudimentary rudimentary receive would prisoners SHU, the in Once criticized previously who providers numerous for outcomes with mental illness 10. Mitford, Jessica. 1973 Kind and Usual Usual and Kind 1973 Jessica. Mitford, 10. illness mental with

Dr. Martin Luther King's words: “Injustice anywhere is a a is anywhere “Injustice words: King's Luther Martin Dr. publicly oppose to needs profession, our of voice moral

protected from cruel and unusual punishment. The evidence evidence The punishment. unusual and cruel from protected

ideation as manipulation thereby clearing them for the SHU. SHU. the for them clearing thereby manipulation as ideation negative the of stories whispered colleagues concerns, Psych. Ass. 2012 Position Statement on Segregation of Prisoners Prisoners of Segregation on Statement Position 2012 Ass. Psych.

and not worthy of the fight for justice. We must never forget forget never must We justice. for fight the of worthy not and the as APA, the that Appelbaum Kenneth psychiatrist with

in American prisons.” Psychiatry Services 62: 285-90. 9. Am. Am. 9. 285-90. 62: Services Psychiatry prisons.” American in PBSP violating prisoners’ Eighth Amendment right to be be to right Amendment Eighth prisoners’ violating PBSP

psychotic symptoms as malingering or, down-play suicidal suicidal down-play or, malingering as symptoms psychotic legitimate voiced I As authority. their on insist to and

dehumanize prisoners to the public” so they are forgotten forgotten are they so public” the to prisoners dehumanize agree I 7 isolation.” in placed be to able psychologically

RL, et al. 2011 “A national survey of self injurious behavior behavior injurious self of survey national “A 2011 al. et RL,

Madrid v. Gomez, where Judge Thelton Henderson found found Henderson Thelton Judge where Gomez, v. Madrid

Depression to adjustment disorder, or regard reported reported regard or disorder, adjustment to Depression convenient when guidelines and policies evoked Supervisors

UN Experts Says.” 8. Appelbaum KL, Savageau JA, Trestman Trestman JA, Savageau KL, Appelbaum 8. Says.” Experts UN survivor said to me, “CDCr throws gang titles around to to around titles gang throws “CDCr me, to said survivor or physically are juveniles or adults whether determining

exposing abuses resulted in the 1995 federal lawsuit, lawsuit, federal 1995 the in resulted abuses exposing

wanted to down-grade a patient’s diagnosis from Major Major from diagnosis patient’s a down-grade to wanted CDCr. for inconveniences times at be to seemed ethics 2011 “Solitary Confinement Should Be Banned in Most Cases, Cases, Most in Banned Be Should Confinement “Solitary 2011

sentence you to an 8 by 10 feet box indefinitely. A SHU SHU A indefinitely. box feet 10 by 8 an to you sentence in involved be not must staff “health that stated position

opening, PBSP prisoners’ alarming letters to legislators legislators to letters alarming prisoners’ PBSP opening,

in disagreement with a social worker or psychologist who who psychologist or worker social a with disagreement in and fairness, Justice, liability. professional increased and Confinement.” J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 43:406-15. 6. U.N U.N 6. 43:406-15. Law Psychiatry Acad Am J Confinement.”

strip you of your identity and criminalize your culture and and culture your criminalize and identity your of you strip 2016 April their in (NCCHC) Care Health Correctional

“American Psychiatry Should Join the Call to Abolish Solitary Solitary Abolish to Call the Join Should Psychiatry “American housing unit (SHU), i.e. solitary confinement. Soon after after Soon confinement. solitary i.e. (SHU), unit housing

however, were manipulated. Not infrequently I would be be would I infrequently Not manipulated. were however, liberties civil violated care, patient compromised integrity,

of institutional safety, CDCr could simultaneously legally legally simultaneously could CDCr safety, institutional of on Commission National the Even practice. the to

Emerging Safe Alternatives"5. Appelbaum, Kenneth 2015 2015 Kenneth Appelbaum, Alternatives"5. Safe Emerging

then be threatened directly or indirectly with the security security the with indirectly or directly threatened be then

in the SHU. Even the diagnoses on the exclusionary list, list, exclusionary the on diagnoses the Even SHU. the in moral corrupted that indifference deliberate a and mentality,

4. Vera Institute of Justice, "Common Misconceptions and and Misconceptions "Common Justice, of Institute Vera 4.

Workers or Mexico. By censoring these items in the name name the in items these censoring By Mexico. or Workers legitimacy and approval give we so do To containment.

to maintain institutional safety (p 14). Every prisoner could could prisoner Every 14). (p safety institutional maintain to

included perhaps many would not have been legally placed placed legally been have not would many perhaps included conquer and divide pervasive a retaliation, of culture a to Long-Term Solitary Confinement 3. World Health Organization Organization Health World 3. Confinement Solitary Long-Term

certain tattoos, letters, and the eagle of the United Farm Farm United the of eagle the and letters, tattoos, certain risk high of type this for cleared anyone declaring be not

prison with more restrictive means of control was essential essential was control of means restrictive more with prison

who came up with this list but if anxiety disorders were were disorders anxiety if but list this with up came who due 2016 July in PBSP CDCr from resigned I programs. Reiter, Keramet 2016 23/7 Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of of Rise the and Prison Bay Pelican 23/7 2016 Keramet Reiter,

music, the Mexican or Puerto Rican flag, Aztec calendar, calendar, Aztec flag, Rican Puerto or Mexican the music, should providers health Mental existence. continued its

References: 1. James Baldwin 1963 The Fire Next Time, 294 2. 2. 294 Time, Next Fire The 1963 Baldwin James 1. the fears of violence to convince legislators that a supermax supermax a that legislators convince to violence of fears the

Disorder which is quite common in prisons. I do not know know not do I prisons. in common quite is which Disorder most with out helped I program, health mental PBSP specific

such as pictures or books of Malcolm X or Che, cultural cultural Che, or X Malcolm of books or pictures as such supporting way any in involved be to less much practices,

fallen to less than half that of the late 1970s” and exploited exploited and 1970s” late the of that half than less to fallen

all of the anxiety disorders including Post Trauma Stress Stress Trauma Post including disorders anxiety the of all a with was assignment my While conscious. socially more

In solidarity with our shared Humanity, MM Humanity, shared our with solidarity In based, culturally was “evidence” the of some that learn to dangerous such oppose to inmates all to responsibility

1988 “the rate of violent deaths in California prisons had had prisons California in deaths violent of rate “the 1988

an exclusionary diagnosis list that does not include oddly oddly include not does that list diagnosis exclusionary an became and (PBSP) Prison State Bay Pelican to office

until the promises are fulfilled. fulfilled. are promises the until was alarming Equally process. due any without discretion social our and patients our to obligation clinical our is it

‘George Jacksons’” (p 84). Prison officials withheld that by by that withheld officials Prison 84). (p Jacksons’” ‘George

mental illness are to be excluded from the SHU. CDCr has has CDCr SHU. the from excluded be to are illness mental SQSP my from video-conferencing via services same the

be…” as Langston Hughes wrote. The struggle continues continues struggle The wrote. Hughes Langston as be…” officials’ prison to left was “evidence” as source the use expense, prisoner per year per $70,000 its and days, few a

perceived to be the most dangerous to prison order- the the order- prison to dangerous most the be to perceived

Per Madrid v. Gomez decision, patients with serious serious with patients decision, Gomez v. Madrid Per provided I 2014 in CDCr to returned I When humanity.

again—The land that never has been yet—And yet must must yet yet—And been has never that land again—The to decision the and inmate accused the by reviewed be not with even placement SHU from harm the Recognizing 9

designing a permanent isolation fixture for “prisoners they they “prisoners for fixture isolation permanent a designing

young man had never existed to the staff. the to existed never had man young shared our of reminded and Spirit Human the of resilience

and substance use programs. “...O, let America be America America be America let “...O, programs. use substance and could member or associate gang a as someone classify to weeks. 3-4 than longer illness mental serious with those

practice of lockdowns, nonetheless, morphed into secretly secretly into morphed nonetheless, lockdowns, of practice

administration or my team. It was complete silence, as if this this if as silence, complete was It team. my or administration the by inspired was I inmates, (SQSP) Prison State Quentin

our people. Bolster our community mental health clinics clinics health mental community our Bolster people. our sufficient items” source “independent three the that writes segregating against advised 2012 in (APA) Association

practice was noted to increase tensions and hostilities. The The hostilities. and tensions increase to noted was practice

I learned of his death through other patients, not through through not patients, other through death his of learned I San for management medication and therapy supportive F

destruction. Provide jobs that can sustain families. House House families. sustain can that jobs Provide destruction. Reiter believe. we narrative what careful be to warned Psychiatric American the unconstitutional, SHU the in ill

were becoming routine to maintain order even though the the though even order maintain to routine becoming were

after being discharged from the psychiatric-medical hospital. hospital. psychiatric-medical the from discharged being after providing (CDCr) rehabilitation and Corrections

not potential threats. Support self-determination not not self-determination Support threats. potential not are we provides, Reiter examples other and this With mentally the of housing the declared Henderson Judge

officials felt a growing loss of control. Repeated lockdowns lockdowns Repeated control. of loss growing a felt officials

meet, but who was assigned to me, hanged himself a day day a himself hanged me, to assigned was who but meet, of Department California the for psychiatrist

rather than retaliation. Dare to see minorities as assets assets as minorities see to Dare retaliation. than rather present. its mirrors past PBSP’s agenda. own their support after years Seventeen employees. and beings, human

these growing restrictions and pressures, Reiter found that that found Reiter pressures, and restrictions growing these

to life and death issues. In May 2016, a patient I had yet to to yet had I patient a 2016, May In issues. death and life to contract a as working le whi 2010-2011, rom

history. Teach and demonstrate understanding and respect respect and understanding demonstrate and Teach history. to reality altering by attitudes judge’s the manipulate to care-givers, as loyalties triple their negotiate they how

reward good behavior with potential for early release. With With release. early for potential with behavior good reward

failures. Supervisors seemed inconsiderate and insensitive insensitive and inconsiderate seemed Supervisors failures. McCall Mariposa By

our education system and teach a cohesive inclusive inclusive cohesive a teach and system education our attempt desperate a in visit PBSP 1990s Henderson’s of and confinement, solitary of discussion the in leaders

officials interviewed by Reiter, they were no longer able to to able longer no were they Reiter, by interviewed officials

treatment demands. Patients were blamed for the system’s system’s the for blamed were Patients demands. treatment n tio rec i D ng osi L

yet make up nearly ⅔ of the prison population. Improve Improve population. prison the of ⅔ nearly up make yet Judge of one during riot a staged officials’ prison when and providers health mental PBSP the of exclusion the is

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The monitoring period can be extended if there DSM-5 definition of ASPD centers on behavior that shows a "pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of reviewedThe latest and respondedvictory for to thesecriminal comments, justice sometimesadvocates thenYou tells have them a thedrug-related story of Rosita’rule violations Family orFun refusal Night toat be shared with advocacy groups, as well as with CDCR, Forback Beginners in full swing. seeks to reaffirm the goals and spirit of Media Silent as U.S. Prisoners Continue to Hunger Strike...... 15 are current and systemic violations of the constitution or others." ...Although criminal and rule-breaking behavior is only one aspect of ASPD, many psychologists (particularly FAD makingwas Proposition changes in 57, response, which willdo the now proposed require regulations a judge’s school,provide and urine the sample unexpected within emotions the last year;she encounters or there. 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One of the biggest problems with the ASPD diagnosis for long-term prisoners, is the idea that16 this becomeapproval law.before Here, most because juvenile CDCr defendants announced can be the tried rule in ResourcesYou have include a rule violationlinks to otherwith afree nexus sesame to an STG.street apps Send to: of the critical issues Mexican American activists first Under pre-existing rules, a gang affiliate can be placed Community OUTreach personality type is fixed for lige and amenable to change...The truth is that people who once evidenced antisocial traits change changesan adult court.as “Emergency” changes, they did not open the andIf activities you are forfound kids, ineligible as well asbased links on for one parents, of the covering above, PHSS Parole Committee brought to the nation’s attention then—educational CDCR Contradictions...... 16 regulations for public comment. At some point, however, in SHU after a finding of guilt of a SHU-able serious rules ed by local writer, teacher and community with age, time and positive influences...Since all of the FAD's tools and approaches over-emphasize past history, it's up to the But disparities in the juvenile justice system remain, everythingyou will be from screened general again childre aftern’ 1s year.health to counseling & PO Box 5586, disadvantage, endemic poverty, political exclusion, and Jeff Session'and Eric Holder Statements...... 17 violation. Of wide concern is whether CDCR will abuse organizer Steve Martinot, a number of prisoner and his supporters to fill in the blanks for the Board. 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The litigation centuryL later. planning a community outreach effort in the came to prison, how he accomplished that change, and how long it's been since the negative acts that led to a prison term. particularvary by county concern and to disproportionately advocacy groups isaffect the inclusion low-income of http://www.sesamestreet.org/toolkits/incarcerationsubmit a written statement. You are strongly encouraged Writer, artist, and educator Maceo Montoya is an DNA Exonerations in the United Sttaes...... 18 Areteam is youmonitoring eligible this issue. for Of Propnote is the 57, filing and of many California’s Bay Area (Home of CPF). The focus will He should list accomplishments and activities that demonstrate his stability and compliance with rules and expectations. It third-strikerschildren and childrenfrom becoming of color. eligible for the early parole to take advantage of this opportunity, and: (1) focus your conspiracy charges based on confidential informants or assistant professor in the Department of Chicano be on developing collaborative relationships within is importantIn Southern to address California, the impact Inmates of age, and Pay the For steps Comfortable the prisoner Jail has Stays...... 18 taken to reinforce the natural tendency for substance consideration.In one case, CPFa federal believes appeals this courtis overly recently limiting admonished from the statement on why you do not pose a risk of violence to havenotes. Conspiracyreceived does unsubstantiated not require the commission of Studies at the University of California, Davis, where he “The prison boom helps us understand the communities most affected by mass incarceration. abuse, crime and violence to subside with age. It is also important for supporters to show how the individual has changed over intentOrange of CountyProp 57 for and aggressively plans to advocate pursuing for thatpayment change on in a the community if released; (2) encourage members of 115sthe ultimate since crime theitself, passingonly an agreement of Prop to do so 57? and a teaches courses in Chicano literature and the Chicana/o From Inmate to Activist...... 18 how racial inequality in America was We look forward to having dialogues with various time to become much more pro-social," responsible, loving, empathic, motivated to succeed, etc., and to explain why they are themore final than regulations. $16,000 juvenile When fee the bill, final forcing proposed a family regulations to sell yoursustained, support networkdespite (family,great friends)optimism and for potential the single overt act. Therefore, it is an easy charge to allege. Mural Workshop. For ordering information, contact: California Prison Focus has received a report from individuals within the nieigbhorboods most effected convincedThe the Lifeline individual of Prison is not aCommerce risk for future...... substance abuse, crime or violence. While authorities generally say ASPD19 is areits homeannounced, and declare they bankruptcy.should be available in every prison employerssocial progressto send letters of of supportAfrican to theAmericans,” BPH. There is CDCR has revised its staff training materials on the use Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC San Quentin that men who are eligible for Prop 57 have by over-policing and mass incarceration, and who hard to treat, studies have concluded that a form of therapy called Cognitive Behavorial Therapy (CBT) is the most effective. library,At Leat especiallyaata Floyd the law Elementary library, for on review. Monday, 17-year- noB rucein-person W estern,hearing. The the BPH H officerarvard willsociologist, decide whether of confidential information and disciplinary proceedings; 65 Parker Street, Suite 7 Announcing Millions For Prisoners March...... 20 been recieving multiple 115 violations for petty and/or have concerted interests in the work we do. We aim If the prisoner has been through CDCR's Step Down Program, "Thinking for Change" or other programs identified in section oldBelow Lupita is aCarballo, timeline ofwho what’s trave happenedled to Sacramento so far, dates from you orwrites. not you “The “pose prisonan unreasonable boom riskis ofnot violence the main to the Ashker counsel has observed some trainings. Newburyport, MA 01950 nonsubstantiated infractions. Help keep CPF informed. to hear about the experiences, needs and perspectives 3040.1 ofBill Title Watch 15, it...... should be raised as a positive point, because these programs are based on the model of CBT... In materials20 shouldInglewood be on with the members lookout offor, a youthand what’s justice coming coalition, on saidthe community”cause of andinequality choose to grantbetween or deny blacks parole onand that Under the settlement, if a prisoner is found guilty of a If you are eligible for Prop 57 and have received bogus on mass incarceration, police brutality, and prisoner from supporters and the prisoner, it is usually better not to mention Antisocial Personality Disorder...Rather, supporters should horizon.she watched Bear her in mindmother some struggle of these to paydates the are bills projections and her basis.whites If granted,in America, you should but be releasedit did 60foreclose days after serious rules violation and the hearing officer finds that SB 180 Rise Act...... 20 115s, and/or know others that are, let us know. We cannot reentry into society. simply talk about the traits in the individual prisoner that are clearly opposite of those described in these pshycological andnow are 19-year-old not set in stone, brother’s but may court change: and detention fees. He theupward decision. mobility If denied, and you deflate can request hopes review for within racial 30 there is a nexus (connection) between the violation and advocate for individuals, but will continue to report the We will begin our outreach by contacting and definitionsAB 1and39 concepts.Foras Amende dexample,. In-Cu stoto showdy In fthatorm a nprisonerts...... is... .sensitive,...... empathetic,...... concerned...... about...... the...... plight...... of.. ..others,.21 wasNovember in and out 8, of 2016:the juvenile Proposition justice system 57 was on auto approved theft daysequality.” of the decision through TA- a NEHspecialISI review COAT procedure.ES an STG, then two years can be added to the base term for information we gather. connecting with religious organizations and other supporters should talk about what they know about and have seen the prisoner do, like help younger individuals in the family Californiacharges and voters, other offenses,requiring she the said. CDCR to issue rules Another BPH officer will then review the decision within the violation. The prisoner would spend those additional Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Update...... 21 community-based support organizations. From there or community stay away from drugs, crime and prison... regarding“Not everybody new credits is able,and early can pay parole. for the fees,” Carballo 30 days of the request. years in SHU in a Step Down Program (SDP). CDCR we will begin to cultivate collaborative relationships IssuesCA that Lawmakers are particularly Unveil relevant a List for of Ashker Bills...... 21 class members include: time in SHU,refusal to debrief and participation in the said,March recalling 24, 2017: her motherCDCR issueswas char “Emergencyged for her Rules” brother’s for EduAugustc 1, atio2017: Creditsnal for theR eMilestonesou Completionrces hasAdams employed State Universityoutside consultants (ASU): to propose revisions with these local allies and figure out how we can best hunger strikes. For the complete packet, write to CPF. Please include 3 or more stamps to cover costs.. newdrug credits tests, surveillance and early parole. and other incarceration expenses. (MCC),With Prop Rehabilitative 57 many Achievement people are able (RAC), to qualify and toLocated the previous in Alamosa, SDP. Colorado.aThose consultantsnd has a longhave historymet with of PRison reports April 13, 2017: Emergency Regulations are approved by prisoner representatives (the four reps). The consultants’ work together. Michael Rizo, 21, who helped set up the Sacramento Educationalfor milestone Merit credits (EMC) and programs are looking go into effect.to enroll These in offering correspondence courses to incarcerated students in PSU Report...... 6 California’soffice of Office the Anti-Recidivism of Administrative Coalition, Law (OAL) onceand go shuffled arecorrespondence as follows: colleges to receive an Associates of Arts allrecommendations states. ASU offers are aboth significant undergraduate improvement and master-level over the intothrough temporary the juvenile effect justice for 160 system days. himself — starting at (AA)MCC: or GrantedBachelor upon of Arts completing (BA) degree. specific Below education are three or degrees.previous TuitionSDP; however, for correspondence CDCR has not courses indicated is $185 whether per regular features it will adopt them. ageMay 11 after 1, 2017: an arrest Good for Conductburglary. Credits go into effect careerquality training colleges program that offer with attendance distance andlearning performance options for semester hour. ASU Extended Studies is the only institution Letters & Poetry...... 8 & 9 (effectiveHe said he now). watched These his single credits mother are forhave complyingto choose with requirements.those who are These incarcerated. are increased Due from to laws the current and guidelines 6 weeks in Co.The thatsettlement processes agreementVA benefits created for incarcerated a new students.general Acuerdo para poner Fin a Enemistades Announcements, Resourcesetc...... 22 prisonbetween rules putting and food performing on the table duties or payingas assigned. his detention Credit perno yearperson cap incarc to 12erated weeks in per a stateyear. or MCCs federal are institutions revocable forcan Eachpopulation student housing is assigned unit an calledadvisor the who Restricted is a single Custodypoint of A Quien Corresponda y Todo Prisionero en California: General Population (RCGP), which CDCR located in B ratesfees. shouldHe felt nowlike suchbe accumulating a burden on hisat the family, following he said, rates he violations.receive financial...... aid for college. (Some federal institutions contact, available year round by toll-free telephone or US Saludos de parte de todos los Representantes de la Huelga de HambreThe del Agreement Corredór CortoToo End PBSP-SHU Hostilities Por...... este medio, estamos presentando este Acuerdo Mutuo de parte de todos los23 forran theaway following and ended categories: up in the system again. She was in haveRAC: pilot Granted programs) for participationUnfortunately in we self-help are unaware groups of anyor mail.Facility at Pelican Bay. Its purpose is to provide more grupos raciales que se encuentran aquí en el PBSP-SHU(Hoyo). En donde, hemos llegado a un acuerdo mutuo acerca de los siguientes puntos : ●● Si de verdad queremos llevar a cabo cambios sustantivos y significantes al sistema de CDCR, de una manera beneficiosa para todo individuo serio , que nunca han sido quebrantado debt1. forViolent $25,000 offenders in juvenile (Lifers, detention 3 strikes, fees or alone indeterminate/ when she otherfree collegebehavioral programs. programming activities; these can be up to Sendhumane request housing for forinformational prisoners who, packet in the to past, would have por las tacticas de tortura destinadas a convertirlos a ser soplones estatales via interrogatorio, que ahora es el tiempo que juntosEditor podamos-In-C aprovecharhief: K esteim momento, Pollak y poner un fin had todeterminate file for bankruptcy, sentence): he said. 20% 4 weeks per year. RACs are revocable for violations. Adamsbeen in State SHU. University To date, its use has primarily been to house Coastline Community College (CCC): a los más de 20 a 30 años de enemistades entre nuestros grupos raciales. Associate Editor: Watani Stiner 2.She Non-violent still owes $7,500, offenders Rizo (2 said. or 3The strikes) pending & Lifers juvenile eli- Officeprisoners of Extended that the Studies Departmental Review Board (DRB) CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT EMC:Offers Granted several forAA successfuloptions with completion a focus on of transferring a GED, Attn: Jim Bullington ●● Por lo tanto, comenzando el 10 de Octubre, 2012, todas las enemistades entre nuestros grupos raciales … en el HOYO/ SHU, Ad-Seg, la Población General, y Cárceles de Condado, gible for 1/3 credits: 33.3% has decided have safety issues, meaning that their safety California Prison Focus treats all incoming mail as justice legislation is crucial, he said, to make sure other highto a fourschool year diploma, degree collegeinstitution. degree CCC or is alcohol the most and popular drug 208 Edgemont Blvd., Suite 3000 oficialmente terminaran . Esto indica que, de esta fecha y adelante, toda enemistad entre grupos raciales tienen que terminar…CO ntributorsy si asuntos personales se presentan entre indivíduos, 3. Non-violent offenders (determinate sentence), & would be at risk in general population. Many prisoners confidential. We respect your privacy and understand children do not go down the same path he did. counselorchoice because certification; it is the lowestone-time cost credits however are, thisawarded makes for it Alamosa, CO 81101 todos tenemos que hacer todo lo posible por agotar los medios diplomáticos para resolver disputas; no debemos permitír que los asuntos personales e individuales se conviertan Lifers eligible for day-to-day: 50% sent to the RCGP adamantly oppose this placement. These that there are risks for you involved. Therefore we will CPF and Other Imprisoned “We are setting up kids for failure,” Rizo said. “I wasn’t eachdifficult level toand get will into be because awarded of retroactivelythe high demand. to eligible Students en problemas raciales!! 4. Violent offenders (determinate sentence + fire camp placementsOhio University are made (OU): on the basis of IGI reports which, in keep what you tell us anonymous unless you give us OUTSIDE Contributors a bad kid. I was misguided.”● inmates.must connect These with credits an education cannot be proctor revoked. to have their exams ●● Tambien queremos advertirles a aquellos en la Población General que IGI continuará a mandando Informantes encubiertos al Patio de Necesidades Sensitivas (SNY) entre los turn, are often based on confidential information, and are A publication of Kersplebedeb Publications. permission to use your name. Unless you direct us Contributors service): 50% September 20, 2017: Scheduled end of Emergency Offers both undergraduate and master-level degrees , prisioneros serios de la PG, prisoneros con órdenes del IGI a ser informadores, soplones, ratas, y obstruir, con el fin de Smadarperturbar Ben-Natan y debilitar el entendimentoKamau A smutuokari de nuestros proctored. Many CA institutions have an educational *All titles half price and free shipping to prisoners otherwise, we will share what you tell us anonymously 5. Non-violent offenders (2 strikes or determinate sen- Regulations; Deadline for CDCR to complete formal Includingdifficult ato Legal challenge. Studies A Certificatesecond serious for problem those interestedwith the grupos colectivos sobre los temas deseados para nuestras causas mutuas [es decir, obligar a CDCR a abrir las lineas principalesRoqayah a la Cham GP ,seddine y regresar a unJ. Baridisistema rehabilitador de proctor already registered with when ordering directly from Kersplebedeb: in order to educate the public about conditions here and tence, fire camp service): 66.7% rulemaking process (unless extended 90 days to December inRCGP furthering is that, their short education of debriefing without or parolecompleting on a determinate an entire programas significativos /privilegios, inclusive visitas conyugales para los sentenciados a vida, etc. via actividades de protestasLucius pacíficas/no Couloute cooperaciónLucio e.g., Cabanas huelgas de hambre, , CCC. Try and contact that person CP 63560, CCCP Van Horne, Montreal, Quebec to support advocacy for prisoners. We rely on you to tell 6. Non-violent offenders (Minimum A or B custody): 19, 2017). degreeprison program.sentence, Allprisoners OU students are not who getting have out been of theconvicted RCGP no trabajar, etc. etc.]. Todos deben seguir concientes y vigilantes a tales tácticas, y rehusar permitír que tales soplones de IGIMariposa ocasionen McCall caos y reanuden enemistadesPhilip M. Dorsett entre nuestros at the facility for support. Tuition Canada H3W3H8. Or order on-line from: us if you want us to treat your information differently. Donald "C-Note" Hooker 66.7% As you can see, the implementation of Proposition 57 is ofunless a felony they must are allegedcomplete to a have review committed process. Thisa serious process rules is grupos raciales. No podemos seguír siendo manipulados con las viejas tácticas de dividir y conquistar de los IGI, ISU, OCS,Cameron y SSU’ MacKenzies !!! is $46 a unit for CA residents, Parawww.leftwingbooks.net concluír, debemos mantenernosor akpress.org fuertes a nuestro acuerdo mutuo desde este punto en adelante y enfocar nuestro tiempo, atención, y energía sobre causasSitawa mutuas Nantambu y beneficiosas Jamaa One can still lose Good Conduct Credits for violating a lengthy process with multiple steps involved. Remember, deferredviolation, for in students which case participatin they are gmoved through to theAd CorrectionalSeg or SHU. Tom McMahon $234 per unit plus fees for non- para todos nosotros [es decir, los prisoneros], y en nuestros mejoresNOTE: intereses. Despite wantingNo podemos to expand seguír ourpermitiendole readership, a CDCR usarnos uno contra el otro para su propioLouis Powellbeneficio! Porque prison rules and you can still be placed on Zero Credit this process is ongoing and things can change. Make sure EducationFinally, the program placement during of thethe period RCGP of in incarceration Pelican Bay only has. Ken Stone CA residents. To enroll ,write for la realidad es que juntos, somos una fuerza poderosa que puedeCalifornia positivamente Prison transformar Focus does este not sistema have the corrupto capacity a un sistema que en verdad puede beneficiarCurtis a los Sandersprisoneros, y con earning status for violations (including refusing assigned you stay on top of these upcoming dates. Be on the look Tuitionnegatively for impacted correspondence most prisoners’ courses ability is $343. to have There social is a to receive and process lengthy reports that are not Carol Strickman Amani Sawari an Incarcerated Student Guide for eso, al público en General… y nosotros simplemente no podemos permitir a CDCR/CCPOA – la Union de Guardias, IGI, ISU, OCS, y SSU, a continuár saliendose con su forma housing twice or to perform an assignment, failing a out for a copy of the Public Notice to come to your prison $25visits, application given its remotefee. OU location. offers support Most people for VA in benefitsthe RCGP for California-based, except as letter or article submissions Jazmine Uloa Keith “Malik” Washington the upcoming semester. constante de opresión progresiva y el almacenamiento de miles de prisoneros, incluyendo los 14,000 (+) prisoneros detenidos en confinamiento solitario en camara de tortura [es Work Group C program, committing segregation-eligible incarceratedwould prefer students. the unit to be moved further south. for the paper. Abby Zimet law library sometime soon.Send As noted,request you for are informational encouraged decir,el SHU/HOYO/Unidades de Ad-Seg], por decadas!!! disciplinary offenses, or classification under STG-I). SendThe request transfer for informationalto general packetpopulation to: from SHU has Permission is granted to reprint original articles from to submit comments yourselfpacket during to: Coastlinethe public Community comment Enviamos nuestro amor y respeto a todos aquellos de mentes y corazones similares… adelante en la lucha y solidarida Summer 2017: At some point soon, the CDCR will generally been positive for most prisoners. Contact visits, NOTE: Help CPF keep our database up to date. Keep us updated on any address changes. If you are in Ad- Prison Focus as long as credit is noted to Prison Focus period, and CPF welcomesCollege, copies Incarcerated of your submissions Student so Ohio University Correctional Education 19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W2 Web 2 Top 6/21/2017 12:00:21 PM Black $[LayerName] Presentado por el grupo en el Corredor Corto : Todd Ashker, C58191, Arturo Castellanos, C17275, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (Dewberry),and California C35671, Prison Antonio Focus Guillen,. Also, please P81948 send us a publish a Public Notice of the proposed final, permanent we can incorporate your commentsSupport Services into our submission as Haningphone Hallcalls, 102, group yard, jobs and educational programs Seg. please confirm your address with CPF between Prison Focus issues, which are published every 4 months. 1 Ohio University And the Representatives Body: Danny Troxell, B76578, George Franco, D46556, Ronnie Yandell, V27927, Paul Redd, B72683,copy James of theBaridi publication Williamson, in which D-34288., the article appears. regulations. A copy of this “Notice of Change to well. Though it might take11460 some Warner time Avenue before the formal are enjoyed by those prisoners who have access to them. The next issue will be published in late October. If you are in Ad Seg and you may not confirm your address with Regulations” will be provided to your prison law libraries, Fountain Valley, CA 92708-2597. AthensHowever, OH 45701. most prisoners were transferred to Level IV us,Alfred you Sandoval, will not D61000,receive yourLouis paper. Powell, B59864, Alex Yrigollen, H32421, Gabriel Huerta, C80766, Frank Clement, D07919, James Mario Perez, B48186 rules are fully implemented, make sure you stay involved [NOTE: All names and the statement must be verbatim when used & posted on any website or media, or non-media, publications.] http://www.prisons.org should be made available in SHUs, and will be published Adams State University Prison If you are not in CA SHU or Ad-Seg., and have not paid for a subscription, you may have received a in the process! ● College Program [email protected] online at the CDCR website. There will be a minimum Ashker...... Continued on page 5 complimentaryNOTE: CPF issue.invite However,you to share if you your would thoughts like to and continue experiences receiving regarding Prison Focus, The Agreement please send to payment. End Hostilities. 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Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington Washington Tacoma, in Center Detention Northwest

Mexican who is charged with “stealing America’s America’s “stealing with charged is who Mexican

are by law nutritionally balanced, even gained weight after after weight gained even balanced, nutritionally law by are

most of the detainees bringing the case may never see their their see never may case the bringing detainees the of most

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at the for-profit Tacoma Tacoma for-profit the at detainees undocumented 700

roles or in service trades for depressed wages. The The wages. depressed for trades service in or roles Durham said. Some inmates who refused to eat meals, which which meals, eat to refused who inmates Some said. Durham

the case is likely to drag through the courts for years, and and years, for courts the through drag to likely is case the during the whole (non contact) window visit. The SHU SHU The visit. window contact) (non whole the during struggle, in sacrifice, in the blood, sweat, and tears of our our of tears and sweat, blood, the in sacrifice, in struggle,

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locations of active resistance, with hunger strikes used as as used strikes hunger with resistance, active of locations

day room. day America, into the fields that produce the nation’s food. food. nation’s the produce that fields the into America,

For the plaintiffs in the Aurora forced labor lawsuit, the the lawsuit, labor forced Aurora the in plaintiffs the For This dream is of our our of is dream . This shores. these from us banish can health problems. There was no chair in the booth. I was was I booth. the in chair no was There problems. health

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which included increased phone access and more time in the the in time more and access phone increased included which of the immigrant from Mexico or refugee from Central Central from refugee or Mexico from immigrant the of

a day. a this country, and we are here to stay. No wall, no power power no wall, No stay. to here are we and country, this time Sunday but my mother is 90 years old with a lot of of lot a with old years 90 is mother my but Sunday time

. conditions labor slave-like and

did not make any changes in response to the inmates’ demands, demands, inmates’ the to response in changes any make not did

disenfranchised immigrant in a factory or, in the case case the in or, factory a in immigrant disenfranchised

of the future of immigrants in this country is that we built built we that is country this in immigrants of future the of Northwest Detention Center are also forced to work for $1 $1 for work to forced also are Center Detention Northwest

10:30AM but at 1:30PM after she left. They allowed me me allowed They left. she after 1:30PM at but 10:30AM place, such as unsanitary conditions, abusive treatment, treatment, abusive conditions, unsanitary as such place,

Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Chris Durham said the department department the said Durham Chris Sgt. spokesman Sheriff’s

backstabbing, competitive American system places the the places system American competitive backstabbing,

We have to organize around the whole system. The reality reality The system. whole the around organize to have We work stoppage. Like the Aurora facility, detainees at the the at detainees facility, Aurora the Like stoppage. work

I got a visit from Moms. They never called me to visit at at visit to me called never They Moms. from visit a got I the factors that lead inmates to go on strike in the first first the in strike on go to inmates lead that factors the

County Sheriff’s Department said. Department Sheriff’s County

certain foreign governments. This virulent, cutthroat, cutthroat, virulent, This governments. foreign certain

One must not concentrate of immigration reform alone. alone. reform immigration of concentrate not must One

state – went on hunger strike. Some also called for a a for called also Some strike. hunger on went – state families about their concerns. They often fail to mention mention to fail often They concerns. their about families take it to the top. the to it take

Riverside ended Monday, May 1, at 19 days, the Riverside Riverside the days, 19 at 1, May Monday, ended Riverside

foreign labor, and the exploitation of its citizens, by by citizens, its of exploitation the and labor, foreign

America’s contradictions and imbalances are interrelated. interrelated. are imbalances and contradictions America’s

publications and outlets rarely speak to prisoners or their their or prisoners to speak rarely outlets and publications GEO Group detention center – this one in Washington Washington in one this – center detention Group GEO know of all this and not one cares enough to confront it or or it confront to enough cares one not and this all of know

The hunger strike at Robert Presley Detention Center in in Center Detention Presley Robert at strike hunger The

using, to their advantage, the depressed wages of of wages depressed the advantage, their to using,

been placed under. No one issue stands alone. All of of All alone. stands issue one No under. placed been

along from state and prison officials. Conventional news news Conventional officials. prison and state from along

This week, more than 750 immigrants held in another another in held immigrants 750 than more week, This is medical staff/Lt/Sgt/counselor and other staff all see and and see all staff other and staff/Lt/Sgt/counselor medical is

on county officials to publicly address the inmates’ complaints. inmates’ the address publicly to officials county on

creations out of the country, to maximize profit by by profit maximize to country, the of out creations

socio-economic and political disadvantages that we have have we that disadvantages political and socio-economic sparse at best, often parroting information that is passed passed is that information parroting often best, at sparse

the unjust treatment of immigrants jailed within. jailed immigrants of treatment unjust the hear during chow/shower time. For their enjoyment. There There enjoyment. their For time. chow/shower during hear

Starting Over Inc. are supporting the hunger strike and calling calling and strike hunger the supporting are Inc. Over Starting

the 90s is a biproduct of corporations moving their their moving corporations of biproduct a is 90s the

alongside police brutality, mass incarceration, and other other and incarceration, mass brutality, police alongside Historically, media coverage of prison strikes has been been has strikes prison of coverage media Historically,

Aurora ICE facility and many others nationwide, decrying decrying nationwide, others many and facility ICE Aurora them because the cops play a radio so loud you can’t even even can’t you loud so radio a play cops the because them The prisoner advocacy groups All of Us or None of Us and and Us of None or Us of All groups advocacy prisoner The

“stealing America’s jobs.” The scarcity of jobs since since jobs of scarcity The jobs.” America’s “stealing

It is connected to so many other issues and runs right right runs and issues other many so to connected is It Matters reported. Matters

For years, the public has regularly protested outside the the outside protested regularly has public the years, For someone needs help in the morning, no one could hear hear could one no morning, the in help needs someone I’m not about to negotiate safety and security.” and safety negotiate to about not I’m

from countries south of the border are blamed for for blamed are border the of south countries from

half-minute NPR Weekend Edition interview…” Media Media interview…” Edition Weekend NPR half-minute that this country faces, but it does not stand by itself. itself. by stand not does it but faces, country this that

explains DiSalvo. explains off. The lights are always off and dark in the building. If If building. the in dark and off always are lights The off. Gutierrez told CNS. “We’ll evaluate this with our staff. But But staff. our with this evaluate “We’ll CNS. told Gutierrez

Often immigrants fleeing poverty and violence violence and poverty fleeing immigrants . Often

through of headlines on NBC’s Today and a three-and-a- a and Today NBC’s on headlines of through

reform in America is one of the most pressing issues issues pressing most the of one is America in reform

“We’re always looking at processes to see how can improve,” improve,” can how see to processes at looking always “We’re be detained. Which I think just adds urgency to our case,” case,” our to urgency adds just think I Which detained. be spent. They have cameras that don’t work and are turned turned are and work don’t that cameras have They spent.

slogan.

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oppression that exists in America today. Immigration Immigration today. America in exists that oppression

As for the inmates’ complaints? They’re being reviewed. being They’re complaints? inmates’ the for As in this country that will require more and more people to to people more and more require will that country this in time. If only the public could see where the money is being being is money the where see could public the only If time.

legitimacy, but in terms of the origin of this morbid morbid this of origin the of terms in but legitimacy,

up almost completely empty on coverage of the strikes, strikes, the of coverage on empty completely almost up is perhaps the most inhumane example of state sanctioned sanctioned state of example inhumane most the perhaps is

complications as a result of the strike, Gutierrez said. Gutierrez strike, the of result a as complications in more aggressively deporting undocumented immigrants immigrants undocumented deporting aggressively more in the cell. It’s a scam. They are stealing from the state big big state the from stealing are They scam. a It’s cell. the

immigrants - deserves some thought. Not in terms of of terms in Not thought. some deserves - immigrants

and MSNBC — and National Public Radio…has come come Radio…has Public National and — MSNBC and who are undocumented. The forced separation of a family family a of separation forced The undocumented. are who

staff around the clock to ensure none of them develop health health develop them of none ensure to clock the around staff “The new administration, at the federal level is interested interested is level federal the at administration, new “The

and have a good old time. They just walk away and leave leave and away walk just They time. old good a have and

Trump’s plans to deport millions of undocumented undocumented of millions deport to plans Trump’s

networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, Fox News, News, Fox CNN, PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, — networks horror of a child who is American born, but has parents parents has but born, American is who child a of horror

Inmates are being monitored by medical and psychiatric psychiatric and medical by monitored being are Inmates

important than ever. than important

Sit ins come in and sit and go to sleep. COs all do overtime overtime do all COs sleep. to go and sit and in come ins Sit

and upper-class whites chanted in solidarity with with solidarity in chanted whites upper-class and

“[A] search of Nexis transcripts from the major news news major the from transcripts Nexis of search “[A] willed immigrant from Korea, I could only imagine the the imagine only could I Korea, from immigrant willed “It was not a retaliatory measure,” he said. he measure,” retaliatory a not was “It

detentions is all the more reason why this lawsuit is more more is lawsuit this why reason more the all is detentions

or disrespect someone and come to SNY’s for protection. for SNY’s to come and someone disrespect or

wall! Build the wall!” - which millions of underclass underclass of millions which - wall!” the Build wall!

strike movements in U.S. history. U.S. in movements strike Having been born of a beautiful, extremely strong strong extremely beautiful, a of born been . Having according to the assistant sheriff. assistant the to according

DiSalvo says the planned increase in immigrant immigrant in increase planned the says DiSalvo mainlines. Now all they have to do is lie and owe someone someone owe and lie is do to have they all Now mainlines.

Trump’s deplorable campaign slogan, “Build the the “Build slogan, campaign deplorable . Trump’s

then considered to be one of the largest national prison prison national largest the of one be to considered then

the heart wrenching, forced separation of families. of separation forced wrenching, heart the and a direct response to the strike, but it was just a coincidence, coincidence, a just was it but strike, the to response direct a and

capacity here, to hold as many as 1,400 detainees at a time. a at detainees 1,400 as many as hold to here, capacity well as inmates that were victims and really got stabbed on on stabbed got really and victims were that inmates as well

ability to vote. to ability

that no major media outlets had covered what was was what covered had outlets media major no that found

inmates and their relatives interpreted the action as deliberate deliberate as action the interpreted relatives their and inmates core issues that was raised in this act of resistance was was resistance of act this in raised was that issues core

900 immigrants a day and they say the plan is to increase increase to is plan the say they and day a immigrants 900

some freedom. And they all had rules placed on them as as them on placed rules had all they And freedom. some

themselves, and in the case of the undocumented, the the undocumented, the of case the in and themselves,

Media Matters Matters Media began, strikes the after month One

their loved ones locked up in AD-SEG and other wards. Some Some wards. other and AD-SEG in up locked ones loved their hunger strike, calling for immigration reform. One of the the of One reform. immigration for calling strike, hunger

get bigger and busier. The facility can hold as many as as many as hold can facility The busier. and bigger get leave that lifestyle and do a better program, to maybe see see maybe to program, better a do and lifestyle that leave

on the people who they feel lack the means to defend defend to means the lack feel they who people the on

But few reporters found the strikes worth covering. covering. worth strikes the found reporters few But the jail broke down, preventing some families from seeing seeing from families some preventing down, broke jail the

to Washington D.C. and bravely conducted their own own their conducted bravely and D.C. Washington to

ramp up ICE detentions, this location is only expected to to expected only is location this detentions, ICE up ramp Many inmates have suffered and come out of the SHUs to to SHUs the of out come and suffered have inmates Many

power by directing the grievances of their citizens, citizens, their of grievances the directing by power

GED. Gutierrez said that earlier this week, the visitor elevator at at elevator visitor the week, this earlier that said Gutierrez

in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba), immigration activists went went activists immigration Cuba), Bay, Guantanamo in

facility. Considering the Trump administration’s plan to to plan administration’s Trump the Considering facility.

to belong to groups so they can call themselves a gang. gang. a themselves call can they so groups to belong to

American history. Politicians often seek to keep their their keep to seek often Politicians history. American

reinstitution of classes for those who want to obtain their their obtain to want who those for classes of reinstitution their 30-minute breaks, according to sheriff’s officials. sheriff’s to according breaks, 30-minute their

was in solidarity with the hunger strike that was going on on going was that strike hunger the with solidarity in was

There’s been a lot of activity outside the Aurora ICE ICE Aurora the outside activity of lot a been There’s

of these types of incidents. It’s all on SNY’s. They want want They SNY’s. on all It’s incidents. of types these of

behind immigration that has existed throughout Anglo- throughout existed has that immigration behind

excessive vendor visitation and canteen prices and the the and prices canteen and visitation vendor excessive abstaining from buying goods from the commissary during during commissary the from goods buying from abstaining confinement in California’s mass prison system (which (which system prison mass California’s in confinement

and release policies of the past are over.” are past the of policies release and

And there’s a lot of inmates that can’t program because because program can’t that inmates of lot a there’s And prey to politicians who capitalize on the xenophobia xenophobia the on capitalize who politicians to prey

programs. The prisoners also asked for an end to to end an for asked also prisoners The programs. three times a day, but it was unclear how many were also also were many how unclear was it but day, a times three joint hunger strike, protesting against long term solitary solitary term long against protesting strike, hunger joint

the abdication of duty to enforce our laws, and the catch catch the and laws, our enforce to duty of abdication the sadly, the disenfranchised and undocumented fall fall undocumented and disenfranchised the sadly, gang homies. Yet didn’t face their own music. own their face didn’t Yet homies. gang

requested that mentally ill inmates be kept in treatment treatment in kept be inmates ill mentally that requested The AD-SEG inmates are rejecting meal trays delivered delivered trays meal rejecting are inmates AD-SEG The In 2013, soon after 30,000 prisoners embarked on a a on embarked prisoners 30,000 after soon 2013, . In

This is the Trump era,” Sessions said. “The lawlessness, lawlessness, “The said. Sessions era,” Trump the is This Germans against underclass Jews. Like in Germany, Germany, in Like Jews. underclass against Germans than on G.P. by inmates that ratted out their best friends or or friends best their out ratted that inmates by G.P. on than

beverages.” to be compensated for their labor, as well as as well as labor, their for compensated be to requested this dream is ever more real. more ever is dream this

the same tactics that the Nazi’s used to pit underclass underclass pit to used Nazi’s the that tactics same the entry into this country, be forewarned: This is a new era. era. new a is This forewarned: be country, this into entry More inmates have gotten killed in the last Years on SNY’s SNY’s on Years last the in killed gotten have inmates More been denied access to the commissary to buy soup, snacks or or snacks soup, buy to commissary the to access denied been prisoners prisoners Carolina, South in prison one At conditions.”

perpetuated. The reality of actually having to fight for for fight to having actually of reality The perpetuated.

the economic reality of class struggle, have utilized utilized have struggle, class of reality economic the “For those that continue to seek improper and illegal illegal and improper seek to continue that those “For cowards are behaving so CDCR will handle this problem. problem. this handle will CDCR so behaving are cowards “That’s absolutely untrue,” he told CNS. “No one has has one “No CNS. told he untrue,” absolutely “That’s were protesting what have been described as “slave-like “slave-like as described been have what protesting were

politics, which perpetuates racist hostility is being being is hostility racist perpetuates which politics,

chicanery, aimed at diverting underclass whites from from whites underclass diverting at aimed chicanery, commitment to increased immigration enforcement. immigration increased to commitment privileges, but Gutierrez flatly denied that. denied flatly Gutierrez but privileges, Someone needs to make it known to all inmates how these these how inmates all to known it make to needs Someone who who inmates 24,000 some involving states, 24 in place

election of Trump and the resurgence of white-identity white-identity of resurgence the and Trump of election

issue of immigration. The trump phenomenon and its its and phenomenon trump The immigration. of issue retribution in the form of revoking commissary and visitation visitation and commissary revoking of form the in retribution more immigration judges as part of the administration’s administration’s the of part as judges immigration more Prison Uprising, work stoppages and hunger strikes took took strikes hunger and stoppages work Uprising, Prison come over here and assault inmates and staff allows it. it. allows staff and inmates assault and here over come

just a dream, but a dream worth fighting for! With the the With for! fighting worth dream a but dream, a just

regression in American politics, particularly around the the around particularly politics, American in regression inmates began their strike, jail personnel have exacted exacted have personnel jail strike, their began inmates On last year’s September anniversary of the Attica Attica the of anniversary September year’s last On visit in Arizona, Sessions announced plans to hire 125 125 hire to plans announced Sessions Arizona, in visit on G.P.s and some have never been on G.P. mainlines and and mainlines G.P. on been never have some and G.P.s on

from all over the world in pursuit of a dream. Then not not Then dream. a of pursuit in world the over all from

According to Markham, since her husband and the other other the and husband her since Markham, to According There’s some historical precedent behind the the behind precedent historical some There’s programs. use of private prisons. And this week, during a border border a during week, this And prisons. private of use of these younger inmates lied and ran from other inmates inmates other from ran and lied inmates younger these of

regardless of sex, color, or religion. People come here here come People religion. or color, sex, of regardless

seriously.” belongs to all of us!!! of all to belongs to gain access to educational, religious and self-help self-help and religious educational, to access gain to was sworn in, he reversed plans to phase out federal federal out phase to plans reversed he in, sworn was

needs to print-up these issues about SNY Prisons. A lot lot A Prisons. SNY about issues these print-up to needs

Immigration to America is a harsh experience experience harsh a is America to . Immigration

in the jail,” he said. “Inmates are treated fairly. We take safety safety take We fairly. treated are “Inmates said. he jail,” the in

accurate description of who this country belongs to-it to-it belongs country this who of description accurate be moved out of general population and allow inmates inmates allow and population general of out moved be

98 percent. Just weeks after Attorney General Jeff Sessions Sessions Jeff General Attorney after weeks Just percent. 98 It’s all coward stuff that’s being allowed and Prison Focus Focus Prison and allowed being that’s stuff coward all It’s

Protestants even attacked a Catholic Church. Church. Catholic a attacked even Protestants

“We put these protocols in place for the safety of everyone everyone of safety the for place in protocols these put “We

tide of human development, it is nonetheless, the most most the nonetheless, is it development, human of tide commissary prices, allow mental health prisoners to to prisoners health mental allow prices, commissary

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anti-Irish riots sprang up in Philadelphia during which which during Philadelphia in up sprang riots anti-Irish

and 11 p.m. 11 and

one of us. While this philosophy has not withstood the the withstood not has philosophy this While us. of one provide inmates access to more clothing, decrease decrease clothing, more to access inmates provide

would otherwise have to hire employees. hire to have otherwise would back they get RVR-115s too! Administration here is no no is here Administration too! RVR-115s get they back

instances of antagonism and hostility are found when when found are hostility and antagonism of instances

turned out individually at intervals, anytime between 7 a.m. a.m. 7 between anytime intervals, at individually out turned

the use of long-term or indefinite solitary confinement, confinement, solitary indefinite or long-term of use the to our mother earth and is there for each and every every and each for there is and earth mother our to

profits by forcing detainees to do work for which they which for work do to detainees forcing by profits are inmates in Ad-Seg right now for that! And if they fight fight they if And that! for now right Ad-Seg in inmates are

ships in pursuit of a better life. As far back as 1844, 1844, as back far As life. better a of pursuit in ships

them to prioritize. Gutierrez said the segregated inmates are are inmates segregated the said Gutierrez prioritize. to them

around the nation, asking prison officials to prohibit prohibit to officials prison asking nation, the around person or entity can lay claim to the land, for it belongs belongs it for land, the to claim lay can entity or person

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have 30 minutes to get out of their cells, making it difficult for for difficult it making cells, their of out get to minutes 30 have

Their demands echoed those made by other inmates inmates other by made those echoed demands Their foreigners in their own land. For the native people, no no people, native the For land. own their in foreigners

out. inmates] and then all 4 are allowed back to the yards. yards. the to back allowed are 4 all then and inmates]

failure of the potato crop. The Irish came to America America to came Irish The crop. potato the of failure

schedule letting the inmates know in advance when they will will they when advance in know inmates the letting schedule

California, launched a hunger strike. hunger a launched California, the extent that the Anglos-settlers have made them them made have Anglos-settlers the that extent the

absence of the class-action mechanism,” DiSalvo points points DiSalvo mechanism,” class-action the of absence Inmates are getting assaulted by 2 or 3 or even 4 [other [other 4 even or 3 or 2 by assaulted getting are Inmates

The flood of Irish immigration came after the great the after came immigration Irish of flood . The

According to the woman, jail personnel do not maintain a a maintain not do personnel jail woman, the to According

at the Robert Presley Detention Center, located in in located Center, Detention Presley Robert the at survivors of genocide are themselves immigrants, to to immigrants, themselves are genocide of survivors

vulnerable populations have accessing the courts in the the in courts the accessing have populations vulnerable Sacramento so they can start the SHU Programs back. back. Programs SHU the start can they so Sacramento

this category, they too experienced this hostility. hostility. this experienced too they category, this

that stuff in so little time?” she said last week. last said she time?” little so in stuff that

On April 13, at least 30 inmates inmates 30 least at 13, April On outdoors. exercising in America is an immigrant. Even the indigenous indigenous the Even immigrant. an is America in

courts which I think speaks mostly to the difficulties that that difficulties the to mostly speaks think I which courts

Because CDCR wants violence to take to the public and and public the to take to violence wants CDCR Because immigration of Anglo-Saxons. When the Irish fell into into fell Irish the When Anglo-Saxons. of immigration

calls, get exercise in 30 minutes? How does anybody do all all do anybody does How minutes? 30 in exercise get calls,

conditions that included inmates being barred from from barred being inmates included that conditions

of America, we will find that every single person person single every that find will we America, of

very long time, but they have yet to be challenged in the the in challenged be to yet have they but time, long very allowed on all SNY’s! Craziest thing I ever seen or heard. heard. or seen ever I thing Craziest SNY’s! all on allowed of the 20s, which set immigration quotas that favored the the favored that quotas immigration set which 20s, the of

segregated inmates are supposed to take showers, make phone phone make showers, take to supposed are inmates segregated

according to family members, was initiated due to prison prison to due initiated was members, family to according

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been so bold to grab hold of the American dream. American the of hold grab to bold so been

also white immigrants from eastern and southern Europe Europe southern and eastern from immigrants white also community the power to fight such a powerful organization. powerful a such fight to power the community type of behavior and gives the inmates that get assaulted a a assaulted get that inmates the gives and behavior of type

on his ability to communicate with her and their two children. two their and her with communicate to ability his on

Mississippi Mississippi the at inmates 11, April On recently.

imbalances that have been hurled upon those that have have that those upon hurled been have that imbalances

hostility is not just directed at immigrants of color, but but color, of immigrants at directed just not is hostility class-action status gives a frightened and marginalized marginalized and frightened a gives status class-action

leave the 2 or 3 that jumped on one inmate. Staff allows this this allows Staff inmate. one on jumped that 3 or 2 the leave about his treatment in AD-SEG, mostly because of the curbs curbs the of because mostly AD-SEG, in treatment his about

Strikes by other inmates have occurred even more more even occurred have inmates other by Strikes

I bring into the foreground the contradictions and and contradictions the foreground the into bring I

has always been a part of Anglo-American history. This This history. Anglo-American of part a been always has the attorneys behind the lawsuit. She says the case’s new new case’s the says She lawsuit. the behind attorneys the

Markham told CNS that her husband has been incensed incensed been has husband her that CNS told Markham inmates. Beat them down to get them off the yards and yards the off them get to down them Beat inmates.

officials were trying to kill him. kill to trying were officials

herself. It is within this question of immigration that that immigration of question this within is It herself.

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DiSalvo, Executive Director of Towards Justice and one of of one and Justice Towards of Director Executive DiSalvo, On C Yards, inmates are being allowed to assault other other assault to allowed being are inmates Yards, C On

The Free Alabama Movement told Democracy Now that that Now Democracy told Movement Alabama Free The

grand claim is just as hollow as the Statue of Liberty Liberty of Statue the as hollow as just is claim grand

burdens rising from their presence.” their from rising burdens who was stabbed multiple times with a screwdriver in a car car a in screwdriver a with times multiple stabbed was who

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it’s cold. it’s

Kilby Correctional Facility after initiating a work strike. strike. work a initiating after Facility Correctional Kilby

Immigrants coming to America quickly find that this this that find quickly America to coming . Immigrants

last May of 37-year-old Rosemary Barrasa of Bloomington, Bloomington, of Barrasa Rosemary 37-year-old of May last protection of the state political subdivisions from the the from subdivisions political state the of protection

the complaint that could violate the Trafficking Victims Victims Trafficking the violate could that complaint the and where they don’t hand out jackets! Here it rains and and rains it Here jackets! out hand don’t they where and

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me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” golden the beside lamp my lift I me.

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against him in return – did not end. In November that that November In end. not did – return in him against

teeming shore. Send these homeless, tempest-tossed to to tempest-tossed homeless, these Send shore. teeming

employed by corporations or any public works. And that that And works. public any or corporations by employed

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yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your your of refuse wretched The free. breathe to yearning

taken to prohibit their immigration. They should not be be not should They immigration. their prohibit to taken attended a rally held outside of Folsom on June 4 June on Folsom of outside held rally a attended SS PH

the federal government but judges aren’t convinced. aren’t judges but government federal the

to the bottom of each tray. each of bottom the to

garnering media attention. media garnering th. th.

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PF and and PF C of members strike, hunger Folsom the of support In

was directed to the Chinese: “Every means should be be should means “Every Chinese: the to directed was

their so-called volunteer work program policies are set by by set are policies program work volunteer so-called their here pile on top of each other where everyone’s food sticks sticks food everyone’s where other each of top on pile here ending Council’s hunger strike and preventing him from from him preventing and strike hunger Council’s ending

a better life: life: better a

In California, an entire article in their state constitution constitution state their in article entire an California, . In

Since the case was filed in 2014, GEO Group has insisted insisted has Group GEO 2014, in filed was case the Since food was delivered hot in small trays with lids. These trays trays These lids. with trays small in hot delivered was food the force-feeding was done with the additional motive of of motive additional the with done was force-feeding the

engraved into her a welcoming to those who dreamt for for dreamt who those to welcoming a her into engraved

immigrants became commonplace. became immigrants

vigorously defend [the] company against the claims.” claims.” the against company [the] defend vigorously Movement, a prison reform advocacy group, believes believes group, advocacy reform prison a Movement, In all the other prisons everything had been replaced so the the so replaced been had everything prisons other the all In

who took the long, hard journey to America, you’ll find find you’ll America, to journey hard long, the took who

object of continued violence when massacres of Chinese Chinese of massacres when violence continued of object

But Dara Folden, a member of the Free Alabama Alabama Free the of member a Folden, Dara But the forced labor allegations, and “intend to continue to to continue to “intend and allegations, labor forced the The food we’re fed is placed on trays that are old and nasty. nasty. and old are that trays on placed is fed we’re food The

On the Statue of Liberty, in tribute to the immigrant immigrant the to tribute in Liberty, of Statue the . On

Germany, the Chinese in America quickly became the the became quickly America in Chinese the Germany,

had reached dangerous levels. dangerous reached had

The guards are disrespectful to inmates. to disrespectful are guards The

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to be exploited for cheap labor. Like the Jews in Nazi Nazi in Jews the Like labor. cheap for exploited be to

force-fed him intravenously, as his blood sugar levels levels sugar blood his as intravenously, him force-fed

cages! No pull up bar! The Legal Law Library is a Joke. Joke. a is Library Law Legal The bar! up pull No cages!

or exploited labor? And what is the immigrant if not a a not if immigrant the is what And labor? exploited or

were literally brought into America by the railroads railroads the by America into brought literally were

on hunger strike for 10 days. Medical staff at the prison prison the at staff Medical days. 10 for strike hunger on

is bad. Leaking water in all the chases. No exercise bars in in bars exercise No chases. the all in water Leaking bad. is

not a settler-colony built by immigrants through forced forced through immigrants by built settler-colony a not

British Crown and its social and economic aftermath, aftermath, economic and social its and Crown British

to the abuses that take place in their prisons.● their in place take that abuses the to

Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility after being being after Facility Correctional Limestone Alabama’s

allowed to only use them once a month. The plumbing here here plumbing The month. a once them use only to allowed

state of desperation that I speak of. What is America if if America is What of. speak I that desperation of state

of their 5,000 year old civilization at the hands of of hands the at civilization old year 5,000 their of

authorities who want to draw as little attention as possible possible as attention little as draw to want who authorities

in in cell his of floor the on unconscious sprawled found

clippers aren’t even cleaned when we use them and we’re we’re and them use we when cleaned even aren’t clippers

There is something profoundly American about this this about American profoundly something is . There

populace. Chinese immigrants fleeing the degradation degradation the fleeing immigrants Chinese populace.

coverage in the first place, which plays into the hands of of hands the into plays which place, first the in coverage On Oct. 30, 2016, Robert Earl Council was was Council Earl Robert 2016, 30, Oct. On

the lights to see when using the razors or nail clippers. Hair Hair clippers. nail or razors the using when see to lights the

in the state of desperation. of state the in

numbered 75,000. This was almost 1/10th of California’s California’s of 1/10th almost was This 75,000. numbered

most mainstream news networks aren’t pushing for any any for pushing aren’t networks news mainstream most | seddine Cham Roqayah By

They don’t have mirrors in showers, nor do they turn on on turn they do nor showers, in mirrors have don’t They

trapped at the bottom, to another, who does not exist exist not does who another, to bottom, the at trapped

population of Chinese immigrants in California alone, alone, California in immigrants Chinese of population

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inmates.

Or the struggles of people who this system has brutally brutally has system this who people of struggles the Or

requests for humane treatment in the dark. the in treatment humane for requests

which this country enjoys even to this day. By 1880, the the 1880, By day. this to even enjoys country this which

information delivered by organizers and relatives due to to due relatives and organizers by delivered information

seen in this short time at least 1,000 different different 1,000 least at time short this in seen

many of us live, due to the uncertainty of deportation. deportation. of uncertainty the to due live, us of many

have been few and far between, leaving prisoners’ prisoners’ leaving between, far and few been have

the newfound empire with the mighty railroad system in in system railroad mighty the with empire newfound the strikes, as independent publications are forced to rely on on rely to forced are publications independent as strikes,

New guys come in and go out every 5 days. I’ve I’ve days. 5 every out go and in come guys New for me to articulate the level of desperation in which which in desperation of level the articulate to me for

poor conditions. But news reports on the strikes strikes the on reports news But conditions. poor

Anglo-settlers used the Chinese immigrants to connect connect to immigrants Chinese the used Anglo-settlers It is difficult to obtain reliable information about prison prison about information reliable obtain to difficult is It

themselves! But these cells are full every day. day. every full are cells these But themselves!

one look at reality would suggest otherwise. It is hard hard is It otherwise. suggest would reality at look one

of thousands of inmates protesting abuse and and abuse protesting inmates of thousands of F this great nation of immigrants stands atop of. Then, the the Then, of. atop stands immigrants of nation great this of candy, and sometimes not even that.” even not sometimes and candy, of

have or a table or top bunk! So they can’t kill kill can’t they So bunk! top or table a or have to believe they live in a just society. However, However, society. just a in live they believe to

hunger and labor strikes since last year, with tens tens with year, last since strikes labor and hunger floors “in exchange for having a piece of chicken or a piece piece a or chicken of piece a having for exchange “in floors native lands, to build the capitalist infrastructure in which which in infrastructure capitalist the build to lands, native

cell has lockers, which they aren’t supposed to to supposed aren’t they which lockers, has cell to social injustice. Most people would prefer prefer would people Most injustice. social to

Prisoners across the U.S. have been holding holding been have U.S. the across Prisoners

undocumented detainees painted prison walls and washed washed and walls prison painted detainees undocumented woman, and child, whom they kidnapped from their their from kidnapped they whom child, and woman,

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peoples, used the dehumanization of the African man, man, African the of dehumanization the used peoples,

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their children. their population of Jews to build their pyramids. In America, America, In pyramids. their build to Jews of population

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the $1-per-day prison wage, more nutritional food and and food nutritional more wage, prison $1-per-day the existence since the beginning of time. time. of beginning the since existence

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Continued from page 8 page from Continued ...... Report Prison RJD commissary prices, access to educational programs, raising raising programs, educational to access prices, commissary resistance; resistance to an oppressor that has been in been has that oppressor an to resistance resistance; aware of the 13th Amendment's exception clause. Prisoners gate money given inmates on release from prison from the Enforcementand setting andout Investigationsany and all consideration Unit). impliedly or least three-fourths of the matches are still corresponding. Ashkeroffenses...... The most obvious and statewide expression of that2 officers throughout California. PRISONER HUMAN RIGHTS aroundMOV theE nationMEN haveT been strategizing and directly $200 to $300. However, it was lately amended to retain shift was the passage of Propositions 64, 47 and 57. In 2014 expresslyShout out offered to all those or promisedwho understand to, or requested the bigger or picturereceived This unique pen pal program stems from the belief that all prisons, and many prisoners do not have jobs or classes We prison activists recognize that CDCr is operating challenging the 13th, as demonstrated by the September the $200 amount, with additional amendments declaring Proposition 47 passed, which reduced many non-violent ofby, our the solidarity in-custody efforts informant. coming The out billof the would hunger require strikes, the human beings have human rights, whether they are inside FIRST AMENDMENT CAMPAIGN CONSOLIDATION INITIATIVE there. These prisoners remain in their cells most of the semi-general population and modified general populations 9, 2016 prison strikes. Jailhouse Lawyers Speak has been anyone who absconded would not receive any monies felonies (including drug possession) to a misdemeanor. whichstatement continue to contain today specified as the Prisonerinformation, Human including Rights the or outside the prison walls. The response from prisoners By Kamau M. Askari CURRENT PRISON ACTIVIST AND NEW AFRIKAN time, much like SHU. Lockdowns also restrict movement within the prisons, thereby violating general population planning its challenge to the thirteenth in collaboration owedprison and authorities allowing regardingthe state an material additional facts 5 days affecting to make the In 2016, Proposition 64 passed, which decriminalized Movementinformant’s (PHRM). complete criminal history, including pending to engage in a human rights-oriented dialogue has been so am one of six principal representatives of our former COMMUNITY COURT LITIGATION NEEDS YOUR and social contact. prisoners’ constitutional rights. And as such, we prison with iamWE Prison Advocacy Network since mid 2015. theoutcome payment. of the While case. the bill cleared the committee without possession of marijuana and reduced penalties for growing criminalUnfortunately, charges thereor investigations are some inCalifornia which the prisoners informant enthusiastic, that regretfully, in 2016 HRPP was compelled “Pelican Bay Human Rights Movements First SUPPORT Many longtime SHU prisoners are playing a positive activists cannot fulfill the personal goals and objectives. ● Announcing Millions This challenge is the Millions for Prisoners Human Rights a singleThe U.S. no Districtvote now court awaits granted readings summary and votesadjudication on the or selling marijuana. Also in 2016, Proposition 57 passed, stillis aallowing suspect, themselvesand whether to theallow informant CDCr isto apull substance them to stop taking requests for pen pals from the ‘inside’. There Amendment Campaign” (PBHRMFAC). Our mission A clear line of communication is the starting point role in general population. Throughout the state, they I March, hosted by iamWE Prison Advocacy Network. Assemblyin favor offloor, prison we authoritiesconsider this on bill, Askari’s as amended, Fourteenth to be making people in prison with non-violent convictions backwardsabuser or hasinto a historythat old of substanceCDCr way abuse. of thinkingThe bill wouldand continues to be an extensive waiting list, though efforts to statement was initially published within the March 2014 for grasping the importance of our First Amendment for Prisoners March Presently coalitions are being formed that we envision will worthless.Amendment Equal Protection claim by diminishing, are exerting a calming influence on prison yards as they also revise the definition of consideration for purposes of recruit 'outside' pen pals to be matched with those inside, issue of the San Francisco BayView National Black Campaigns (FAC) established progressive objectives, eligible for parole after completing their base terms – prior behaving that allowed us to be set up to be wrongfully become a recognizable force for change beyond the March. manifestlyAB 1308 failing: (Extends to consider, the provision and/or of negating Youth Offender material advocate for the Agreement to End Hostilities. these provisions. continue. We invite and encourage folks from the outside Newspaper.he Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution from which essentially flows our inside/outside (prison to serving timeon any sentence enhancements. placed and kept inside CDCr’s solitary confinement How Do We End Likewise, we envision every August 19th afterwards being Parolefacts underlyingHearings to andthose inherent who were to under the 25claim. at the Askari’s time of With the recent mass exodus of prisoners from SHUs This bill would expand the scope of the prohibition to join the HRPP community., a special group of people, Sincereads that astime follows: our “PBHRMFAC” "Section 1. Slavery has morphed prohibited. into walls) capacity to network and coordinate the logistics However, Proposition 57 does not impact people in torture system under their old “snitch, parole or die!” a day of solidarity and demonstrations in recognition of theFourteenth crime.) ThisAmendment bill, which Equalextends Protection YOPH consideration claim is across the state, CDCR has closed the SHUs at Tehachapi against a law enforcement or correctional official giving, indeed. Check out humanrightspenpals.org Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except county jail. Thus, people in county jail can serve longer mass validation, indeterminate SHU, coerced, enhanced, Relentless Security/ a system-wide California “Prisoners Human Rights necessary to facilitate our FAC defensive measures, (CCI) and New Folsom (CSP-Sacramento). As of the T human rights for the incarcerated, and highlighting the bepredicated 2 years, isupon now inthe the established Assembly Floorpattern process, and awaitingpractice sentences than those in state prison, even if they have been interrogativeoffering, or debriefingpromising to mindgive anda monetaryspirit-breaking payment scheme. to make In addition, PHSS continue to follow, support and/or asMovement” a punishment (PHRM) for crime in termswhereof of the securing party shall our have first clear and effective communications necessarily entails violations of such for collective action. aof thirdprison reading authorities, and vote.whose It intentional passed narrowly discriminatory out of end of March, 2017 (most current numbers available), it applicable to a member of a prosecutorial entity, among Wchallengeelfa legislativere activity. Check We hvae supporteds? a bill for beenamendment duly convicted, rights, by shall virtue exist of withininherent the first United amendment States, providing our people within our many New Afrikan convicted of the same crime. Whether it be what happened at New Folsom last Update by The Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity “Black August is a month of divine meaning, of committee,purpose is largelyto arbitrarily along partydiscriminate line votes. against We support our New this there were 320 prisoners in Pelican Bay SHU and 116 in other changes. The bill would also make the provision good time credits, a bill to abolish use of solitary for youth, orobjectives any place combined subject to theirwith jurisdiction.”the progress made relative (Black) communities with accurate information regarding The policy of sentencing people with nonviolent Aug. 12, 2015 – condolences extended to the family of Coalition (PHSS) Committee to End Sleep Deprivation repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine bill.Afrikan prisoner klass on the basis of race, culture, and Corcoran SHU. applicable to property and gifts, among other benefits, a bill to limit use of confidential informers, etc. While toSalamu! our protracted Greetings struggle of solidarity against from decades behind of enemy long lines. term currently active court litigation being fought in the courts, convictions to long periods of incarceration is an expensive Hugo Pinell for the loss of our Brutha Hugo to the old, Our committee continues to work on a number of fronts justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual membershipAB 1448: (Wouldwithin thecodify ideological the elderly movement parole process, of the Former SHU prisoners coming up for parole are finding and would limit the combined value of those benefits to not always successful, we did succeed in efforts which Thanksolitary you confinement, for giving meculminating the opportunity in many to of publish our releases this pertaining to First Amendment rights abuses orchestrated failure that does not reduce the availability of drugs in our evil, backward thinking of the past – or when it appears to end the “security/welfare checks” that wake up California and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains making“New Afrikan it a law Revolutionary rather than simply Nationalism” an agreement). (NARN). The parole commissioners pressuring them to debrief, a $100. The bill would also make technical changes.● ultimately reduced the number of new Institutional Gang communication.from security housing I am aunit new (SHU) Afrikan to variousfreedom general fighter prison from and perpetrated by prison authorities against our New communities. Instead, it cripples state and local budgets that elsewhere throughout CDCr, we have to be mindful of prisoners every half hour (in most solitary units) under the that bind us.” -Mumia Abu-Jamal ElderlyUpon granting parole bill,summary which adjudication does not change the court the reducedcurrent pressure the prisoners thought they had left behind when Investigators (IGI), from CDCR's original proposition thepopulations ranks of JLS throughout (Jailhouse the Lawyers state of California.Speak), a collective of Afrikan prisoners klass or outside societal entities. should prioritize our best policies against drug sales and what we witnessed and experienced during the solidarity guise of suicide prevention, while in fact increasing the risk Black August was selected by JLS prisoners, due to elderlythe material parole factsqualifications of Askari’s of 60Fourteenth years or Amendmentolder and 25 they left SHU. While the settlement agreement represents Editor's Note: of 150, to 49. PHSS has participated in “Lobby Days” jailhouse lawyers organized to fight for prisoners' human Presently, Kamau M. Askari, B/N Ralph A. Taylor drug use - drug prevention and treatment, education, and hunger strikes, class action lawsuits, standing up against of suicide. its significance as a historical month of commemoration yearsEqual ofProtection incarceration, claim, also to beingexempts exclusively from elderly based parole upon a move from status-based to behavior-based placements, There have been concerns about this Bill, but overall organized by Californian's United for a Responsible Budget rights against a system that is designed to dehumanize its persists with Civil court Litigation pertaining to a 42 employment for individuals with a history of incarceration. this wicked system together with our families, relatives of fallen new Afrikan freedom fighters. This is a month considerationAskari’s membership 3rd Strikers, with the LWOP ideological inmates, movement and those of the parole board has not yet gotten on board with this it is good. The idea is to disclose to the defense counsel (CURB), as well as Quest for Democracy events, most captives. I am also the National Secretary for Amend the U.S.C. Section 1983 civil rights complaint by a prisoner, THIS BILL and supporters who challenged and rocked CDCr and We support the demands of the The primary objective of our First in which the spirit of liberation is encouraged amongst convicted“NARN,” ofthereby killing holding a policeman that “NARN,” or former as anpoliceman. ideological It CDCR reform. the records of the informer. The prosecutor is supposed recently on May 7-8, 2017. 13th, an inclusive coalition-based national campaign and initially filed February 14, 2014, in the United States SB 180 RISE Act repeals specified sections of Health & this state’s government to its core with our Five Core Folsom hunger strikers, including Amendment Campaign (FAC) prisoners and within our communities. Black August is a passedmovement, out of is the not committee a klass. process and now awaits a floor As the plaintiffs stated in 2015 when the settlement to give info if it's potentially exculpatory, but frequently After the Ashker settlement CDCr wanted to be done community-based organizing effort to address the legal District Court for the Northern District of California Safety Code 11370.2 to remove sentencing enhancements Demands, Agreement to End All Hostilities etc. demand #5:“END CRUELTY, NOISE is predicated upon effectively special month to many of us confined. Comrade George vote.The We San support Francisco the bill,BayView but opposed National the Black amendments. Newspaper was reached, “We recognize that achieving our goal of they don't do it. It's the most common cause of conviction with our excellent mediation team. We convinced the courts and social basis for dehumanization in Amerika. properly titled “Ralph A. Taylor, Plaintiff v. Edmund that add additional three-year terms of incarceration for And now a course has been set to demand and win AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION OF challenging and defending against L. Jackson is a light to many of us struggling to maintain hasSB been 26: (Wouldand continues allow thoseto be convicted a very valuable of a sex resource offense fundamentally transforming the criminal justice system reversals. In California, if an informant is in jail; testifies that there were still systemic issues and abuses that still The purpose of this press release is to notify prisoners, G. Brown, Governor, et al., defendants case No. CV- each prior conviction of nonviolent drug offenses. The bill back most if not all the rights, privileges and amenities the arbitrary, systematic, race- our sanity and dignity within these concentration camps. toto enterprisoners school nationally, grounds onas electionwell as daysa staunch for the supporter express and stopping the practice of warehousing people in prison against another prisoner and is then released, repeating needWE toLFA be monitored,RE CHECK such as Slack of programing, obstacles community organizers, and all those who care of the 14-00647 VC, based upon both First and Fourteenth does not repeal sentence enhancements for using a minor to that were wrongly taken away and denied to California’s based, discriminatory pattern and It is only fitting that this event be scheduled during this purposeof our Newof casting Afrikan a vote). humanity, We support prisoner this bill,rights currently issues, will be a protracted struggle.“ ● this behavior several times, it establishes a track record to visiting and the discrimination and retaliation against upcoming Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March Amendment Consitutional violations. commit drug offenses, nor does it amend any other felony incarcerated residents being warehoused on these Level Sleep deprivation from welfare checks: Correctional practices of censorship established month, in hopes of connecting more people to the prison inand Senate human Appropriations. rights in general. Consequently, and because that he is an informant, indicating that he may be a former SHU prisoners. scheduled for August 19, 2017 in Washington D.C.. This Askari’s First Amendment rights to the U.S. Constitution enhancement. 180 and 270 institutions. We deserve fair and equal access officers (COs) on first watch create excessive noise with by prison authorities... resistance movement, its history, its future challenges and ofSB the 343 platform: (Inmates the BayView 70 years couldprovides petition for the for positive, release, liar. California has fewer protections against the use of Space does not permit the listing of all the public is a nationwide effort to bring global attention to the 13th were violated when Institutional Gang Investigators (IGI) BACKGROUND to the state- and federally-funded rehabilitative programs keys while walking every half hour; mixed with uncourteous needs. As I write this today, confirmation is coming in that thoseproductive, 70 years progressive and older prisoner with chronic activism and the debilitating BayView informants than other states. outreach and awareness activities that we have organized or Amendment's exception clause, its ramifications, and to at Pelican Bay State Prisons (PBSP) security housing CSentenceDCR enhancements, must which eff wereec centralt strategies and services, including access to immediate family and loud metal on metal contact, it creates unnecessary cruelty ...to stop (outgoing) and/or disallow (incoming) mail, or prisoners around the country are in collective discussions medicalhas also conditionsbeen routinely to be censored moved toby a prisonmedical authorities facility, participated in over the last two years, exposing some of the solidify organizing efforts to amend it. unit (SHU) confiscated and retained his innocuous prison to the failed War on Drugs, were utterly ineffective in conjugal visits, vocational trades and classes, workable- and unusual punishment. A CO’s equipment and keys can otherwise suppress expression of New African titled terms gang-neutralto stand solidarity New withAfrikan the Millionsrelated ideological for Prisoners political, Human andnationally those 60when and deemedolder with necessary, chronic indebilitating clear violation medical of genuine changes many problems within California's prisons, and California’s MILLIONS FOR PRISONERS HUMAN RIGHTS reducing or deterring drug use and availability. Controlled skills jobs, computer literacy education etc. be properly secured on their person to prevent the excessive and related ideological/political writings and materials, socio-cultural,Rights March. historical writings and materials in process conditionsthe First Amendment to petition toCDCR the U.S. for Constitution.consideration of release sweeping use of solitary confinement. They varied widely CORE DEMANDS OF ACTION: substancesin its are nowold cheaper poli and more cwidelyie availables, than Upon arriving at CDCr’s Level 180 Salinas Valley State noise, yet when asked for courtesy the noise is made pursuant to a spurious pretext of a nexus to Black Guerilla of Forconducting those prisoners a search that of Askari’swould like assigned to participate, PBSP SHU it is onThe parole). foregoing This bill fact is in being the committee further exemplified process and mayby the PHSS update from an academic conference at Pitt Law School in April 1. We DEMAND the 13th amendment EXCEPTION ever before, despite a massive investment of tax revenue Prison (SVSP) Facility-C general population (GP) Yard extreme as a retaliation, thus waking prisoners every half Family (BGF) activity when either authored or possessed cellasked for that the you: purpose of ascertaining whether or not there benation-wide stalled. Although prison work this bill strike contains that was several promulgated exemptions, for culture and ast time we wrote up an update was in Aug 2015, 2016, at which sociology professors who already knew how CLAUSE of the United States Constitution be amended and human lives in an unprecedented buildup of prisons 1, which reflects a traditional CDCr GP for adult men, hour the entire night.” by a specific klass of New Afrikan prisoners. was● any● Fast BGF-related from sun rise indicia to sun either set in the cell or among the suchcommencement as LWOP inmatesSeptember and 9, those 2016, convictedtowards ending of killing prison a almost 2 years ago! How time flies! A lot has harmful solitary confinement is, only then connected it to to abolish LEGALIZED slavery in America. and jails. that is, happenedSouthern Mexicans,since, starting Afrikans, with Northernthe settlement Mexicans of the We have heard from people in 13 different prisons The described repressive social phenomenon inherent to personal●● Participate property in of intense Askari, political pursuant studies to a six with year emphasis review peaceslavery officer, as it is we sanctioned support this and bill, authorized by the 13th practices the over-use/abuse of the practice in U.S. prisons, to rallies 2. We DEMAND a Congressional hearing on the 13th The drug war has devastated families, low-income Land Whites, except the other nationalities are over on Published on March 25, 2017 in the San Francisco Bay Ashker case, which abolished the use of indeterminate suffering from sleep deprivation. the prison microcosm confronting the daily life situation to determineon the 13th Askari’s amendment. status as either an active or inactive AmendmentSB 394: (Would to the allowConstitution. those sentenced Due to supporting to LWOP andfor and tables held on the 23rd of each month in many locations Amendment EXCEPTION CLAUSE being recognized member of the BGF political-military organization. communities,View Newspaper and communities of color who are solitaryYard 2, alongconfinement with some in moreCalifornia Afrikans, (See Fresnopage 2). Bulldogs Since then We recently responded to a CDCr Ombudsman who of New Afrikan Prisoners, as it relates to the suppression ●● Perform daily prayer or meditation crimespublicizing committed the national before prisonerthe age of work 18 to strike be automatically movement, around the state to bring awareness of the deplorable in violation of international law, the general principles of Askari’s Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights disproportionatelyBy Baridi and Sitawa incarcerated. Nantambu Young Jamaa people are swept up monitoringand New Flowers, the implementation it was clear to of us the disciplined settlement solidarity has been a falsely claimed in an email that the “security/welfare and deprivation of our First Amendment rights established ●● Perform daily exercise regimen seenthe Sept./Oct. by the Board 2016 ofissues Parole of the Hearings BayView after were 25 censored years of practices in prisons to widest audiences possible. We held human rights, and its direct links to: were violated by and through PBSP IGI’s established in minors crimes always, and allow suffer us to years begin of by incarceration paying our respects followed prioritysupporters for ofthe thelegal Agreement team consisting to End of Hostilitiesthe rep’s inside (AEH) and check” issue has been resolved, that there are no complaints by the U.S. Constitution, is also interrelated and ●● Refrain from purchasing any and all prison products incarceration.by prisons throughout This bill isthe presently state of upCalifornia for consideration and several on “readers theaters” asking participants in the rally to read a). Private entities exploiting prison labor pattern and practice that discriminates against our New by lifetimeto the barriers families towho employment lost their loved and onesineligibility during a group of dedicated lawyers outside. of being woken up, that Pelican Bay “modified the doors interconnected to the mechanisms of repression through to that require spending of money during this month theother Senate major floor, U.S. prisons,having passedbased uponhandily the outclaims of committeeof prison the historic California hunger strikes. Prior to the prisoners’ statements to the audience. We tabled at theatrical b). Companies overcharging prisoners for goods and Afrikan prisoner klass on the basis of race by routinely for education and housing benefits. The emphasis on PHSS discussed and distributed the “Prisoners Human to stop the noise,” and that there are no longer inmates in unconstitutional censorship confronting our New Afrikan ●● Refrain from smoking and drinking alcoholic bever- alongauthorities party thatlines. its No contents date yet pertaining set for a tovote; the wenationwide support A And now they’ve come to realize performances about solitary confinement, including The solidarity hunger strikes, the four principal negotiators, services confiscating, censoring, and/or suppressing New Afrikan incarceration rather than public health strategies contributed Rights Movement Blueprint.” The Blueprint provides a SHUs, just “empty cells now at this point.” Nation (NAN) within the societal microcosm at large. ages thisprison bill. strikesSB 421 would: (Creates incite ainternal tiered registrationdisruption in system prisons. for Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Arturo Castellanos, George that not only is this former Box, Solitary Man and Mariposa and the Saint. We put on c). Private entities contracted by states/federal writings and materials by claiming a nexus to the leftist to the worst epidemic of fatal opioid overdoses in our background of where Prisoners Human Rights Movement We have sent hundreds of petition signatures and ●● If possible, wear a black arm band or wrist band sexMore offenders, recently withthe BayViewregistration was lengths banned based from Alabama’son severity Franco and Todd Ashker, found ourselves locked inside indeterminate SHU class out here showings of movies: Breaking down the Box, Up the Ridge, government to build and operate prisons. This would also BGF organization, which is a pretext used for spuriously country’s history, and high rates of HIV and viral hepatitis (PHRM) came from, how it envisions organizing itself and personalized letters opposing the “checks” to the Coleman THE PROGRESSIVE INITIATIVES OF OUR PRISONER (i.e.shoelace) around left wrist. ofHolman crime prisonand age predicated at conviction, upon aamong spurious other allegation facts) This that Pelican Bay SHU Short Corridor. There we would discuss to stay, but we are still standing Thirteenth. We assembled our newly-painted model SHU include immigration detentions alleging New Afrikan prisoners are involved in or among drug users. the tasks it sets for itself. The first task is the monitoring of suicide expert and Special Master. We have provided letters HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS FIRST AMENDMENT Around the Nation and across the world, August 19, 2017 billit’s raciallyis awaiting motivated. a floor vote in the Senate, having passed the vision of effecting genuine change in CDCr’s long united in solidarity to demand at a number of events in which former SHU prisoners and d).CAMPAIGN Racial disparities CONTINUE. in America’s prison population and promoting prison gang activities. Research shows that community based programming the Ashker settlement’s implementation,. Others include and information packets to CA Senator Bill Monning, the will be remembered as a day of collective action, with the outFirst of committeeAmendment largely rights along to freedomparty lines. of Wespeech support and term solitary confinement combined policies, practices and get our rights to all be treated families of prisoners were the featured speakers. sentencingAs a “NAN” of people nationally/socially oppressed is the most effective in reducing the suffering caused by continued organization around the historic Agreement to Majority Floor Leader, who has publicly agreed with our nationalAskari objective has been of compelled abolishing to legalized file a enslavementnotice of appeal in thisfreedom bill.SB of 620assembly: (Would are allow also thecoming court underto strike assault firearm by and conditions. with respect as human beings The Struggle continues! In Solidarity, Urszula Wislanka e).and Policing: economically the disproportionate exploited within (unaccountable) Amerikan Kapitalist killings substance use disorders and illegal drug sales in our End Hostilities, developing political education for prisoners position, and to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! inAmerika. the aforementioned People from caseall walks to the of United life on Statesboth sides Court of ofthe enhancements,some states who in are certain legislating cases). new This bills bill intended passed theto And Brutha Sitawa would continue to share the and provided with the same bysociety, police wein the know black that and brownwhether communities or not our physical communities. Examples of those programs are community- and others, and establishing Freedom Outreach, an official During the May 8, 2017 Quest for Democracy legislative Appealsprison walls for the have Ninth answered Circuit, the i.e, call. Ralph Many Taylor, are organizingPlaintiff- Senateprosecute floor protesters and has andbeen seizereferred their to theassets Assembly, under thewith broader vision, foreseeing not only our tortured class opportunities to have a parole date f).existence Felony Disenfranchisementis situated within or lawsbeyond prison walls, that based drug treatment, employment and housing for persons clearinghouse for PHRM to provide informational packets. day of action (organized by All of Us or None), a PHSS Appellanttheir communities v. D. Milligan, to travel et toal., the Defendants-Appellees, march in D.C., while action“Racketeering, there pending. Influenced, We support and this Corrupt bill, which Organizations” passed being released from solitary confinement, but also and to be released back home with g).together Immigration we are andbetter Customs equipped Enforcement to meet and 34,000 resolve any with prior convictions, and preschool and afterschool As many of the prisoners formerly held in the SHU have activistCalifo left informationalrnia flyers about the “security/welfare caseothers No. will 16-17041. be hosting Askari’s local solidarity opening demonstrations brief on appeal in the(RICO), floor whenalong andparty where lines. violence and/or destruction of changing the backwards direction of the California our families, communities and detentioncontradiction(s) quotas impeding our first amendment rights to the programs which have been proven to reduce adolescent been moved out, they now face new challenges. PHSS checks” with legislative aides in over 60 offices. Many were wastheir duestate April or country, 7, 2017, and for still review others of are the distributing two separate info propertySB 676: occurs (Would during have a protest expanded movement. the list No ofdoubt crimes this and U.S. governments’ new Jim Crow systems of mass society! lawmakers unveil a h).U.S. Producing Constitution. the world It’s axiomatic largest prison effective population communications drug use and involvement in the drug market.● formed a Parole Committee to address the fact that the parole unaware that the “checks” are still occurring. courtand sharing orders resources issued by and the time.● United States District Court consideredis a fascist violent reform for and the responsespurposes of to parole protest consideration; movements incarceration. areIn alsoessence key thistowards is an conveyingabolitionist the movement material focusedfact to theon board may unfairly hold, as proof of continued “criminal We have written an article, “Policy of the Cruel and for the Northern District of California granting summary asuch reaction as “Black to the Lives passage Matter,” of Prop. as well 57). as thoseThis billmotivated failed toin Then came the hunger strikes (2011-2013) and we that we had gone from one messed up, non-rehabilitative list of bills meant to endingpublic ourlegalized New Afrikanenslavement prisoner - a practiceklass retains that isthose not onlyFirst To learn more about this event and how you can get mentality”, 115s issued for participation in the 2011 and Absurd: Sleep Deprivation in California’s Prisons.” We are adjudication in favor of the defendants Prison authorities passopposition out of committeeto the arbitrary, and is racist, now dead.●and repressive political saw CDCr (California Department of Corrections and reality to an old traditional CDCr environment. limited to prisoner-labor, but includes the profitability of a involved visit www.iamweubuntu.com or write: 2013 hunger strikes, as well as refusal to debrief. The keep children out of Amendment rights not inconsistent with the objectives of on both Askari’s First and Fourteenth Amendment policies formulated by the newly elected president Donald RehabilitationAB 359, – the as last word am oftenen not capitalizedded ,because In- We even heard that certain staff had been overheard seeking a publisher with the goal of getting it printed and prisoners' own body in an isolation cell. iamWE Prison Advocacy Network Parole Committee gathered information to show the board’s the penological corrections system and/or the safety and Equal Protection claims. The defendants requested and Trump. it’s proved to be an empty promise) being compelled to betting that “those guys won’t stay out here a month, online.th eOnce j published,uve nweile will distribute justi it widely.c Pleasee According to the U.S. Supreme Court in its long P.O. Box 58201 custody informants. executive officer, met with her and other CDCr officials, security of CDCr institutions. were granted a 30-day extension of the time to file their Lawyers, pro bonos, law students, and paralegals start releasing some of our class members – aka DRB certainly not six months.” contact us ([email protected]) if you have standing precedent in Ruffin v. Commonwealth, 62, Va (21 Raleigh NC 27658 xisting law defines an in-custody informant to mean and prepared “Advice for Prisoners and Their Supporters system The public must equally be made to understand answering brief to Askari’s appeal, which is currently due SareB needed 180 to RfacilitateISE the Ac consolidationt of our First (Departmental Review Board) kickouts – out of solitary The winds of change are beginning to blow again access to any media. Gratt.) 790, 796 (1871): “A convicted felon, whom the law a person, other than a codefendant, percipient wit- Regarding Board of Parole Hearings Psychological By Jazmine Ulloa notwithstanding the fact New Afrikan prisoners are not JuneIn Solidarity, 7, 2017. JLS amendmentRepeal campaign Ineffective initiative Sentencing confinement into the general population. And upon our in the direction of opposition to mass incarceration, We are supporting Jorge Rico, a prisoner at Pelican in its humanity punishes by confinement in penitentiary(s) ness, accomplice, or coconspirator whose testimony Evaluations, Including Special Advice for Ashker Class Published by the LA Times on May 31, 2017 totally divorced from our First Amendment rights via The The Prison U.S. ResistanceDistrict Court’s Movement grant of New summary Abolitionist adjudication When we help each other, we are helping ourselves. We arrivalE out to the GP, some of us knew that CDCr-CCPOA rehabilitation and recidivism, as well as opposition to Bay, who has a civil rights lawsuit in the federal Northern Enhancement Act is based upon statements made by the defendant while both On-line at: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac- insteadprison incarceration,of death, is subject we are while nonetheless undergoing confronted punishment, with in favor of prison authorities on Askari’s First and Members.” (See page 23) The Committee set up educational District of CA court. His suit states: Billhave introduced the correct by ideas, Senators political Holly programs, J. Mitchell and and theoretical Lara guardsthe defendant were plotting and the and informant scheming are not held only within to figure a correc out- the long-term use of solitary confinement, which must to all the laws which the legislature in its wisdom may sessions on parole hearings and has compliled informational juvenile-justice-bills-20170320-story.html “Since 2015, Pelican Bay State Prison has awak- a set of circumstances experienced as a consequence for Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection claims was knowledgeB 180 tois resolveone modest the contradictionsstep in implementing and repressive the bi- ational way institution.to not have Existingto release law the prohibits rest of our a law class enforcement from the include abuses even for short-term solitary. While much enact for the government of that institution and control of packets, also available upon request. enedCalifornia inmates lawmakers in the Security on Monday Housing said Unit they and have Ad filed- having the courage to challenge the prison authorities tantamount to a dismissal of his legal claims. The grant measurespartisan intensified movement to to suppressend wasteful and incarceration deprive us of our SHU,or correctional using us asofficial their pretextual from giving, excuse, offering, but to beginor promising re of this new direction for change is still in its idea and/ Another new challenge encountered because of prisoners’ a ministrativepackage of billsSegregation in an attempt Unit at toleast divert once children an hour, from all a itsarbitrary inmates. deprivations For the time of ourbeing, First during Amendment his term rights, of service court of summary adjudication on Askari’s first Amendment spending in favor of community reinvestment. fillingto give those any monetarymulti-million payment dollar in SHUexcess unit of cages $50 inwith return the or early stages of being worked out through the very Bill Watch First Amendment rights. school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately affects inrulings the penitentiary, that rationalize he isdeference in a state to of prison penal authorities servitude toin S release out of the SHU has been visiting. Family members night long, with a cacophonous system of “Guard One claimPublished was Maythrough 2017 court in Volume deference 8 Issue to 4prison of Lifer-Line: authorities The Repeal Ineffective Sentencing Enhancement Act nextfor an generation in-custody of solitaryinformant’s confinement-tortured testimony in any subjects.criminal same governmental branches and systems that have been What’s required to consolidate and establish the and friends are finally able to have contact visits with their low-incomewelfare checks” and black that andrequires Latino officers families. to strike a metal thematters state. deemed He has, toas aregard consequence professional of his judgement.crime, not onlyThe inThe matters Newsletter regarded of Life constituting Support Alliance. professional judgment, (RISE) will reduce jail overcrowding by amending the proceeding, as specified. Existing law requires the pros- identified as playing a large if not total part of causing progressive objectives of our First Amendment campaign loved ones who were previously in SHU. We were all buttonSens. onHolly each Mitchellcell with a(D-Los metal rod. Angeles) and Ricardo forfeitedcourts are his rationalizing liberty, but thatall of prison his personal authorities rights are except better i.e. “Prisons Lifer-Line authorities goes version” to press, of the below facts is of the the status matter of code section that doubles or triples the sentence for a ecution to file with the court a written statement prior to the problems in the first place, it will take the courageous on a solid foundation is, for lawyers, pro bonos, law CDCr-CCPOA guards have a long, moved by the stories of peoples' first contact visit in years LaraThis (D-Bell system Gardens) is intended have to introducedreduce inmate eight suicides, proposals thosesuited which to make the judgementslaw in its humanity and decisions accords or him.to resolve He is alleging variousAskari’s bills confiscated affecting lifers;New Afrikanthis status writings is subject and nonviolent drug offense if a person has been previously trial setting out any and all consideration, as defined, prom- people, organizations and groups, independent of the students, and paralegals, et al., practitioners of law, inside sordid history of manipulating and - sometimes decades. Pictures from them were shared and thatbut would instead extend subjects protections inmates forto torturouschildren facingand uncon arrest- or formatters the time pertaining being ato slave prison of conditions the State. …than They are theare courts.slaves materialsto are rapid prison change gang-related, as the legislature presenting returns a threat from to convicted of a similar offense. As of 2014, there were ised to, or received by, the in-custody informant when the government, to continue to stand in solidarity both inside A and outside of prison walls, and all people who stand for playing prisoners against one an- inspired everyone! Family members accustomed to fighting detentionstitutional and sleep ease deprivation punishment in theand process burdensome of checking fees for of the State undergoing punishment for heinous crimes Memorial Day holiday and once again takes up business. prosecution calls an in-custody informant as a witness in These types of court rulings provide for a lack of judicial legitimate penological interests and prison safety and morejustice than no matter1,635 peoplewho it’s in for county or against, jails acrossto contribute California your and outside U.S. and California institutions to call for, whether they remain alive.” committed against the laws of the land. …” AB 335: (Would codify the 35 mile parolee placement anyother criminal like trial. pawns in the game being powers-that-be faced the many obstacles to visiting head those inside the juvenile justice system. oversight, checks and balances to the actions of prison security. sentencedprofessional to expertise five to in ten legal years. science Thereand legal were procedure at least 124 demand and make real tangible change. Jorge’s suit is one of at least two active prisoner civil In other words, prisoners themselves become a exclusion allowed victims of certain crimes and adds to the pulledThis bill wouldon puppet revise the definitionstrings, of which an in-custody on: In several prisons they re-activated Inmate Family In a news conference at Sacramento’s Leataata Floyd authorities regarding their suppression and/or deprivation There was no independent fact-finding by the U.S. peoplecoordinating sentenced your to effortsmore than with ten its,years towardsin county bringing jail. to We prison activists recognize that CDCr and each of the rights cases filed to end the “checks.” commodity. Which explains why the entire apparatus of list of crimes for which this exclusion would be available; informantis well to rootedrefer to a person,in its other old than ingrained a codefendant, Councils, which have been challenging different aspects Elementary School, home to what lawmakers called model of New Afrikan prisoners First Amendment rights. Prison District Court relative to Askari’s First Amendment Thefruition leading realization causes of of these our excessiveFirst Amendment sentences campaignare drug solitary confinement housing units – SHU, Ad-Seg, Stand We will soon revive a campaign urging members of law enforcement is geared towards capturing and caging primarily sex offenses). This bill is still in the committee percipientculture, witness, traditional accomplice, patterned or coconspirator prac- of CDCR's visiting policies, such as the inadequacies of educational programs meant to empower children, Mitchell authorities are thereby vested with the power to violate claim, in order to establish the truth of matters regarding sales,initiatives. possession Let us for not sale, invite or bysimilar our inactionnonviolent a futuredrug Alone etc. – have been illegally warehousing women and the CA Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committees humans for the highest bidder. It should not be of any process, a hearing in Assembly Public Safety Committee who provides testimony or information for use in the the new VPASS system for scheduling visits, the health and Lara said they wanted their legislation to center on the First Amendment rights of New Afrikan prisoners, the contents of his confiscated New Afrikan writings offenses,perpetually "withoutwhich are justice.” compounded ● by cruel and costly tices and institutional racism and men prisoners for four decades. We knew that during the to investigate and put a stop to the “checks” that are is slated for June 13. We oppose this bill. investigation or prosecution of a suspect or defendant dangers caused by scanners for both visitors and prisoners prevention, rehabilitation and keeping families together. surpriseand subsequently that black haveand brown their unconstitutional communities are action(s) prime and materials, and whether or not their confiscation was sentencing enhancements. Thousands more are serving impunity. three non-violent peaceful hunger strike protests in 2011 causing severe sleep deprivation. The Senate Public Safety AB 610: (Would require CDCR to initiate an outreach Your Brutha and servant, Kamau M. Askari based upon statements made by the suspect or defendant (discontinued) and staff misconduct during visits. “Jail is no place for a child under 11,” Mitchell told targetssupported for byextractions. soliciting Wealleged cannot correctional overemphasize experts the to warranted or justified. The court’s acceptance of and such sentences in prison. and 2013. And we lost some prisoner activists who paid Committee oversees CDCr’s budget, so it’s important to effort to find victims of crimes who are not currently New Afrikan (Black) Family Unity and Advancement whileMany both if thenot suspect most ofor defendantus DRB andSHU-released the informant class are Although many long-time prisoners have been released reporters. “Children are not pint-sized adults. They have a connectionconcoct and betweennarrate elaborate slavery theories and the as Prison-Industrial justification for deference to the views of the prison authorities, was Sentence enhancements compound previous sentences the ultimate sacrifice. We shall always honor those heroes! lobby them. registered, so that they may be notified of upc ming Foundation (NABFUAF) membershoused within refused a correctionalto allow CDCr-CCPOA institution. Thestaff bill assigned would from the SHU, significant problems, both old and new, developmental process that they go through to grow into Enslavementthe particular Complex. First Amendment Prison slavery violation, is a direct once outgrowth the court primarily based upon a supplemental declaration submitted retroactively for which a person was already punished, We prison activists recognize that wardens and their If you have been subjected to the “security/welfare hearings or releases). This bill is still in the committee Coordinator: N.C.T.T. torequire OCS the (Office prosecutor, of whenCorrectional the prosecution Safety), intends SSU (Specialto persist. The most egregious is sleep deprivation caused by adults. So, for us to expect that a child will have the same oflitigation the 13th on Amendment behalf of andthe thematter exception has been clause initiated is a direct and in support of their motion for summary judgement by an resulting in a “double jeopardy” injustice. By repealing subordinates are governmental peace officers and must be checks,” please write to the Coleman suicide expert and process and may be stalled. We oppose this bill. Jailhouse Lawyer (JHL) and member of the National Servicescall an in-custody Unit), ISU informant (Investigations as a witnessServices in Unit) any andcriminal IGI so-called “welfare checks.” The PHSS Committee to End judgment, understanding of legal terminology is simply outgrowthcommences, of whereupon the pre-1865 the courts chattel are enslavement routinely deferring system. alleged special agent expert in prison gang activities. Yet, sentencing enhancements for people who already served held accountable to discharge their public service duties Lawyers Guild Foundation (NLG) Specialnaive.” Master about your experiences. We invite you to Youtheir can judicial analyze discretion the different to the periods judgement/decisions and the transitions of theAB court 620 failed: (4 toyear consider pilot the program professional to provide judgement trauma via (Institutionaltrial, to file Gangwith the Investigations) court a written to manipulatestatement no and less play than Sleep Deprivation continues to challenge and address this 19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W3 Web 3 Top 6/21/2017 12:00:22 PM Black $[LayerName] their time, California can divest from expensive and and responsibilities in a professional and transparent send us your ideas for actions to stop the checks. therapy and treatment to inmates) is currently in Assembly Kamau M. Askari us30 against days prior each toother the so preliminary the rest of us hearing could have setting the out same the on-going crisis. (See page 5) The news conference was the first of several events fromprison convict authorities. leasing, In blackthis type codes, of andscenario Jim crow,the courts through are transcripts of prior superior court testimony of a prison ineffective policies of mass incarceration in order to invest manner. To ensure governmental accountability and Send letters, requests for the survey, and ideas to: Appropriations Committee Suspense file, waiting approval B/N Ralph A. Taylor D-03780 fair,substance rightful of release; all communications To see the sun, between enjoy contactthe informant visits Human Rights Pen Pals (HRPP), which began in Spring of over the next two months that will commemorate the 50th Nixon’sentitling warprison on authorities drugs, and to Clinton’s the rulings 1994 in their crime favor bill toin authority expert in prison gang activities, submitted as in our communities. transparency, these peace officers working in CDCr should of a state budget. It cleared the CSP-Solano P.O.Box 4000 withand anyloved member ones, ofsocialize the prosecution, and begin or thea law long enforcement process 2013 as a project of PHSS, has matched over 400 community anniversary of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision seevirtually the historical every First connections Amendment and case. the development of an evidence in support of Askari’s opposition to the motion In recent years there has been a clear and evident also have body cameras on their California governmental PHSS Committee to End Sleep Deprivation, INjustice system that has led to the criminalization of Public Safety Committee handily. We support this bill. Vacaville, CA 95696-4000 ofor healingcorrectional from agency, years and regarding decades the of informant’s being tortured possible by pen pals with men who were or are in California’s SHU and P.O. Box 5692 for summary judgement, and controverting the claims of cultural shift away from incarceration for non-violent drug CDCr peace officers’ uniforms, just like the outside peace ...... generations. All across Amerika people are becoming more AB 1065: Originally this bill would have increased the CDCr-CCPOA,testimony or participation OCS, SSU, ISU-IGIin information and LEIU gathering, (Law AD-seg units. In a recent survey it was determined that at Eureka, CA 95502. ●

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wrong medication and it turn fatal. One time I saw a female female a saw I time One fatal. turn it and medication wrong

claiming my words represent security threat information. I I information. threat security represent words my claiming wheelchairs or walkers allowed or canes. They They canes. or allowed walkers or wheelchairs

infected with TB, and I’ve seen folks get prescribed the the prescribed get folks seen I’ve and TB, with infected

to silence me. The tactic they have embraced is censorship censorship is embraced have they tactic The me. silence to Suicide inmates also that are ADA inmates. No No inmates. ADA are that also inmates Suicide

I’ve seen a lot here at Easham. I’ve seen inmates get get inmates seen I’ve Easham. at here lot a seen I’ve

because the oppressors know there is nothing they can do do can they nothing is there know oppressors the because

question is why? From cell 142 to 150 they have have they 150 to 142 cell From why? is question

University of Texas Medical Branch.) Medical Texas of University

The state of Texas hates it when I get to beating my ‘drum’ ‘drum’ my beating to get I when it hates Texas of state The

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again. UTMB don’t care about us – period. (UTMB is the the is (UTMB period. – us about care don’t UTMB again.

framed-up Muslims right here in Amerika. in here right Muslims framed-up

At least 5 inmates come in on a daily basis. Last Last basis. daily a on in come inmates 5 least At

me nothing but carelessness and negligence time and time time and time negligence and carelessness but nothing me

political prisoners, the so-called eco-terrorists and the the and eco-terrorists so-called the prisoners, political

They have a tier full of inmates on suicide watch. watch. suicide on inmates of full tier a have They I do all I can to avoid the infirmary because they’ve shown shown they’ve because infirmary the avoid to can I all do I

The torture, the sex slaves, the indentured servants, the the servants, indentured the slaves, sex the torture, The

very dangerous. dangerous. very water or these chemical gas agents they keep using on us! on using keep they agents gas chemical these or water

and out of Amerika’s prisons. Amerika’s of out and

chase that goes under the door. Water is in the chase. It's It's chase. the in is Water door. the under goes that chase and coughing. I don’t know if it is from the contaminated contaminated the from is it if know don’t I coughing. and

slavery – the unsavory and despicable elements present in in present elements despicable and unsavory the – slavery

need a machine to plug in the wall. They use a cord in the the in cord a use They wall. the in plug to machine a need from time to time or I can’t talk too loud or I start choking choking start I or loud too talk can’t I or time to time from

this is not happening. However, there are other elements of of elements other are there However, happening. not is this

house ADA inmates with breathing problems where they they where problems breathing with inmates ADA house experienced problems in my throat, like I lose my voice voice my lose I like throat, my in problems experienced

forced labor and involuntary servitude and no-one says that that says no-one and servitude involuntary and labor forced

This Ad-Seg isn’t even approved for ADA inmates. They They inmates. ADA for approved even isn’t Ad-Seg This blessed me not to have had any serious problems, but I’ve I’ve but problems, serious any had have to not me blessed

When we speak of prison slavery in Amerika, we think of of think we Amerika, in slavery prison of speak we When

allowed for every inmate in the system. the in inmate every for allowed are we to do? Go without drinking water? Thus far God has has God far Thus water? drinking without Go do? to we are

with the criminal justice system in Amerika. in system justice criminal the with

want inmates to go CCCMS or EOP to get what should be be should what get to EOP or CCCMS go to inmates want how do we do that? We have no means to do that. So what what So that. do to means no have We that? do we do how

immigrants so it goes without saying that she is very familiar familiar very is she that saying without goes it so immigrants

items. Not here. They only give us wind-up Radios! They They Radios! wind-up us give only They here. Not items. informing us? Then they frequently post “boil notices” - - notices” “boil post frequently they Then us? informing

Jefferson has spent most of her legal career working with with working career legal her of most spent has Jefferson

their TVs and those that are Non Discipline can get other other get can Discipline Non are that those and TVs their etc” Imagine that I said – they wait a whole year before before year whole a wait they – said I that Imagine etc”

violations here as much as in other countries”. Attorney Attorney countries”. other in as much as here violations

they don’t have outlets. [at other ad-Segs] inmates can get get can inmates ad-Segs] other [at outlets. have don’t they negative reaction of some type, put in a sick call, etc etc call, sick a in put type, some of reaction negative

rights attorney Ollie Jefferson said: “We have human rights rights human have “We said: Jefferson Ollie attorney rights

the problems. This Ad-Seg does not allow T.V.’s because because T.V.’s allow not does Ad-Seg This problems. the Communication which said “if you are experiencing a a experiencing are you “if said which Communication

of the PBS Newshour Weekend, my friend and humyn humyn and friend my Weekend, Newshour PBS the of

are being funded as ADA Medical yet they are not fixing fixing not are they yet Medical ADA as funded being are Eastham Administrators put together an Inter-Office Inter-Office an together put Administrators Eastham

In an interview conducted by journalist Kamala Kelkar Kelkar Kamala journalist by conducted interview an In

This has to be the oldest place I’ve been to. Run down. They They down. Run to. been I’ve place oldest the be to has This test the water properly for over a year. a over for properly water the test

citizens.

informant enemies. informant couple of years back we were told TDCJ didn’t monitor or or monitor didn’t TDCJ told were we back years of couple

than most at covering up the abuse and mistreatment of its its of mistreatment and abuse the up covering at most than

2016 because they have no yard to place me on because of of because on me place to yard no have they because 2016 I I a point one At water. contaminated this drink to having

When in reality the opposite is true – Amerika is just better better just is Amerika – true is opposite the reality in When

reasons yet have been held in Ad-Seg since November November since Ad-Seg in held been have yet reasons

unsanitary conditions? Rats and roaches all over the place, place, the over all roaches and Rats conditions? unsanitary

for charging and sentencing. and charging for

the US was a bastion of humyn and civil rights protections. protections. rights civil and humyn of bastion a was US the

State Prison Ad -Seg. I am not here for disciplinary disciplinary for here not am I -Seg. Ad Prison State

crime, but does that justify me being subjected to live in in live to subjected being me justify that does but crime,

high standards required of the Department of Justice of Department the of required standards high President Obama would give “the world” the impression that that impression the world” “the give would Obama President

am writing on behalf of everyone being held in Donovan Donovan in held being everyone of behalf on writing am

I understand this is prison and I’ve paid my dues for my my for dues my paid I’ve and prison is this understand I

attorneys who impliment this policy will meet the meet will policy this impliment who attorneys narrative when speaking of the United States. Former Former States. United the of speaking when narrative

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allow me to enlighten you. enlighten to me allow

I noticed he constantly embraced an elitist or exceptionalist exceptionalist or elitist an embraced constantly he noticed I Working with integrity and professioinalism, professioinalism, and integrity with Working

Prisoner Report on R.J. Donovan Donovan R.J. on Report Prisoner

few months, but I’ve been here for over 20 years to please please to years 20 over for here been I’ve but months, few

I studied the Presidency of Barack Obama very closely and and closely very Obama Barack of Presidency the studied I

endure in these places. Brother Malik has only been here a a here been only has Malik Brother places. these in endure

call prisons. call

its just and consistent application. consistent and just its 12132, and the Rehabilitation Act (“RA”), 29 U.S.C. § 794. § U.S.C. 29 (“RA”), Act Rehabilitation the and 12132,

Many in free-world society are not aware of what we we what of aware not are society free-world in Many

Amerika’s numerous slave kamps and gulags which most most which gulags and kamps slave numerous Amerika’s

Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. § § U.S.C. 42 (“ADA”), Act Disabilities with Americans clarification and guidance he deems appropriate for appropriate deems he guidance and clarification

for us – they haven’t! they – us for

here in Amerika and it is still happening, especially in in especially happening, still is it and Amerika in here that the failure to provide air conditioning violates the the violates conditioning air provide to failure the that W

implementation of this policy and to issue any any issue to and policy this of implementation

come up with some really incredible in-cell programming programming in-cell incredible really some with up come

of their pre-existing medical problems. They also asserted asserted also They problems. medical pre-existing their of

make us feel uncomfortable. Slavery happened happened Slavery uncomfortable. feel us make

I have directed the Deputy General to oversee oversee to General Deputy the directed have I

all these years, TDCJ and the State of Texas would have have would Texas of State the and TDCJ years, these all summer months violates the Eighth Amendment because because Amendment Eighth the violates months summer

that ignore our past just because those thoughts thoughts those because just past our ignore that

claiming that the heat they are forced to endure during the the during endure to forced are they heat the that claiming you are out of there. I would have thought that by now, after after now, by that thought have would I there. of out are you

e cannot continue to make conscious decisions decisions conscious make to continue cannot e

Editor's Note: Note: Editor's Ball v. LeBlanc was filed by prisoners prisoners by filed was LeBlanc v. Ball

core principle are justified by unusual fact. unusual by justified are principle core Unless you have money to pay for outside college courses, courses, college outside for pay to money have you Unless

By Keith “Malik” Washington “Malik” Keith By

policy is followed, and that any deviations from the the from deviations any that and followed, is policy There are limited resources we have back here in Ad-Seg. Ad-Seg. in here back have we resources limited are There oy, if these walls could talk... could walls these if oy, B - David Wade Correctional Center, Homer, Louisiana Homer, Center, Correctional Wade David -

here on Eastham Unit. Eastham on here Attorney General is responsible for ensuring that this this that ensuring for responsible is General Attorney out!!

except solitary confinement and torture for over 22 years years 22 over for torture and confinement solitary except Each United States Attorney and Assistant Assistant and Attorney States United Each

going to fight this together. Please be our voice to get this this get to voice our be Please together. this fight to going Anonymous, CSP Corcoran CSP Anonymous,

TDCJ has given me no education, no job skills, nothing nothing skills, job no education, no me given has TDCJ

against the Heat Ball v. James LeBlanc 5th circuit. We are are We circuit. 5th LeBlanc James v. Ball Heat the against ment set in and ruin our endeavors.” endeavors.” our ruin and in set ment

just a few months away. months few a just

in the 5th circuit on 12-17-14. Also we just won in Angola Angola in won just we Also 12-17-14. on circuit 5th the in revolutionaries and not let subjective senti- subjective let not and revolutionaries rescinded, effective today. effective rescinded,

2017, 2017, 7th October on sentence year 25 my discharge I and

Albert Woodfox did 46 years in one cell. He won in court court in won He cell. one in years 46 did Woodfox Albert educating this new generation of potential potential of generation new this educating Department of Justice relating to these matters is is matters these to relating Justice of Department

answer – parole denied – serve all! Well, now it’s June 2017 2017 June it’s now Well, all! serve – denied parole – answer

see some stuff from Louisiana. Like this is the same jail that that jail same the is this Like Louisiana. from stuff some see is never easy, but we remain focused on on focused remain we but easy, never is

Any inconsistent previous policy of the the of policy previous inconsistent Any

2017, I received my my received I 2017, 10th March On time. final and 12th

about Prison Focus and people like it but we would like to to like would we but it like people and Focus Prison about our objective The struggle for liberation liberation for struggle The objective our

2017, I came up for parole for the the for parole for up came I 2017, 30th January On

May 12, 2017 12, May of us have filed a motion. I’ve been telling everyone here here everyone telling been I’ve motion. a filed have us of strategy to move us forward in reaching reaching in forward us move to strategy

denial after denial. after denial

for the mental health issues in solitary confinement, over 20 20 over confinement, solitary in issues health mental the for lective comradery was indeed a beautiful beautiful a indeed was comradery lective older H ric E eneral G Attorney

with not one infraction, to no avail. I received denial after after denial received I avail. no to infraction, one not with

are still going on with our class action. Also we are all suing suing all are we Also action. class our with on going still are - col the and vain in not were strike hunger

Statement by Former Former by Statement

any disciplinary infractions. Sometimes 5, 6, even 10 years years 10 even 6, 5, Sometimes infractions. disciplinary any

could also say because people kept cutting themselves. We We themselves. cutting kept people because say also could “All our struggles in the SHU with the the with SHU the in struggles our “All

follow the rules. I’ve gone years at a time without incurring incurring without time a at years gone I’ve rules. the follow We just won fans on our tiers through hunger strikes. We We strikes. hunger through tiers our on fans won just We

Nevertheless, I’ve continued to keep a very low profile and and profile low very a keep to continued I’ve Nevertheless,

Action in Louisiana in Action Always forward. Your comrade, Lucio Cabanas. Lucio comrade, Your forward. Always

I did, it would have absolutely no bearing on my freedom. freedom. my on bearing no absolutely have would it did, I

history and culture. culture. and history

Sincerely, Lazaro Aguilar Lazaro Sincerely, I came to the realization long ago that no matter how good good how matter no that ago long realization the to came I

keys to our freedom from the gang chains are found in our our in found are chains gang the from freedom our to keys

to benefit all of those who desire to be successful. successful. be to desire who those of all benefit to ears!

The The men. all are we today then; kids were we But, . sheep

spread throughout the United States’ Prison system, in order order in system, Prison States’ United the throughout spread TDCJ ignored my communications, my pleas fell on deaf deaf on fell pleas my communications, my ignored TDCJ

at our ghettos to be be to ghettos our at our at preconditioned been have We

throughout the United State of Colorado. May it continue to to continue it May Colorado. of State United the throughout increase my chances of making parole. This did not help. help. not did This parole. making of chances my increase

impositions. no accepts and decisions own his makes

Maximum Security Prison. Security Maximum May it continue to spread spread to continue it May since 2002. I made this choice in order to better my life and and life my better to order in choice this made I 2002. since

become a “man”, a señor, their power disappears. A “man” “man” A disappears. power their señor, a “man”, a become

This information has now reached Colorado State State Colorado reached now has information This war." gang affiliation. I have been a non-active ex-gang member member ex-gang non-active a been have I affiliation. gang

ignorant slave population. The moment that you decide to to decide you that moment The population. slave ignorant

not mistaken on this being a step to end mass incarceration. incarceration. mass end to step a being this on mistaken not escalating the failed policies of the drug drug the of policies failed the escalating I am in Administrative Segregation due to my previous previous my to due Segregation Administrative in am I

a sick joke on an uneducated, uncultured, drug addicted and and addicted drug uncultured, uneducated, an on joke sick a

the struggle, with the achievement in your persistence. You’s You’s persistence. your in achievement the with struggle, the since! I have never left this unit. this left never have I since! is taking the country back to the 1980s by by 1980s the to back country the taking is

family.” The rest is all fake. It’s someone else’s trip; playing playing trip; else’s someone It’s fake. all is rest The family.”

Congratulations to all the Hunger Strike Representatives in in Representatives Strike Hunger the all to Congratulations Eastham Unit on March 4th, 1996, and I’ve been here ever ever here been I’ve and 1996, 4th, March on Unit Eastham in a statement emailed to NPR. "Sessions "Sessions NPR. to emailed statement a in

Your goals shall and must be: “your health, freedom and your your and freedom health, “your be: must and shall goals Your

Agreement to End Hostilities. It’s been a long time coming. coming. time long a been It’s Hostilities. End to Agreement been locked up since October 3rd, 1992. I arrived here on on here arrived I 1992. 3rd, October since up locked been director at the Drug Policy Alliance, said said Alliance, Policy Drug the at director

will. never and

Maximum Security Prison. I have been informed of the the of informed been have I Prison. Security Maximum year aggravated sentence for the charge of murder. I’ve I’ve murder. of charge the for sentence aggravated year another supervisor. Michael Collins, deputy deputy Collins, Michael supervisor. another

make fool’s errands do not care about you. They never did did never They you. about care not do errands fool’s make

Representatives in the struggle, from Colorado State State Colorado from struggle, the in Representatives resided here for the past 2 ½ decades! I’m serving a 25 25 a serving I’m decades! ½ 2 past the for here resided

U.S. attorney, assistant attorney general or or general attorney assistant attorney, U.S. to keep following orders like a sheep. Those ordering you to to you ordering Those sheep. a like orders following keep to

Greetings to all the PBSP-SHU Hunger Strike Strike Hunger PBSP-SHU the all to Greetings

on the Eastham Unit located in Lovelady, Texas. I’ve I’ve Texas. Lovelady, in located Unit Eastham the on

to obtain approval for the exception from a a from exception the for approval obtain to

Until when are you going going you are when Until decision. good a make to tools the

ostilities H nd E to Agreement

My name is Omar B. Valdez, TDC# 726686. I reside reside I 726686. TDC# Valdez, B. Omar is name My

for these low-level crimes, they will need need will they crimes, low-level these for

An honest response to these two questions will provide you you provide will questions two these to response honest An

‘front lines’ fighting the good fight. good the fighting lines’ ‘front

ongratulations on on ongratulations C prosecutors wish to pursue lesser charges charges lesser pursue to wish prosecutors shed? to

appreciate you and folks like you who get out there on the the on there out get who you like folks and you appreciate

mandatory minimum sentences. Now, if if Now, sentences. minimum mandatory Who is really going to benefit for the blood, that I am about about am I that blood, the for benefit to going really is Who

75851 Texas Lovelady, 1 Road “Mr Malik, greetings, it is a pleasure to meet you. I I you. meet to pleasure a is it greetings, Malik, “Mr

drug offenders with crimes that carried carried that crimes with offenders drug 2. humanity? and family my me, benefit to going murder

Washington TDC# 1487958 Eastham Unit, 2665 Prison Prison 2665 Unit, Eastham 1487958 TDC# Washington Valdez!

prosecutors to avoid slapping nonviolent nonviolent slapping avoid to prosecutors How is this “hit” or or “hit” this is How 1. questions: simple two yourself ask

or write him directly at Keith ‘Comrade Malik’ Malik’ ‘Comrade Keith at directly him write or com

we do better”? Without further ado I present to you Omar Omar you to present I ado further Without better”? do we

For those already in a gang: “when sent on a ‘fool’s errand’ errand’ ‘fool’s a on sent “when gang: a in already those For General, Eric Holder. Holder had asked asked had Holder Holder. Eric General,

comrademalik. at work his view can You campaign. Prisons

want you to listen to Omar’s words and ask yourself “can’t “can’t yourself ask and words Omar’s to listen to you want

slavery. of lifetime a into deeper and deeper you sink only policies established by previous Attorney Attorney previous by established policies

slavery in Amerika and is very active in the Fight Toxic Toxic Fight the in active very is and Amerika in slavery A

Now I want you to replace California with Texas and I I and Texas with California replace to you want I Now

has been instrumental in calling for the abolition of legalized legalized of abolition the for calling in instrumental been has always pressuring, always threatening. A prison gang will will gang prison A threatening. always pressuring, always

reversing some of the lenient lenient the of some reversing

Sam Levin of the East Bay Express. Bay East the of Levin Sam

New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter). Malik Malik Chapter). (Prison Party Panther Black Afrikan New

conspiring, as well as manipulating. Always giving orders, orders, giving Always manipulating. as well as conspiring,

recently sent a memo to his staff, staff, his to memo a sent recently

arbitrary reasons and destroying lives in the process” by by process” the in lives destroying and reasons arbitrary Organizing Committee. and the Deputy Chairman of the the of Chairman Deputy the and Committee. Organizing

Look around you: prison gangs keep fighting, killing, and and killing, fighting, keep gangs prison you: around Look

ttorney General Jeff Sessions Sessions Jeff General ttorney

Movement, a proud member of the Incarcerated Workers Workers Incarcerated the of member proud a Movement,

long after they’ve been rehabilitated – denying parole for for parole denying – rehabilitated been they’ve after long

solitude. our of out born is power a eventually

ck a b p e st chief spokespersyn for the End Prison Slavery in Texas Texas in Slavery Prison End the for spokespersyn chief

tens of millions of dollars a year keeping people in prison prison in people keeping year a dollars of millions of tens

lonely for the first few weeks. But, But, weeks. few first the for lonely feels It gangs. prison

Note: Keith “Malik” Washington is a co-founder and and co-founder a is Washington “Malik” Keith Note:

February 2017 entitled “TRAPPED: California wastes wastes California “TRAPPED: entitled 2017 February

ne ne o , d r a rw fo

Each one of us is capable to defend his life without ties to to ties without life his defend to capable is us of one Each

Respectfully, Omar Valdez TDC #726686” TDC Valdez Omar Respectfully,

The Prison Legal News had a front page article in in article page front a had News Legal Prison The

alone”.

ps e st 2

Thank you for your time and concern. and time your for you Thank

give him a chance to rebuild his life. They didn’t! They life. his rebuild to chance a him give

survive; all of us are quite capable as individuals to “walk “walk to individuals as capable quite are us of all survive;

administrative segregation units? About the parole system? system? parole the About units? segregation administrative

the hope that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles would would Paroles and Pardons of Board Texas the that hope the

You don’t need them to to them need don’t You CDCR. within operating already

“what does this say about the Texas system? About their their About system? Texas the about say this does “what

has spent years not incurring disciplinary infractions with with infractions disciplinary incurring not years spent has

Under no circumstances join any of the new and old gangs gangs old and new the of any join circumstances no Under

have minimal job skills and education. I must ask all of you you of all ask must I education. and skills job minimal have

Texas. Omar has been denied parole over 11 times! Omar Omar times! 11 over parole denied been has Omar Texas.

vacation. forced smooth

So very soon I’ll be spit out into society at the age of 50. I I 50. of age the at society into out spit be I’ll soon very So confinement right here on the Eastham Unit in Lovelady, Lovelady, in Unit Eastham the on here right confinement

I have a few tips; to help your trip through CDCR be a a be CDCR through trip your help to tips; few a have I

May 10, 2017 10, May sister! It hurts, you know? I’m paying for my crimes dearly. crimes my for paying I’m know? you hurts, It sister!

sentence! Omar has spent approximately 22 years in solitary solitary in years 22 approximately spent has Omar sentence!

center... reception ” RC “

grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, I lost my son and my my and son my lost I cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents,

served approximately 24 years and 6 months on a 25 year year 25 a on months 6 and years 24 approximately served essions essions S Jeff General Attorney

To all of those barely coming in to the the to in coming barely those of all To

so many loved ones during this stretch. I lost both sets of of sets both lost I stretch. this during ones loved many so

to introduce to you Texas prisoner Omar Valdez. Omar has has Omar Valdez. Omar prisoner Texas you to introduce to

Statement by by Statement

otherwise it easy to be consumed by these walls. I’ve lost lost I’ve walls. these by consumed be to easy it otherwise Let’s take a look behind the iron curtain and allow me me allow and curtain iron the behind look a take Let’s

Truth is one has to have a strong mind and strong will, will, strong and mind strong a have to has one is Truth their eyes all is well – but is it? is but – well is all eyes their

LETTERS

It has been hard to maintain my sanity all these years. years. these all sanity my maintain to hard been has It The State sees nothing wrong with the current system, in in system, current the with wrong nothing sees State The

right here at Eastham. Boy, if these walls could talk... could walls these if Boy, Eastham. at here right awareness.

he was successful! Now that same sergeant is a Lieutenant Lieutenant a is sergeant same that Now successful! was he and legal discourse in hopes of raising the public’s public’s the raising of hopes in discourse legal and or internally for other expenditures. This may include new back to their cells instead. anda country Mexicans nor its in natural which toresources establish as theour own. crime Contrary market PRIVILEGES of bar admission, liquor license, CalifoIllinoisrn Miaa Coalition n forIn Wom Soutenhern Priso ners’ Campaign for TheSECURITY-WELFARE Life Line CHECKS of to what people believe, we never went to war for oil, we equipment for the prison employees, staff lounges or even for prison commerce. To help us analyze and define hunting license, special driver’s license, merchant Security welfare checks, are a constant and severe haven’t seen any country’s oil reserves. Wars of conquest for their own dining and mess halls, where they eat not CommutatioReleased Anftser fo 20r A ll California, Inmates Prison Commerce prison commerce, we must first understand its relation license, day care and nursing license, etc. problem threatening the mental health of prisoners across are no longer in the interest of the powers to be, that top the same substandard food as the inmate population, but By Louis Powell to the Thirteenth Amendment, of which reads: Section RIGHTS of freedom of association and assembly, YeTo believear thats ia nperson Pr is notiso capablen of fo changer and so thereforePay must fo live outr the Comfo rest of their life rin prisonta bis thel every meaning of cruel and unusual punishment. -Mimi all solitary units, especially the checks throughout the night, 1% who profited from the proceeds of supplying our war instead feast lavishly on top quality cuisine purchased out 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as machine and other profit based monopolies; those with the offreedom the inmate of food travel, service security budget. and These property, funds freedomare never WLifer Withoutong Paroleful is like Ara deathso sentencen but it’s a death sentence,Jail walking. St aIt’sys like you’re on death row but you’re not locked in a cage, you’re out here; you can walk around causing sleepoday, deprivation, prison commerce which is ais known an evolving form of torture.social apower punishment to influence for crime, America’s whereof foreign-policy. the party shallInstead have we spentof thought on the incarcerated. and speech, freedom to be part of but your closed custody, so you have to count multiple times a Publishedday and you’re 9 March limited 2017 to atjobs. http://www.telesurtv.net And you can breath the air…til you die in prison.” -Tracee This issuescience is reportedly dealing withexacerbated the economics by the placementand politics of Murder Conviction beennow duly wage convicted, wars of destabilization. shall exist within Look the at United Iraq, States Libya, governmentOur prisons haveand freedombecome not to vote.only profit based for those sensors directlyof surplus on thelabor cell of doors unemployed in the PSU workers at CSP-SAC. in the or any place subject to their jurisdiction. whoIt established is recognize contracts that the to provide ex-offenders the goods areand leftservices with Publishedalifornia by Innocence Coalition Projectfor Women on June Prisoners 1, 2017 (CCWP) is initiating a statewidehe pay-to-stay campaign facility for commutation Seal Beach of advertises sentences for all those serving Life Without the Possibility of Parole RecentT reports from the PSU are that the checks are loud and Syria. Look at the efforts to influence Egypt and other context of franchise and disfranchise. Like all system (LWOP). We are asking Governor Brown to use his executive powers to commute the sentences of the almost 5,000 people serving LWOP - including the nearly 200 women regular, but are not thorough, with most officers rushing by Middle.The United East countries.State is the We only are country simply indestabilizing the history the of to1/3 the ofprisons, a legal or livelihood in the all too to commonwork with, case and private they prisons must in local papers with spreads asking, “Why under capitalism, expansion is essential to neutralize andn transgender Illinois man people was released in CA women’s from prison prisons- Tuesday into parole-eligible sentences. thearea civilized to ensure world decades with a ofconstitutional conflict to governmentcome. Not thatin the wheresomehow they ownsupplement the prisons by waythemselves. of odds andBut theends internal type spend your jail sentence of 365 days or less at and not even looking into the cell. These “welfare” checks C after serving more than 20 years after a judge potential conflict over the distribution of capital, needed legalizedname of slavery.democracy, It is theor because origin of of prison fictitious commerce weapons and of mentality of the correctional worker is so perverted that it This past April Governor Brown granted 72 pardons and sevenT commutations, including the sentences of three people with LWOP. CCWP is especially glad that he commuted the have already been the focus of human rights scrutiny for of jobs or else turn to crime. The demographic means county?” for a livelihood in today’s world. LWOP sentencevacated of Kennethhis sentence Hartman for a 1995who has arson long murder. led the fight against LWOP as “the other death penalty,” and the LWOP sentence of Sue Russo, a survivor of domestic violence, who their failure to provide any welfare to prisoners, but rather institutionalizedmass destruction, butracism, in the namewhich ofallows profit, the at combininga huge cost, of islaid a given down that againstfunds intended the ex-offenders, for inmates shall it not arbitrarilybe used A Pay-to-stay detention facilities are increasing in In California, between the years of 1960 and 1980, CCWPWilliam works Amor with andhad has been served detained almost for twenty-three two weeks yearsand in prison. These commutations are a move in the right direction and we are committed to moving forward our campaign have negative, physical and mental health consequences. twonot only schools physically of thought on the on tax the payers, subject but ofin the (a) lives slavery of foraffects inmates. their families and communities, insofar as interrogated for 15 hours when he confessed to starting the Southern California, and for deep-pocketed offenders, prison commerce was exclusively a market that traffics America’s youth, our sons, brothers and fathers. (editor’s The mentality of prison employees has been indoctrinated to put an end to this cruel but far too usual sentence completely. (For more on the security welfare checks, see page 5) being indeterminate and (b) involuntary servitude crime would become a commodity in demand. fire that killed his mother-in-law. He allegedly claimed that they are paradise. These facilities show that Southern in males of color, who had become systematically note: and daughters, sisters and mothers.) and degraded to the point that they no longer look upon Why now? Throughout the U.S., ending LWOP is becoming a benchmark of criminal justice reform. LWOP is increasingly recognized as an inhumane and cruel and unusual OVER MEDICATION being determinate. By demographic means and institutionalized racism he used vodka and a lit cigarette to set fire to the victim’s California operates a two-tiered system of jails, unsuitable for employment. Around 1980, prison And now there is a new threat, not only to America’s inmates as wards or even people, but as a commodity to be punishment. It denies that people— all people — have the capacity to change, grow and be rehabilitated. LWOP is called “the other death penalty” by those serving it and by their A serious issue CPF is concerned with involves the state .Therefore, the psycho-political lifeline of prison and invidious discrimination, those living in repressive condominium. At a hearing earlier this spring, three arson where those with more cash flow can ride out their commerce expanded its market by trafficking in females youth, but to the future of our country and the very fabric housed, fed, counted and traded. From one arrested by the families. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against mandatory LWOP sentencing for people sentenced as juveniles. Many states, including California, are also legislating against abusing its right to administer medication involuntarily, commerce is the 13th Amendment. In the contradictory city zones will see: (First) The unemployment rate time behind bars in relative comfort while others are of our society. A new government program designed to police on the street, traded to the courts, public defender’s sentencingexperts testified youth to that LWOP. it was Now “scientifically it is time to takeimpossible” action to formitigate the impact for all people sentenced to die in prison due to this inhumane and endless punishment. Let us be clear: withof color many as prisoner-patientswell. in the building forced to take existence of the Constitution, the 13th Amendment create a new lucrative industry for those who supply its office,of the able-bodied,probation, parole unemployable and prisons, will those decrease entrapped in commutingthe fire to a sentencehave started does that not way.guarantee release from prison. It doessubjected guarantee to degrading that each person living will conditions have the right to see the parole board rather than being sentenced to a ‘living death. the same There medication, are psycho-political despite differing objectives individual needs of prison of isgoods the and Exceptional meet its needs. Amendment One that looks that to profit supersedes not only the ourgeometrically criminal justice (Second) system While are simply employment commodities increases to be BecauseAmor CCWPwas released has advocated from custody for the oncivil Tuesday and human for rightsthe of people“This in is CA like women’s paradise,” prisons an for Orange22 years, Countywe focus man on the impactFr onom these almostInmat 200 LWOPs.e toWe strongly support theircommerce conditions. of which One report is the to CPFoutput describes of producing overmedicated while politicalfrom the rightsblood andof Amendments lives of our sons, I, II, IV,daughters, XIV, XV, mothersetc., for tradedfor the from employable one department arithmetically. to another, in a never ending commutationfirst time since for all 1995. 5,000 He people was received sentenced by to friends LWOP and in CA.his Herenamed are some Jack facts told about the the LA people Times, serving speaking LWOP inof CA his women’s prisons: prisonerscrippling millionsas “walking of Black zombies”, and Mexican, some ofmale whom children now Activist thoseand fathers, convicted but to of profit a felony. from Itthe is veryby virtue devastating of a felonymisery cycle It of is profiting the type on of humanities social, economical misery. And and yet the political public, legalThe majority team from are the survivors Illinois ofInnocence abuse including Project. intimate partner US$100-a-nightbattering, childhood stay abuse, at Seal sexual Beach’s violence pay-to-stay and trafficking. jail, needin particular, to use walkers so to that get around by the due age the of effects discretion, of these when By Armando Rodriguez convictionand anguish ofthat human the enslavement ex-offenders itself. Sadly,can never we have pay their societycontradictions as a whole, that is unaware we ofmust this suffering,expose. ofWe must the The“It’s majority overwhelming,” are first-time he told “offenders,” the Chicago and Tribune. hadno record “I’m priorwhere to being he sentencedserved his to 90-day die in prison.sentence for driving under medicationsit comes to upon laboring their equilibrium. for working wage, they will be debtno Douglas to society MacArthur, without no being great pardonAmerican from: hero (1)to warn The grossadvocate abuses that facilitated if two-thirds by those of thein power voting who population profit off taking it hour by hour.” MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATIONS The CDCR dismisses rehabilitation for LWOP prisoners becausethe influencethey will neverof heroin. be released from prison. They are barredI fromparolled the frommajority Pelican of official Bay SHU self-help in September programs, yet nothing more than a surplus of unemployables, waiting us and give dire warnings. Nor does society today even of misdirected government dollars, or the manipulation of Amor is scheduled to be retried in September. Last week, Governor for State Crime (2) The President for Federal were the reject the language of slavery and involuntary ironically they are relied upon to stabilize the prison population andJack facilitate previously the majority spent of17 the days peer-led in an supportOrange groups. County 2015. With no help, I went from being an inmate to toWhen be processed prisoners into in thethe prison-industrialPSU are written complex. up for rule see this threat. Nor are they aware of this insidious and the “Law Enforcement Prison Industrial Complex” where the Illinois Innocence Project filed a motion to dismiss Crime. servitude expressed in the 13th Amendment, by LWOP prisoners have fewer job options in prison. They are onlyjail eligible that for was jobs overcrowded, that pay on the dirtylower andend of dangerous the pay range. – Yetbecoming they are still an requiredactivist. toThough pay restitution. it’s not easy If they to comecannot violations,There are they four must principal undergo modes a mental of prison health commerce evaluation cancerous new profiteering monopoly that has arisen no longer is there any “corrections” or “rehabilitation”, but the indictments against him, since they were obtained via The preventives checks and measures of the 13th amending it to read: Neither slavery nor involuntary pay, the burden is on their families to do so. emblematic of most county jails in the region. He by funds from your parole department, there are av- inand order they toare determine as follows: if their mental health condition in our American society. This is the “Law Enforcement simply an effort to incarcerate the most people possible in faulty arson testimony. played a part in their violation of the rules. In one letter Amendment have three components, which are: (1) the servitude shall exist within the United States or any We ask you to support this call to the Governor to commute wasall LWOP then ablesentences to get to his parole-eligible defense attorney sentences to transferand to begin enues the process by which to eliminateone can accumulate LWOP sentencing monetary from assis the- Disfranchising: It began during the formative years and Prison Industrial Complex”, profiting off of the the name and goal of profits and numbers. According to the Tribune, Amor would have been CPF received, a prisoner describes how these evaluations loss of social citizenship resulting in the disintegration place subject to their jurisdiction. California penal code completely. To support commutations for allhis and case our to postcard a different judge, who allowed him to pay tance via the Substance Abuse Service Coordinating of orientation and indoctrination, by way of menticide, enslavement and imprisonment of our very own sons and The US government has in recent years fought what paroled next year but he wants the murder charge off his of the ex-offenders, their families and communities. Under such amending of the language, the campaign to Governor Brown, please contact [email protected] a more comfortableg● jail for the remainder of his are often conducted as many as ten days after the violation. daughters. it termed “wars” against AIDS, drug abuse, poverty, Agency Program (SASCA). At times, it was almost subculture living conditions, dysfunctional environment, (2) The loss of economical citizenship resulting in record once and for all. PSU REPORT – CSP SACRAMENTO The results of these belated evaluations are then used to Let me ask you, what is the longest war in America’s illiteracyprison-industrial and terrorism. complex Each wouldof these transform wars have intoa huge a sentence. By Cameron MacKenzie as if I was being transpacked from one institution to all of which lead to the loss of citizenship. It is also “All I’ve ever asked for is the hope that someone will determine the prisoner’s state of mind at the time of the thehistory? destitution And most would of bethe oblivious ex-offenders, to know theirthat it’s families budgetsandcastle, legitimized because by legislators. the profit But ultimatelymotives allwould one be Paying a total of US$7,300 atWHAT Seal Beach, IS A PSU? Jack finds another due to overcrowding. The housing conditions re-districting, gentrification, ecological competition, see the truth,” Amor said.● violation, with the usual conclusion being that mental andAmerica’s communities. so-called War(3) on The Drugs, loss which of politicalhas now been citizenship musttaken do away. is follow Competitive the money capitalism to see who should profits. not exist Who a large selection of DVDs and booksA PSU and or Psychiatrican endless Servicesgot as Unit bad isas ahaving secure six housing persons unit per for room, prisoners and up with to inequality, deregulation, residential segregation and illness played no part (due to the length of time between resultingongoing for in over the 40 yearsoppression and counting. of the These ex-offenders, are non- their hasin the contracts? judiciary branchWho are of the government. shareholders? The Why 13th are supply of hot water. Plus, he’s treated like a human 60 persons per location. Many men find themselves the de-alignment between people of color. solitary terms who are deemed to require an advanced level of mental health care. In violation and evaluation), so the prisoner may be held fully familiesviolent humanand communities. beings who suffer from drug addiction. theseAmendment contract holders doesn’t allowed service to public hold interestssuch monopoly? or the being, he told the LA Times. the words of the Mental Healthdiscouraged Services Delivery by the overwhelmingSystem (MHSDS) burden. Program Guide: .Breeding – Male children of color are born into a responsible and face disciplinary action. NotThe killers external and notscheme high-level of the drug 13th traffickers. Amendment Some, does like Whycause are of antitrust democracy. laws Insteadnot enforced it is in the areas number of private one There are about 26 “pay-to-stay”“Inmate-patients or “private who jails” are serving Having an established graduated and from approved Stockton’s SHU termvery andown require New premature death situation, a world where everything is DISABILITY DESK IN LAW LIBRARY actmyself, conspiratorially serving decades. beyond People the psycho-political with substance fraud abuse of corporationscreator of crimeprofiting that oneats government up tax dollars contracts? that shouldWho has DNA Exonerations in in Los Angeles and Orange counties.an Enhanced A report Outpatient by the Program Directions (EOP) level drug of rehabilitation care shall be program,referred to where a PSU.” I spent systematically arranged towards their de-employment, For one piece of positive news, thanks to the efforts of theproblems democratic are sentenced treatment under of its thecitizens. so-called The “king-Pinloss of first suchbe goinginfluence to public over education,government healthemployees care, to programs,get such a Marshall Project and the LA TimesPSUs were found created that as of part ofsix the months,Statewide and Mental a 45 Health day Program re-entry (SMHP) program, initiated with prisonerde-allocation, advocates de-commercialization,within the PSU, there is now de-politicization, a ‘disability the United STATES classLaws” social, which economic, are intended and politicalfor international citizenships large will scale take lucrativeand jobs. contract? the more than 3,500 people whoin response served to time the in1995 the federal Circle court of ruling Friends, in the I acquired Coleman AB109 vs. Brown funds class and foundaction desk’de-license, in the PSU de-regulation, law library, providing de-Americanize, physically disabledde-civilize, drug traffickers. Thanks to overzealous prosecution and Every congressman, every senator, every politician has Published by Innocence Projejct away two thirds of a legal livelihood. It will force the ex- There is the belief that by propagating the region’s pay-to-stay programslawsuit between regarding 2011 the andtreatment housing of prisoners in an withenvironment mental health that fosters diagnoses. sober This living. ruling prisonersand de-population. with equal access to legal information. abuse of power, these laws are instead used to imprison their own pet projects, their own special interest groups offenders to supplement their livelihood by way of the amending of the 13th Amendment, it’s a theory that Fast facts: 2015, more than 160 had beenfound convicted that California of serious prisons wereIt was in atviolation this stage of thethat 8th I found Amendment’s myself embarkingprohibition onon CALL.Capturing FOR – SUBMISSIONS seizing the surplus of unemployables, everyone who is prosecuted for drugs federally. And what they are indebted to; their own private monopolies that 1989: The first DNA exoneration took place cruel and unusual punishment because they did not provide adequate mental health care. underground economy or odd jobs. It also guarantees taxpayers would never have to pay another penny crimes including assault, robbery, domestic violence, a new chapter in life, and having found my calling, waitingCPF stands for ininternment solidarity with inside prisoners the ofprison-industrial all types, does this do? It’s filling our prisons with a victimized they own a share or interest in. The industry owners and 37: States where exonerations have been won that civil liberties of their law-abiding families and towards the maintenance and security of the prison battery, sexual assault, sexualOther abuse states, of children when forced and to reckonproceeded with tothe volunteerunsuitability with of solitaryFathers confinement and Families for including those with mental health diagnoses. CPF class of people who are then imprisoned and enslaved for shareholders are the ones who control public opinion and 20 of 350 people exonerated served time on death row complex. communities living in environmentally deprived crime those with mental health symptoms, chose to move people out of solitary. For instance, understands that mental health conditions are common to decades; warehousing our youth. ultimatelysystem. Every control state and prison influence system our would domestic become and foreign self- 14: Average length of time served by exonerees possession of child pornography. nonprofit organization. I was doing various speeches .Output – The increasing prison commerce production. New York has the SHU Exclusion Law, passed in 2008 and implemented in 2011, zonesThis will is not be a under war of special decisive restrictions. actions, but one designed for policies.sufficient. Capitalism Also thehas socialcorrupted phenomena our society of atcrime great ascost. we 4,787: Total number of years served The jail’s administrators tout that they’re a “valuable and public appearances discussing topics such as all Frantzpeople, Fannon and we rejectcoined any the “stigma” psycho-political or negative term,treatment the which restricts the placement of prisoners with serious mental illness in disciplinary based on a mental health diagnosis. All individuals deserve continualThere may “conflict” be some or readersmore aptly who as aska continual the question: campaign is knowAs long it would as there decrease is so little and oversightthen duties, of government privileges 26.5: Average age of exonerees at the time of their alternative” to those that would be “vulnerable” in solitary confinement, the STG program and other Wretched of the Earth. It is the wretched conditions, confinement entirely. support and respect. If you are currently incarcerated in the prisonin which commerce America awill legitimate continue term?to throw It continuesaway tax payer to be expenditures,and rights would so little no public longer awareness, be impeded there for will the always ex- wrongful conviction county jail, such as sex offenders, celebrities and very related activist work. the de-functionalization of families and communities 37 of 350: Pled guilty to crimes they did not commit Instead of ending solitary confinement for Californians with mental health diagnoses, PSU, previously have spent time in the unit, or have other andollars. evolving This political campaign and was economicdesigned notterm, to end and or it eradicate must be beoffenders, those who will and manipulate the possibility and profit foroff aany livelihood government and Black Mamas Bailout Dayyoung: or old inmates. One of many highlights was having the opportunity of color that undergo systematic criminalization, 71%: Involved eyewitness misidentification CDCr chose to implement SMHP, with the stated goal of providing “ready access accounts of CDCr’s provision of mental health services, incorporatedthe drug problem into but our rather understanding to fuel incarceration. of the economic Federal spending,comprehensive no matter rehabilitation the human suffering.will be transformed Today the Last June, Seal Beach took in US $365,000 from to develop a strong working relationship with one while making men and women permanently unfit for 41%Bec of theseaus cases weree aA cross-racialll O misidentificationf Us Are FalleN to mental health services” for prisoners. The program also aims to “ensure that the CPF welcomes all submissions. Be sure to note in your andmoney political is poured doctrine into of lawthe 13thenforcement, Amendment. correctional mainstreaminto a reality. media The on behalf incarcerated of the rich criminals not only would influences no its inmates, close to half of the jail’s total budget of Delores Canales, an advocate to end the use of solitary employment because there are no jobs to be had in 32%Published of these on cases Friday involved May 12, multiple 2017 by misidentifications Common Dreams individual functioning of seriously mentally disordered patients is optimized so that letter whether you give permission for your account to be complexesBack in the in private1970’s, companies. the economists Not only understood does this thatwar publiclonger opinion, be working on such for things an inmate as supporting pay rate oftough eight on of the same person US$766,662. The facility advertises in local papers confinement in California, who invited me to speak at a capitalist market of exploitation of labor. Without crime initiatives and tough sentencing with forms of fear By Abby Zimet their care may be maintained in the least restrictive environment.” This doublespeak anonymously shared with others. ● employmenton drugs profit has those always who beenservice a their competitive vast enterprises market, of cents hourly to the maximum of thirty-seven cents 28% of these cases involved misidentification through with spreads asking, “Why spend your jail sentence an event sponsored by her program, in San Rafael, labor, people cannot live a full and meaningful life; policing, prosecuting, and warehousing humanity, but it mongering, but the media also intentionally fails to do in- iting the tradition of their enslaved ancestors to “free ourselves,” a coalition of 25 is not lost on those with serious diagnoses who are still placed in solitary confinement and in order to give the White male surplus labor force hourly. Their pay rate would be the State minimum the use of a composite sketch of 365 days or less at county?”conditions with no substantiveCalifornia. out-of-cell Thetime. event benefited a Pelican Bay bus ride therefore the State and Federal Government step in also builds an elected official voter base. This voter base depth reporting; such as following the money, or in-depth grassroots, black-led organizations bought the freedom of about 60 black women a competitive advantage, prison commerce would wage. Learning to work for pay in prison would be 46%: Involved misapplication of forensic science It was the choice jail for Los Angeles Kings An essay on the criminal is not limited to those in law enforcement and corrections, investigation of government spending. Isn’t that odd when jailed around the country for low-level offenses by raising $550,000 to pay According to policy, PSU program prisoners from are supposed Southern toCalifornia. be offered It afforded at least 10me the hours and provide for the unemployed care and welfare until become a permanent employment solution. It opened 28%:C Involved false confessions or their descendants. A new “tough on crime” voter ouran nation effective, is so far in sociological debt? Shouldn’t advancement there be more in public crime defenseman Slava Voynov, who was sentenced to 90 52%their of bail the and false bring confessors them home were to21 their years families old or younger and communities in time for Mother’s of scheduled structured therapeuticopportunity activities to perspeak week, to manyand to familiesbe regularly whose evaluated loved ian prisondust bed canr ialoccupy ctheompl residue ofex a wretched life. up a whole new market (crime), while putting a halt base is always, constantly expanding and influenced by awarenessprevention. of government For those spending?who never Moreheld a accountability?wage earning atDay the -time a gift of onearrest recipient termed “wondrous.” Targeting an unjustdays bail in 2015system for that physically they assaultingboth medically his wife, and psychiatrically who ones by are health-care personally professionals. affected byTherapeutic the current treatment solitary Prison commerce is the purging of the unemployables And the profit driven policies that feed tomisinformation class-consciousness. campaigns The and statefear mongering. government would However,job, the incarceratedthe sad truth criminalsis that our would media then too isbe corrupted, able to: 17%:charge Involved constitutes informants “modern bondage” and disproportionatelyafter punishes the attack poor people,was covered activitiesin blood may with include a gash individual confinement or group conditions psychotherapy, in Pelican although Bay SHU.during group out of society, in order to get use-value from their this new insidious industry; putting profit systematicallyWe’ve all heard force the statistics. males Theof UScolor, has only in 5%particular, of the and boughtfinancially and paid support for. theirWhere outside is the families,information bring regarding an end 256:especially DNA exonereeswomen of compensatedcolor, the Mama’s Bail Out Day campaignabove was launched her eye inthat Atlanta required eighttherapy, stitches. prisoners are kept in Whileindividual there cages have becausebeen many they changes, are not smallallowed and to big be socio-economical and political incapacitation. The above the lives of America’s youth. femalesworld’s entireof color, population, into the criminalbut has 25%enterprise. of all the The worlds 13th legitimateto their own concerns destitution, that the peoplepay off should restitution, be aware learn of, the 183:by Black DNA Livesexonerations Matter workedand Southerners on by the onInnocence New Ground (SONG),“I’m an really LGBTQ happy rights I was ableunshackled to come here,” around he others. had Accordingdifferences to one being report made,we received, the fight this to programming end the practice may of use-value garnished from the unemployables are Project By Curtis Sanders Amendmententire incarcerated takes persons. way the We ex-offenders, have incarcerated their more duties, suchvalue as ofnational an honest debt, day’sgovernment work for spending, an honest cases day’s of undue pay, group, and joined by a coalition of over 20 other organizations,said from at Color the time. of Change “But toyou needconsist the money of nothing to do more it.” than watchingsolitary confinement television. The will average continue stay untilin the the PSU complete lasted actual employment for the surplus labor force of 149: True suspects and/or perpetrators identified. 86.63 days, with a range of 3-229 days. At the end of World War II the great American hero privileges,people in ourand prisons rights. than China, Mexico, North Korea, politicaland establish influence bank over accounts, our officials, buy insurance, and world stocks, news and bail reform groups to public defenders. In contrast, a report released Wednesday details abolishment of solitary confinement is achieved. White males to have employment of keeping guard The actual provision of this care is monitored by a Special Master, as part of the four star General Douglas MacArthur spoke out warning RussiaDUTIES and of all military eastern service,bloc countries jury service,combined. martial How events?and bonds. Our mainstream It would leadmedia to instead the abolition promotes anof agendaprison RacesSeeking of the to 350 change exonerees: a narrative that demonizes incarcerated moms,the especially conditions black of ones, an ICE detention facility, which Of the many wonderful experiences I’ve had during over people of color, preventing them from making a Coleman ruling. In the last (26th) round of reports, filed May 2016, the Special Master the public to be aware of this new “military industrial responsibility,is that? In the moral land of and the legal free? obligationWe always lookof providing at and ofcommerce ignorance and anto utterthe reallack andof accountability. only rehabilitation of the217 project African freed Americans women held in jails in 16 cities, including Atlanta,indicates Oakland, the vastly Houston, different experience immigrants this journey, speaking on the State Assembly Bill, political revolution. Back in the 1970’s, the California You are more likely to hear headlines about the found that the initial contact timeframe for individuals placed in the PSU was only 76% complex” in the years to come. For he had foreseen how forcriticize their families,Third World and countriespaying income crying tax.in outrage at their criminal behaviors.● L.A.,106 CaucasiansMinneapolis and New York City. They had all been accusedface -while but not in convicteddetention. - “Boys and Men of Color” is perhaps my greatest Kardashians or stories promoting the agendas of the compliant; the rate of interdisciplinary participation in treatment planning meetings was greedyDepartment and insidious of Correction this new industrywas forced had to become. hire a tokenWith draconian and tyrannical policies. But in truth we imprison of25 minor Latinos offenses like loitering, failing to appear in court on a trafficThe report, ticket, by small-scale the U.S. Department of Homeland achievement. It was held at the capital building in and enslave 25% of the entire world’s incarcerated and political parties and their financial backers. However 79% compliant; and only 57% of PSU prisoners were offered ten hours of group therapy hugenumber profits of prison made guards providing of color. the Itequipment, was one ofmaterial the and pot2 Asian possession, Americans crossing outside a crosswalk, “using fighting words,”Security, and found other so-calledseveral health risks, poor conditions enslaved persons. And for what? Profit. what you will never hear is real news which should be of per week. Looking at the StepSacramento, system by which California prisoner-patient and attended progress by California’sis measured, machinerydemands offor the America’s prison reform war machine, movement. he knew The hiringthat this of “quality of life” misdeeds. Of the total funds raised, about $345,000and safetywent directly violations to bail at Theo Lacy Facility (TLF) Like those confined on a slave ship, or livestock confined dire concern to all Americans, such as out-of-control and How DNA makes a difference in the criminal justice out of 1460 Step actions takenHouse in the of monitoring Representatives, period, 793and orall 54%the whilemaintained as being the newprison power guards would of colornot sit was idle viewedin times as of infringing peace, but of would jobs Los Angeles 1998) @ money and the rest was spent on organizing and support efforts for those newly freed, in holding pens, we are herded together in the small spaces unsustainable government spending andELA theC C ampus:ballooning system in Orange, California, an Immigrationprisoner at andhis current Customs Step level.one Thewho primary was wearing reason foran prisoners ankle monitoring being retained GPS at insteadmeant use solely all offor their White power males. and resources to influence new CJC Conference on Prison Justice from finding temporary housing to to Mother’s Day events to hairdresser appointments and given the barest of necessities, only enough food to deficit. We do not hear about the state of America’s Since 1989, there have been tens of thousands of cases Enforcement (ICE) detention facility.their current levels or having theirdevice. levels increased was listed as “participation.” military The makeconflicts. up of Today prison we commerce can look backis as infollows: history, Street and at Top Left to Right Gengiap/SQ6 Bato/SQ6 so they can “feel human again.” The campaign slogan: “Money kept them in. Black love America’s current foreign policy we see how prophetic his ensure we can sustain lives and cheap clothes to cover our financial market,Geronimo/Jaga or of the Ripglobal financial market. Nor where prime suspects were identified and pursued—until “Of deepest concern” was theIn lightrefrigeration of these findings, units it is reasonable to ask if prisoner participation in treatment gang activity, Underworld Activity, School Dropouts, Chispas/HM Rip (far got them out.” dire warnings turned out to be. bodies. Rehabilitative programs that are offered in prison do we hear warningsright: Uaboutnidentified) the potential outcomes of our DNA testing (prior to conviction) proved that they were which were observed to haveprogramming “slimy, foul-smelling has been adversely Let affected my byexample the State’s failurebe a to motivationalmeet the standards set Dysfunctional Families/Communities, Drugs and The campaign is part of a broader effort to remedy two under-recognized aspects of What has fallowed since World War II has been decades are shams. They are focused on funneling money to the out-of-control spending,Bottom: Sforhabaka/Jaga the collapse Dano/Gof the American wrongly accused. lunch meat that appeared to bybe thespoiled,” Coleman the ruling. report Given that privileges in the PSU are earned through progress on Alcohol Addictions, Prison Gang Activity, Underground Rip Remembrances from Solidarity a flawed criminal justice system: the money-bail system - which grassroots groups have tool for anyone who feels that of continual conflict. Yes, all dressed up and justified in the contractors who provide goods and services needed to economy and the American dollar. It would be the same In more than 25% of cases in a National Institute of said, according to ABC News.the Step system, and that prisoners are penalized for not participating fully in treatment, Prison Economy, Non-rehabilitation programs, Sub- built inside Max SHU›s: To the Free begun targeting by creating community bail funds - and a failure often cited by the Black activist work is a route you want to name of democracy or to end tyranny. But war none the less, sustain this ugly industry, and to provide high-paying jobs as Greece and Cyprus and every other nation state that has Justice study, suspects were excluded once DNA testing “Detainees reported being repeatedlyit is all the moreserved crucial lunch that the CDCr ensures this treatment is provided. Whether the Culture Living, Criminal Behavior. Streets:To Eternity Godspeed: From Lives Movement to address the plight of jailed women, whose numbers have risen 700% venture down. no matter how you dress it up. We have been involved in to the correctional employees who work in that field. allowed their leaders4B/4A to ol› milk Folsom/New their economy Folsom/ dry. meat that smelled and tasted programmingbad, which they that isrinsed offered is suitable and applicable to the prisoners and constitutive wassince conducted 1980, making during them the the criminal fastest growing investigation demographic (the in corrections. Among them, continuousThe external conflict scheme since that of time: prison Korea, commerce Vietnam, exerts Desert Due to our ignoranceTehachapi/Soledad-O-wing/SQ and the lack of interest A by the of “adequate mental health care” is a further question. C/CIW/ study,black conductedwomen are intwice 1995, as likely included as white 10,060 to casesbe arrested where and heldwith on bail;water black before and eating,” trans it detailed. I am living proof that with the right amount of Storm,opposition Desert Shield, to the the economicsIraq war, Libya, and Syria, politics and many of the American peopleAttika/ to question Atlanta/Pelikan our policies,Bay/C orcoran/foreign and Following the closure of the PSU at Pelican Bay at the end of 2016, there is currently No effort is afforded to those testingwomen was are performedespecially vulnerableby FBI labs). to sexual abuse while there; up toIt a alsothird found of women moldy have shower stalls, feces in cells and dedication, perseverance and drive, that nothing, not otherlower conflicts. social classes. These conflicts It influences are presented anti-establishment in politically domestic, the governmentKillapatria/ willHD/SVSP/ continueChowchilla/ spending inPuerto ways only one prison in California with PSU facilities - CSP Sacramento. California Prison seeking education. 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For all those that are striving ourselves.activities But sadlyand we domestic are continually street lied gang to about terrorism. the real Social with the government spending of dictatorships, little of the of which report serious deficiencies in their care. The issues highlighted by these letters records for nonexistent classes to walls and human barriers/ Gulags becausebut because of lost they or destroyedcan’t afford evidence. to return to their lives while a facilitymoney-based follows system the plodsU.S. Department of Agriculture’s for a better world and are using activism as a vehicle, reasoning.inequality, And re-districting, even more sadly, gentrification, and criminally negligent, ecological funds go to fulfillof razorthe needs wire ofand the gun masses. towers/ Iron are summarized below: ensure future funding. on, Those collateral actual damage perpetrators can be enormouswent on to- separationbe convicted from kidssafe who food need handling them, loss guidelines, of as well as undertake a keep on pushing forward! Your hard work will be iscompetition, that American deregulation,soldiers - our ownresidential heart and segregation, blood - are and Society needsC tourtains wake andup and desolate look at campsthe reasons of mass behind SUICIDE WATCH of 147 additional violent crimes, including 77 sexual full review and inspection of the facility.● continually placed in harms way, fighting in unwinnable our domestic andconfinement foreign policies; and ilegal to see detentions...All past the smoke 19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W3 Web 3 Bottom 6/21/2017 12:00:22 PM Black $[LayerName] jobs and peace of mind (think Sandra Bland) and isolation from community - for what are rewarded!! de-alignment are all systemic of prison commerce. assaults, 35 murders, and 35 other violent crimes while While prisoners are officially encouraged to speak out in order to receive help if wars. These insidious frauds affect all departments and all screens and misinformation.Points Where PrisonersAmerica andneeds Detainees to realize often minor mistakes. Noted one emotional woman freed from jail in Atlanta and reunited The above seven and much more are preventive facets of the prison industrial complex. Money intended die sickly and in silence or rise up. Unite the innocent sat behind bars for their earlier offenses. they are having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, we have received multiple reports of Rules of engagement and war policy are engineered with that we are no longer a true free democracy, but a nation with her family, “All of us are fallen.” Acknowledging that, the bailout project seeks to Editor’s Note: The Family Unity Network Bus Trips checks and measures. It allows for competitive by legislative intent for rehabilitative programs, education, Together. Free Themselves.. their minds An Innocence Project review of our closed cases from prisoners not receiving the help they need, including guards refusing to remove suicidal the intent not to win a war, but to maintain the status quo on controlled by the rich. Yes, much as a shadow government. minimize the damage by calling on the kindness of strangers, and using their collective to Pelican Bay State Prison organizes bus trips for capitalism to operate efficiently. It masks itself in even inmate food, is never granted or applied in good faith and free their comrades in collective 2004 – June 2015 revealed that 29% of cases were closed prisoners from their cells, and even being threatened with physical violence for speaking the battlefield in order to insure continual conflict. Gone are This raping of our nations resources and lives, is an utter resources “to purchase each other’s freedom.” ● families to visit their loved ones..● extra historical law of population control of Blacks to the execution of such programs. Instead this money is struggle and compassion .. U R not because of lost or destroyed evidence.● up. Similarly, when people harm themselves, rather than getting placed in “crisis beds,” the wars of occupation and imperialism. We no longer take mockery and insultalone, to theoheyo great nation that we are supposed diverted either externally to privately owned companies where they are under 24-hr supervision, reports are that they are immediately returned to be.●

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their current levels or having their levels increased was listed as “participation.” as listed was increased levels their having or levels current their

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prisoner at his current Step level. The primary reason for prisoners being retained at at retained being prisoners for reason primary The level. Step current his at prisoner meant solely for White males. White for solely meant CJC Conference on Prison Justice Prison on Conference CJC

money and the rest was spent on organizing and support efforts for those newly freed, freed, newly those for efforts support and organizing on spent was rest the and money

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prison guards of color was viewed as infringing of jobs jobs of infringing as viewed was color of guards prison

“quality of life” misdeeds. Of the total funds raised, about $345,000 went directly to bail bail to directly went $345,000 about raised, funds total the Of misdeeds. life” of “quality

per week. Looking at the Step system by which prisoner-patient progress is measured, measured, is progress prisoner-patient which by system Step the at Looking week. per

demands of the prison reform movement. The hiring of of hiring The movement. reform prison the of demands

pot possession, crossing outside a crosswalk, “using fighting words,” and other so-called so-called other and words,” fighting “using crosswalk, a outside crossing possession, pot

79% compliant; and only 57% of PSU prisoners were offered ten hours of group therapy therapy group of hours ten offered were prisoners PSU of 57% only and compliant; 79%

number of prison guards of color. It was one of the the of one was It color. of guards prison of number

of minor offenses like loitering, failing to appear in court on a traffic ticket, small-scale small-scale ticket, traffic a on court in appear to failing loitering, like offenses minor of

compliant; the rate of interdisciplinary participation in treatment planning meetings was was meetings planning treatment in participation interdisciplinary of rate the compliant;

Department of Correction was forced to hire a token token a hire to forced was Correction of Department

L.A., Minneapolis and New York City. They had all been accused - but not convicted - - convicted not but - accused been all had They City. York New and Minneapolis L.A.,

behaviors. criminal ● found that the initial contact timeframe for individuals placed in the PSU was only 76% 76% only was PSU the in placed individuals for timeframe contact initial the that found

for their families, and paying income tax. tax. income paying and families, their for

political revolution. Back in the 1970’s, the California California the 1970’s, the in Back revolution. political

the project freed women held in jails in 16 cities, including Atlanta, Oakland, Houston, Houston, Oakland, Atlanta, including cities, 16 in jails in held women freed project the

Coleman ruling. In the last (26th) round of reports, filed May 2016, the Special Master Master Special the 2016, May filed reports, of round (26th) last the In ruling. Coleman commerce and to the real and only rehabilitation of of rehabilitation only and real the to and commerce

responsibility, moral and legal obligation of providing providing of obligation legal and moral responsibility,

over people of color, preventing them from making a a making from them preventing color, of people over

Seeking to change a narrative that demonizes incarcerated moms, especially black ones, ones, black especially moms, incarcerated demonizes that narrative a change to Seeking

The actual provision of this care is monitored by a Special Master, as part of the the of part as Master, Special a by monitored is care this of provision actual The

and bonds. It would lead to the abolition of prison prison of abolition the to lead would It bonds. and

DUTIES of military service, jury service, martial martial service, jury service, military of DUTIES

White males to have employment of keeping guard guard keeping of employment have to males White

groups to public defenders. public to groups reform bail

86.63 days, with a range of 3-229 days. 3-229 of range a with days, 86.63

and establish bank accounts, buy insurance, stocks, stocks, insurance, buy accounts, bank establish and

privileges, and rights. rights. and privileges,

actual employment for the surplus labor force of of force labor surplus the for employment actual

to to Change of Color from organizations, other 20 over of coalition a by joined and group,

consist of nothing more than watching television. The average stay in the PSU lasted lasted PSU the in stay average The television. watching than more nothing of consist

value of an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay, pay, day’s honest an for work day’s honest an of value

Amendment takes way the ex-offenders, their duties, duties, their ex-offenders, the way takes Amendment

use-value garnished from the unemployables are are unemployables the from garnished use-value

(SONG), an LGBTQ rights rights LGBTQ an (SONG), Ground New on Southerners and Matter Lives Black by

According to one report we received, this programming may may programming this received, we report one to According others. around unshackled

to their own destitution, pay off restitution, learn the learn restitution, off pay destitution, own their to

females of color, into the criminal enterprise. The 13th 13th The enterprise. criminal the into color, of females

socio-economical and political incapacitation. The incapacitation. political and socio-economical

campaign was launched in Atlanta Atlanta in launched was campaign Day Out Bail Mama’s the color, of women especially

therapy, prisoners are kept in individual cages because they are not allowed to be be to allowed not are they because cages individual in kept are prisoners therapy,

financially support their outside families, bring an end end an bring families, outside their support financially

systematically force males of color, in particular, and particular, in color, of males force systematically

out of society, in order to get use-value from their their from use-value get to order in society, of out

charge constitutes “modern bondage” and disproportionately punishes poor people, people, poor punishes disproportionately and bondage” “modern constitutes charge activities may include individual or group psychotherapy, although during group group during although psychotherapy, group or individual include may activities

job, the incarcerated criminals would then be able to: to: able be then would criminals incarcerated the job,

to class-consciousness. The state government would would government state The class-consciousness. to

Prison commerce is the purging of the unemployables unemployables the of purging the is commerce Prison

that they they that system bail unjust an Targeting “wondrous.” termed recipient one gift a - Day both medically and psychiatrically by health-care professionals. Therapeutic treatment treatment Therapeutic professionals. health-care by psychiatrically and medically both

prevention. For those who never held a wage earning earning wage a held never who those For prevention.

up a whole new market (crime), while putting a halt halt a putting while (crime), market new whole a up

a prison bed can occupy the residue of a wretched life. life. wretched a of residue the occupy can bed prison a their bail and bring them home to their families and communities in time for Mother’s Mother’s for time in communities and families their to home them bring and bail their

of scheduled structured therapeutic activities per week, and to be regularly evaluated evaluated regularly be to and week, per activities therapeutic structured scheduled of C

an effective, sociological advancement in crime crime in advancement sociological effective, an

become a permanent employment solution. It opened opened It solution. employment permanent a become

jailed around the country for low-level offenses by raising $550,000 to pay to $550,000 raising by offenses low-level for country the around jailed and provide for the unemployed care and welfare until until welfare and care unemployed the for provide and

According to policy, PSU prisoners are supposed to be offered at least 10 hours hours 10 least at offered be to supposed are prisoners PSU policy, to According

wage. Learning to work for pay in prison would be be would prison in pay for work to Learning wage.

a competitive advantage, prison commerce would commerce prison advantage, competitive a

of about 60 black women women black 60 about of freedom the bought organizations black-led grassroots, therefore the State and Federal Government step in in step Government Federal and State the therefore conditions with no substantive out-of-cell time. out-of-cell substantive no with conditions

hourly. Their pay rate would be the State minimum minimum State the be would rate pay Their hourly.

and in order to give the White male surplus labor force force labor surplus male White the give to order in and e tradition of their enslaved ancestors to “free ourselves,” a coalition of 25 25 of coalition a ourselves,” “free to ancestors enslaved their of tradition e th iting is not lost on those with serious diagnoses who are still placed in solitary confinement confinement solitary in placed still are who diagnoses serious with those on lost not is labor, people cannot live a full and meaningful life; life; meaningful and full a live cannot people labor,

cents hourly to the maximum of thirty-seven cents cents thirty-seven of maximum the to hourly cents

employment has always been a competitive market, market, competitive a been always has employment By Abby Zimet Abby By their care may be maintained in the least restrictive environment.” This doublespeak doublespeak This environment.” restrictive least the in maintained be may care their a capitalist market of exploitation of labor. Without Without labor. of exploitation of market capitalist a

longer be working for an inmate pay rate of eight eight of rate pay inmate an for working be longer

Published on Friday May 12, 2017 by Common Dreams Common by 2017 12, May Friday on Published Back in the 1970’s, the economists understood that that understood economists the 1970’s, the in Back individual functioning of seriously mentally disordered patients is optimized so that that so optimized is patients disordered mentally seriously of functioning individual employment because there are no jobs to be had in in had be to jobs no are there because employment

N e all F Are s U f O ll A e aus ec B into a reality. The incarcerated criminals would no no would criminals incarcerated The reality. a into

and political doctrine of the 13th Amendment. Amendment. 13th the of doctrine political and to mental health services” for prisoners. The program also aims to “ensure that the the that “ensure to aims also program The prisoners. for services” health mental to while making men and women permanently unfit for for unfit permanently women and men making while

comprehensive rehabilitation will be transformed transformed be will rehabilitation comprehensive incorporated into our understanding of the economic economic the of understanding our into incorporated CDCr chose to implement SMHP, with the stated goal of providing “ready access access “ready providing of goal stated the with SMHP, implement to chose CDCr

of color that undergo systematic criminalization, criminalization, systematic undergo that color of

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offenders, and the possibility for a livelihood and livelihood a for possibility the and offenders, Instead of ending solitary confinement for Californians with mental health diagnoses, diagnoses, health mental with Californians for confinement solitary ending of Instead

an evolving political and economic term, and it must be be must it and term, economic and political evolving an the de-functionalization of families and communities communities and families of de-functionalization the

and rights would no longer be impeded for the ex- the for impeded be longer no would rights and confinement entirely. confinement

prison commerce a legitimate term? It continues to be be to continues It term? legitimate a commerce prison Wretched of the Earth. It is the wretched conditions, conditions, wretched the is It Earth. the of Wretched

know it would decrease and then duties, privileges privileges duties, then and decrease would it know which restricts the placement of prisoners with serious mental illness in disciplinary disciplinary in illness mental serious with prisoners of placement the restricts which

There may be some readers who ask the question: is is question: the ask who readers some be may There Frantz Fannon coined the psycho-political term, the the term, psycho-political the coined Fannon Frantz

New York has the SHU Exclusion Law, passed in 2008 and implemented in 2011, 2011, in implemented and 2008 in passed Law, Exclusion SHU the has York New sufficient. Also the social phenomena of crime as we we as crime of phenomena social the Also sufficient.

zones will be under special restrictions. restrictions. special under be will zones

Output – The increasing prison commerce production. production. commerce prison increasing The – . Output

those with mental health symptoms, chose to move people out of solitary. For instance, instance, For solitary. of out people move to chose symptoms, health mental with those system. Every state prison system would become self- become would system prison state Every system.

communities living in environmentally deprived crime crime deprived environmentally in living communities

complex. complex.

Other states, when forced to reckon with the unsuitability of solitary confinement for for confinement solitary of unsuitability the with reckon to forced when states, Other

towards the maintenance and security of the prison prison the of security and maintenance the towards

ht ii lbris f hi lwaiig aiis and families law-abiding their of liberties civil that

waiting for internment inside the prison-industrial prison-industrial the inside internment for waiting

cruel and unusual punishment because they did not provide adequate mental health care. care. health mental adequate provide not did they because punishment unusual and cruel

taxpayers would never have to pay another penny penny another pay to have never would taxpayers

underground economy or odd jobs. It also guarantees guarantees also It jobs. odd or economy underground

Capturing – seizing the surplus of unemployables, unemployables, of surplus the seizing – . Capturing

found that California prisons were in violation of the 8th Amendment’s prohibition on on prohibition Amendment’s 8th the of violation in were prisons California that found

amending of the 13th Amendment, it’s a theory that that theory a it’s Amendment, 13th the of amending

offenders to supplement their livelihood by way of the the of way by livelihood their supplement to offenders

and de-population. de-population. and

lawsuit regarding the treatment of prisoners with mental health diagnoses. This ruling ruling This diagnoses. health mental with prisoners of treatment the regarding lawsuit

There is the belief that by propagating the the propagating by that belief the is There

away two thirds of a legal livelihood. It will force the ex- the force will It livelihood. legal a of thirds two away

de-license, de-regulation, de-Americanize, de-civilize, de-civilize, de-Americanize, de-regulation, de-license,

in response to the 1995 federal court ruling in the Coleman vs. Brown class action action class Brown vs. Coleman the in ruling court federal 1995 the to response in

and jobs. jobs. and

class social, economic, and political citizenships will take take will citizenships political and economic, social, class

de-allocation, de-commercialization, de-politicization, de-politicization, de-commercialization, de-allocation,

PSUs were created as part of the Statewide Mental Health Program (SMHP) initiated initiated (SMHP) Program Health Mental Statewide the of part as created were PSUs

be going to public education, health care, programs, programs, care, health education, public to going be

the democratic treatment of its citizens. The loss of first first of loss The citizens. its of treatment democratic the

systematically arranged towards their de-employment, de-employment, their towards arranged systematically

an Enhanced Outpatient Program (EOP) level of care shall be referred to a PSU.” a to referred be shall care of level (EOP) Program Outpatient Enhanced an

creator of crime that eats up tax dollars that should should that dollars tax up eats that crime of creator

act conspiratorially beyond the psycho-political fraud of of fraud psycho-political the beyond conspiratorially act

premature death situation, a world where everything is is everything where world a situation, death premature

“Inmate-patients who are serving an established and approved SHU term and require require and term SHU approved and established an serving are who “Inmate-patients

cause of democracy. Instead it is the number one one number the is it Instead democracy. of cause

The external scheme of the 13th Amendment does does Amendment 13th the of scheme external The

Breeding – Male children of color are born into a a into born are color of children Male – . Breeding the words of the Mental Health Services Delivery System (MHSDS) Program Guide: Guide: Program (MHSDS) System Delivery Services Health Mental the of words the

Amendment doesn’t service public interests or the the or interests public service doesn’t Amendment

families and communities. communities. and families solitary terms who are deemed to require an advanced level of mental health care. In In care. health mental of level advanced an require to deemed are who terms solitary the de-alignment between people of color. color. of people between de-alignment the

in the judiciary branch of government. The 13th 13th The government. of branch judiciary the in

eutn i te prsin f h e-fedr, their ex-offenders, the of oppression the in resulting A PSU or Psychiatric Services Unit is a secure housing unit for prisoners with with prisoners for unit housing secure a is Unit Services Psychiatric or PSU A nqaiy drglto, eieta sgeain and segregation residential deregulation, inequality,

taken away. Competitive capitalism should not exist exist not should capitalism Competitive away. taken

and communities. (3) The loss of political citizenship citizenship political of loss The (3) communities. and PSU? A IS WHAT re-districting, gentrification, ecological competition, competition, ecological gentrification, re-districting,

sandcastle, because the profit motives would be would motives profit the because sandcastle,

the destitution of the ex-offenders, their families families their ex-offenders, the of destitution the

By Cameron MacKenzie Cameron By all of which lead to the loss of citizenship. It is also also is It citizenship. of loss the to lead which of all

prison-industrial complex would transform into a a into transform would complex prison-industrial TO EN AM CR SA SP C – T R PO RE PSU

(2) The loss of economical citizenship resulting in resulting citizenship economical of loss The (2)

subculture living conditions, dysfunctional environment, environment, dysfunctional conditions, living subculture

g● [email protected] contact please Brown, Governor to campaign

Under such amending of the language, the the language, the of amending such Under

of the ex-offenders, their families and communities. communities. and families their ex-offenders, the of

of orientation and indoctrination, by way of menticide, menticide, of way by indoctrination, and orientation of

California penal code completely. To support commutations for all and our postcard postcard our and all for commutations support To completely. code penal California

place subject to their jurisdiction. jurisdiction. their to subject place

loss of social citizenship resulting in the disintegration disintegration the in resulting citizenship social of loss

Disfranchising: It began during the formative years years formative the during began It Disfranchising:

LWOP sentences to parole-eligible sentences and to begin the process to eliminate LWOP sentencing from the the from sentencing LWOP eliminate to process the begin to and sentences parole-eligible to sentences LWOP all commute to Governor the to call this support to you ask We

servitude shall exist within the United States or any any or States United the within exist shall servitude

Amendment have three components, which are: (1) the the (1) are: which components, three have Amendment

and they are as follows: follows: as are they and

pay, the burden is on their families to do so. do to families their on is burden the pay,

amending it to read: Neither slavery nor involuntary involuntary nor slavery Neither read: to it amending

The preventives checks and measures of the 13th the of measures and checks preventives The

There are four principal modes of prison commerce commerce prison of modes principal four are There

LWOP prisoners have fewer job options in prison. They are only eligible for jobs that pay on the lower end of the pay range. Yet they are still required to pay restitution. If they cannot cannot they If restitution. pay to required still are they Yet range. pay the of end lower the on pay that jobs for eligible only are They prison. in options job fewer have prisoners LWOP

servitude expressed in the 13th Amendment, by by Amendment, 13th the in expressed servitude

Crime. Crime.

to be processed into the prison-industrial complex. complex. prison-industrial the into processed be to

ironically they are relied upon to stabilize the prison population and facilitate the majority of the peer-led support groups. support peer-led the of majority the facilitate and population prison the stabilize to upon relied are they ironically

were the reject the language of slavery and involuntary involuntary and slavery of language the reject the were

Governor for State Crime (2) The President for Federal Federal for President The (2) Crime State for Governor

nothing more than a surplus of unemployables, waiting waiting unemployables, of surplus a than more nothing

The CDCR dismisses rehabilitation for LWOP prisoners because they will never be released from prison. They are barred from the majority of official self-help programs, yet yet programs, self-help official of majority the from barred are They prison. from released be never will they because prisoners LWOP for rehabilitation dismisses CDCR The

advocate that if two-thirds of the voting population population voting the of two-thirds if that advocate

debt to society without being pardon from: (1) The The (1) from: pardon being without society to debt

it comes to laboring for working wage, they will be be will they wage, working for laboring to comes it prior to being sentenced to die in prison. in die to sentenced being to prior record no had and “offenders,” first-time are majority The

otaitos ht e ut xoe W must We expose. must we that contradictions

conviction that the ex-offenders can never pay their pay never can ex-offenders the that conviction

in particular, so that by the age of discretion, when discretion, of age the by that so particular, in The majority are survivors of abuse including intimate partner battering, childhood abuse, sexual violence and trafficking. and violence sexual abuse, childhood battering, partner intimate including abuse of survivors are majority The

It is the type of social, economical and political political and economical social, of type the is It

those convicted of a felony. It is by virtue of a felony felony a of virtue by is It felony. a of convicted those 5,000 people sentenced to LWOP in CA. Here are some facts about the people serving LWOP in CA women’s prisons: women’s CA in LWOP serving people the about facts some are Here CA. in LWOP to sentenced people 5,000 all for commutation crippling millions of Black and Mexican, male children children male Mexican, and Black of millions crippling

for the employable arithmetically. arithmetically. employable the for

political rights of Amendments I, II, IV, XIV, XV, etc., for for etc., XV, XIV, IV, II, I, Amendments of rights political Because CCWP has advocated for the civil and human rights of people in CA women’s prisons for 22 years, we focus on the impact on these almost 200 LWOPs. We strongly support support strongly We LWOPs. 200 almost these on impact the on focus we years, 22 for prisons women’s CA in people of rights human and civil the for advocated has CCWP Because commerce of which is the output of producing while while producing of output the is which of commerce

geometrically (Second) While employment increases increases employment While (Second) geometrically

s h Ecpinl mnmn ta spree the supersedes that Amendment Exceptional the is guarantee that each person will have the right to see the parole board rather than being sentenced to a ‘living death. death. ‘living a to sentenced being than rather board parole the see to right the have will person each that guarantee does It prison. from release guarantee not does sentence a commuting There are psycho-political objectives of prison prison of objectives psycho-political are There

of the able-bodied, unemployable will decrease decrease will unemployable able-bodied, the of

existence of the Constitution, the 13th Amendment Amendment 13th the Constitution, the of existence sentenced to die in prison due to this inhumane and endless punishment. Let us be clear: clear: be us Let punishment. endless and inhumane this to due prison in die to sentenced people all for impact the mitigate to action take to time is it Now LWOP. to youth sentencing of color as well. well. as color of

city zones will see: (First) The unemployment rate rate unemployment The (First) see: will zones city

commerce is the 13th Amendment. In the contradictory contradictory the In Amendment. 13th the is commerce families. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against mandatory LWOP sentencing for people sentenced as juveniles. Many states, including California, are also legislating against against legislating also are California, including states, Many juveniles. as sentenced people for sentencing LWOP mandatory against ruled has Court Supreme U.S. The families. commerce expanded its market by trafficking in females females in trafficking by market its expanded commerce

and invidious discrimination, those living in repressive repressive in living those discrimination, invidious and

Therefore, the psycho-political lifeline of prison prison of lifeline psycho-political the . Therefore, punishment. It denies that people— all people — have the capacity to change, grow and be rehabilitated. LWOP is called “the other death penalty” by those serving it and by their their by and it serving those by penalty” death other “the called is LWOP rehabilitated. be and grow change, to capacity the have — people all people— that denies It punishment. unsuitable for employment. Around 1980, prison prison 1980, Around employment. for unsuitable

By demographic means and institutionalized racism racism institutionalized and means demographic By

being determinate. determinate. being Why now? Throughout the U.S., ending LWOP is becoming a benchmark of criminal justice reform. LWOP is increasingly recognized as an inhumane and cruel and unusual unusual and cruel and inhumane an as recognized increasingly is LWOP reform. justice criminal of benchmark a becoming is LWOP ending U.S., the Throughout now? Why in males of color, who had become systematically systematically become had who color, of males in

crime would become a commodity in demand. demand. in commodity a become would crime to put an end to this cruel but far too usual sentence completely. sentence usual too far but cruel this to end an put to

being indeterminate and (b) involuntary servitude servitude involuntary (b) and indeterminate being prison commerce was exclusively a market that traffics traffics that market a exclusively was commerce prison

affects their families and communities, insofar as insofar communities, and families their affects

we are committed to moving forward our campaign campaign our forward moving to committed are we and direction right the in move a are commutations These prison. in years twenty-three almost served has and with works CCWP

two schools of thought on the subject of (a) slavery slavery (a) of subject the on thought of schools two In California, between the years of 1960 and 1980, 1980, and 1960 of years the between California, In

laid down against the ex-offenders, it arbitrarily arbitrarily it ex-offenders, the against down laid LWOP sentence of Kenneth Hartman who has long led the fight against LWOP as “the other death penalty,” and the LWOP sentence of Sue Russo, a survivor of domestic violence, who who violence, domestic of survivor a Russo, Sue of sentence LWOP the and penalty,” death other “the as LWOP against fight the led long has who Hartman Kenneth of sentence LWOP

institutionalized racism, which allows the combining of of combining the allows which racism, institutionalized for a livelihood in today’s world. world. today’s in livelihood a for

of jobs or else turn to crime. The demographic means means demographic The crime. to turn else or jobs of

72 pardons and seven commutations, including the sentences of three people with LWOP. CCWP is especially glad that he commuted the the commuted he that glad especially is CCWP LWOP. with people three of sentences the including commutations, seven and pardons 72 granted Brown Governor April past This

legalized slavery. It is the origin of prison commerce and and commerce prison of origin the is It slavery. legalized C potential conflict over the distribution of capital, needed needed capital, of distribution the over conflict potential

and transgender people in CA women’s prisons- into parole-eligible sentences. parole-eligible into prisons- women’s CA in people transgender and somehow supplement by way of odds and ends type type ends and odds of way by supplement somehow

the civilized world with a constitutional government that that government constitutional a with world civilized the

under capitalism, expansion is essential to neutralize neutralize to essential is expansion capitalism, under

(LWOP). We are asking Governor Brown to use his executive powers to commute the sentences of the almost 5,000 people serving LWOP - including the nearly 200 women women 200 nearly the including - LWOP serving people 5,000 almost the of sentences the commute to powers executive his use to Brown Governor asking are We (LWOP).

1/3 of a legal livelihood to work with, and they must must they and with, work to livelihood legal a of 1/3 The United State is the only country in the history of of history the in country only the is State United . The

context of franchise and disfranchise. Like all system system all Like disfranchise. and franchise of context

T Parole of Possibility the Without Life serving those all for sentences of commutation for campaign statewide a initiating is (CCWP) Prisoners Women for Coalition alifornia

It is recognize that the ex-offenders are left with with left are ex-offenders the that recognize is It

or any place subject to their jurisdiction. jurisdiction. their to subject place any or of surplus labor of unemployed workers in the the in workers unemployed of labor surplus of

government and freedom to vote. vote. to freedom and government

been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States States United the within exist shall convicted, duly been

science dealing with the economics and politics politics and economics the with dealing science -Tracee prison.” in die you air…til the breath can you And jobs. to limited you’re and day a times multiple count to have you so custody, closed your but

of thought and speech, freedom to be part of of part be to freedom speech, and thought of

a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have have shall party the whereof crime, for punishment a Life Without Parole is like a death sentence but it’s a death sentence, walking. It’s like you’re on death row but you’re not locked in a cage, you’re out here; you can walk around around walk can you here; out you’re cage, a in locked not you’re but row death on you’re like It’s walking. sentence, death a it’s but sentence death a like is Parole Without Life oday, prison commerce is an evolving social social evolving an is commerce prison oday,

freedom of travel, security and property, freedom freedom property, and security travel, of freedom 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as as except servitude involuntary nor slavery Neither 1.

-Mimi -Mimi punishment. unusual and cruel of meaning very the is prison in life their of rest the out live must therefore so and change of capable not is person a that believe To

RIGHTS of freedom of association and assembly, assembly, and association of freedom of RIGHTS

to the Thirteenth Amendment, of which reads: Section Section reads: which of Amendment, Thirteenth the to

By Louis Powell Powell Louis By

license, day care and nursing license, etc. etc. license, nursing and care day license, ll A r fo s n Commutatio prison commerce, we must first understand its relation relation its understand first must we commerce, prison erce erce Comm n iso Pr

hunting license, special driver’s license, merchant merchant license, driver’s special license, hunting

for prison commerce. To help us analyze and define define and analyze us help To commerce. prison for

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PRIVILEGES of bar admission, liquor license, license, liquor admission, bar of PRIVILEGES and Mexicans in which to establish the crime market market crime the establish to which in Mexicans and andtwo legalassociates discourse who havein hopes since beenof raising released. the public’s heway, was to successful! make our stayNow morethat same pleasant sergeant and iscomfortable. a Lieutenant Puerto Rican Both poems by Travis Blair and Beaumont Texas awareness.Along with Chelsea Manning, who is also set to be rightEventually, here at humanEastham. nature Boy, takesif these its walls course, could and talk... we want Convicto Mexicano The State sees nothing wrong with the current system, in natio LETTERSnalist Lopez released on Wednesday, Lopez Rivera was among 209 more,It has and been more hard to to escape maintain the mybox. sanity And alltruly these speak years.- By Francisco Gonzalez their eyes all is well – but is it? Truth is one has to have a strong mind and strong will, POETRY Work Detail commutations granted by Obama. ing, who can blame us? In some European countries; Rivera released Let’s take a look behind the iron curtain and allow me otherwise it easy to be consumed by these walls. I’ve lost Mexicano, Brown, Down, and Proud, To quell the rampant thoughts in one’s head After Obama’s order, Lopez Rivera was released the sick drug/alcohol – addicted is given the tools to Statement Mindlessby labor is placed in its stead Oscar Lopez Rivera freed after 35 years to introduce to you Texas prisoner Omar Valdez. Omar has so many loved ones during this stretch. I lost both sets of from Cali to the Bay, To all of those barely coming in to the from prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, and arrived in overcome his addictions. In the USA our diseases are Pickaxes and hoes and swung to a song served approximately 24 years and 6 months on a 25 year grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, I lost my son and my The broken system is straight bent. Attorney General Jeff Sessions following“RC B”arack reception Obama’s center... decision to Puerto Rico to serve the remainder of his sentence un- looked, as a way to make a buck. This cadence our pacer all the day long sentence! Omar has spent approximately 22 years in solitary sister! It hurts, you know? I’m paying for my crimes dearly. A convicted Mexicano true to the old school. A Foolish Understanding May 10, 2017 I have shorten a few tips; commuted to help your triphis through sentence. CDCR be a der house arrest. In any given day: I can go to the yard, with a $100.00 Hands become blistered then torn and bleeding confinement right here on the Eastham Unit in Lovelady, So very soon I’ll be spit out into society at the age of 50. I I’ve seen it all, By Orville Marcell Morris Jr. smoothPublished forced by Aljazeera vacation. at http://www.aljazeera.com on He has been staying with his daughter at her home in dls green dot numbers and purchase a nice amount of But all that matters is the rows need weeding MAY 17th 2017 http://www.aljazeera.com Texas. Omar has been denied parole over 11 times! Omar haveany drug minimal that jobI want. skills When and education. I am tested I mustpositive ask forall ofdrug you my friends. Clothes growing heavy with caked on mud Under no circumstances join any of the new and old gangs the capital of San Juan. “I’ll never forget when an inmate once said to me, “violence is a has spent years not incurring disciplinary infractions with “whatuse, I willdoes be this issued say aabout CDC the 115 Texas disciplinary system? report. About This their Convicts, gangsters and all out killers. It’s just dirt mixed with our sweat already operating within CDCR. You don’t need them to The US seized Puerto Rico from Spain during the universal language that everybody understands”. But what was the hope that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles would administrative segregation units? About the parole system? A chaotic controlled mess, The merciless heat of the Texas sun survive; all of us are quite capable as individuals to “walk report will be a dirty mark in my file, used to deny my giveSpanish-American him a chance to rebuildWar. The his island’slife. They 3.5 didn’t! million resi- Thank you for your time and concern. In the madness I wake up to every day. disturbing was the conviction in his voice while he was saying it, Metes out punishment for what we’ve done alone”. parole in perpetuity. This policy calls for two questions: 2 steps dentsThe arePrison US citizensLegal News and canhad serve a front in the page military. article in Respectfully, Omar Valdez TDC #726686” Cold water splashes on my face, as if it’s common sense, and everyone knows it’s the best form of Backs bent and warped from the physical weight Each one of us is capable to defend his life without ties to Why in a system that is morbidly overcrowded, are ill- FebruaryThe island, 2017 considered entitled “TRAPPED: a commonwealth, California receives wastes Time for another reality check. communication when all else fails. He sounded so asinine to me, fo Andrw knowledgear ofd years, o of nethis cruel fate prison gangs. It feels lonely for the first few weeks. But, nessesNote: used Keith to “Malik”extend our Washington stay? And is two, a co-founder why not go and tensbillions of millions in federal of dollars funds, abut year Puerto keeping Ricans people cannot in prison vote Let the annihilation of desolate souls begin. and I truly wanted to tell him that he shouldn’t speak his opinion as if When everything we love has gone away eventually a power is born out of our solitude. chiefto the spokespersynroots of the problem:for the End Eradicate Prison theSlavery supply in lines, Texas step back longfor presidentafter they’ve and beenhave norehabilitated vote in Congress. – denying Those parole seek for- Movement, a proud member of the Incarcerated Workers Complete destruction and obliteration they’re facts, especially when their opinions are not facts, but in-fact Waiting to die in these empty fields some day Look around you: prison gangs keep fighting, killing, and and provide all the available means to help us cure our- ttorney General Jeff Sessions arbitrarying independence reasons and remain destroying a small lives group, in thewith process” the option by Organizing Committee. and the Deputy Chairman of the of everything you’ve ever known a “binary” opinion. conspiring, as well as manipulating. Always giving orders, selves of the disease. recently sent Nothingness a memo to his staff, ing less than 6 percent of the vote in four referen- New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter). Malik The old motto speaks: Anyway what I did eventually say to him was that I had to disagree. Samgarner Levin of the East Bay Express. Prison Gangs: CDCr alleges to have a zero tolerance For myself there can be no success always pressuring, always threatening. A prison gang will has been instrumental in calling for the abolition of legalized Some people may agree or understand his point of view to a degree, reversing some of the lenient dumsNow thatI want Puerto you Rico to replace has held California on its political with Texas status ●and I for security threat groups (i.e. better known as “STG” It’s about kill or be killed. A With nothing to fill this emptiness only sink you deeper and deeper into a lifetime of slavery. slavery in Amerika and is very active in the Fight Toxic depending on the circumstances. But in my opinion I truly believe policies established by previous Attorney want you to listen to Omar’s words and ask yourself “can’t Prisonsor Prison campaign. Gangs.). You All can right, view it hisis a work nice atpolicy, comrademalik. at least You live by the sword, No loving friends, no sweetheart back home For those already in a gang: “when sent on a ‘fool’s errand’ that compassion is more of a universal language that people would General, Eric Holder. Holder had asked we do better”? Without further ado I present to you Omar com or write him directly at Keith ‘Comrade Malik’ You shall die by sword. Just prison walls and these walls alone. ask yourself two simple questions: 1. How is this “hit” or on paper. But, then what? What alternatives or incen- prosecutors to avoid slapping nonviolent Valdez! Washington TDC# 1487958 Eastham Unit, 2665 Prison The mean green well-oiled machine, most likely understand and relate to. Why? Where iron rusts and the world forgets murder going to benefit me, my family and humanity? 2. tives are given to the “STG” member to change and drug offenders with crimes that carried “Mr Malik, greetings, it is a pleasure to meet you. I Road 1 Lovelady, Texas 75851 It’s but a cogwheel in the grand scheme. “Well that’s simple, just look at what they both breed.” The spirits heavy with great regrets Who is really going to benefit for the blood, that I am about become an educated and civilized human being? Is the appreciateCDCR you andCo folksn liket ryouadi who getc outtio there onn thes Cops and robbers in a concrete and steel empire full of hate. Usedmandatory to the flicker,minimum the sentences.switch has thrownNow, if to shed? STG problem supposed to disappear, as by magic? By ‘frontBy Lucio lines’ fightingCabanas the good fight. Congratulations on In the human gene we’re all thieves prosecutors A soul escapes wish ato body’s pursue shipped lesser home.charges An honest response to these two questions will provide you this time, CDCr’s administrations know that education My name is Omar B. Valdez, TDC# 726686. I reside Agreement to End Hostilities stealing the time away from hell. for these low-level crimes, they will need the tools to make a good decision. Until when are you going is the key to take away the soldiers needed to make a scar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican nationalist on I the believe Eastham that theUnit USA’s located enslaved in Lovelady, masses Texas. have a I’ve Greetings to all the PBSP-SHU Hunger Strike The fierce eagle devours the snake, and the Aztec Kings reawake. The Statue and the bird to obtain approval for the exception from a to keep following orders like a sheep. Those ordering you to gang. A gang without soldiers is lost, once the leaders By Anthony Cain and Clifton Perry and one of the longest-serving political prison- residedduty to here challenge for the pasttheir 2 conditions ½ decades! every I’m servingstep of a the 25 Representatives in the struggle, from Colorado State Wake up now! U.S. attorney, assistant attorney general or make fool’s errands do not care about you. They never did die. I know for a fact that the education, the books, doc- ers in US history, has been released from house yearway. aggravated Among the sentence many worthy for the causes charge that of murder.can be chal I’ve- Maximum Security Prison. I have been informed of the The corruption of the system is still there. another supervisor. Michael Collins, deputy and never will. uments, poetry, arts, and access to all known sciences We’ve been statistics for years, trying to endure O beenlenged locked three up take since priority: October 1.The 3rd, 1992.fight Ifor arrived our freedom, here on Agreement to End Hostilities. It’s been a long time coming. Here and now, director at the Drug Policy Alliance, said Yourarrest goals in Puerto shall and Rico. must be: “your health, freedom and your have given me the tools to defeat the gangs’ indoctri- We’ve witnessed values diminish and attitudes become demure... Easthamthat must Unit never on March be abandoned. 4th, 1996, 2. and Educate I’ve been and hereorganize ever Congratulations to all the Hunger Strike Representatives in Forever. in a statement emailed to NPR. "Sessions family.”Lopez The Rivera rest is was all fake.sentenced It’s someone to 55 years else’s in trip; prison playing in nation attempts. Once, a slave is educated; he is in a Our voices fall upon deaf years, especially our cries and questioning “why?” since!those, I have(youth/others) never left thisthat unit.are still free; so that the false the struggle, with the achievement in your persistence. You’s Chasing dreams in the land of the free, is taking the country back to the 1980s by a 1981sick joke for onhis an involvement uneducated, with uncultured, FALN, drug a Puerto addicted Rican and position to question impositions, orders, manipulation, No one sees the reality of what we see, due to selectively alerted eyes. dogmaI am in of Administrative prison being Segregationa rite of passage due to be my a previousthing of not mistaken on this being a step to end mass incarceration. and yet nothing is free. escalating the failed policies of the drug ignorantgroup thatslave claimed population. responsibility The moment for dozensthat you of decide bomb -to and intimidation; especially, if these pressures came We were told to “keep our eyes on the prize”, while believing in a dream; gangthe past.affiliation. 3. Work/dismantle I have been aCDCr non-active from theex-gang inside memberout; This information has now reached Colorado State High class killers on the loose, war." becomeings in a New“man”, York, a señor, Chicago, their power Washington disappears. and APuerto “man” from ignorance. So, it is time to question CDCr’s war No one saw fit to inform us of our being disqualified without Just Cause sincethis 2002.is easier I made said this than choice done. in But, order nobody to better else my is life going and Maximum Security Prison. May it continue to spread All them banking on a nightmare for you and me, Inside These Walls makesRico hisin theown 1970s decisions and and 1980s, accepts which no impositions.caused few inju- on “STG” members. Victims of a cruel scheme. increaseto do our my fight chances for ofus; makingwhile weparole. sit on This our didasses not all help. day throughout the United State of Colorado. May it continue to You will escape life with the same empty pockets you came in with. By Christopher Ashcraft Weries. have He wasbeen never preconditioned tied to specific at our bombings. at our ghettos to be Mothers and fathers devastated daily, by the chaos they are forced to know; TDCJwatching ignored T.V. my communications, my pleas fell on deaf spread throughout the United States’ Prison system, in order As for the millionaires and billionaires, sheepThousands . But, we ofwere supporters kids then; are today expected we are to cheerall men. Lopez The watching their seeds sprout, only to see them cut down Inside these walls of mine ears!It doesn’t matter where, we are enslaved in the USA; to benefit all of those who desire to be successful. that money can’t buy you love. keysRivera’s to our release freedom later from on theWednesday gang chains at a are celebration found in ourin When is CDCr going to launch a before they fully begin to grow. I can’t keep track of time theI came slavery to the system realization is full long of contradictions.ago that no matter It howsays goodone Sincerely, Lazaro Aguilar Death-row is full of freedom fighters no poor, no exit, trapped historyPuerto and Rico. culture. war on ignorance? Little boys and girls propelled into difficult and extreme situations; I thingdid, it on would paper, have but absolutely turns around no bearing and does on another.my freedom. The Living off hope and faith that a broken system will self-destruct. helpless inside these walls AlwaysSupporters forward. of Your the 74-year-old, comrade, Lucio who Cabanas. spent 35 years in all because adults can’t find common ground or time to have a conversation. Nevertheless,duty to challenge I’ve continued this racist to system keep a veryfalls lowon those profile of andus Action in Louisiana A warped world hell bent on the two irreconcilable principles, Feeling like I will fall Which is the chief cause of gang recruitment. When People being oppressed and expected to accept it without saying a word; prison, are also expected to honour him next month in followthat are the literate rules. I’ve or semi-literate. gone years at aWe time can without take one incurring battle We just won fans on our tiers through hunger strikes. We Justice and Revenge. Crying inside is CDCr going to stock all of its law libraries with plen- being told “they will always be the statue and never the bird!” New“All York ourCity’s struggles massive Puerto in the Rican SHU Day with parade. the anyevery disciplinary year; it can infractions. be something, Sometimes as – unimportant,5, 6, even 10 yearsas a could also say because people kept cutting themselves. We Who can know the mind of a killer Dying inside ty of books, install computers in every building, pro- We beg to differ. Statement by Former Lopezhunger Rivera strike was were placed not inunder vain house and thearrest col after- withrequest not onefor spoon/cupinfraction, tofor no every avail. slave. I received Or something denial after as are still going on with our class action. Also we are all suing With one objective in mind. you see a guy vide paper, pens, pencils, and GED instructors? Why Just watch as we rise to the top! formerlective US comraderyPresident Barack was Obama indeed commuted a beautiful his sen - denialdangerous after denial. as a petition to be given education and re- for the mental health issues in solitary confinement, over 20 Nothing more to hate, Attorney GeneralI tell it’s Ea lieric Holder not give education a shot; after all, everything else has Our tenacity and passion for our People’s equality, tencestrategy before toleaving move office us forwardin January. in Therereaching has been a habilitation.On January We 30th can’t 2017, truly I cameexpect, up that for the parole gang for mem theof us have filed a motion. I’ve been telling everyone here I just can’t skate this 29-to life. May I12, scream, 2017 failed. The problem is not going to be resolved by lock- will absolutely never stop! I yell, campaignour objective to free Lopez The Riverastruggle over forthe years,liberation drawing 12thber, anddrug/alcohol final time. addict, On illiterateMarch 10th and 2017, ignorant I received slave my to about Prison Focus and people like it but we would like to Drop the façade Amerika. ing up the gang leaders, killing their soldiers, nor 24/7 Any inconsistent previous policy of the Forever deemed “statistics”, I cry, supportis never from easy, Pope butFrancis, we remainformer President focused Jimmy on answermake –sense parole of denied the intricate – serve all! legal Well, system. now it’s When, June 2017they see some stuff from Louisiana. Like this is the same jail that Life in here means to the death. lock downs. Why insist in keeping a flawed system in but creating some new bywords; you wonder why? Cartereducating and “Hamilton” this new creator generation Lin-Manuel of potential Miranda. don’t want to even read a book. Albert Woodfox did 46 years in one cell. He won in court Department of Justice relating to these matters is and I discharge my 25 year sentence on October 7th 2017, place? Of course, it goes without saying that any CDC While I look for just a second to breathe I would rather die revolutionaries and not let subjective senti- in the 5th circuit on 12-17-14. Also we just won in Angola rescinded, effective today. Actuating internal strength to overcome being the statue, “We have to thank him for giving his life for our is- justMost a few slavesmonths are away. quite comfortable playing children 115 received for STG’s related activities will be used to you search for another dollar. than live this lie ment set in and ruin our endeavors.” against the Heat Ball v. James LeBlanc 5th circuit. We are by formulating wings to the bird. land,” Nelson Cortes, a New York-based waiter who gamesTDCJ onhas their given tablets, me no watching education, T.V., no joband skills, playing nothing dom- keep us enslaved for life. The blood of many will always spill, To not be who I am Anonymous, CSP Corcoran supports Puerto Rican independence, told the Associ- exceptinoes allsolitary day. Whenconfinement they are and approached torture for to over sign 22 a petiyears- goingCell to Phones: fight this Almost together. every Please slave be wishes our voice he could to get be this For the moneyEach and United power. States Attorney and Assistant Not what you see with your eyes ated Press news agency. “It’s exactly what we need heretion on or Eastham grievance; Unit. they won’t do it; “They say, I don’t inout!! contact with his family every day. Unfortunately, this TheAttorney political landscapeGeneral islabeled responsible me a street for terroristensuring that this Blind to the tear rightBoy, now.” if these walls could talk... wantThere to are get limited in trouble.” resources They we have have becomeback here officially in Ad-Seg. is - Davidnot possible Wade Correctionaldue to overcrowding Center, Homer, conditions Louisiana and high becausepolicy I won’tis followed, kill for a and red, thatwhite any and deviations blue “rag”. from the I cry inside these walls of mine. By Keith “Malik” Washington I plea, But others were less enthusiastic. Unlessinstitutionalized, you have money comfortable to pay for in outsidetheir slave college conditions. courses, costEditor's phone Note: bills. BallSolution: v. LeBlanc Black was market filed cell by phones prisoners Thecore printed principle dollar, are justified by unusual fact. e cannot continue to make conscious decisions “I’ve had long hours in the middle of the night try- youSo, are it isout back of there. to us: I would“The paperhave thought pushers; that the by crying now, after ba- aclaiming $1,000.00 that tothe $1,500.dlsheat they are a forced piece; to not endure a cheap during trin the- A mere piece of paper causes more war and death. I beg, that ignore our past just because those thoughts I cry, ing to figure out what I am missing, why he has all this allbies,” these as years, they callTDCJ us. and I understand, the State of that Texas we arewould in a haveun - ket.summer There months is a drawback violates thethough. Eighth “If Amendment caught with because a cell An avarice Itoo have great directed to contain. the Deputy General to oversee make us feel uncomfortable. Slavery happened I can’t keep track of times I’d comedeclared up with war; some there really is a dark incredible force involvedin-cell programming in keeping phone,of their onepre-existing is doomed medical to die problems. in prison.” They For also the asserted slave How can you love a nation built on hate and genocide? Wsupport,” said Diane Berger Ettenson, 70, who was six implementation of this policy and to issue any rather die here in Amerika and it is still happening, especially in that the failure to provide air conditioning violates the Prison Focus forus usignorant, – they haven’t! enslaved, broken, and eventually dead. that likes to pay attention to his surroundings and hap- The very nation that rejects your beautiful Amerika’smonths pregnant numerous when slave her kamps husband, and gulagsAlex Berger, which mostwas Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. § clarification and guidance he deems appropriate for By Salahuddin IBA Steven Deon Turner than live this lie ManyWe have in free-world to be pragmatic, society andare learnnot aware how toof fight what thesewe penings, the hypocrisy of this policy jumps out at him. Golden brown skin is a given. callkilled prisons. in a still-unsolved 1975 explosion that killed four 12132, and the Rehabilitation Act (“RA”), 29 U.S.C. § 794. its just and consistent application. Inspired by Prison Focus, Issue 49, Summer 2016, Ed’s Comments You ask why endureforces; in without these places. putting Brother our safetyMalik inhas danger. only been Because here a This isn’t right, they mean to tell me that: I get to die The temples still stand proud peopleI studied and the wounded Presidency 60 of atBarack Fraunces Obama Tavern, very closely a restau and- When all you see is he fewwe months,are not gonnabut I’ve be been of any here good for overhelp 20buried years in to the please nu- Prisoneras a slave for aReport cell phone on sold R.J. by prison Donovan staff; my fam- And fortified under the midnight sky. But it’s not me you see I noticedrant in Newhe constantly York’s financial embraced district.an elitist or exceptionalist Working with integrity and professioinalism, I’m more Focus than a locust allowmerous me massto enlighten graves you.found all over the world. – Some - ily doesn’t get to see me, ever, as Bya freeJC man. And the The Aztec Gods and Goddesses Trapped as I am narrativeFollowing when celebrations speaking of in thePuerto United Rico, States. Lopez FormerRivera Correctional Facility attorneys who impliment this policy will meet the in a prison cell, times,I understand the fight this mustis prison be done and fromI’ve paidthe shadows,my dues forother my guardam goes writing laughing on behalf all ofthe everyone way to thebeing bank; held CDCr in Donovan gets Will shine bright and be our guiding light. inside these walls of mine Presidentis set to Obamago to Chicago, would give where “the he world” spent the some impression time grow that- high standards required of the Department of Justice Insider a Folger’s Jar crime,times butit has does to bethat done justify in broadme being daylight; subjected occasionally, to live in to keepState its Prison cells Adfull. -Seg. Everybody I am not wins here except for disciplinarythe slave. Convicto Mexicano the fight is real. I scream, theing US up was as aa child,bastion on of Thursday. humyn and civil rights protections. with holes in it, held by a captive. unsanitarythe head ofconditions? the snake Ratsmust and be choppedroaches all it overoff, theor hundredplace, reasons yet have been held in Ad-Seg since November Thefor war charging for minds and and sentencing. hearts continues. I yell, According to AP, Lopez Rivera has said that upon The BPH is unforgiving a CDC115 cell phone related Building mentally, physically and spiritually When in reality the opposite is true – Amerika is just better havingto fifty to little drink snakes this contaminatedmust be wiped water. out. AtAlthough, one point it is a I Unrest deep within your souls speaks of immortality. I cry, 2016incident because are some they ofhave the no worst yard CDC to place 115s, me one on canbecause show of through true education to maximize my opportunity when it comes thanreturning most at to covering Puerto Rico,up the heabuse wants and to mistreatment spend time ofwith its not wise for other people to know where we sleep; there The tears fall on these couple of years back we were told TDCJ didn’t monitor or informantup with. Because, enemies. it shows to them; that their rehabilita- A violent clash of two ideals, kills a peaceful man. to overthrow my master. citizens.family, and create a think-tank to work on issues, in- is nothing worse, than to be executed, right in front of walls of mine. test the water properly for over a year. Thistion systemhas to be is the a joke, oldest a placesick, I’vedamned been joke. to. Run down. They The only certain truth is death. Not through reactionary prison tactics cludingIn an interview climate change, conducted the by economy journalist and Kamala the island’s Kelkar our children. Eastham Administrators put together an Inter-Office areEach being one funded of these as ADA CDC Medical 115s must yet bethey challenged are not fixing via To live in it is a conventional conundrum. that caught us even though them same methods, ofpolitical the PBS status. Newshour Weekend, my friend and humyn Now, in the California Department of Corrections Communication which said “if you are experiencing a thea CDC problems. 602 grievance; This Ad-Seg then does brought not allowto the T.V.’scourts, because via a When the brown man speaks they all shake. can be used and redirected with a sound “universal” Collective, rightsIn attorneyan interview Ollie withJefferson the Puerto said: Rican“We have daily human El Nuevo rights and rehabilitation (hereafter always “CDCr.”); just for negative reaction of some type, put in a sick call, etc theypetition don’t for have writ outlets. of habeas [at other corpus ad-Segs] or civil inmates complaints. can get So what makes your moral game of chess better than mine? to push back the fingertips of oppression and stop the hands of mass incarceration slaughter. violationsDia, Lopez here Rivera as much said: as “I in want other to countries”.enjoy Puerto Attorney Rico, starters, there are three main contradictions: “Drugs, vi etc” Imagine that I said – they wait a whole year before- their(It must TVs be and backed those withthat areregulations, Non Discipline statutes, can and get bothother A motion of perfection until the very end. See: I’m captivated by prison economics, where I learned to love an audit of the prison system to today. Jeffersonmy family. has But spent I like most to ofwork. her legalI have career some workingskills - orwith- olence/gangs, and cell phones.” CDC 115 (Disciplinary informing us? Then they frequently post “boil notices” - items.Constitutions.) Not here. Of They course, only mostgive likelyus wind-up the judges Radios! are Theygo- A higher consciousness for the gente Where a nonprofit can be a rocket for an inmate with a 501 (c) and a k. immigrantsganising, sohelping it goes young without people saying -that that she I iswant very to familiar share report) violating any of these three traps is doomed to how do we do that? We have no means to do that. So what wanting to inmates rule against to go anyCCCMS types or of EOP cf relief; to get that what we should will be be from a revolutionary mind. I opened the title15 to inmate activity groups and smiled at what it say. withwith the people.” criminal justice system in Amerika. die behind bars. (The Board of Parole Hearings “BPH” are we to do? Go without drinking water? Thus far God has allowedasking. for every inmate in the system. Awake Now! Do we really understand the industrial complex of the C.C.A.? When we speak of prison slavery in Amerika, we think of will go crazy calling us a danger to society for any cita Lopez Rivera and about a dozen FALN members blessed me not to have had any serious problems, but I’ve- This Ad-Seg isn’t even approved for ADA inmates. They The windows of your soul say it all. Mr. Dillon I get the feeling you don’t want to hear what I have to say. forcedwere labor convicted and involuntary in 1981 servitude of seditious and no-one conspiracy says that “to experiencedtion dealing problems with these in vices.) my throat, like I lose my voice house ADA inmates with breathing problems where they Buck the social control But, that is expected from a racist judicial Inside my dream there’s a screen this is not happening. However, there are other elements of CDCr’s Drugs: The slaves do their drugs for one overthrow the government of the United States in Puer- from time to time or I can’t talk too loud or I start choking need a machine to plug in the wall. They use a cord in the And shake their core. on a commercial affidavit with wings. slavery – the unsavory and despicable elements present in thing: To escape their brutal, hostile, and cruel slavery system; that is known to have two types of to Rico by force”, armed robbery and lesser charges. and coughing. I don’t know if it is from the contaminated chase that goes under the door. Water is in the chase. It's Shed the fabricated mask With a body like an elephant leading the way. and out of Amerika’s prisons. conditions. I watched a news story about a millionaire justices, one for the poor and another for “Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States and water or these chemical gas agents they keep using on us! very dangerous. Of the corrupted society. See: In today’s time we fight for rights, that we have willingly given away. The torture, the sex slaves, the indentured servants, the CEO; that had it made; with a beautiful house, a yacht, the rich and the law enforcement officers. thus the Puerto Rican people have a right to fight for I do all I can to avoid the infirmary because they’ve shown They have a tier full of inmates on suicide watch. Repaint the white picket fence Live from the Folger’s jar, with holes in it where the locust stalks his prey. political prisoners, the so-called eco-terrorists and the and a beautiful family. He still felt the need to escape independence, using all means possible,” Rivera said me nothing but carelessness and negligence time and time At least 5 inmates come in on a daily basis. Last To match your propensity. Where he’s learning how to fight with his rights, refusing to neglect his supplications five times a day. framed-up Muslims right here in Amerika. again.reality UTMB by enjoying don’t careheroine about with us a– callperiod. girl. (UTMB Now, imag is the CDCr should not be allowed to create a system that re- Our time is now! 19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W2 Web 2 Bottom 6/21/2017 12:00:22 PM Black $[LayerName] during the trial. - week an inmate hung himself on the B Yard. The To maximize his opportunity when it comes… to fly away. The state of Texas hates it when I get to beating my ‘drum’ ine, how much more necessary it becomes to escape sults in CDC 115s, and then use these incidents to deny He served more than a decade in solitary confinement University of Texas Medical Branch.) question is why? From cell 142 to 150 they have It was fortune herself who made me Mexicano! And if he fails, because the oppressors know there is nothing they can do reality for a guy sentenced to a 100 years in prison, any possibility of parole. This system must be challenged after a second conviction for attempting to escape. I’ve seen a lot here at Easham. I’ve seen inmates get Brown, Down, and Proud. Let the blood in his ink, to silence me. The tactic they have embraced is censorship entombed in a room the size of your small bathroom. Suicideevery step, inmates and the fat also cats thatprofiting are fromADA our inmates. misery, mustNo In 1999, US President Bill Clinton offered Lopez infected with TB, and I’ve seen folks get prescribed the Highlight the trail… claiming my words represent security threat information. I So, it doesn’t matter, how many trinkets are thrown our wheelchairsbe exposed● or walkers allowed or canes. They clemency, but he rejected the offer because it excluded wrong medication and it turn fatal. One time I saw a female expose human and civil rights abuses, I engage in political sergeant coax a guy into committing suicide. Sad to say, but RJD Prison Report...... Continued on page 10

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testimony or participation in information gathering, gathering, information in participation or testimony AD-seg units. In a recent survey it was determined that at at that determined was it survey recent a In units. AD-seg

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for summary judgement, and controverting the claims of of claims the controverting and judgement, summary for

or correctional agency, regarding the informant’s possible possible informant’s the regarding agency, correctional or pen pals with men who were or are in California’s SHU and and SHU California’s in are or were who men with pals pen Vacaville, CA 95696-4000 95696-4000 CA Vacaville,

evidence in support of Askari’s opposition to the motion motion the to opposition Askari’s of support in evidence virtually every First Amendment case. Amendment First every virtually

CSP-Solano P.O.Box 4000 P.O.Box CSP-Solano and any member of the prosecution, or a law enforcement enforcement law a or prosecution, the of member any and 2013 as a project of PHSS, has matched over 400 community community 400 over matched has PHSS, of project a as 2013 anniversary of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision decision Court Supreme U.S. landmark a of anniversary

authority expert in prison gang activities, submitted as as submitted activities, gang prison in expert authority

entitling prison authorities to the rulings in their favor in in favor their in rulings the to authorities prison entitling

B/N Ralph A. Taylor D-03780 Taylor A. Ralph B/N substance of all communications between the informant informant the between communications all of substance Human Rights Pen Pals (HRPP), which began in Spring of of Spring in began which (HRPP), Pals Pen Rights Human over the next two months that will commemorate the 50th 50th the commemorate will that months two next the over

transcripts of prior superior court testimony of a prison prison a of testimony court superior prior of transcripts prison authorities. In this type of scenario the courts are are courts the scenario of type this In authorities. prison

Kamau M. Askari M. Kamau 30 days prior to the preliminary hearing setting out the the out setting hearing preliminary the to prior days 30 on-going crisis. (See page 5) page (See crisis. on-going The news conference was the first of several events events several of first the was conference news The

19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W3 Web 3 Top 6/21/2017 12:00:22 PM Black $[LayerName] the court failed to consider the professional judgement via via judgement professional the consider to failed court the their judicial discretion to the judgement/decisions of of judgement/decisions the to discretion judicial their

trial, to file with the court a written statement no less than than less no statement written a court the with file to trial, Sleep Deprivation continues to challenge and address this this address and challenge to continues Deprivation Sleep naive.”

Lawyers Guild Foundation (NLG) Foundation Guild Lawyers

alleged special agent expert in prison gang activities. Yet, Yet, activities. gang prison in expert agent special alleged

commences, whereupon the courts are routinely deferring deferring routinely are courts the whereupon commences,

call an in-custody informant as a witness in any criminal criminal any in witness a as informant in-custody an call so-called “welfare checks.” The PHSS Committee to End End to Committee PHSS The checks.” “welfare so-called judgment, understanding of legal terminology is simply simply is terminology legal of understanding judgment,

Jailhouse Lawyer (JHL) and member of the National National the of member and (JHL) Lawyer Jailhouse

in support of their motion for summary judgement by an an by judgement summary for motion their of support in litigation on behalf of the matter has been initiated and and initiated been has matter the of behalf on litigation

require the prosecutor, when the prosecution intends to to intends prosecution the when prosecutor, the require persist. The most egregious is sleep deprivation caused by by caused deprivation sleep is egregious most The persist. adults. So, for us to expect that a child will have the same same the have will child a that expect to us for So, adults. Coordinator: N.C.T.T. Coordinator:

primarily based upon a supplemental declaration submitted submitted declaration supplemental a upon based primarily the particular First Amendment violation, once the court court the once violation, Amendment First particular the

Foundation (NABFUAF) Foundation housed within a correctional institution. The bill would would bill The institution. correctional a within housed from the SHU, significant problems, both old and new, and old both problems, significant SHU, the from developmental process that they go through to grow into into grow to through go they that process developmental

deference to the views of the prison authorities, was was authorities, prison the of views the to deference

concoct and narrate elaborate theories as justification for for justification as theories elaborate narrate and concoct

New Afrikan (Black) Family Unity and Advancement Advancement and Unity Family (Black) Afrikan New while both the suspect or defendant and the informant are are informant the and defendant or suspect the both while Although many long-time prisoners have been released released been have prisoners long-time many Although reporters. “Children are not pint-sized adults. They have a a have They adults. pint-sized not are “Children reporters.

warranted or justified. The court’s acceptance of and of acceptance court’s The justified. or warranted supported by soliciting alleged correctional experts to to experts correctional alleged soliciting by supported

Your Brutha and servant, Kamau M. Askari M. Kamau servant, and Brutha Your based upon statements made by the suspect or defendant defendant or suspect the by made statements upon based (discontinued) and staff misconduct during visits. during misconduct staff and (discontinued) “Jail is no place for a child under 11,” Mitchell told told Mitchell 11,” under child a for place no is “Jail

and materials, and whether or not their confiscation was was confiscation their not or whether and materials, and and subsequently have their unconstitutional action(s) action(s) unconstitutional their have subsequently and

investigation or prosecution of a suspect or defendant defendant or suspect a of prosecution or investigation dangers caused by scanners for both visitors and prisoners prisoners and visitors both for scanners by caused dangers

prevention, rehabilitation and keeping families together. families keeping and rehabilitation prevention,

perpetually "without justice.” ● justice.” "without perpetually

the contents of his confiscated New Afrikan writings writings Afrikan New confiscated his of contents the the First Amendment rights of New Afrikan prisoners, prisoners, Afrikan New of rights Amendment First the

who provides testimony or information for use in the the in use for information or testimony provides who the new VPASS system for scheduling visits, the health health the visits, scheduling for system VPASS new the

and Lara said they wanted their legislation to center on on center to legislation their wanted they said Lara and

initiatives. Let us not invite by our inaction a future future a inaction our by invite not us Let initiatives.

claim, in order to establish the truth of matters regarding regarding matters of truth the establish to order in claim, authorities are thereby vested with the power to violate violate to power the with vested thereby are authorities

percipient witness, accomplice, or coconspirator coconspirator or accomplice, witness, percipient of CDCR's visiting policies, such as the inadequacies of of inadequacies the as such policies, visiting CDCR's of

educational programs meant to empower children, Mitchell Mitchell children, empower to meant programs educational

fruition realization of our First Amendment campaign campaign Amendment First our of realization fruition

District Court relative to Askari’s First Amendment Amendment First Askari’s to relative Court District of New Afrikan prisoners First Amendment rights. Prison Prison rights. Amendment First prisoners Afrikan New of

informant to refer to a person, other than a codefendant, codefendant, a than other person, a to refer to informant Councils, which have been challenging different aspects aspects different challenging been have which Councils,

Elementary School, home to what lawmakers called model model called lawmakers what to home School, Elementary

coordinating your efforts with its, towards bringing to bringing towards its, with efforts your coordinating

There was no independent fact-finding by the U.S. U.S. the by fact-finding independent no was There authorities regarding their suppression and/or deprivation deprivation and/or suppression their regarding authorities

This bill would revise the definition of an in-custody in-custody an of definition the revise would bill This on: In several prisons they re-activated Inmate Family Family Inmate re-activated they prisons several In on:

In a news conference at Sacramento’s Leataata Floyd Floyd Leataata Sacramento’s at conference news a In

professional expertise in legal science and legal procedure procedure legal and science legal in expertise professional

security. oversight, checks and balances to the actions of prison prison of actions the to balances and checks oversight,

any criminal trial. criminal any powers-that-be faced the many obstacles to visiting head head visiting to obstacles many the faced powers-that-be

those inside the juvenile justice system. justice juvenile the inside those

justice no matter who it’s for or against, to contribute your your contribute to against, or for it’s who matter no justice

legitimate penological interests and prison safety and and safety prison and interests penological legitimate

These types of court rulings provide for a lack of judicial judicial of lack a for provide rulings court of types These

prosecution calls an in-custody informant as a witness in in witness a as informant in-custody an calls prosecution inspired everyone! Family members accustomed to fighting fighting to accustomed members Family everyone! inspired

detention and ease punishment and burdensome fees for for fees burdensome and punishment ease and detention

and outside of prison walls, and all people who stand for for stand who people all and walls, prison of outside and

materials are prison gang-related, presenting a threat to to threat a presenting gang-related, prison are materials matters pertaining to prison conditions than are the courts. the are than conditions prison to pertaining matters

ised to, or received by, the in-custody informant when the the when informant in-custody the by, received or to, ised - sometimes decades. Pictures from them were shared and and shared were them from Pictures decades. sometimes -

that would extend protections for children facing arrest or or arrest facing children for protections extend would that

students, and paralegals, et al., practitioners of law, inside inside law, of practitioners al., et paralegals, and students,

alleging Askari’s confiscated New Afrikan writings and and writings Afrikan New confiscated Askari’s alleging suited to make judgements and decisions or to resolve resolve to or decisions and judgements make to suited

- prom defined, as consideration, all and any out setting trial

moved by the stories of peoples' first contact visit in years years in visit contact first peoples' of stories the by moved

(D-Bell Gardens) have introduced eight proposals proposals eight introduced have Gardens) (D-Bell Lara

on a solid foundation is, for lawyers, pro bonos, law law bonos, pro lawyers, for is, foundation solid a on

i.e. “Prison authorities version” of the facts of the matter matter the of facts the of version” authorities “Prison i.e. courts are rationalizing that prison authorities are better better are authorities prison that rationalizing are courts ecution to file with the court a written statement prior to to prior statement written a court the with file to ecution

loved ones who were previously in SHU. We were all all were We SHU. in previously were who ones loved

Ricardo Ricardo and Angeles) (D-Los Mitchell Holly Sens.

progressive objectives of our First Amendment campaign campaign Amendment First our of objectives progressive

rceig a seiid Eitn lw eurs h pros- the requires law Existing specified. as proceeding, in matters regarded constituting professional judgment, judgment, professional constituting regarded matters in matters deemed to regard professional judgement. The The judgement. professional regard to deemed matters

and friends are finally able to have contact visits with their their with visits contact have to able finally are friends and

low-income and black and Latino families. Latino and black and low-income

What’s required to consolidate and establish the the establish and consolidate to required What’s

for an in-custody informant’s testimony in any criminal criminal any in testimony informant’s in-custody an for

claim was through court deference to prison authorities authorities prison to deference court through was claim rulings that rationalize deference to prison authorities in in authorities prison to deference rationalize that rulings

release out of the SHU has been visiting. Family members members Family visiting. been has SHU the of out release

school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately affects affects disproportionately that pipeline school-to-prison

First Amendment rights. Amendment First

to give any monetary payment in excess of $50 in return return in $50 of excess in payment monetary any give to

of summary adjudication on Askari’s first Amendment Amendment first Askari’s on adjudication summary of arbitrary deprivations of our First Amendment rights, court court rights, Amendment First our of deprivations arbitrary

Another new challenge encountered because of prisoners’ prisoners’ of because encountered challenge new Another

a package of bills in an attempt to divert children from a a from children divert to attempt an in bills of package a

measures intensified to suppress and deprive us of our us deprive and suppress to intensified measures

or correctional official from giving, offering, or promising promising or offering, giving, from official correctional or

tantamount to a dismissal of his legal claims. The grant grant The claims. legal his of dismissal a to tantamount having the courage to challenge the prison authorities authorities prison the challenge to courage the having

packets, also available upon request. upon available also packets,

California lawmakers on Monday said they have filed filed have they said Monday on lawmakers California

knowledge to resolve the contradictions and repressive repressive and contradictions the resolve to knowledge tional institution. Existing law prohibits a law enforcement enforcement law a prohibits law Existing institution. tional

Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection claims was was claims Protection Equal Amendment Fourteenth a set of circumstances experienced as a consequence for for consequence a as experienced circumstances of set a

sessions on parole hearings and has compliled informational informational compliled has and hearings parole on sessions

juvenile-justice-bills-20170320-story.html

- correc a within held are informant the and defendant the have the correct ideas, political programs, and theoretical theoretical and programs, political ideas, correct the have

in favor of prison authorities on Askari’s First and and First Askari’s on authorities prison of favor in prison incarceration, we are nonetheless confronted with with confronted nonetheless are we incarceration, prison

Members.” (See page 23) The Committee set up educational educational up set Committee The 23) page (See Members.”

nln a: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac- at: On-line

is based upon statements made by the defendant while both both while defendant the by made statements upon based is

E We ourselves. helping are we other, each help we When

The U.S. District Court’s grant of summary adjudication adjudication summary of grant Court’s District U.S. The totally divorced from our First Amendment rights via via rights Amendment First our from divorced totally

Evaluations, Including Special Advice for Ashker Class Class Ashker for Advice Special Including Evaluations,

Published by the LA Times on May 31, 2017 31, May on Times LA the by Published ness, accomplice, or coconspirator whose testimony testimony whose coconspirator or accomplice, ness,

amendment campaign initiative campaign amendment

June 7, 2017. 7, June notwithstanding the fact New Afrikan prisoners are not not are prisoners Afrikan New fact the notwithstanding

- wit percipient codefendant, a than other person, a Regarding Board of Parole Hearings Psychological Psychological Hearings Parole of Board Regarding

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are needed to facilitate the consolidation of our First First our of consolidation the facilitate to needed are

answering brief to Askari’s appeal, which is currently due due currently is which appeal, Askari’s to brief answering The public must equally be made to understand understand to made be equally must public The

xisting law defines an in-custody informant to mean mean to informant in-custody an defines law xisting

m e syst and prepared “Advice for Prisoners and Their Supporters Supporters Their and Prisoners for “Advice prepared and

Lawyers, pro bonos, law students, and paralegals paralegals and students, law bonos, pro Lawyers,

were granted a 30-day extension of the time to file their their file to time the of extension 30-day a granted were security of CDCr institutions. CDCr of security

ts n ma r fo n i ustody c

. executive officer, met with her and other CDCr officials, officials, CDCr other and her with met officer, executive

Trump.

e e c usti j ile n uve j e h t Equal Protection claims. The defendants requested and and requested defendants The claims. Protection Equal the penological corrections system and/or the safety and and safety the and/or system corrections penological the

Parole Committee gathered information to show the board’s board’s the show to information gathered Committee Parole

policies formulated by the newly elected president Donald Donald president elected newly the by formulated policies

, In- , d e d en am as 359, B A

on both Askari’s First and Fourteenth Amendment Amendment Fourteenth and First Askari’s both on Amendment rights not inconsistent with the objectives of of objectives the with inconsistent not rights Amendment

2013 hunger strikes, as well as refusal to debrief. The The debrief. to refusal as well as strikes, hunger 2013

of out ren ild ch p kee

opposition to the arbitrary, racist, and repressive political political repressive and racist, arbitrary, the to opposition

adjudication in favor of the defendants Prison authorities authorities Prison defendants the of favor in adjudication public our New Afrikan prisoner klass retains those First First those retains klass prisoner Afrikan New our public

mentality”, 115s issued for participation in the 2011 and and 2011 the in participation for issued 115s mentality”,

such as “Black Lives Matter,” as well as those motivated in in motivated those as well as Matter,” Lives “Black as such

to t n a e m ills b of list for the Northern District of California granting summary summary granting California of District Northern the for are also key towards conveying the material fact to the the to fact material the conveying towards key also are

board may unfairly hold, as proof of continued “criminal “criminal continued of proof as hold, unfairly may board

is a fascist reform and responses to protest movements movements protest to responses and reform fascist a is

court orders issued by the United States District Court Court District States United the by issued orders court

U.S. Constitution. It’s axiomatic effective communications communications effective axiomatic It’s Constitution. U.S.

drug use and involvement in the drug market.● drug the in involvement and use drug formed a Parole Committee to address the fact that the parole parole the that fact the address to Committee Parole a formed

a il e v n u s ker ma w la

property occurs during a protest movement. No doubt this this doubt No movement. protest a during occurs property

was due April 7, 2017, for review of the two separate separate two the of review for 2017, 7, April due was

contradiction(s) impeding our first amendment rights to the the to rights amendment first our impeding contradiction(s)

programs which have been proven to reduce adolescent adolescent reduce to proven been have which programs been moved out, they now face new challenges. PHSS PHSS challenges. new face now they out, moved been

(RICO), when and where violence and/or destruction of of destruction and/or violence where and when (RICO),

case No. 16-17041. Askari’s opening brief on appeal appeal on brief opening Askari’s 16-17041. No. case

together we are better equipped to meet and resolve any any resolve and meet to equipped better are we together ia rn Califo

with prior convictions, and preschool and afterschool afterschool and preschool and convictions, prior with As many of the prisoners formerly held in the SHU have have SHU the in held formerly prisoners the of many As

“Racketeering, Influenced, and Corrupt Organizations” Organizations” Corrupt and Influenced, “Racketeering,

Appellant v. D. Milligan, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Defendants-Appellees, al., et Milligan, D. v. Appellant

existence is situated within or beyond prison walls, that that walls, prison beyond or within situated is existence

based drug treatment, employment and housing for persons persons for housing and employment treatment, drug based clearinghouse for PHRM to provide informational packets. informational provide to PHRM for clearinghouse

prosecute protesters and seize their assets under the the under assets their seize and protesters prosecute

Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, i.e, Ralph Taylor, Plaintiff- Taylor, Ralph i.e, Circuit, Ninth the for Appeals

society, we know that whether or not our physical physical our not or whether that know we society,

communities. Examples of those programs are community- are programs those of Examples communities. and others, and establishing Freedom Outreach, an official official an Outreach, Freedom establishing and others, and

some states who are legislating new bills intended to to intended bills new legislating are who states some

in the aforementioned case to the United States Court of of Court States United the to case aforementioned the in

and economically exploited within Amerikan Kapitalist Kapitalist Amerikan within exploited economically and

substance use disorders and illegal drug sales in our our in sales drug illegal and disorders use substance End Hostilities, developing political education for prisoners prisoners for education political developing Hostilities, End

The Struggle continues! In Solidarity, Urszula Wislanka Urszula Solidarity, In continues! Struggle The freedom of assembly are also coming under assault by by assault under coming also are assembly of freedom

Askari has been compelled to file a notice of appeal appeal of notice a file to compelled been has Askari

As a “NAN” of people nationally/socially oppressed oppressed nationally/socially people of “NAN” a As

is the most effective in reducing the suffering caused by caused suffering the reducing in effective most the is

continued organization around the historic Agreement to to Agreement historic the around organization continued

families of prisoners were the featured speakers. featured the were prisoners of families First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and and speech of freedom to rights Amendment First

promoting prison gang activities. gang prison promoting

CAMPAIGN CONTINUE. CAMPAIGN

Research shows that community based programming programming based community that shows Research

the Ashker settlement’s implementation,. Others include include Others implementation,. settlement’s Ashker the

at a number of events in which former SHU prisoners and and prisoners SHU former which in events of number a at it’s racially motivated. racially it’s

HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS FIRST AMENDMENT AMENDMENT FIRST MOVEMENTS RIGHTS HUMAN alleging New Afrikan prisoners are involved in or or in involved are prisoners Afrikan New alleging

among drug users. users. drug among

the tasks it sets for itself. The first task is the monitoring of of monitoring the is task first The itself. for sets it tasks the

Thirteenth. We assembled our newly-painted model SHU SHU model newly-painted our assembled We Thirteenth. Holman prison predicated upon a spurious allegation that that allegation spurious a upon predicated prison Holman

THE PROGRESSIVE INITIATIVES OF OUR PRISONER PRISONER OUR OF INITIATIVES PROGRESSIVE THE

BGF organization, which is a pretext used for spuriously spuriously for used pretext a is which organization, BGF

country’s history, and high rates of HIV and viral hepatitis hepatitis viral and HIV of rates high and history, country’s

(PHRM) came from, how it envisions organizing itself and and itself organizing envisions it how from, came (PHRM)

showings of movies: Breaking down the Box, Up the Ridge, Ridge, the Up Box, the down Breaking movies: of showings More recently the BayView was banned from Alabama’s Alabama’s from banned was BayView the recently More

writings and materials by claiming a nexus to the leftist leftist the to nexus a claiming by materials and writings

to the worst epidemic of fatal opioid overdoses in our our in overdoses opioid fatal of epidemic worst the to

background of where Prisoners Human Rights Movement Movement Rights Human Prisoners where of background

Box, Solitary Man and Mariposa and the Saint. We put on on put We Saint. the and Mariposa and Man Solitary Box, Nation (NAN) within the societal microcosm at large. at microcosm societal the within (NAN) Nation prison strikes would incite internal disruption in prisons. in disruption internal incite would strikes prison

confiscating, censoring, and/or suppressing New Afrikan Afrikan New suppressing and/or censoring, confiscating,

incarceration rather than public health strategies contributed contributed strategies health public than rather incarceration

Rights Movement Blueprint.” The Blueprint provides a a provides Blueprint The Blueprint.” Movement Rights

performances about solitary confinement, including The The including confinement, solitary about performances unconstitutional censorship confronting our New Afrikan Afrikan New our confronting censorship unconstitutional authorities that its contents pertaining to the nationwide nationwide the to pertaining contents its that authorities

Afrikan prisoner klass on the basis of race by routinely routinely by race of basis the on klass prisoner Afrikan

o euain n huig eeis Te mhss on emphasis The benefits. housing and education for

PHSS discussed and distributed the “Prisoners Human Human “Prisoners the distributed and discussed PHSS

prisoners’ statements to the audience. We tabled at theatrical theatrical at tabled We audience. the to statements prisoners’ interconnected to the mechanisms of repression through through repression of mechanisms the to interconnected other major U.S. prisons, based upon the claims of prison prison of claims the upon based prisons, U.S. major other

pattern and practice that discriminates against our New New our against discriminates that practice and pattern

by lifetime barriers to employment and ineligibility ineligibility and employment to barriers lifetime by

a group of dedicated lawyers outside. lawyers dedicated of group a

“readers theaters” asking participants in the rally to read read to rally the in participants asking theaters” “readers by the U.S. Constitution, is also interrelated and and interrelated also is Constitution, U.S. the by by prisons throughout the state of California and several several and California of state the throughout prisons by

were violated by and through PBSP IGI’s established established IGI’s PBSP through and by violated were

priority for the legal team consisting of the rep’s inside and and inside rep’s the of consisting team legal the for priority in minor crimes and suffer years of incarceration followed followed incarceration of years suffer and crimes minor in

practices in prisons to widest audiences possible. We held held We possible. audiences widest to prisons in practices and deprivation of our First Amendment rights established established rights Amendment First our of deprivation and the Sept./Oct. 2016 issues of the BayView were censored censored were BayView the of issues 2016 Sept./Oct. the

Askari’s Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights rights protection equal Amendment Fourteenth Askari’s

monitoring the implementation of the settlement has been a a been has settlement the of implementation the monitoring disproportionately incarcerated. Young people are swept up up swept are people Young incarcerated. disproportionately

around the state to bring awareness of the deplorable deplorable the of awareness bring to state the around

of New Afrikan Prisoners, as it relates to the suppression suppression the to relates it as Prisoners, Afrikan New of publicizing the national prisoner work strike movement, movement, strike work prisoner national the publicizing

member of the BGF political-military organization. political-military BGF the of member

solitary confinement in California (See page 2). Since then then Since 2). page (See California in confinement solitary

communities, and communities of color who are are who color of communities and communities,

and tables held on the 23rd of each month in many locations locations many in month each of 23rd the on held tables and the prison microcosm confronting the daily life situation situation life daily the confronting microcosm prison the

Amendment to the Constitution. Due to supporting and and supporting to Due Constitution. the to Amendment

to determine Askari’s status as either an active or inactive inactive or active an either as status Askari’s determine to

Ashker case, which abolished the use of indeterminate indeterminate of use the abolished which case, Ashker

L low-income families, devastated has war drug The

the over-use/abuse of the practice in U.S. prisons, to rallies rallies to prisons, U.S. in practice the of over-use/abuse the The described repressive social phenomenon inherent to to inherent phenomenon social repressive described The slavery as it is sanctioned and authorized by the 13th 13th the by authorized and sanctioned is it as slavery

personal property of Askari, pursuant to a six year review review year six a to pursuant Askari, of property personal happened since, starting with the settlement of the the of settlement the with starting since, happened

and jails. and

harmful solitary confinement is, only then connected it to to it connected then only is, confinement solitary harmful by a specific klass of New Afrikan prisoners. Afrikan New of klass specific a by

commencement September 9, 2016, towards ending prison prison ending towards 2016, 9, September commencement was any BGF-related indicia either in the cell or among the the among or cell the in either indicia BGF-related any was

almost 2 years ago! How time flies! A lot has has lot A flies! time How ago! years 2 almost

and human lives in an unprecedented buildup of prisons prisons of buildup unprecedented an in lives human and

2016, at which sociology professors who already knew how how knew already who professors sociology which at 2016, Family (BGF) activity when either authored or possessed possessed or authored either when activity (BGF) Family nation-wide prison work strike that was promulgated for for promulgated was that strike work prison nation-wide cell for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not there there not or whether ascertaining of purpose the for cell

ast time we wrote up an update was in Aug 2015, 2015, Aug in was update an up wrote we time ast

ever before, despite a massive investment of tax revenue revenue tax of investment massive a despite before, ever

from an academic conference at Pitt Law School in April April in School Law Pitt at conference academic an from of conducting a search of Askari’s assigned PBSP SHU SHU PBSP assigned Askari’s of search a conducting of pursuant to a spurious pretext of a nexus to Black Guerilla Guerilla Black to nexus a of pretext spurious a to pursuant The foregoing fact being further exemplified by the the by exemplified further being fact foregoing The e updat SS H P

substances are now cheaper and more widely available than than available widely more and cheaper now are substances

socio-cultural, historical writings and materials in process process in materials and writings historical socio-cultural, sweeping use of solitary confinement. They varied widely widely varied They confinement. solitary of use sweeping and related ideological/political writings and materials, materials, and writings ideological/political related and the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. U.S. the to Amendment First the

reducing or deterring drug use and availability. Controlled Controlled availability. and use drug deterring or reducing

gang-neutral New Afrikan related ideological political, political, ideological related Afrikan New gang-neutral many problems within California's prisons, and California’s California’s and prisons, California's within problems many otherwise suppress expression of New African titled terms terms titled African New of expression suppress otherwise nationally when deemed necessary, in clear violation of of violation clear in necessary, deemed when nationally

to the failed War on Drugs, were utterly ineffective in in ineffective utterly were Drugs, on War failed the to

unit (SHU) confiscated and retained his innocuous prison prison innocuous his retained and confiscated (SHU) unit

participated in over the last two years, exposing some of the the of some exposing years, two last the over in participated ...to stop (outgoing) and/or disallow (incoming) mail, or or mail, (incoming) disallow and/or (outgoing) stop ...to has also been routinely censored by prison authorities authorities prison by censored routinely been also has

Sentence enhancements, which were central strategies strategies central were which enhancements, Sentence at Pelican Bay State Prisons (PBSP) security housing housing security (PBSP) Prisons State Bay Pelican at

outreach and awareness activities that we have organized or or organized have we that activities awareness and outreach informants than other states. other than informants productive, progressive prisoner activism the BayView BayView the activism prisoner progressive productive,

were violated when Institutional Gang Investigators (IGI) (IGI) Investigators Gang Institutional when violated were BACKGROUND

Space does not permit the listing of all the public public the all of listing the permit not does Space

liar. California has fewer protections against the use of of use the against protections fewer has California liar. of the platform the BayView provides for the positive, positive, the for provides BayView the platform the of by prison authorities... prison by

Askari’s First Amendment rights to the U.S. Constitution Constitution U.S. the to rights Amendment First Askari’s

enhancement.

former SHU prisoners. SHU former that he is an informant, indicating that he may be a a be may he that indicating informant, an is he that and human rights in general. Consequently, and because because and Consequently, general. in rights human and practices of censorship established established censorship of practices

Amendment Consitutional violations. Consitutional Amendment

commit drug offenses, nor does it amend any other felony felony other any amend it does nor offenses, drug commit

to visiting and the discrimination and retaliation against against retaliation and discrimination the and visiting to this behavior several times, it establishes a track record record track a establishes it times, several behavior this of our New Afrikan humanity, prisoner rights issues, issues, rights prisoner humanity, Afrikan New our of based, discriminatory pattern and and pattern discriminatory based,

14-00647 VC, based upon both First and Fourteenth Fourteenth and First both upon based VC, 14-00647

does not repeal sentence enhancements for using a minor to to minor a using for enhancements sentence repeal not does

need to be monitored, such as lack of programing, obstacles obstacles programing, of lack as such monitored, be to need against another prisoner and is then released, repeating repeating released, then is and prisoner another against to prisoners nationally, as well as a staunch supporter supporter staunch a as well as nationally, prisoners to the arbitrary, systematic, race- systematic, arbitrary, the

G. Brown, Governor, et al., defendants case No. CV- No. case defendants al., et Governor, Brown, G.

each prior conviction of nonviolent drug offenses. The bill bill The offenses. drug nonviolent of conviction prior each

that there were still systemic issues and abuses that still still that abuses and issues systemic still were there that reversals. In California, if an informant is in jail; testifies testifies jail; in is informant an if California, In reversals. has been and continues to be a very valuable resource resource valuable very a be to continues and been has challenging and defending against against defending and challenging

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that add additional three-year terms of incarceration for for incarceration of terms three-year additional add that

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persists with Civil court Litigation pertaining to a 42 42 a to pertaining Litigation court Civil with persists

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organized by Californian's United for a Responsible Budget Budget Responsible a for United Californian's by organized There have been concerns about this Bill, but overall overall but Bill, this about concerns been have There Equal Protection claim, to being exclusively based upon upon based exclusively being to claim, Protection Equal

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populations throughout the state of California. of state the throughout populations

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from security housing unit (SHU) to various general prison prison general various to (SHU) unit housing security from

and perpetrated by prison authorities against our New New our against authorities prison by perpetrated and

communities. Instead, it cripples state and local budgets that that budgets local and state cripples it Instead, communities.

ultimately reduced the number of new Institutional Gang Gang Institutional new of number the reduced ultimately changes.● technical make also would bill The $100. “New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalism” (NARN). (NARN). Nationalism” Revolutionary Afrikan “New

solitary confinement, culminating in many of our releases releases our of many in culminating confinement, solitary

pertaining to First Amendment rights abuses orchestrated orchestrated abuses rights Amendment First to pertaining

failure that does not reduce the availability of drugs in our our in drugs of availability the reduce not does that failure

not always successful, we did succeed in efforts which which efforts in succeed did we successful, always not to benefits those of value combined the limit would and membership within the ideological movement of the the of movement ideological the within membership

to our protracted struggle against decades of long term term long of decades against struggle protracted our to

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sentences than those in state prison, even if they have been been have they if even prison, state in those than sentences

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least three-fourths of the matches are still corresponding. corresponding. still are matches the of three-fourths least or impliedly consideration all and any out setting and resistance; resistance to an oppressor that has been in conscious. That being the case, that brings in Strange RJDHu Prisonnger Report...... StrikerContinueds’ from page 8 PROVIDE EXERCISE EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING Statement of The staggering price commissary prices, access to educational programs, raising PULL-UPNot BARS,Just FOR A MEANINGFUL Dream, EXERCISE But A IN existence since the beginning of time. StMeradiange S ilFrenuitt As U.S. Fruit.the $1-per-day ‘Strange Fruit,’ prison is the wage, title more to a song, nutritional sung by food Billie and By Donald "C-Note" Hooker DEMANDS AND YARDReality Worth Fighting .Insolida Egypt, the r Pharaohsity w utilizedith their U.S. enslaved prisoners’ relatives Prisoners Continue Holiday.contact visits”The tener so thatof the detained song isparents about couldall this meet strange with take the inmate’s clothes. Butt naked and give trange Fruit, is an original work of wax on paper; himGR justIE someVANCE weird lookingS at coverFolsom to put on. FDenialor! of exercise equipment, including pull-up bars: populationpriso of Jewsner to builds their o npyramids. hu ngerIn America, must pay to call their fruittheir hanging children. from these trees in the South. What was this CDCR began installing pull-up bars in all SHUs and ASUs the Anglo-settlers, after exterminating the indigenous Tomade Hu in thenger form of a collage. St Donerike by Cn in 2017. strange fruit? Nooses around the necks of dead African- They just started to give them one blanket. No By Philip M. Dorsett Maru Mora-Villalpando, community organizer and peoples,st rusedike the dehumanizationin Folsom of the African man, loved ones “When I had to do an expedited visual work for the Americans. That’s why the piece is entitled ‘Strange boxers.Priso Eachn cell isn’t even a Suicide cell. The throughoutor manyCDC prisons.of us, it FSPis much is one easier of the to last be indifferentif not the last SAbysmal Conditions founder of Latino Advocacy Inc., said the center’s Paintoem, Life Without the Possibility of Parole, I used an ASU to install pull-up bars. woman, and child, whom they kidnapped from their Published on May 26, 2017 by The Washington Post Fruit.’undocumented That’s why detainees there’s painteda noose prisonaround walls her neck.and washed Why cell has lockers, which they aren’t supposed to to social injustice. Most people would prefer State Prison image fromPrisoners a magazine, across thebut U.S.drew have the background,”been holding says This was done so men can receive meaningful exercise native lands, to build the capitalist infrastructure in which By Washington Post Editorial Board afloors collage? “in Becauseexchange Ifor had having discovered a piece withof chicken Life Without, or a piece have or onstitutionala table or top Violations bunk! So Andthey can’t Significant kill to believe they live in a just society. However, amidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network We all know about the “one phone call” supposedly Cn. hunger “I have and a push, labor or strikes thirst to since bring last attention year, with to women tens inF the small dog kennel type cages used as yards. With no this great nation of immigrants stands atop of. Then, the of thousands of inmates protesting abuse and collagesof candy, create and sometimes a certain depthnot even perception. that.” The poem, is themselves!Hardships But Wethese Are cells Forced are To Endurefull every In Folsom day. one look at reality would suggest otherwise. It is hard expresses our solidarity with the hunger strike allowed to arrestees. Most of us are less familiar with issues. That’s what Life Without the Possibility of Parole is ability to run around and exercise our legs, prisoners are Anglo-settlers used the Chinese immigrants to connect poor conditions. But news reports on the strikes a playIt is ondifficult the CBS to televisionobtain reliable show information Beverly Hillbillies. about prison New guysState come Prison, in and Administrative go out every Segregation 5 days. I’veUnit for me to articulate the level of desperation in which taking place in the Folsom State Prison B4 the price gouging by prison phone service providers that about. Strange Fruit, is to draw attention to a report that I left to sit idle for hours. CDCR agreed the pull-up bars were theS newfound empire with the mighty railroad system in have been few and far between, leaving prisoners’ ‘California/isstrikes, as independent the place publications to be/Fun living/is are forced the to life rely for on C Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU) in California in seen(ASU), in Building this short 4 time at least 1,000 different many of us live, due to the uncertainty of deportation. renders the many calls inmates make over the course read in the October 2016 edition of the San Quentin News. meaningful equipment. The permanent injunction in Toussaint which this country enjoys even to this day. By 1880, the requests for humane treatment in the dark. me…’information In Black delivered intelligentsia, by organizers and its grass and rootsrelatives also, due they to inmates.Within ASU Building 4 at Old Folsom State Prison Or the struggles of people who this system has brutally the United States. of their time behind bars a huge burden. The Federal It stated, ‘During an 18-month period in 2014-15, the suicide v. McCarthy, 597 F. Supp. 1388 9N.D. Cal 1984) covers FSP, population of Chinese immigrants in California alone, Published on May 3, 2017 by Mint Press News havesilence really from latched prison onto officials. Michelle But Alexander’s it is also seminal evident that (FSP),They don’t the majorityhave mirrors of prisoners in showers, being nor houseddo they hereturn areon trapped at the bottom, to another, who does not exist Isolated prisoners launched their strike on 25 May Communications Commission was fighting in court to rate at the California Institution for Women (C.I.W.) was saying ASU prisoners shall be provided meaningful exercise. numbered 75,000. This was almost 1/10th of California’s By Roqayah Chamseddine | work,most ‘Themainstream New Jim news Crow: networks Mass Incarceration aren’t pushing in the for Age any theCSP-Sacramento, lights to see when High using Desert the razorsand SATF or nail prisoners. clippers. These Hair in the state of desperation. to protest the inhumane conditions in which they are cap rates on those calls when they occur within a single eight times the national average for women prisoners and five FSP has the necessary vocational jobs and classes to install the populace. Chinese immigrants fleeing the degradation On Oct. 30, 2016, Robert Earl Council was ofcoverage Colorblindness. in the first Her place, thesis which is that plays 21st into Century the hands mass of clipperssame prisoners aren’t even are allcleaned awaiting when court we useproceedings them and and/orwe’re .There is something profoundly American about this held in solitary confinement. The prison administration state -- until February, when Chairman Ajit Pai decided times the rate for the entire California prison system.’ When I bars and build the equipment at minimum to no cost. of their 5,000 year old civilization at the hands of found sprawled unconscious on the floor of his cell in incarceration,authorities who and want post to incarceration draw as little reentry,attention looks as possible very district attorney referrals; therefore, all 115 disciplinary state of desperation that I speak of. What is America if has refused to address their just and legitimate demands to drop the defense. did Life Without, there was an aesthetic there. This was from allowed to only use them once a month. The plumbing here END CRUELTY, NOISE AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION British Crown and its social and economic aftermath, Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility after being similarto the abusesto 20th that Century take placeJim Crow in their laws prisons.● in the deep South. not a settler-colony built by immigrants through forced and has instead responded with increased repression. Even a believer in free-market efficiency can recognize isreports bad. Leaking against waterthem incannot all the and chases. have No not exercise been heard bars into OF WELFARE CHECKS a fashionon hunger magazine. strike forThis 10 was days. of Medicala young staffwhite atwoman, the prison on People generally agree with her thesis, and actively use the were Theliterally Prisoner brought Hunger into StrikeAmerica Solidarity by the Coalitionrailroads that, in this case, the market has failed. Because prisons cages!receive No findings pull up of bar! “guilty” The toLegal receive Law a Librarydisciplinary is a action.Joke. or exploited labor? And what is the immigrant if not a a very serious subject. I say to myself, ‘Hey, much support Sleep deprivation from welfare checks: Correctional to be exploited for cheap labor. Like the Jews in Nazi receive commissions from the phone companies they force-fed him intravenously, as his blood sugar levels siren call to end the New Jim Crow. Incarcerated blacks This is important to note, because ICC (Institutional person who dared to dream of a better life? reported that “we cannot say exactly how many people in the prisoner rights movement comes from older white 60,000 Immigrants...... Continued from page 13 The guards are disrespectful to inmates. officers (COs) on first watch create excessive noise with keys Germany, the Chinese in America quickly became the contract with, facilities strike deals with providers not to get had reached dangerous levels. even started the Neo Jim Crow Art movement, to which .On the Statue of Liberty, in tribute to the immigrant are refusing meals, but we know that there are roughly 30 women in the Catholic Church. This is an image of them. ClassificationThe food we’re fed Committee) is placed on traysstill that imposes are old and a nasty. “Projected while walking every half hour; mixed with uncourteous loud object of continued violence when massacres of Chinese inmates the best service at the best rate, but to get themselves But Dara Folden, a member of the Free Alabama thisthe pieceforced is labor a part allegations, of. I hold up and Sandra “intend Bland to continueas our 21st to who took the long, hard journey to America, you’ll find people in the unit that announced the strike.” They see their younger selves in her. Promote the $#@! InMERD” all the other(Minimum prisons Eligible everything Release had beenDate) replaced based onso thethe metal on metal contact, it creates unnecessary cruelty and immigrants became commonplace. the biggest kickback. Mr. Pai has acknowledged as much Movement, a prison reform advocacy group, believes Century’svigorously Emmett defend Till.[the] Emmett company Till, against like Sandra the claims.” Bland engraved into her a welcoming to those who dreamt for Samidoun expresses its strongest support for the out of this work.’ I could have used that same racial device foodinitial was 115 delivered report, as hot if found in small guilty trays for with the offense, lids. These violating trays punishment. 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Life Without The Possibility of Parole was heredue pileprocess on top of ofhearing each other and evidence.where everyone’s With the food projected sticks secured on their person to prevent the excessive noise, yet was directed to the Chinese: “Every means should be regulate rates on calls made between (not within) states, ending Council’s hunger strike and preventing him from 1955.their so-called Emmett volunteer allegedly work made program a whistling policies sound are inset the by “Give me your tired, your poor, your hurdled masses the United States against racist oppression and mass In support of the Folsom hunger strike, members of CPF and about the aesthetics. It was about the shape of that image in MERD imposed, prisoners still cannot be deemed “SHU” when asked for courtesy, the noise is made extreme as a which the agency will continue to defend. Yet the problemth. garnering media attention. general area of a white woman. He was only 14 years of to the bottom of each tray. takenincarceration. to prohibit Wetheir salute immigration. those fighting They should for theirnot be lives PHSS attended a rally held outside of Folsom on June 4 the federal government but judges aren’t convinced. term or be transferred to “SHU housing” because the 115 retaliation,yearning tothus breathe waking free. prisoners The wretched every half refuse hour of the your entire is the same inside state lines as across them. And the FCC’s the magazine.But Council’s Later on,strikes I realized – and howthe punitiveI could use action race takento my age. He was bludgeon to death. His mother, from the North We aren’t allowed to wear Thermal tops or bottoms to the employedand human by corporationsdignity in a prisonor any system public basedworks. on And racism, that “GEO filed a motion like that in this case and the judge night.teeming shore. 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Here it rains and protectionThe strikers’ of the statedemands political in Folsom subdivisions include fromadequate the last May of 37-year-old Rosemary Barrasa of Bloomington, the complaint that could violate the Trafficking Victims COMMISSARY.Immigrants coming AND CANTEEN to America quickly find that this That leaves people such as Joanne Jones struggling to populism;Kilby Correctional I had to speak Facility the truth. after So initiating a black awoman work strike.had to remains. It was the shot (photo shoot), heard around the it’sThis cold. forces prisoners to remain housed in ASU for long burdensaccess rising to fromcourts, their presence.”legal assistance, education, who was stabbed multiple times with a screwdriver in a car Protection Act prohibition on forced labor,” explains Nina grandCommissary claim isand just canteen: as hollow All asitems the Statueare repackaged of Liberty into find room in their budgets to talk to loved ones who have be used.The Free Blacks Alabama out number Movement all the told other Democracy races combined Now that in world. Well, I’ve been holding up Sandra Bland to go termOn C confinement Yards, inmates of anywhereare being fromallowed a year to assaultto 14 othermonths .Therehabilitation, hostility andtelevisions, xenophobia and towardsappropriate the immigrantrecreation parked alongside Interstate 10 in Whitewater. DiSalvo, Executive Director of Towards Justice and one of TRASHherself. BAGS! 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And this week, during a border fromforced all overto endure the world atypical in pursuitand significant of a dream. hardships Then notdue onPROVIDE G.P.s and MEANINGFUL some have never EDUCATION,been on G.P. mainlines SELF- and regressionFSP’s warden in American is attempting politics, to force particularly prisoners around to cooperate the whereinmates the beganmoney theirends up,strike, it should jail personnelnot come outhave of theexacted On last year’s September anniversary of the Attica Californiavisit in Arizona, Sessions announced plans to hire 125 justto a being dream, in segregatedbut a dream housing worth and fighting solitary for!confinement. With the comeHELP over COURSES here and AND assault REHABILITATIVE inmates and staff allows it. with institutional investigations, violating a prisoner’s right to retribution in the form of revoking commissary and visitation Prison Uprising, work stoppages and hunger strikes took ismore the placeimmigration to be judges as part of the administration’s issue of immigration. The trump phenomenon and its When taken together, these conditions constitute cruel pockets of prisoners’ families. SomeonePROGRAMS needs to make it known to all inmates how these invoke the Fifth Amendment. election of Trump and the resurgence of white-identity privileges,The U.S. butCourt Gutierrez of Appeals flatly for denied the D.C.that. Circuit heard place in 24 states, involving some 24,000 inmates who Funcommitment living to increased immigration enforcement. chicanery, aimed at diverting underclass whites from and unusual punishment under the U.S. Constitution. cowardsDenial and/or are behaving lack of meaningfulso CDCR will education, handle this help problem. courses PROVIDE ADEQUATE AND APPROPRIATE politics, which perpetuates racist hostility is being the“That’s rate-cap absolutelycase in February, untrue,” even he withtold theCNS. FCC “No refusing one has were protesting what have been described as “slave-like is the life for me the economic reality of class struggle, have utilized We are being deprived of basic human needs, including “For those that continue to seek improper and illegal and rehabilitative programs: Wright v. Rushen, 642 F2d CLOTHING AND SHOES perpetuated. The reality of actually having to fight for tobeen defend denied its ownaccess regulat to the ickly commissary to enforce to thebuy proper soup, pricesnacks or conditions.” At one prison in South Carolina, prisoners More inmates have gotten killed in the last Years on SNY’s the same tactics that the Nazi’s used to pit underclass normal human contact, environmental and sensory Spaciousentry into places this country, be forewarned: This is a new era. 1129 (9th Cir. 1981), held FSP shall provide its ASU this dream is ever more real. point.beverages.” If the court denies the FCC that ability, it will be up requested to be compensated for their labor, as well as than on G.P. by inmates that ratted out their best friends or Germans against underclass Jews. Like in Germany, stimulation, mental and physical health, entertainment, farThis and is widethe Trump era,” Sessions said. “The lawlessness, .In 2013, soon after 30,000 prisoners embarked on a to statesThe AD-SEG to determine inmates fairer are regimes. rejecting But meal someone trays mustdelivered requested that mentally ill inmates be kept in treatment gangprisoners homies. with Yet education didn’t face and their rehabilitative own music. programs. sadly, the disenfranchised and undocumented fall physical exercise, sleep, access to courts, and meaningful Exceptthe abdication at C.I.W. of duty to enforce our laws, and the catch joint hunger strike, protesting against long term solitary dothree something: times a Inmatesday, but and it was their unclear relatives how literally many cannot were also programs. The prisoners also asked for an end to AndASU there’s prisoners a lot are of not inmates afforded that GED can’t programs, program andbecause the prey to politicians who capitalize on the xenophobia activity. Prolonged exposure to these deprivations has homeand release to women policies suicides of the past are over.” confinement in California’s mass prison system (which affordabstaining the alternative.from buying● goods from the commissary during excessive vendor visitation and canteen prices and the ofhigh these school types diploma of incidents. program It’s is all split on between SNY’s. theThey entire want behind immigration that has existed throughout Anglo- caused and will cause serious physical and psychological There’s been a lot of activity outside the Aurora ICE was in solidarity with the hunger strike that was going on their 30-minute breaks, according to sheriff’s officials. reinstitution of classes for those who want to obtain their tofacility belong and to ranch groups plus so ASU. they Therefore,can call themselves we are placed a gang. in American history. Politicians often seek to keep their harm.” facility. Considering the Trump administration’s plan to in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba), immigration activists went Gutierrez said that earlier this week, the visitor elevator at Manya hard inmates spot; ASU have prisoners suffered are and neither come first out ofnor the second SHUs to power by directing the grievances of their citizens, Editors Note: The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is GED. ramp up ICE detentions, this location is only expected to to Washington D.C. and bravely conducted their own the jail broke down, preventing some families from seeing But few reporters found the strikes worth covering. leavepriority, that leaving lifestyle no and educational do a better opportunities. program, to maybe see on the people who they feel lack the means to defend a network of organizers and activists, based in North America, Protecting get bigger and busier. The facility can hold as many as hungerworking strike, to build calling solidarity for immigration with Palestinian reform. prisoners One in of their the their loved ones locked up in AD-SEG and other wards. Some One month after the strikes began, Media Matters someThe freedom. college programAnd they is all nonexistent had rules placedat best. on To them add asto themselves, and in the case of the undocumented, the incarcerated people 900 immigrantsHer name a isday K and they say the plan is to increase corestruggle issues for that freedom.● was raised in this act of resistance was inmates and their relatives interpreted the action as deliberate found that no major media outlets had covered what was wellthe problem, as inmates those that previouslywere victims enrolled and really are gotforced stabbed to drop on ability to vote. capacity here, to hold as many as 1,400 detainees at a time. the heart wrenching, forced separation of families. aandn a ddirect t responseheir to lovthe strike,e butd it was just a coincidence, then considered to be one of the largest national prison at 23 she was told mainlines.classes due Now to no all TVs they forhave video to do assignments, is lie and owe preventing someone .Trump’s deplorable campaign slogan, “Build the DiSalvo says the planned increase in immigrant .Having been born of a beautiful, extremely strong according to the assistant sheriff. strike movements in U.S. history. She’s a throwaway orthem disrespect from acquiringsomeone anddegrees. come FSPto SNY’s provides for protection. absolutely wall! Build the wall!” - which millions of underclass ones from the video Poems and Paintings by Cn * detentions is all the more reason why this lawsuit is more willed immigrant from Korea, I could only imagine the “It was not a retaliatory measure,” he said. “[A] search of Nexis transcripts from the majorLife Withoutnews the Possibility of Parole noSit self-helpins come incourses and sit or and counseling go to sleep. in COsanger all management, do overtime and upper-class whites chanted in solidarity with Hunger strike in 2nd important than ever. horror of a child who is American born, but has parents visitatioInmates are beingn monitoredindust by medicalry and psychiatric networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, Fox News, A walking zombie andbehavior have amanagement good old time. etc. They FSP just provides walk away absolutely and leave no Trump’sDenial of planspersonal to clothingdeport millionsand shoes: of Prisoners undocumented are forced whoweek are undocumented. for The do forcedzen separations ofof a family Publishedstaff around April the 10, clock 2017 to by ensure the Prison none Policyof them Initiative develop health and MSNBC — and National Public Radio…has come “The newwithout administration, a soul at the federal level is interested substance abuse counseling or programs, such as N.A. or toimmigrants walk around - deserves in their someboxer thought.underwear Not and in termsstate-issued of By Lucius Couloute the cell. It’s a scam. They are stealing from the state big is perhaps the most inhumane example of state sanctioned complications as a result of the strike, Gutierrez said. up almost completely empty on coverage of the strikes, inShe more begged aggressively and begged deporting undocumented immigrants A.A. T-shirt,legitimacy, which but are innormally terms ofextremely the origin used of and this too morbid large or Riverside inmates s our research has shown, local jails are time. If only the public could see where the money is being oppression that exists in America today. Immigration As for the inmates’ complaints? They’re being reviewed. aside from a single 20-second mention during a run- in this countryfor a newthat lifewill require more and more people to tooslogan. small. Prisoners are moved around the prison like this and Posted on April 21, 2017 at mynewsla.com increasingly replacing in-person visits with spent.ALLOW They POSSESSION have cameras OFthat TELEVISIONS don’t work and are turned reform in America is one of the most pressing issues “We’re always looking at processes to see how can improve,” be detained. Which I think just adds urgency to our case,” .Often immigrants fleeing poverty and violence By Ken Stone through of headlines on NBC’s Today and a three-and-a- off.Denial The lights of TVs: are FSPalways has off flat and out dark lied in the on building.the ability If to remain all day like this. Gutierrezexpensive told CNS. and “We’ll poorly evaluate implemented this withvideo our staff. But explains DiSalvo. that this countryore than faces, two but dozen it does inmates not stand at the by Robertitself. A half-minute NPR Weekend Edition interview…” Media fromPrisoners countries are provided south ofone the jumpsuit border thatare isblamed always forover- visitation systems. someoneprovide theneeds necessary help in theelectrical morning, outlets no one to couldallow hear the It is connected to so many other issues and runs right I’m not about to negotiate safety and security.” Matters reported. For years, the public has regularly protested outside the sized,“stealing with America’s no ability tojobs.” wash The or exchangescarcity of it. jobs In thesince cold Presley Jail in downtown Riverside are Fortunately, some policymakers are taking notice. 3 Northern California officers guilty of murder thempossession because of thea TV. cops Instead play a of radio fixing so loudthis issueyou can’t years even ago, alongside police brutality, mass incarceration, and other The prisoner advocacy groups All of Us or None of Us and Historically, media coverage of prison strikes has been Aurora ICE facility and many others nationwide, decrying winterthe 90s months, is a prisoners biproduct are of denied corporations warm clothing moving or theirbeanies beginning their second week of a hunger strike Illinois State Rep. Carol Ammons introduced a bill earlier hearFSP duringcontinues chow/shower to cover time.up the For fact their the enjoyment. funds allocated There M Starting Over Inc. are supporting the hunger strike and callingi n beating death of inmate the unjust treatment of immigrants jailed within. socio-economicto protest conditions and political that a disadvantages Riverside County that we sheriff’s have sparse at best, often parroting information that is passed tocreations prevent sickness out of while the country, out on yard. to maximize profit by this year that would protect in-person visitation from being is(Inmate medical Welfare staff/Lt/Sgt/counselor Funds) are spent andleisurely other staffon non-inmate all see and beenspokesman placed saidunder. Friday No areone based issue on stands “safety alone. and security.” All of on county officials to publicly address the inmates’ complaints.Pyublishedalong from in the state LA and Times prison on June officials. 1, 2017 Conventional news This week, more than 750 immigrants held in another using,During tothe their summer, advantage, the warmer the depressed months, prisonerswages of are eliminated in Illinois correctional facilities and limit the knowstuff. of Per all Titlethis and15, not§3190(3), one cares ASU enough prisoners to confront are allowed it or America’sTwenty-six contradictions inmates haveand imbalancesbeen refusing are interrelated.meals since The hunger strike at Robert Presley Detention Center inBy Associatedpublications Press and outlets rarely speak to prisoners or their GEO Group detention center – this one in Washington deniedforeign appropriate labor, and clothing the exploitation to cover upof itsand citizens, still maintain by costRiverside of video ended visits. Monday, There is Mayalso active 1, at 19legislation days, the in RiversideNew takethe choice it to the of top. a TV or radio. OneApril must 13, not but concentratenot all of them of areimmigration avoiding food reform altogether, alone. Jersey that would guarantee face-to-face family visits familiesjury Thursdayabout their found concerns. three TheyNorthern often California fail to mention correctional state officers – went guilty on hungerof second-degree strike. Some murder also in calledthe 2015 for fatal a coolness.certain foreignIt is a decency governments. factor of This allowing virulent, prisoners cutthroat, clothing County Sheriff’s Department said. I gotPrisoners a visit fromare forced Moms. to They choose never a calledradio dueme toto visit FSP’s at Weaccording have to organize to Assistant around Sheriff the whole Jerry system. Gutierrez, The reality who for incarcerated individuals, cap video costs at 11 cents the factorsbeating thatof a leadmentally inmates ill inmate. to go on strike in the first work stoppage. Like the Aurora facility, detainees at the andbackstabbing, properly fitted competitive shoes to remain American dignified system and places in touch the with Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Chris Durham said the department 10:30AMunwillingness but atto 1:30PM provide after outlets. she left. With They no allowed programs, me of supervisesthe future ofcorrectional immigrants facilities in this countywide.country is that we built a minute, and ban fees on professional video visits from place, Aftersuch asa two-monthunsanitary conditions,trial, Santa abusiveClara County treatment, officers Northwest Jereh Lubrin, Detention Matthew Center Farris are alsoand forcedRafael toRodriguez work for were$1 thedisenfranchised civilized world. immigrant There is noin reasonablea factory or, security in the issuecase or did not make any changes in response to the inmates’ demands,A timeeducation Sunday or butmeaningful my mother time is 90out years of cell,old withthe asensory lot of this country,“A few ofand the we inmates are here have to stay.started No gaining wall, no weight,” power lawyers and clergy. convictedand slave-like in the death labor of conditions 31-year-old. Michael Tyree. a day. factorsof the to immigrant deny a person from decency. Mexico or refugee from Central which included increased phone access and more time in the Tyree died from internal bleeding and suffered significant liver and spleen damage. An investigation determined he had healthdeprivation, problems. sitting There idle, was causes no chair prisoners in the tobooth. lose I theirwas canGutierrez banish us told from City these News shores. Service..This “Thedream assumption is of our is Policymakers across the country should consider Immigration detention facilities have also become For the plaintiffs in the Aurora forced labor lawsuit, the PROVIDEAmerica, intoFOOD the BOWLfields that AND produce CUP the nation’s food. day room. been beaten hours before he was found dead in his cell. chainedminds, forcingand so couldn'tprisoners hold to theharm phone. themselves I couldn’t in hearorder her to Mothersthey’d andlose Fathers.it, but they’ve It cannot actually be sold, gained for ita littlewas madebit.” in adopting similar legislation so that incarcerated people locations of active resistance, with hunger strikes used as class action certification is clearly a legal leap forward. But UndocumentedDenial of a food bowlimmigrants or cup: FSPgenerally is forcing work its ASU in support prisoners The number of inmates taking part on any one day fluctuated, Tyree was serving time for misdemeanor theft and drug possession. He had been housed by himself in a section of the jail get mental health care, which provides TVs per Farmer struggle,Rigoberto in sacrifice, Villanueva, in the 40, blood, organized sweat, the and strike tears to shineof our and their families are not prevented from in-person contact a protest tactic by those who lack recourse. In April, over during the whole (non contact) window visit. The SHU toroles eat out or of in recycled service (“washed”) trades for trash depressed bags, old wages. zip lock The bags Durham said. Some inmates who refused to eat meals, which the case is likely to drag through the courts for years, and a light on what he has described — by way of his wife, during difficult times. Preserving face-to-face visitation is reserved700 undocumentedfor inmates who detainees are in protective at the for-profitcustody or Tacomahave special needs. wasn’tv. Brennan, even this511 bad!U.S. I____(1994) can’t stand for“One too does long notbecause have ofto and milk cartons and to drink from a 3 ounce “rubbery” reused Ancestors. We are the future! We are America! And we are by law nutritionally balanced, even gained weight after most of the detainees bringing the case may never see their Mexican who is charged with “stealing America’s Nancy Markham — as inequitable policies that make not just humane, it’s good policy because contact between Farris, Rodriguez and Lubrin face sentences of 15 years to life in prison. myawait old the injuries. consummation At this time of I’m threatened waiting forinjury a walker. to obtain must resist! Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington day in court. cup.jobs!” See Estelledoes v.the Gamble, work 424that U.S. the 97 average (1976). ThisAmerican treatment life unnecessarily onerous for detainees, especially those stocking up on snacks from the commissary before the strike, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith had said the three guards were the only people with access to Tyree’s cell the 19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W1 Web 1 Bottom 6/21/2017 12:00:21 PM Black $[LayerName] incarcerated people and their loved ones is proven to began a hunger strike in order to pressure Immigration Allpreventive this needs relief.” to be investigated and something needs to be is unnecessary cruelty and punishment and violates prisoners’ .In solidarity with my Brothers and Sisters at Standing Durham said. night he died. Several inmates told police they could hear Tyree screamingYet immigrants for several and minutes. their advocates are hopeful that doesn’t want to do. I have this feeling that the people housed in the jail’s administrative segregation, or AD- reduce the likelihood that an individual will re-offend after and Customs Enforcement (ICE) representatives into done.FSP’s CPF attitude would haveof “make a field us,” day “we’rehere!● exempt,” is in Rock, North Dakota, I dedicate this to them, and all the Editors Note: The hunger strike lasted for 19 days and protests and legal actions will prove to be powerful weapons Eighthwho areAmendment plagued rights.with this The hysteriaamendment for embodiesbuilding “broadthis SEG, unit. release. Tyree’s family last year settled a wrongful-death lawsuit with Santa Clara County for $3.6 million. The settlement will be violation and promotes prisoners to harm themselves to depressed peoples of the world, my clenched fist goes up! ended Monday, May 1st, according to the Riverside County meeting basic demands. andwall idealistic (in which concepts Trump of dignity, and his civilized partners standards, will surely Villanueva has been in segregation since he allegedly For more information on this issue and efforts to protect paid to Tyree’s two sisters and his 7-year-old daughter. in the fight against the Trump administration’s policies that Editor’sget a TV. note: Examine This FSP letter record was ofedited prisoners with needingthe permission mental All power to the people!!!● Sheriff’s Department. CPF has received little information The Stranger reported their demands as being humanitymake immense and decency.”● profit off its construction) will end killed a fellow inmate, 82-year-old Tom Carlin, at the in-person visitation, you can request a copy of their report The guards also were charged with assaulting another mentally illare inmate, leaning Juan increasingly Villa, before toward Tyree, mass but deportations.● the jury deadlocked of it’s sender. regarding the outcome. ● “recreation time, properly cleaned laundry, reasonable health care while housed in ASU. up regretting what they asked for. Humanity calls for Smith Correctional Facility in Banning in September. The on the13th● 10-2 on that charge.●

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And the Representatives Body: Danny Troxell, B76578, George Franco, D46556, Ronnie Yandell, V27927, Paul Redd, B72683, James Baridi Williamson, D-34288., D-34288., Williamson, Baridi James B72683, Redd, Paul V27927, Yandell, Ronnie D46556, Franco, George B76578, Troxell, Danny Body: Representatives the And

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Presentado por el grupo en el Corredor Corto : Todd Ashker, C58191, Arturo Castellanos, C17275, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (Dewberry), C35671, Antonio Guillen, P81948 Guillen, Antonio C35671, (Dewberry), Jamaa Nantambu Sitawa C17275, Castellanos, Arturo C58191, Ashker, Todd : Corto Corredor el en grupo el por Presentado 19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W2 Web 2 Top 6/21/2017 12:00:21 PM Black $[LayerName]

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generally been positive for most prisoners. Contact visits, visits, Contact prisoners. most for positive been generally will CDCR the soon, point some At 2017: Summer

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negatively impacted most prisoners’ ability to have social social have to ability prisoners’ most impacted negatively assigned refusing (including violations for status earning

la realidad es que juntos, somos una fuerza poderosa que puede positivamente transformar este sistema corrupto a un sistema que en verdad puede beneficiar a los prisoneros, y con con y prisoneros, los a beneficiar puede verdad en que sistema un a corrupto sistema este transformar positivamente puede que poderosa fuerza una somos juntos, que es realidad la

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Regulations; Deadline for CDCR to complete formal formal complete to CDCR for Deadline Regulations;

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50% service): turn, are often based on confidential information, and are are and information, confidential on based often are turn,

(SNY) entre los los entre (SNY) Sensitivas Necesidades de Patio al encubiertos Informantes mandando a continuará IGI que General Población la en aquellos a advertirles queremos Tambien ● ●

inmates. These credits cannot be revoked. be cannot credits These inmates.

Violent offenders (determinate sentence + fire camp camp fire + sentence (determinate offenders Violent 4. placements are made on the basis of IGI reports which, in in which, reports IGI of basis the on made are placements

en problemas raciales!! problemas en

each level and will be awarded retroactively to eligible eligible to retroactively awarded be will and level each

50% day-to-day: for eligible Lifers

sent to the RCGP adamantly oppose this placement. These These placement. this oppose adamantly RCGP the to sent

los medios diplomáticos para resolver disputas; no debemos permitír que los asuntos personales e individuales se conviertan conviertan se individuales e personales asuntos los que permitír debemos no disputas; resolver para diplomáticos medios los agotar por posible lo todo hacer que tenemos todos

counselor certification; one-time credits are awarded for for awarded are credits one-time certification; counselor

Non-violent offenders (determinate sentence), & sentence), (determinate offenders Non-violent 3. would be at risk in general population. Many prisoners prisoners Many population. general in risk at be would

oficialmente terminaran . Esto indica que, de esta fecha y adelante, toda enemistad entre grupos raciales tienen que terminar… y si asuntos personales se presentan entre indivíduos, indivíduos, entre presentan se personales asuntos si y terminar… que tienen raciales grupos entre enemistad toda adelante, y fecha esta de que, indica Esto . terminaran oficialmente

high school diploma, college degree or alcohol and drug drug and alcohol or degree college diploma, school high

33.3% 33.3% credits: 1/3 for gible has decided have safety issues, meaning that their safety safety their that meaning issues, safety have decided has

Por lo tanto, comenzando el 10 de Octubre, 2012, todas las enemistades entre nuestros grupos raciales … en el HOYO/ SHU, Ad-Seg, la Población General, y Cárceles de Condado, Condado, de Cárceles y General, Población la Ad-Seg, SHU, HOYO/ el en … raciales grupos nuestros entre enemistades las todas 2012, Octubre, de 10 el comenzando tanto, lo Por ● ●

EMC: Granted for successful completion of a GED, GED, a of completion successful for Granted EMC:

- eli Lifers & strikes) 3 or (2 offenders Non-violent 2.

prisoners that the Departmental Review Board (DRB) (DRB) Board Review Departmental the that prisoners

a los más de 20 a 30 años de enemistades entre nuestros grupos raciales. grupos nuestros entre enemistades de años 30 a 20 de más los a

violations. for revocable are RACs year. per weeks 4

20% 20% sentence): determinate been in SHU. To date, its use has primarily been to house house to been primarily has use its date, To SHU. in been

por las tacticas de tortura destinadas a convertirlos a ser soplones estatales via interrogatorio, que ahora es el tiempo que juntos podamos aprovechar este momento, y poner un fin fin un poner y momento, este aprovechar podamos juntos que tiempo el es ahora que interrogatorio, via estatales soplones ser a convertirlos a destinadas tortura de tacticas las por

other behavioral programming activities; these can be up to to up be can these activities; programming behavioral other

Violent offenders (Lifers, 3 strikes, or indeterminate/ or strikes, 3 (Lifers, offenders Violent 1. humane housing for prisoners who, in the past, would have have would past, the in who, prisoners for housing humane Si de verdad queremos llevar a cabo cambios sustantivos y significantes al sistema de CDCR, de una manera beneficiosa para todo individuo serio , que nunca han sido quebrantado quebrantado sido han nunca que , serio individuo todo para beneficiosa manera una de CDCR, de sistema al significantes y sustantivos cambios cabo a llevar queremos verdad de Si ● ●

RAC: Granted for participation in self-help groups or or groups self-help in participation for Granted RAC:

for the following categories: following the for Facility at Pelican Bay. Its purpose is to provide more more provide to is purpose Its Bay. Pelican at Facility : puntos siguientes los de acerca mutuo acuerdo un a llegado hemos donde, En PBSP-SHU(Hoyo). el en aquí encuentran se que raciales grupos

...... violations.

rates should now be accumulating at the following rates rates following the at accumulating be now should rates Acuerdo Mutuo de parte de todos los los todos de parte de Mutuo Acuerdo este presentando estamos medio, este Por PBSP-SHU Corto Corredór del Hambre de Huelga la de Representantes los todos de parte de Saludos General Population (RCGP), which CDCR located in B B in located CDCR which (RCGP), Population General

per year cap to 12 weeks per year. MCCs are revocable for for revocable are MCCs year. per weeks 12 to cap year per

A Quien Corresponda y Todo Prisionero en California: en Prisionero Todo y Corresponda Quien A prison rules and performing duties as assigned. Credit Credit assigned. as duties performing and rules prison population housing unit called the Restricted Custody Custody Restricted the called unit housing population

requirements. These are increased from the current 6 weeks weeks 6 current the from increased are These requirements.

s e mistad ne E a n i F ner po a r pa do er u Ac efcie o) Tee rdt ae o cmlig with complying for are credits These now). (effective The settlement agreement created a new general general new a created agreement settlement The

career training program with attendance and performance performance and attendance with program training career

May 1, 2017: Good Conduct Credits go into effect effect into go Credits Conduct Good 2017: 1, May it will adopt them. adopt will it

MCC: Granted upon completing specific education or or education specific completing upon Granted MCC:

into temporary effect for 160 days. 160 for effect temporary into previous SDP; however, CDCR has not indicated whether whether indicated not has CDCR however, SDP; previous

are as follows: as are

California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) and go go and (OAL) Law Administrative of Office California’s recommendations are a significant improvement over the the over improvement significant a are recommendations

Educational Merit (EMC) programs go into effect. These These effect. into go programs (EMC) Merit Educational

April 13, 2017: Emergency Regulations are approved by by approved are Regulations Emergency 2017: 13, April prisoner representatives (the four reps). The consultants’ consultants’ The reps). four (the representatives prisoner

work together. work

(MCC), Rehabilitative Achievement (RAC), and and (RAC), Achievement Rehabilitative (MCC),

new credits and early parole. early and credits new to the previous SDP. Those consultants have met with with met have consultants Those SDP. previous the to

For the complete packet, write to CPF. Please include 3 or more stamps to cover costs. cover to stamps more or 3 include Please CPF. to write packet, complete the For . strikes. hunger

with these local allies and figure out how we can best best can we how out figure and allies local these with

August 1, 2017: Credits for the Milestone Completion Completion Milestone the for Credits 2017: 1, August

March 24, 2017: CDCR issues “Emergency Rules” for for Rules” “Emergency issues CDCR 2017: 24, March has employed outside consultants to propose revisions revisions propose to consultants outside employed has

Issues that are particularly relevant for Ashker class members include: time in SHU,refusal to debrief and participation in the the in participation and debrief to SHU,refusal in time include: members class Ashker for relevant particularly are that Issues

we will begin to cultivate collaborative relationships relationships collaborative cultivate to begin will we

30 days of the request. the of days 30

regarding new credits and early parole. early and credits new regarding years in SHU in a Step Down Program (SDP). CDCR CDCR (SDP). Program Down Step a in SHU in years

or community stay away from drugs, crime and prison... and crime drugs, from away stay community or

community-based support organizations. From there there From organizations. support community-based

Another BPH officer will then review the decision within within decision the review then will officer BPH Another

California voters, requiring the CDCR to issue rules rules issue to CDCR the requiring voters, California the violation. The prisoner would spend those additional additional those spend would prisoner The violation. the

supporters should talk about what they know about and have seen the prisoner do, like help younger individuals in the family family the in individuals younger help like do, prisoner the seen have and about know they what about talk should supporters

connecting with religious organizations and other other and organizations religious with connecting

days of the decision through a special review procedure. procedure. review special a through decision the of days

November 8, 2016: Proposition 57 was approved approved was 57 Proposition 2016: 8, November an STG, then two years can be added to the base term for for term base the to added be can years two then STG, an

definitions and concepts.For example, to show that a prisoner is sensitive, empathetic, concerned about the plight of others, others, of plight the about concerned empathetic, sensitive, is prisoner a that show to example, concepts.For and definitions

We will begin our outreach by contacting and and contacting by outreach our begin will We

the decision. If denied, you can request review within 30 30 within review request can you denied, If decision. the

and are not set in stone, but may change: may but stone, in set not are and there is a nexus (connection) between the violation and and violation the between (connection) nexus a is there

simply talk about the traits in the individual prisoner that are clearly opposite of those described in these pshycological pshycological these in described those of opposite clearly are that prisoner individual the in traits the about talk simply

reentry into society. into reentry

basis. If granted, you should be released 60 days after after days 60 released be should you granted, If basis.

horizon. Bear in mind some of these dates are projections projections are dates these of some mind in Bear horizon. serious rules violation and the hearing officer finds that finds officer hearing the and violation rules serious

from supporters and the prisoner, it is usually better not to mention Antisocial Personality Disorder...Rather, supporters should should supporters Disorder...Rather, Personality Antisocial mention to not better usually is it prisoner, the and supporters from

on mass incarceration, police brutality, and prisoner prisoner and brutality, police incarceration, mass on

community” and choose to grant or deny parole on that that on parole deny or grant to choose and community”

should be on the lookout for, and what’s coming on the the on coming what’s and for, lookout the on be should Under the settlement, if a prisoner is found guilty of a a of guilty found is prisoner a if settlement, the Under

3040.1 of Title 15, it should be raised as a positive point, because these programs are based on the model of CBT... In materials materials In CBT... of model the on based are programs these because point, positive a as raised be should it 15, Title of 3040.1

to hear about the experiences, needs and perspectives perspectives and needs experiences, the about hear to

or not you “pose an unreasonable risk of violence to the the to violence of risk unreasonable an “pose you not or

Below is a timeline of what’s happened so far, dates you you dates far, so happened what’s of timeline a is Below Ashker counsel has observed some trainings. some observed has counsel Ashker

If the prisoner has been through CDCR's Step Down Program, "Thinking for Change" or other programs identified in section section in identified programs other or Change" for "Thinking Program, Down Step CDCR's through been has prisoner the If

have concerted interests in the work we do. We aim aim We do. we work the in interests concerted have

no in-person hearing. The BPH officer will decide whether whether decide will officer BPH The hearing. in-person no

of confidential information and disciplinary proceedings; proceedings; disciplinary and information confidential of review. for library, law the especially library,

hard to treat, studies have concluded that a form of therapy called Cognitive Behavorial Therapy (CBT) is the most effective. effective. most the is (CBT) Therapy Behavorial Cognitive called therapy of form a that concluded have studies treat, to hard

by over-policing and mass incarceration, and who who and incarceration, mass and over-policing by

employers to send letters of support to the BPH. There is is There BPH. the to support of letters send to employers

DR a rvsd t saf riig aeil o te use the on materials training staff its revised has CDCR are announced, they should be available in every prison prison every in available be should they announced, are

convinced the individual is not a risk for future substance abuse, crime or violence. While authorities generally say ASPD is is ASPD say generally authorities While violence. or crime abuse, substance future for risk a not is individual the convinced

individuals within the nieigbhorboods most effected effected most nieigbhorboods the within individuals

your support network (family, friends) and potential potential and friends) (family, network support your single overt act. Therefore, it is an easy charge to allege. allege. to charge easy an is it Therefore, act. overt single

the final regulations. When the final proposed regulations regulations proposed final the When regulations. final the

time to become much more pro-social," responsible, loving, empathic, motivated to succeed, etc., and to explain why they are are they why explain to and etc., succeed, to motivated empathic, loving, responsible, pro-social," more much become to time

We look forward to having dialogues with various various with dialogues having to forward look We

the community if released; (2) encourage members of of members encourage (2) released; if community the the ultimate crime itself, only an agreement to do so and a a and so do to agreement an only itself, crime ultimate the

intent of Prop 57 and plans to advocate for that change in in change that for advocate to plans and 57 Prop of intent

abuse, crime and violence to subside with age. It is also important for supporters to show how the individual has changed over over changed has individual the how show to supporters for important also is It age. with subside to violence and crime abuse,

the communities most affected by mass incarceration. incarceration. mass by affected most communities the

notes. Conspiracy does not require the commission of of commission the require not does Conspiracy notes.

statement on why you do not pose a risk of violence to to violence of risk a pose not do you why on statement

consideration. CPF believes this is overly limiting from the the from limiting overly is this believes CPF consideration.

is important to address the impact of age, and the steps the prisoner has taken to reinforce the natural tendency for substance substance for tendency natural the reinforce to taken has prisoner the steps the and age, of impact the address to important is

be on developing collaborative relationships within within relationships collaborative developing on be

conspiracy charges based on confidential informants or informants confidential on based charges conspiracy

to take advantage of this opportunity, and: (1) focus your your focus (1) and: opportunity, this of advantage take to

third-strikers from becoming eligible for the early parole parole early the for eligible becoming from third-strikers

He should list accomplishments and activities that demonstrate his stability and compliance with rules and expectations. It It expectations. and rules with compliance and stability his demonstrate that activities and accomplishments list should He

California’s Bay Area (Home of CPF). The focus will will focus The CPF). of (Home Area Bay California’s

team is monitoring this issue. Of note is the filing of many many of filing the is note Of issue. this monitoring is team

submit a written statement. You are strongly encouraged encouraged strongly are You statement. written a submit

particular concern to advocacy groups is the inclusion of of inclusion the is groups advocacy to concern particular came to prison, how he accomplished that change, and how long it's been since the negative acts that led to a prison term. term. prison a to led that acts negative the since been it's long how and change, that accomplished he how prison, to came

planning a community outreach effort in the the in effort outreach community a planning L litigation The SHU. from released been recently have who

Parole Hearings, you should be notified that you can you that notified be should you Hearings, Parole

opinion about the changes they are making. One issue of of issue One making. are they changes the about opinion

tools, they should make sure the materials submitted to the Board emphasize the things that have changed since the prisoner prisoner the since changed have that things the emphasize Board the to submitted materials the sure make should they tools,

activists at California Prison Focus are are Focus Prison California at activists its disciplinary procedures to throw prisoners back in SHU SHU in back prisoners throw to procedures disciplinary its

If you are found eligible and referred to the Board of of Board the to referred and eligible found are you If

they will do this, and we all will have a chance to state our our state to chance a have will all we and this, do will they

prisoner and his supporters to fill in the blanks for the Board. Without trying to comment on criticisms or debates about these these about debates or criticisms on comment to trying Without Board. the for blanks the in fill to supporters his and prisoner

violation. Of wide concern is whether CDCR will abuse abuse will CDCR whether is concern wide Of violation. organizer Steve Martinot, a number of of number a Martinot, Steve organizer

you will be screened again after 1 year. year. 1 after again screened be will you

regulations for public comment. At some point, however, however, point, some At comment. public for regulations

with age, time and positive influences...Since all of the FAD's tools and approaches over-emphasize past history, it's up to the the to up it's history, past over-emphasize approaches and tools FAD's the of all influences...Since positive and time age, with in SHU after a finding of guilt of a SHU-able serious rules rules serious SHU-able a of guilt of finding a after SHU in

ed by local writer, teacher and community community and teacher writer, local by ed

If you are found ineligible based on one of the above, above, the of one on based ineligible found are you If

changes as “Emergency” changes, they did not open the the open not did they changes, “Emergency” as changes

affiliate can be placed placed be can affiliate gang a rules, pre-existing Under personality type is fixed for lige and amenable to change...The truth is that people who once evidenced antisocial traits change change traits antisocial evidenced once who people that is truth change...The to amenable and lige for fixed is type personality

ch a OUTre ity n Commu

You have a rule violation with a nexus to an STG. an to nexus a with violation rule a have You

become law. Here, because CDCr announced the rule rule the announced CDCr because Here, law. become the settlement agreement. settlement the psychologists) focus on it... One of the biggest problems with the ASPD diagnosis for long-term prisoners, is the idea that this this that idea the is prisoners, long-term for diagnosis ASPD the with problems biggest the of One it... on focus psychologists)

provide urine sample within the last year; or year; last the within sample urine provide

making changes in response, do the proposed regulations regulations proposed the do response, in changes making

are current and systemic violations of the constitution or or constitution the of violations systemic and current are others." ...Although criminal and rule-breaking behavior is only one aspect of ASPD, many psychologists (particularly FAD FAD (particularly psychologists many ASPD, of aspect one only is behavior rule-breaking and criminal ...Although others."

back in full swing. full in back

You have a drug-related rule violation or refusal to to refusal or violation rule drug-related a have You

reviewed and responded to these comments, sometimes sometimes comments, these to responded and reviewed

agreement. The monitoring period can be extended if there there if extended be can period monitoring The agreement. DSM-5 definition of ASPD centers on behavior that shows a "pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of of rights the of violation and for disregard of pattern "pervasive a shows that behavior on centers ASPD of definition DSM-5

and look forward to getting our Legal Visits Program Program Visits Legal our getting to forward look and

the last year; last the

regulations and give feedback. Only once the agency has has agency the once Only feedback. give and regulations

yet done so. In this manner, CDCR is in violation of the the of violation in is CDCR manner, this In so. done yet ASPD is important because the FAD psychologist and the Board weigh it as a big risk factor for future criminality...The criminality...The future for factor risk big a as it weigh Board the and psychologist FAD the because important is ASPD

prison reports based on the many letters we receive, receive, we letters many the on based reports prison

You have 2+ serious rule violations of any level within within level any of violations rule serious 2+ have You

the public gets the chance to comment on the proposed proposed the on comment to chance the gets public the

regulations consistent with the agreement. CDCR has not not has CDCR agreement. the with consistent regulations use different ways of measuring risk, but Antisocial Disorder is a central building block in each of them...The diagnosis of of diagnosis them...The of each in block building central a is Disorder Antisocial but risk, measuring of ways different use

less than in recent years. We will continue to write write to continue will We years. recent in than less

You were placed in Work Group C within the past year; past the within C Group Work in placed were You

it wants to make, and then leave open a period where where period a open leave then and make, to wants it

Under the settlement agreement, CDCR must issue new new issue must CDCR agreement, settlement the Under and the PCL-R both revolve around the concept of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). They measure other things and and things other measure They (ASPD). Disorder Personality Antisocial of concept the around revolve both PCL-R the and

we will still be conducting some visits, there will be be will there visits, some conducting be still will we

the last 5 years; 5 last the

this process, the state agency must announce the changes changes the announce must agency state the process, this

safety prisoners’ use disorder, under the standards of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)... The HCR-20V3 HCR-20V3 The (DSM-5)... Disorders Mental of Manual Statistical and Diagnostic the of standards the under disorder, use

efforts to increase programming capacity. Though Though capacity. programming increase to efforts

You have a Level A-1, A-2 serious rule violation within within violation rule serious A-2 A-1, Level a have You

changes mandated by Prop 57 into place. Typically with with Typically place. into 57 Prop by mandated changes

Investigators) conducts background investigations of the the of investigations background conducts Investigators) makes a diagnosis as to whether the prisoner has a mental disorder, such as Antisocial Personality Disorders or a substance substance a or Disorders Personality Antisocial as such disorder, mental a has prisoner the whether to as diagnosis a makes

through changes in leadership and continue our our continue and leadership in changes through

term for a STG/disciplinary reason within the last 5 years; 5 last the within reason STG/disciplinary a for term

CDCr to draw up new regulations that would put the the put would that regulations new up draw to CDCr Seg in Reception Centers while the IGI (Institutional Gang Gang (Institutional IGI the while Centers Reception in Seg

Historiacal Risk Management 20, Version 3 (HCR-20V3) and the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R). The psychologist also also psychologist The (PCL-R). Checklist Psychopathy Hare the and (HCR-20V3) 3 Version 20, Management Risk Historiacal

will be conducting less visits this year, as we work work we as year, this visits less conducting be will

You have a current SHU term or assessment of a SHU SHU a of assessment or term SHU current a have You

admitted to prison are automatically being placed in Ad Ad in placed being automatically are prison to admitted required but prisoners, affecting laws the change actually

who conduct evaluations of prisoners for Board hearings....The FAD psychologist uses two formal risk assessment tools - the the - tools assessment risk formal two uses psychologist FAD hearings....The Board for prisoners of evaluations conduct who

a small all-volunteer organization such as CPF, we we CPF, as such organization all-volunteer small a

days before your Earliest Possible Release Date; Release Possible Earliest your before days

Notably, gang-validated prisoners newly admitted or re- or admitted newly prisoners gang-validated Notably, of Prison Focus, the passage of proposition 57 did not not did 57 proposition of passage the Focus, Prison of

FAD: The California Board of Parole Hearings has established the Forensic Assessment Division (FAD), a staff of psychologists psychologists of staff a (FAD), Division Assessment Forensic the established has Hearings Parole of Board California The FAD:

Due to the inevitable shifts and changes within within changes and shifts inevitable the to Due

Your Nonviolent Parole Eligible Date is not at least 180 180 least at not is Date Eligible Parole Nonviolent Your

others had been in SHU for less than a year. a than less for SHU in been had others the final changes will look like. As reported in the last issue issue last the in reported As like. look will changes final the

lass Members" lass C Ashker For Advice Special "Including

Legal Visits Program and More and Program Visits Legal

considered if: considered prisoners had spent twenty or more years in SHU, although although SHU, in years more or twenty spent had prisoners

ongoing, so a great deal of uncertainty remains as to what what to as remains uncertainty of deal great a so ongoing,

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credits. Even if your offense is eligible, you may not be be not may you eligible, is offense your if Even credits. PF's PF's C of Status of them to some form of general population. Some of these these of Some population. general of form some to them of

not change. It’s important to bear in mind this all is still still is all this mind in bear to important It’s change. not

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without enhancements) less pre-sentence time served served time pre-sentence less enhancements) without cases of all validated SHU prisoners and released almost all all almost released and prisoners SHU validated all of cases a number of upcoming deadlines which may or may may or may which deadlines upcoming of number a

“primary offense,” (the crime with the longest sentence sentence longest the with crime (the offense,” “primary To implement this new policy, CDCR has reviewed the the reviewed has CDCR policy, new this implement To r r i The d n a s ner iso Pr r o F ce dvi "A om r f pts xcer E our way through the many transitions, inside and out. out. and inside transitions, many the through way our continue unfolding through the rest of 2017 and contains contains and 2017 of rest the through unfolding continue

completion of the “full term” (no credits applied) of the the of applied) credits (no term” “full the of completion a prisoner in SHU or Administrative Segregation (Ad Seg). Seg). (Ad Segregation Administrative or SHU in prisoner a . We want to continue working with you, as we find find we as you, with working continue to want We . Focus The process to put Prop 57 rules into practice will will practice into rules 57 Prop put to process The

“Nonviolent Parole Eligible Date” will be the date of of date the be will Date” Eligible Parole “Nonviolent Ashker. Now, gang validation alone is insufficient to place place to insufficient is alone validation gang Now, Ashker. Prison Prison to contribute CPF, with correspond to continue will people.

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offender crimes requiring registration under § 290. The 290. § under registration requiring crimes offender indeterminate term. This policy has been outlawed under under outlawed been has policy This term. indeterminate contributes to the work we still have to do.We hope you you hope do.We to have still we work the to contributes and advocating to expand the reach of Prop 57 to more more to 57 Prop of reach the expand to advocating and

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are any crime not listed in Penal Code § 667.5(c) or sex- or 667.5(c) § Code Penal in listed not crime any are

prison gang) was placed automatically in the SHU for an an for SHU the in automatically placed was gang) prison your knowledge and experience is of great value to us, and and us, to value great of is experience and knowledge your and other organizations are looking out for your interests interests your for out looking are organizations other and

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under the Emergency Rules “nonviolent” felony offenses offenses felony “nonviolent” Rules Emergency the under

(determined by CDCR to be a member or associate of a a of associate or member a be to CDCR by (determined know the role you have played in our accomplishments, accomplishments, our in played have you role the know

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to the Board of Parole Hearings on this date. As of now, now, of As date. this on Hearings Parole of Board the to

Previously, any prisoner who was “gang-validated” “gang-validated” was who prisoner any Previously,

relationship with the organization. Though we may not not may we Though organization. the with relationship consideration process. Meanwhile, advocacy groups like like groups advocacy Meanwhile, process. consideration

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eligibility on June 1st, and referring qualifying inmates inmates qualifying referring and 1st, June on eligibility

Threat Groups” or STGs). or Groups” Threat from a CPFer who does not know of your familiarity and and familiarity your of know not does who CPFer a from CDCr intends to begin implementing the revised parole parole revised the implementing begin to intends CDCr

the support of the working class on the outside. IWW IWW outside. the on class working the of support the c/o Avidan Y. Cover Y. Avidan c/o

effect. The CDCR plans to start screening prisoners for prisoners screening start to plans CDCR The effect.

deemed to be affiliated with gangs (now termed “Security “Security termed (now gangs with affiliated be to deemed corresponding with you, or why you've received a letter letter a received you've why or you, with corresponding

Conduct Credits” began on May 1st. Starting July 1, 2017, 2017, 1, July Starting 1st. May on began Credits” Conduct

conditions, prisoner must be organized and working with with working and organized be must prisoner conditions,

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and Rehabilitation (CDCR) houses prisoners whom it has has it whom prisoners houses (CDCR) Rehabilitation and

nonviolent, determinately-sentenced offenders goes into into goes offenders determinately-sentenced nonviolent,

anybody who may be wondering why we have stopped stopped have we why wondering be may who anybody proceedings. The new rates for accumulating “Good “Good accumulating for rates new The proceedings.

Mail can be sent to: to: sent be can Mail from prisoners who believe that to truly change prison prison change truly to that believe who prisoners from

changes in how the California Department of Corrections Corrections of Department California the how in changes

July 1, 2017: Early parole consideration process for for process consideration parole Early 2017: 1, July

a lot to learn. First and foremost, we don't want to offend offend to want don't we foremost, and First learn. to lot a the as-yet-unannounced dates for the notice and comment comment and notice the for dates as-yet-unannounced the

media. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions. any with us to out reach to free Feel media. IWOC is accepting IWW membership applications applications membership IWW accepting is IWOC

expanded the reach of that case, by mandating significant significant mandating by case, that of reach the expanded

State and become law. become and State

we are so grateful to have on the team, but who still have have still who but team, the on have to grateful so are we “Emergency Rules” are in operation, while we still await await still we while operation, in are Rules” “Emergency letter writing, and interviews via family members to the the to members family via interviews and writing, letter solidarity with prisoners’ collective actions. collective prisoners’ with solidarity

Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU). The settlement settlement The (SHU). Unit Housing Security Bay Pelican

approved, then they will be filed with the Secretary of Secretary the with filed be will they then approved,

are far more familiar with CPF then the newcomers who who newcomers the then CPF with familiar more far are about to start taking effect. Right now, a new set of set new a now, Right effect. taking start to about advocacy may include prison labor strikes, book clubs, clubs, book strikes, labor prison include may advocacy in every facility, with an army on the outside building building outside the on army an with facility, every in

punishment and due process violations related to the the to related violations process due and punishment

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With how they negotiate their triple loyalties as care-givers, to manipulate the judge’s attitudes by altering reality to history. Teach and demonstrate understanding and respect rom 2010-2011, while working as a contract to life and death issues. In May 2016, a patient I had yet to these growing restrictions and pressures, Reiter found that human beings, and employees. Seventeen years after support their own agenda. PBSP’s past mirrors its present. rather than retaliation. Dare to see minorities as assets psychiatrist for the California Department of meet, but who was assigned to me, hanged himself a day officials felt a growing loss of control. Repeated lockdowns Judge Henderson declared the housing of the mentally With this and other examples Reiter provides, we are not potential threats. Support self-determination not Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) providing after being discharged from the psychiatric-medical hospital. were becoming routine to maintain order even though the ill in the SHU unconstitutional, the American Psychiatric warned to be careful what narrative we believe. Reiter destruction. Provide jobs that can sustain families. House Fsupportive therapy and medication management for San I learned of his death through other patients, not through practice was noted to increase tensions and hostilities. The Association (APA) in 2012 advised against segregating writes that the three “independent source items” sufficient our people. Bolster our community mental health clinics Quentin State Prison (SQSP) inmates, I was inspired by the administration or my team. It was complete silence, as if this practice of lockdowns, nonetheless, morphed into secretly those with serious mental illness longer than 3-4 weeks. to classify someone as a gang associate or member could and substance use programs. “...O, let America be America resilience of the Human Spirit and reminded of our shared young man had never existed to the staff. designing a permanent isolation fixture for “prisoners they 9 Recognizing the harm from SHU placement even with not be reviewed by the accused inmate and the decision to again—The land that never has been yet—And yet must humanity. When I returned to CDCr in 2014 I provided Per Madrid v. Gomez decision, patients with serious perceived to be the most dangerous to prison order- the a few days, and its $70,000 per year per prisoner expense, use the source as “evidence” was left to prison officials’ be…” as Langston Hughes wrote. The struggle continues the same services via video-conferencing from my SQSP mental illness are to be excluded from the SHU. CDCr has ‘George Jacksons’” (p 84). Prison officials withheld that by it is our clinical obligation to our patients and our social discretion without any due process. Equally alarming was until the promises are fulfilled. office to Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) and became an exclusionary diagnosis list that does not include oddly 1988 “the rate of violent deaths in California prisons had responsibility to all inmates to oppose such dangerous to learn that some of the “evidence” was culturally based, In solidarity with our shared Humanity, MM more socially conscious. While my assignment was with a all of the anxiety disorders including Post Trauma Stress fallen to less than half that of the late 1970s” and exploited practices, much less to be involved in any way supporting such as pictures or books of Malcolm X or Che, cultural specific PBSP mental health program, I helped out with most Disorder which is quite common in prisons. I do not know the fears of violence to convince legislators that a supermax its continued existence. Mental health providers should music, the Mexican or Puerto Rican flag, Aztec calendar, References: 1. James Baldwin 1963 The Fire Next Time, 294 2. programs. I resigned from CDCr PBSP in July 2016 due who came up with this list but if anxiety disorders were Reiter, Keramet 2016 23/7 Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of prison with more restrictive means of control was essential not be declaring anyone cleared for this type of high risk certain tattoos, letters, and the eagle of the United Farm to a culture of retaliation, a pervasive divide and conquer included perhaps many would not have been legally placed Long-Term Solitary Confinement 3. World Health Organization to maintain institutional safety (p 14). Every prisoner could containment. To do so we give approval and legitimacy Workers or Mexico. By censoring these items in the name mentality, and a deliberate indifference that corrupted moral in the SHU. Even the diagnoses on the exclusionary list, 4. Vera Institute of Justice, "Common Misconceptions and then be threatened directly or indirectly with the security to the practice. Even the National Commission on of institutional safety, CDCr could simultaneously legally Emerging Safe Alternatives"5. Appelbaum, Kenneth 2015 integrity, compromised patient care, violated civil liberties however, were manipulated. Not infrequently I would be housing unit (SHU), i.e. solitary confinement. Soon after Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) in their April 2016 strip you of your identity and criminalize your culture and “American Psychiatry Should Join the Call to Abolish Solitary and increased professional liability. Justice, fairness, and in disagreement with a social worker or psychologist who Confinement.” J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 43:406-15. 6. U.N opening, PBSP prisoners’ alarming letters to legislators position stated that “health staff must not be involved in sentence you to an 8 by 10 feet box indefinitely. A SHU ethics seemed to be at times inconveniences for CDCr. wanted to down-grade a patient’s diagnosis from Major 2011 “Solitary Confinement Should Be Banned in Most Cases, exposing abuses resulted in the 1995 federal lawsuit, determining whether adults or juveniles are physically or survivor said to me, “CDCr throws gang titles around to Supervisors evoked policies and guidelines when convenient Depression to adjustment disorder, or regard reported UN Experts Says.” 8. Appelbaum KL, Savageau JA, Trestman Madrid v. Gomez, where Judge Thelton Henderson found psychologically able to be placed in isolation.” 7 I agree dehumanize prisoners to the public” so they are forgotten RL, et al. 2011 “A national survey of self injurious behavior and to insist on their authority. As I voiced legitimate psychotic symptoms as malingering or, down-play suicidal PBSP violating prisoners’ Eighth Amendment right to be with psychiatrist Kenneth Appelbaum that the APA, as the and not worthy of the fight for justice. We must never forget in American prisons.” Psychiatry Services 62: 285-90. 9. Am. concerns, colleagues whispered stories of the negative ideation as manipulation thereby clearing them for the SHU. Psych. Ass. 2012 Position Statement on Segregation of Prisoners protected from cruel and unusual punishment. The evidence moral voice of our profession, needs to oppose publicly Dr. Martin Luther King's words: “Injustice anywhere is a outcomes for numerous providers who previously criticized Once in the SHU, prisoners would receive rudimentary with mental illness 10. Mitford, Jessica. 1973 Kind and Usual proved: 1) guards using excessive force against prisoners; and categorically solitary confinement for all human threat to justice everywhere.” 14 CDCr policies or objected to some supervisor’s misguided monitoring for decompensation every other week largely by Punishment: the Prison Business. 11. Schein, Edgar H. 1962 “ 2) inadequate medical and mental health care; and 3) beings regardless of whether or not they have mental Prison is a by-product of society’s racist’s underpinnings, Man against man: Brainwashing.” Correct Psychiatry J Soc Ther “good intentions.” Even the physician union representative a psychiatric technician at cell front. Cell front visits are not unconstitutional housing of prisoners with mental illness in illness, and to modify its current policy. 5 Doing so would and the SHU has been a tool for social control. This 8(2):90-7. 12. The Physicians for Human Rights 2014 “Doing warned: “You don’t want to start a war with CDCr.” The at all confidential so often understandably patients will not Harm: Health Professionals’ Central Role in the CIA Torture solitary confinement. Because of the code of silence among be more in solidarity with the World Health Organization, oppression reminded me of how colonizers defined Native unfortunate reality was as James Baldwin’s wrote: “To act is share much. I learned from those in the SHU that “psych Program” 13. Briggs et al. (2003) ‘The effects of supermaximum staff condoning these transgressions, a special master was NCCHC, and the United Nations position which all agree Americans as uncivilized savages in need of “saving” to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.” 1 was suspect” so minimal help was even requested from staff. security prisons on aggregate levels of institutional violence’, appointed to monitor court ordered remediations. Henderson that prolonged segregation longer than 15 days is cruel, through Christianization and reeducation, with the real Criminology, Vol.41 (4) pp 1341-1376. 14. Martin Luther King I left CDCr wondering how PBSP could remain in shambles Those excluded with one of the exclusionary diagnosis but told her that not enough evidence was presented to find inhumane, degrading, and harmful to an individual’s intent to steal their lands and demean, marginalize, and 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” 15. Center for Constitutional after 22 years of court oversight. As I started educating myself serving a SHU term are housed in the Psychiatric Housing solitary confinement itself unconstitutional. Court oversight health, and can constitute torture. 3,6,7 slowly exterminate them. The 2015 Asher vs Brown Rights. about prison reform, I stumbled upon Keramet Reiter's 2016 Unit (PSU). Both the SHU and the PSU are required to have an requires honest portrayal of the facts, not a misrepresentation Aside from solitary confinement, ethical dilemmas settlement which now prohibits CDCr from placing book, “23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term assigned psychiatrist. The last year I was at PBSP neither had with a desired result. abound as a CDCr psychiatrist. Physicians cannot allow inmates into a SHU based solely on gang affiliation Solitary Confinement.” 2 Within those pages, I found one. Without an assigned psychiatrist to see them as needed, Reiter’s assertion that PBSP has only superficially ourselves to be used to advance CDCr’s purpose at the or validation status may remedy this grave injustice. validation and some disturbing answers. I wish this book these very ill PSU patients were cycling back and forth, crisis complied with court orders and has “designed creative expense of our patients or our principles. Often I was According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, “the had been available to me before I started working in CDCr. after crisis, from the PSU to the inpatient psychiatric hospital. 60,000 immigrants workarounds to avoid external oversight” is supported by asked to increase patient’s medicines because supposedly, numbers of California prisoners in indefinite solitary Reiter, an assistant professor at the University of California I was ordered to participate in the weekly PSU treatment my PBSP experiences (p. 199). CDCr credentialing staff per custody, the patient was manic, paranoid, and trying confinement has dropped by 99%” one year after the held at Colorado at Irvine’s Department of Criminology, Law & Society and team meetings even though I never evaluated these patients confided: “Administration turns a blind eye to irregularities to start a riot. I would assess the patient to be coherent, settlement. 15 This astonishing reduction illustrates how School of Law, ambitiously attempts to provide a cohesive and therefore could give no meaningfully input. I explained facility sue GEO until auditors are at the door.” I saw how within days of a linear in thinking, calm, perceiving risks realistically, arbitrary was CDCr’s criteria, and how few prisoners picture of the historical context that birthed California’s first this was not in the patient’s best interest and finally refused pending court audit, one of the mental health programs which and often would see no clinical indication to adjust merited continuation in such restrictive environment. supermax, PBSP, in December 1989. She cautions that the to provide PBSP protection when I was asked to do this for Group for forced had been operating over capacity for months with some medications. There was obviously a misrepresentation The newly adopted 2-year step down program and the story she shares remains fragmented due to CDCr’s veiled another program. Again I explained my reservations through inmates in overflow areas receiving little to no treatment that was not substantiated through evaluation. I refused alternative to SHU, the Restrictive Custody General labor transparency. Reiter wanted to understand how the decision the PBSP and CDCr chain of command without support. was reduced by twenty patients. Normally transfers out of to chemically restrain them because custody labeled them Population, may prove be more efficient instruments of Published by Free Speech Radio News, April 14, 2017 to build a supermax was reached especially considering Instead, as often happens in CDCr, the whistleblower PBSP take months but this pending audit inspired officials “agitators” when they were expressing understandable repression. Vigilance is in order. Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to the US- that courts at the time were condemning lockdown facility gets accused. I was told I was being irresponsible, not to move quickly and make exceptions. Another blatant frustration and/or peacefully building support for non- Prison is a tentacle of society and without addressing Mexico border in Arizona this week, where he issued conditions and experts were recommending more humane thinking of how my actions affected others, and that I was maneuver to appear favorably to auditors was when patient violent collective resistance. I learned to not take reports what feeds and maintains CDCr, there can be little new guidelines for ramped up immigration enforcement. treatment and programming, and questioning the existing not a team player. Their way around this “inconvenience” He ordered additional charges be brought against treatment plans would be reduced from the usual weekly 14 at face value. I often reduced the complex non evidence- transformative systemic change. As long as we ignore classification system that was leading to an increase in was to list anyone present in the meetings even if they undocumented immigrants when possible and directed that to a low of 2-4 with purposeful intention to discuss each plan based “cocktail” of polypharmacy patients arrived on. the contradictions of our nation we will continue to lockdown units. Shockingly, in researching California did not participate in the discussion. With or without my repeat entrants be charged with felony crimes. The new meaningfully. Supervisors would not have needed to deceive The greatest measure of success seemed to be “As long have racism and discrimination that creates oppressive legislations, she found no records on the supermax other cooperation, CDCr would fill that psychiatrist line by writing guidelines also call for the prosecution of anyone involved in this manner if the truth was in compliance. Unannounced as they are not getting rules violations.” It did not seem economic, social, and political policies that legitimize a than a 1988 legislative debate about the naming of it. She “Dr McCall present” to comply with regulations. You cannot in transporting or harboring undocumented immigrants. court visits would be more revealing of the true functioning to matter if the patient was so sedated that they needed hypocritical system. Our country preaches “democracy” interviewed prison officials, judges, lawyers, and some rationalize unethical behavior based on current needs. While the stated goal aims to target people smugglers, of PBSP. Cover up is worse than the crime as it erodes trust. prompting to provide for basic care, or was not leaving his and “freedom” yet incarcerates the most, especially the inmates and concluded: “Three factors forged the supermax: Leaders are expected to embody and execute moral integrity. members of mixed status families fear that provision could Integrity is not just the absence of lying, but telling the whole cell to participate in programming, or that the dangerous most vulnerable and marginalized. Our prisons and jails fear of uncontrollably violent prisoners, lack of transparency, Of more recent news, CDCr is attempting to take over three be used against them for things as basic as living together truth, as painful as it may be. medication combinations were increasing morbidity and are the de facto mental health hospitals for our mentally and bureaucratic discretion” (p 203). Furthermore, she Despite court oversight, the provision of psychiatric care state mental hospitals (Department State Hospitals-Salinas or for traveling in the same car. mortality risk. ill. Twenty five percent of the prison population have Private prison operators are already cashing in on the argues that prison officials’ “compliant resistance” to court in PBSP continued with endless deficiencies that staff was Valley, Stockton and Vacaville) arguing that continuity of Recently a psychologist advised CDCr to do 30 mental illness compared to the four percent in the general Trump-era crackdown. The GEO Group announced orders has sabotaged prison reform contributing to more conditioned to tolerate. The mental health program operated care would be improved. PBSP's substandard medical and minute welfare checks around the clock on prisoners in population. The 1963 Kennedy Community Mental Thursday it has secured a contract with the government hidden and harsher practices and an over reliance on solitary in crisis mode, a grave error as its reactionary defensive mental health care is not unique, it crosses all sites. When segregation, with the reported intention to reduce suicides. Health Act prematurely closed psychiatric hospitals to build a new 1000 bed, $110 million immigration prison confinement as a standard management tool (p 72). She pattern only increased risks for all and led to conflict. CDCr cannot manage effectively and humanely their current I have stated that sleep deprivation is hazardous to physical without building the intensive services the mentally ill in Conroe, Texas – just north of Houston. The contract urges, as others did in 1970s, better transparency to improve system, Governor Brown and other state legislatures should Planning for program needs seemed to be afterthoughts. and mental health, and is a known method of torture. Most needed to be empowered and integrate into the fabric of comes as the GEO Group faces a class-action lawsuit in oversight and provide checks and balances on administrative not allow CDCr to expand into greater acute care. Not only It took PBSP 2 ½ years to get an on- site psychiatrist after people with reduced sleep will be moody, have reduced our communities. As a result, many patients have become Colorado, where at least 60,000 immigrants accuse the discretion. However, I believe we have relied too much on would this be absolutely detrimental to patient care, but its opening. When I left PBSP in July 2016, two full time tolerance for stress, increased risk for psychosis, and homeless, criminalized, and traumatized as they enter the for-profit detention company of forcing them to work laws and court orders to direct action. The Emancipation would cost the public much in expected lawsuits and human psychiatrist remained for the entire facility, the same number lowered immunity. This recommendation sounds like a jail-prison system. This is a disgraceful abandonment. for little or no pay under threat of solitary confinement. Proclamation abolished slavery in the confederate states suffering. as when the Madrid vs. Gomez case was underway in recipe for increase suicide not less. A thoughtful benefit Incarceration is not treatment, and cycling through Hannah Leigh Myers reports. and later the 13 th Amendment did so across the nation Solitary confinement placement is at odds with the goal 1992. Due to limited psychiatrists, supervisors ordered us risk assessment of this practice points to more harm than different systems (legal system to mental hospitals) speaks The ICE Detention Center in Aurora, Colorado – also (except those convicted of crimes) but did little to change of rehabilitation or the facilitation of social reintegration. As to write discharge medication orders for unknown patients good yet it is policy. of the fragmentation costing much suffering and money. called the Denver Contract Detention Facility – is painted the attitudes or behaviors that continued to divide and little as ten days in solitary confinement can cause disruption in the psychiatric hospital unit without evaluating them The original argument for the SHU was to reduce prison As long as we the people fail to do our civic duty and hold a bright blue. It looks very new, not at all like lot of the oppress. Likewise, the culture of PBSP and CDCr impedes in the sleep-wake cycle, diaphoresis, dizziness, heart first. Anyone that objected to this unsafe practice received violence. However data on prison violence before and after our leaders accountable nothing will change and will only older government-run facilities. One would assume such Reiter’s recommendations. In a culture with a broken moral palpitations, headaches, muscle deconditioning, joint pains, a disciplinary letter that was placed in their personnel file. the introduction of solitary confinement has shown that the get worse. a large, kempt looking institution would employ a large compass to guide ethical behavior, transparency will be weight loss, diarrhea, constipation, fatigue, anxiety, panic, Despite repeated requests by me, I never got a speaker- isolation of prisoners labeled as dangerous or disruptive Keramet Reiter masterfully provokes us to question the staff to keep it so well-maintained. But as it turns out, the questioned, accountability will be misplaced, oversight will depression, paranoia, anger, impulsivity, hallucinations, detainees themselves may be a non-consenting work crew phone to provide translation services for non-English did not result in a reduction of prison violence. 13 Reiter very existence of solitary confinement. Each discovery remain minimally effective, administrative discretion will be obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, memory and forced to keep this place spic and span. speaking patients, or a scale to monitor patient’s weight argues that the SHU has “succeeded in eliminating the Reiter uncovers reminds me of the detachment and selectively enforced, and real meaningful change will have concentration difficulties, dissociation, hyper-sensitivity In March, a federal judge approved class-action status during hunger strikes, paranoia driven refusal of food, or widespread collective resistance characterized by George compartmentalization that many staff utilize to survive to wait. Reiter provides multiple examples exposing how the to normal stimuli, startled responses, hyper vigilance, for a lawsuit alleging at least 60,000 past and present anorexia. I could not order urgent labs unless a prisoner was Jackson and the Attica in the 1970s” but this too is not the daily demoralizing prison experience that removes politics of transparency is such that those that resist exposure hopelessness, helplessness, suicide, and suicidal behaviors. detainees held at the Aurora ICE facility were forced to do admitted to the inpatient unit or sent to an outside facility. supported by history (p 194). The SHU inmates proved them from the urgency of action. Staff is so busy putting will find ways to actually conceal rather than reveal the truth, 2,3,4,5,6,7 In 2014, 79% of suicides were in isolation units janitorial work, clerical work, landscaping and other jobs Routine labs were restricted to Tuesday and Thursdays. they could not be silenced as they peacefully organized the out fires that it becomes very easy to look away and and information obtained may be a distorted reality. (p163). Inmates in segregation have the highest rates of self for free or $1 a day. Chart documentation was often incomplete, with notes 2013 hunger strike of 30,000 prisoners across California avoid discussing the ethical dilemmas of some policies In reading Reiter’s book, I see PBSP is as it began. Reiter injurious behaviors. 8 Some of these adverse effects can be Those who refuse are threatened with solitary not scanned into the electronic system in a timely manner. in protest of the CDCr gang validation policy and SHU and actions, while supervisors create more ill planned revealed how a traumatized prison staff held hostage by its Access to patients for treatment was limited by the narrow long lasting and can devastate even those without mental confinement. A threat immigrants like this former, conditions. We are left perplexed as to the real purpose of programs that never unfold into the promise of healing, anonymous detainee say carries a lot of weight: “It was violent past has been unable to release themselves from the window of opportunity that custody could escort patients illness. Patients would often lament, “There is nothing more the SHU. While working at PBSP I was repeatedly told that and at times bring more harm than good. Staff deludes like hell on earth. If you’re not strong enough you’ll want grip of fear and anxiety. By interviewing key prison officials to confidential offices. At times guards would say patients dangerous than a man who has nothing to lose.” The SHU inmates in the SHU “earned their way there” for violent themselves into thinking that they are doing something to die in there.” she uncovered how the recurrent distressing memories of refused appointments when they had not. Space limitations creates the “monster” CDCr claims to be protecting us offenses. To learn from the book that the majority were when they are just contributing through their silence to the The case argues threatening solitary confinement the revolutionary prisoner George Jackson, the August 21, led to restricted services delivered. Even when space was from. When released from the SHU, some filled with rage there for allegedly being associated with gangs in absence apparatus of deceit. In the end, this book’s message to me violates the Trafficking Victims Protection Act which 1971 San Quentin State Prison riot that led to Jackson’s and resentment have assaulted others; thus results of the not an issue, the treatment groups available were largely of any rule violation or violent behavior was unsettling. was that we are equally accountable for what we do and prohibits forced labor under threat of harm. killing, followed by the September 9, 1971 New York confinement are leveraged by CDCr to justify such restrictive recreational. The “core” groups for trauma, substance use, Reiter found little evidence to support the myth of “worse fail to do. As harrowing as this book is, it is inspiring. Now It’s the first class-action lawsuit in U.S. history obligating Attica Correctional Facility bloody uprising has provoked confinement. Others in attempts to escape such horrors, or anger management had long waiting lists. Therapists were of the worst.” She describes beautifully and respectfully more than ever, with Donald Trump as president, we as a a private prison to fight claims of forced labor in court. defensive actions by prison officials in an attempt to secure “snitched, ” guaranteeing them death, or took their own often pulled from one skeletally staffed program to cover how these prisoners developed discipline of mind and people must expect more from ourselves and our leaders. The Aurora facility is one of more than 140 detention more control over their environment and the prisoners. The life, or provoked cops to kill them, or harmed themselves immediate needs of another which disrupted continuity of body through strict routines, how some learned new skills We need to define and defend our values. Nurture hope centers operated by GEO Group, the second largest private evolving community unrest and the reactionary political hard as a semblance of control over their lives. To think some care everywhere. Patients were hesitant to begin therapy or a new language, how some drew life into their barren and connections instead of fear and hatred. “Redefine prison operator, incarcerating more immigrants than any on crime attitude contributed to an increase in incarceration, prisoners have been held in the SHU for over 40 years is not knowing if their therapist would be gone tomorrow. The cells or wrote so descriptively to escape the constraints of felons as people first and criminals second” (p. 64). Heal other company worldwide. especially of minorities, which in turn created overcrowding unconscionable. shameful part was that at times, patients were then penalized prison. As we hear of the unnecessary struggles they face through restorative justice programs. Protest injustices. In a statement GEO Group says they “strongly refute” that disturbed the already fragile power structure and fueled Equally unscrupulous is the monthly release of 100 CDCr for not progressing enough, or for filing grievances, by in and out of the SHU, we begin to see these criminals Eliminate the discretionary application of the law that the perceived need for more protection. In an attempt to curb threats to be kicked out of programs. Patients were asking SHU inmates directly to the community without a transition as human beings. To realize that CDCr perpetuated the disproportionately negatively impacts minorities. Latinos 60,000 Immigrants...... ,,,,,,,....Continued on page 15 prison officials’ discretion, the courts in 1976 eliminated or support to adjust (p. 168). A weakness of Reiter’s book for help but the system was so chaotic and punitive that it falsehood of the “worse of the worst” reminded me of and AA make up ⅓ of United States general population 12 PRISON FOCUS NUMBER 52 13 19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W1 Web 1 Top 6/21/2017 12:00:20 PM Black $[LayerName] 19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W1 Web 1 Top 6/21/2017 12:00:20 PM Black $[LayerName] Message from CPF Activism Guide for imprisoned Incarcerated Workers Organizing This is a message to all of the old friends and human rights defenders Committee (IWOC) correspondants of CPF, and those of you who have been Human Rights First and the Milton A. Kramer Law IWOC was created by members of the industrial contributing to Prison Focus for many years. Many of the Clinic at Case Western Reserve University School of Law Workers of the World (IWW), a labor union founded over CPF old timers on the outside, such as Ed Mead, Marilyn are collaborating on an activism guide for imprisoned one hundred years ago by heroes of the working class, McMahon and Ron Ahnen, are no longer working with the human rights defenders. We’re hoping to compile the IWOC has been around for a couple of years, and now has organizationn in the same capacity as in the past. Though stories of imprisoned human rights defenders who have hundreds of inmate members across the country, as well as staff turnover brings fresh energy to the organization, it found ways to advocate for their own rights and the a growing network of support outside. IWOC’s goal is to also makes it difficult to maintain continuity. Many of you rights of others during their detention. Examples of this support prisoners in creating functioning union branches are far more familiar with CPF then the newcomers who advocacy may include prison labor strikes, book clubs, in every facility, with an army on the outside building we are so grateful to have on the team, but who still have letter writing, and interviews via family members to the solidarity with prisoners’ collective actions. a lot to learn. First and foremost, we don't want to offend media. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions. IWOC is accepting IWW membership applications anybody who may be wondering why we have stopped Mail can be sent to: from prisoners who believe that to truly change prison corresponding with you, or why you've received a letter The Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic conditions, prisoner must be organized and working with c/o Avidan Y. Cover from a CPFer who does not know of your familiarity and the support of the working class on the outside. IWW 11075 East Blvd, relationship with the organization. Though we may not membership is free for prisoners. If you’re not a member Cleveland Ohio 44106 know the role you have played in our accomplishments, yet and would like to be, just write us at: (CPF invites you to send us a copy as well. See CPF's P.O. Box 6305, Oakland, CA 94612 your knowledge and experience is of great value to us, and Confidentiality Statement.) contributes to the work we still have to do.We hope you Note: IWOC is not able to address individual legal issues. will continue to correspond with CPF, contribute to Prison Focus. We want to continue working with you, as we find our way through the many transitions, inside and out. Excerpts from "Advice For Prisoners and Their Supporters Regarding Board of Parole Hearings Status of CPF's Psychological Evaluations" Legal Visits Program and More "Including Special Advice For Ashker Class Members" Due to the inevitable shifts and changes within FAD: The California Board of Parole Hearings has established the Forensic Assessment Division (FAD), a staff of psychologists a small all-volunteer organization such as CPF, we who conduct evaluations of prisoners for Board hearings....The FAD psychologist uses two formal risk assessment tools - the will be conducting less visits this year, as we work Historiacal Risk Management 20, Version 3 (HCR-20V3) and the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R). The psychologist also through changes in leadership and continue our makes a diagnosis as to whether the prisoner has a mental disorder, such as Antisocial Personality Disorders or a substance efforts to increase programming capacity. Though use disorder, under the standards of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)... The HCR-20V3 we will still be conducting some visits, there will be and the PCL-R both revolve around the concept of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). They measure other things and less than in recent years. We will continue to write use different ways of measuring risk, but Antisocial Disorder is a central building block in each of them...The diagnosis of prison reports based on the many letters we receive, ASPD is important because the FAD psychologist and the Board weigh it as a big risk factor for future criminality...The and look forward to getting our Legal Visits Program DSM-5 definition of ASPD centers on behavior that shows a "pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of back in full swing. others." ...Although criminal and rule-breaking behavior is only one aspect of ASPD, many psychologists (particularly FAD psychologists) focus on it... One of the biggest problems with the ASPD diagnosis for long-term prisoners, is the idea that this Community OUTreach personality type is fixed for lige and amenable to change...The truth is that people who once evidenced antisocial traits change ed by local writer, teacher and community with age, time and positive influences...Since all of the FAD's tools and approaches over-emphasize past history, it's up to the organizer Steve Martinot, a number of prisoner and his supporters to fill in the blanks for the Board. Without trying to comment on criticisms or debates about these Lactivists at California Prison Focus are tools, they should make sure the materials submitted to the Board emphasize the things that have changed since the prisoner planning a community outreach effort in the came to prison, how he accomplished that change, and how long it's been since the negative acts that led to a prison term. California’s Bay Area (Home of CPF). The focus will He should list accomplishments and activities that demonstrate his stability and compliance with rules and expectations. It be on developing collaborative relationships within is important to address the impact of age, and the steps the prisoner has taken to reinforce the natural tendency for substance the communities most affected by mass incarceration. abuse, crime and violence to subside with age. It is also important for supporters to show how the individual has changed over We look forward to having dialogues with various time to become much more pro-social," responsible, loving, empathic, motivated to succeed, etc., and to explain why they are individuals within the nieigbhorboods most effected convinced the individual is not a risk for future substance abuse, crime or violence. While authorities generally say ASPD is by over-policing and mass incarceration, and who hard to treat, studies have concluded that a form of therapy called Cognitive Behavorial Therapy (CBT) is the most effective. have concerted interests in the work we do. We aim If the prisoner has been through CDCR's Step Down Program, "Thinking for Change" or other programs identified in section to hear about the experiences, needs and perspectives 3040.1 of Title 15, it should be raised as a positive point, because these programs are based on the model of CBT... In materials on mass incarceration, police brutality, and prisoner from supporters and the prisoner, it is usually better not to mention Antisocial Personality Disorder...Rather, supporters should reentry into society. simply talk about the traits in the individual prisoner that are clearly opposite of those described in these pshycological We will begin our outreach by contacting and definitions and concepts.For example, to show that a prisoner is sensitive, empathetic, concerned about the plight of others, connecting with religious organizations and other supporters should talk about what they know about and have seen the prisoner do, like help younger individuals in the family community-based support organizations. From there or community stay away from drugs, crime and prison... we will begin to cultivate collaborative relationships Issues that are particularly relevant for Ashker class members include: time in SHU,refusal to debrief and participation in the with these local allies and figure out how we can best hunger strikes. For the complete packet, write to CPF. Please include 3 or more stamps to cover costs.. work together.

Acuerdo para poner Fin a Enemistades A Quien Corresponda y Todo Prisionero en California: Saludos de parte de todos los Representantes de la Huelga de Hambre del Corredór Corto PBSP-SHU Por este medio, estamos presentando este Acuerdo Mutuo de parte de todos los grupos raciales que se encuentran aquí en el PBSP-SHU(Hoyo). En donde, hemos llegado a un acuerdo mutuo acerca de los siguientes puntos : ●● Si de verdad queremos llevar a cabo cambios sustantivos y significantes al sistema de CDCR, de una manera beneficiosa para todo individuo serio , que nunca han sido quebrantado por las tacticas de tortura destinadas a convertirlos a ser soplones estatales via interrogatorio, que ahora es el tiempo que juntos podamos aprovechar este momento, y poner un fin a los más de 20 a 30 años de enemistades entre nuestros grupos raciales. ●● Por lo tanto, comenzando el 10 de Octubre, 2012, todas las enemistades entre nuestros grupos raciales … en el HOYO/ SHU, Ad-Seg, la Población General, y Cárceles de Condado, oficialmente terminaran . Esto indica que, de esta fecha y adelante, toda enemistad entre grupos raciales tienen que terminar… y si asuntos personales se presentan entre indivíduos, todos tenemos que hacer todo lo posible por agotar los medios diplomáticos para resolver disputas; no debemos permitír que los asuntos personales e individuales se conviertan en problemas raciales!! ●● Tambien queremos advertirles a aquellos en la Población General que IGI continuará a mandando Informantes encubiertos al Patio de Necesidades Sensitivas (SNY) entre los prisioneros serios de la PG, prisoneros con órdenes del IGI a ser informadores, soplones, ratas, y obstruir, con el fin de perturbar y debilitar el entendimento mutuo de nuestros grupos colectivos sobre los temas deseados para nuestras causas mutuas [es decir, obligar a CDCR a abrir las lineas principales a la GP , y regresar a un sistema rehabilitador de programas significativos /privilegios, inclusive visitas conyugales para los sentenciados a vida, etc. via actividades de protestas pacíficas/no cooperación e.g., huelgas de hambre, , no trabajar, etc. etc.]. Todos deben seguir concientes y vigilantes a tales tácticas, y rehusar permitír que tales soplones de IGI ocasionen caos y reanuden enemistades entre nuestros grupos raciales. No podemos seguír siendo manipulados con las viejas tácticas de dividir y conquistar de los IGI, ISU, OCS, y SSU’s !!! Para concluír, debemos mantenernos fuertes a nuestro acuerdo mutuo desde este punto en adelante y enfocar nuestro tiempo, atención, y energía sobre causas mutuas y beneficiosas para todos nosotros [es decir, los prisoneros], y en nuestros mejores intereses. No podemos seguír permitiendole a CDCR usarnos uno contra el otro para su propio beneficio! Porque la realidad es que juntos, somos una fuerza poderosa que puede positivamente transformar este sistema corrupto a un sistema que en verdad puede beneficiar a los prisoneros, y con eso, al público en General… y nosotros simplemente no podemos permitir a CDCR/CCPOA – la Union de Guardias, IGI, ISU, OCS, y SSU, a continuár saliendose con su forma constante de opresión progresiva y el almacenamiento de miles de prisoneros, incluyendo los 14,000 (+) prisoneros detenidos en confinamiento solitario en camara de tortura [es decir,el SHU/HOYO/Unidades de Ad-Seg], por decadas!!! Enviamos nuestro amor y respeto a todos aquellos de mentes y corazones similares… adelante en la lucha y solidarida

19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W2 Web 2Top 6/21/2017 12:00:21 PM Black $[LayerName] Presentado por el grupo en el Corredor Corto : Todd Ashker, C58191, Arturo Castellanos, C17275, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (Dewberry), C35671, Antonio Guillen, P81948 And the Representatives Body: Danny Troxell, B76578, George Franco, D46556, Ronnie Yandell, V27927, Paul Redd, B72683, James Baridi Williamson, D-34288., Alfred Sandoval, D61000, Louis Powell, B59864, Alex Yrigollen, H32421, Gabriel Huerta, C80766, Frank Clement, D07919, James Mario Perez, B48186 [NOTE: All names and the statement must be verbatim when used & posted on any website or media, or non-media, publications.] NOTE: CPF invite you to share your thoughts and experiences regarding The Agreement to End Hostilities. Do you feel a change?

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Smith Correctional Facility in Banning in September. The The September. in Banning in Facility Correctional Smith

health care while housed in ASU. in housed while care health

● ● outcome. the regarding “recreation time, properly cleaned laundry, reasonable reasonable laundry, cleaned properly time, “recreation

killed a fellow inmate, 82-year-old Tom Carlin, at the the at Carlin, Tom 82-year-old inmate, fellow a killed

humanity and decency.”● and humanity

are leaning increasingly toward mass deportations.● mass toward increasingly leaning are get a TV. Examine FSP record of prisoners needing mental mental needing prisoners of record FSP Examine TV. a get

Sheriff’s Department. CPF has received little information information little received has CPF Department. Sheriff’s

reported their demands as being being as demands their reported Stranger The

Villanueva has been in segregation since he allegedly allegedly he since segregation in been has Villanueva

and idealistic concepts of dignity, civilized standards, standards, civilized dignity, of concepts idealistic and

in the fight against the Trump administration’s policies that that policies administration’s Trump the against fight the in violation and promotes prisoners to harm themselves to to themselves harm to prisoners promotes and violation

ended Monday, May 1st, according to the Riverside County County Riverside the to according 1st, May Monday, ended

meeting basic demands. basic meeting

SEG, unit. SEG,

Eighth Amendment rights. The amendment embodies “broad “broad embodies amendment The rights. Amendment Eighth protests and legal actions will prove to be powerful weapons weapons powerful be to prove will actions legal and protests Editors Note: Note: Editors The hunger strike lasted for 19 days and and days 19 for lasted strike hunger The

FSP’s attitude of “make us,” “we’re exempt,” is in in is exempt,” “we’re us,” “make of attitude FSP’s

and Customs Enforcement (ICE) representatives into into representatives (ICE) Enforcement Customs and

housed in the jail’s administrative segregation, or AD- or segregation, administrative jail’s the in housed

is unnecessary cruelty and punishment and violates prisoners’ prisoners’ violates and punishment and cruelty unnecessary is Durham said. Durham

Yet immigrants and their advocates are hopeful that that hopeful are advocates their and immigrants Yet

preventive relief.” preventive

life unnecessarily onerous for detainees, especially those those especially detainees, for onerous unnecessarily life

stocking up on snacks from the commissary before the strike, strike, the before commissary the from snacks on up stocking cup. See Estelle v. Gamble, 424 U.S. 97 (1976). This treatment treatment This (1976). 97 U.S. 424 Gamble, v. Estelle See cup.

day in court. in day

await the consummation of threatened injury to obtain obtain to injury threatened of consummation the await

Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington Washington Tacoma, in Center Detention Northwest Nancy Markham — as inequitable policies that make make that policies inequitable as — Markham Nancy

are by law nutritionally balanced, even gained weight after after weight gained even balanced, nutritionally law by are

and milk cartons and to drink from a 3 ounce “rubbery” reused reused “rubbery” ounce 3 a from drink to and cartons milk and

most of the detainees bringing the case may never see their their see never may case the bringing detainees the of most

v. Brennan, 511 U.S. ____(1994) “One does not have to to have not does “One ____(1994) U.S. 511 Brennan, v.

at the for-profit Tacoma Tacoma for-profit the at detainees undocumented 700 a light on what he has described — by way of his wife, wife, his of way by — described has he what on light a

Durham said. Some inmates who refused to eat meals, which which meals, eat to refused who inmates Some said. Durham

to eat out of recycled (“washed”) trash bags, old zip lock bags bags lock zip old bags, trash (“washed”) recycled of out eat to

the case is likely to drag through the courts for years, and and years, for courts the through drag to likely is case the get mental health care, which provides TVs per Farmer Farmer per TVs provides which care, health mental get

In April, over over April, In recourse. lack who those by tactic protest a Rigoberto Villanueva, 40, organized the strike to shine shine to strike the organized 40, Villanueva, Rigoberto

The number of inmates taking part on any one day fluctuated, fluctuated, day one any on part taking inmates of number The

Denial of a food bowl or cup: FSP is forcing its ASU prisoners prisoners ASU its forcing is FSP cup: or bowl food a of Denial

class action certification is clearly a legal leap forward. But But forward. leap legal a clearly is certification action class

minds, forcing prisoners to harm themselves in order to to order in themselves harm to prisoners forcing minds,

locations of active resistance, with hunger strikes used as as used strikes hunger with resistance, active of locations they’d lose it, but they’ve actually gained a little bit.” little a gained actually they’ve but it, lose they’d

day room. day

PROVIDE FOOD BOWL AND CUP AND BOWL FOOD PROVIDE

For the plaintiffs in the Aurora forced labor lawsuit, the the lawsuit, labor forced Aurora the in plaintiffs the For

deprivation, sitting idle, causes prisoners to lose their their lose to prisoners causes idle, sitting deprivation,

Immigration detention facilities have also become become also have facilities detention Immigration Gutierrez told City News Service. “The assumption is is assumption “The Service. News City told Gutierrez

which included increased phone access and more time in the the in time more and access phone increased included which

factors to deny a person decency. person a deny to factors

a day. a

. conditions labor slave-like and education or meaningful time out of cell, the sensory sensory the cell, of out time meaningful or education “A few of the inmates have started gaining weight,” weight,” gaining started have inmates the of few “A

did not make any changes in response to the inmates’ demands, demands, inmates’ the to response in changes any make not did

the civilized world. There is no reasonable security issue or or issue security reasonable no is There world. civilized the

Northwest Detention Center are also forced to work for $1 $1 for work to forced also are Center Detention Northwest

place, such as unsanitary conditions, abusive treatment, treatment, abusive conditions, unsanitary as such place, unwillingness to provide outlets. With no programs, programs, no With outlets. provide to unwillingness supervises correctional facilities countywide. facilities correctional supervises

Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Chris Durham said the department department the said Durham Chris Sgt. spokesman Sheriff’s

and properly fitted shoes to remain dignified and in touch with with touch in and dignified remain to shoes fitted properly and

work stoppage. Like the Aurora facility, detainees at the the at detainees facility, Aurora the Like stoppage. work

the factors that lead inmates to go on strike in the first first the in strike on go to inmates lead that factors the Prisoners are forced to choose a radio due to FSP’s FSP’s to due radio a choose to forced are Prisoners according to Assistant Sheriff Jerry Gutierrez, who Gutierrez, Jerry Sheriff Assistant to according

County Sheriff’s Department said. Department Sheriff’s County

coolness. It is a decency factor of allowing prisoners clothing clothing prisoners allowing of factor decency a is It coolness.

state – went on hunger strike. Some also called for a a for called also Some strike. hunger on went – state

families about their concerns. They often fail to mention mention to fail often They concerns. their about families April 13, but not all of them are avoiding food altogether, altogether, food avoiding are them of all not but 13, April

the choice of a TV or radio. or TV a of choice the

Riverside ended Monday, May 1, at 19 days, the Riverside Riverside the days, 19 at 1, May Monday, ended Riverside

denied appropriate clothing to cover up and still maintain maintain still and up cover to clothing appropriate denied

publications and outlets rarely speak to prisoners or their their or prisoners to speak rarely outlets and publications GEO Group detention center – this one in Washington Washington in one this – center detention Group GEO Twenty-six inmates have been refusing meals since since meals refusing been have inmates Twenty-six

stuff. Per Title 15, §3190(3), ASU prisoners are allowed allowed are prisoners ASU §3190(3), 15, Title Per stuff.

The hunger strike at Robert Presley Detention Center in in Center Detention Presley Robert at strike hunger The

During the summer, the warmer months, prisoners are are prisoners months, warmer the summer, the During

along from state and prison officials. Conventional news news Conventional officials. prison and state from along spokesman said Friday are based on “safety and security.” and “safety on based are Friday said spokesman This week, more than 750 immigrants held in another another in held immigrants 750 than more week, This

(Inmate Welfare Funds) are spent leisurely on non-inmate non-inmate on leisurely spent are Funds) Welfare (Inmate

on county officials to publicly address the inmates’ complaints. inmates’ the address publicly to officials county on

to prevent sickness while out on yard. on out while sickness prevent to

to protest conditions that a Riverside County sheriff’s sheriff’s County Riverside a that conditions protest to

sparse at best, often parroting information that is passed passed is that information parroting often best, at sparse

the unjust treatment of immigrants jailed within. jailed immigrants of treatment unjust the M FSP continues to cover up the fact the funds allocated allocated funds the fact the up cover to continues FSP

Starting Over Inc. are supporting the hunger strike and calling calling and strike hunger the supporting are Inc. Over Starting

winter months, prisoners are denied warm clothing or beanies beanies or clothing warm denied are prisoners months, winter

beginning their second week of a hunger strike strike hunger a of week second their beginning

Historically, media coverage of prison strikes has been been has strikes prison of coverage media Historically,

Aurora ICE facility and many others nationwide, decrying decrying nationwide, others many and facility ICE Aurora

possession of a TV. Instead of fixing this issue years ago, ago, years issue this fixing of Instead TV. a of possession The prisoner advocacy groups All of Us or None of Us and and Us of None or Us of All groups advocacy prisoner The

sized, with no ability to wash or exchange it. In the cold cold the In it. exchange or wash to ability no with sized,

Presley Jail in downtown Riverside are are Riverside downtown in Jail Presley

Matters reported. Matters

For years, the public has regularly protested outside the the outside protested regularly has public the years, For

I’m not about to negotiate safety and security.” and safety negotiate to about not I’m provide the necessary electrical outlets to allow the the allow to outlets electrical necessary the provide

Prisoners are provided one jumpsuit that is always over- always is that jumpsuit one provided are Prisoners

ore than two dozen inmates at the Robert Robert the at inmates dozen two than ore

half-minute NPR Weekend Edition interview…” Media Media interview…” Edition Weekend NPR half-minute

explains DiSalvo. explains

Gutierrez told CNS. “We’ll evaluate this with our staff. But But staff. our with this evaluate “We’ll CNS. told Gutierrez Denial of TVs: FSP has flat out lied on the ability to ability the on lied out flat has FSP TVs: of Denial

remain all day like this. like day all remain By Ken Stone Ken By

through of headlines on NBC’s Today and a three-and-a- a and Today NBC’s on headlines of through

“We’re always looking at processes to see how can improve,” improve,” can how see to processes at looking always “We’re

be detained. Which I think just adds urgency to our case,” case,” our to urgency adds just think I Which detained. be

ALLOW POSSESSION OF TELEVISIONS OF POSSESSION ALLOW

too small. Prisoners are moved around the prison like this and and this like prison the around moved are Prisoners small. too Posted on April 21, 2017 at mynewsla.com at 2017 21, April on Posted

sd fo a ige 0scn mnin uig run- a during mention 20-second single a from aside

As for the inmates’ complaints? They’re being reviewed. being They’re complaints? inmates’ the for As

in this country that will require more and more people to to people more and more require will that country this in A.A.

T-shirt, which are normally extremely used and too large or or large too and used extremely normally are which T-shirt, s e mat n i e sid er Riv

up almost completely empty on coverage of the strikes, strikes, the of coverage on empty completely almost up

complications as a result of the strike, Gutierrez said. Gutierrez strike, the of result a as complications

in more aggressively deporting undocumented immigrants immigrants undocumented deporting aggressively more in substance abuse counseling or programs, such as N.A. or or N.A. as such programs, or counseling abuse substance to walk around in their boxer underwear and state-issued state-issued and underwear boxer their in around walk to

and MSNBC — and National Public Radio…has come come Radio…has Public National and — MSNBC and of s zen do r fo week

staff around the clock to ensure none of them develop health health develop them of none ensure to clock the around staff

“The new administration, at the federal level is interested interested is level federal the at administration, new “The

Denial of personal clothing and shoes: Prisoners are forced forced are Prisoners shoes: and clothing personal of Denial behavior management etc. FSP provides absolutely no no absolutely provides FSP etc. management behavior

networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, Fox News, News, Fox CNN, PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, — networks

Inmates are being monitored by medical and psychiatric psychiatric and medical by monitored being are Inmates

important than ever. than important

ke ke i r st nger Hu d 2n n i no self-help courses or counseling in anger management, management, anger in counseling or courses self-help no

“[A] search of Nexis transcripts from the major news news major the from transcripts Nexis of search “[A]

“It was not a retaliatory measure,” he said. he measure,” retaliatory a not was “It

detentions is all the more reason why this lawsuit is more more is lawsuit this why reason more the all is detentions

them from acquiring degrees. FSP provides absolutely absolutely provides FSP degrees. acquiring from them

strike movements in U.S. history. U.S. in movements strike

according to the assistant sheriff. assistant the to according

DiSalvo says the planned increase in immigrant immigrant in increase planned the says DiSalvo

classes due to no TVs for video assignments, preventing preventing assignments, video for TVs no to due classes

then considered to be one of the largest national prison prison national largest the of one be to considered then

and a direct response to the strike, but it was just a coincidence, coincidence, a just was it but strike, the to response direct a and

capacity here, to hold as many as 1,400 detainees at a time. a at detainees 1,400 as many as hold to here, capacity the problem, those previously enrolled are forced to drop drop to forced are enrolled previously those problem, the

that no major media outlets had covered what was was what covered had outlets media major no that found

inmates and their relatives interpreted the action as deliberate deliberate as action the interpreted relatives their and inmates

struggle for freedom.● for struggle

900 immigrants a day and they say the plan is to increase increase to is plan the say they and day a immigrants 900

The college program is nonexistent at best. To add to to add To best. at nonexistent is program college The

Media Matters Matters Media began, strikes the after month One working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their their in prisoners Palestinian with solidarity build to working

their loved ones locked up in AD-SEG and other wards. Some Some wards. other and AD-SEG in up locked ones loved their

get bigger and busier. The facility can hold as many as as many as hold can facility The busier. and bigger get

priority, leaving no educational opportunities. educational no leaving priority,

a network of organizers and activists, based in North America, America, North in based activists, and organizers of network a But few reporters found the strikes worth covering. covering. worth strikes the found reporters few But the jail broke down, preventing some families from seeing seeing from families some preventing down, broke jail the

ramp up ICE detentions, this location is only expected to to expected only is location this detentions, ICE up ramp Editors Note: Editors The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is is Network Solidarity Prisoner Palestinian The

a hard spot; ASU prisoners are neither first nor second second nor first neither are prisoners ASU spot; hard a

GED.

Gutierrez said that earlier this week, the visitor elevator at at elevator visitor the week, this earlier that said Gutierrez

harm.”

facility. Considering the Trump administration’s plan to to plan administration’s Trump the Considering facility.

facility and ranch plus ASU. Therefore, we are placed in in placed are we Therefore, ASU. plus ranch and facility reinstitution of classes for those who want to obtain their their obtain to want who those for classes of reinstitution

their 30-minute breaks, according to sheriff’s officials. sheriff’s to according breaks, 30-minute their

caused and will cause serious physical and psychological psychological and physical serious cause will and caused

There’s been a lot of activity outside the Aurora ICE ICE Aurora the outside activity of lot a been There’s

high school diploma program is split between the entire entire the between split is program diploma school high excessive vendor visitation and canteen prices and the the and prices canteen and visitation vendor excessive

abstaining from buying goods from the commissary during during commissary the from goods buying from abstaining

activity. Prolonged exposure to these deprivations has has deprivations these to exposure Prolonged activity.

and release policies of the past are over.” are past the of policies release and

ASU prisoners are not afforded GED programs, and the the and programs, GED afforded not are prisoners ASU programs. The prisoners also asked for an end to to end an for asked also prisoners The programs. three times a day, but it was unclear how many were also also were many how unclear was it but day, a times three

physical exercise, sleep, access to courts, and meaningful meaningful and courts, to access sleep, exercise, physical

the abdication of duty to enforce our laws, and the catch catch the and laws, our enforce to duty of abdication the prisoners with education and rehabilitative programs. programs. rehabilitative and education with prisoners requested that mentally ill inmates be kept in treatment treatment in kept be inmates ill mentally that requested The AD-SEG inmates are rejecting meal trays delivered delivered trays meal rejecting are inmates AD-SEG The

stimulation, mental and physical health, entertainment, entertainment, health, physical and mental stimulation,

This is the Trump era,” Sessions said. “The lawlessness, lawlessness, “The said. Sessions era,” Trump the is This 1129 (9th Cir. 1981), held FSP shall provide its ASU ASU its provide shall FSP held 1981), Cir. (9th 1129 beverages.” to be compensated for their labor, as well as as well as labor, their for compensated be to requested

normal human contact, environmental and sensory sensory and environmental contact, human normal

entry into this country, be forewarned: This is a new era. era. new a is This forewarned: be country, this into entry CLOTHING AND SHOES AND CLOTHING been denied access to the commissary to buy soup, snacks or or snacks soup, buy to commissary the to access denied been conditions.” At one prison in South Carolina, South in prison one At conditions.” prisoners prisoners and rehabilitative programs: Wright v. Rushen, 642 F2d F2d 642 Rushen, v. Wright programs: rehabilitative and

We are being deprived of basic human needs, including including needs, human basic of deprived being are We

“For those that continue to seek improper and illegal illegal and improper seek to continue that those “For PROVIDE ADEQUATE AND APPROPRIATE APPROPRIATE AND ADEQUATE PROVIDE “That’s absolutely untrue,” he told CNS. “No one has has one “No CNS. told he untrue,” absolutely “That’s were protesting what have been described as “slave-like “slave-like as described been have what protesting were

Denial and/or lack of meaningful education, help courses courses help education, meaningful of lack and/or Denial

and unusual punishment under the U.S. Constitution. U.S. the under punishment unusual and

commitment to increased immigration enforcement. immigration increased to commitment privileges, but Gutierrez flatly denied that. denied flatly Gutierrez but privileges, invoke the Fifth Amendment. Fifth the invoke 24,000 inmates 24,000 some involving states, 24 in place who who

PROGRAMS

When taken together, these conditions constitute cruel cruel constitute conditions these together, taken When

retribution in the form of revoking commissary and visitation visitation and commissary revoking of form the in retribution with institutional investigations, violating a prisoner’s right to to right prisoner’s a violating investigations, institutional with more immigration judges as part of the administration’s administration’s the of part as judges immigration more Prison Uprising, work stoppages and hunger strikes took took strikes hunger and stoppages work Uprising, Prison

HELP COURSES AND REHABILITATIVE REHABILITATIVE AND COURSES HELP

to being in segregated housing and solitary confinement. confinement. solitary and housing segregated in being to

inmates began their strike, jail personnel have exacted exacted have personnel jail strike, their began inmates FSP’s warden is attempting to force prisoners to cooperate cooperate to prisoners force to attempting is warden FSP’s On last year’s September anniversary of the Attica Attica the of anniversary September year’s last On visit in Arizona, Sessions announced plans to hire 125 125 hire to plans announced Sessions Arizona, in visit

PROVIDE MEANINGFUL EDUCATION, SELF- EDUCATION, MEANINGFUL PROVIDE

forced to endure atypical and significant hardships due due hardships significant and atypical endure to forced

According to Markham, since her husband and the other other the and husband her since Markham, to According

after being placed in ASU for “non-disciplinary” reasons. “non-disciplinary” for ASU in placed being after programs.

use of private prisons. And this week, during a border border a during week, this And prisons. private of use established the “paging” the established

education, or rehabilitative programs. We are already already are We programs. rehabilitative or education,

seriously.” extort information out of prisoners in order to receive NDS NDS receive to order in prisoners of out information extort

to gain access to educational, religious and self-help self-help and religious educational, to access gain to

was sworn in, he reversed plans to phase out federal federal out phase to plans reversed he in, sworn was forms, copies or printing. It has been long long been has It printing. or copies forms, legal to

their cells or yard cages without meaningful exercise, exercise, meaningful without cages yard or cells their

in the jail,” he said. “Inmates are treated fairly. We take safety safety take We fairly. treated are “Inmates said. he jail,” the in

not approved by the APA. FSP’s warden is attempting to to attempting is warden FSP’s APA. the by approved not be moved out of general population and allow inmates inmates allow and population general of out moved be

98 percent. Just weeks after Attorney General Jeff Sessions Sessions Jeff General Attorney after weeks Just percent. 98 et al (1996) No. 94-1511. Currently, there is no access access no is there Currently, 94-1511. No. (1996) al et

Prisoners in B4 ASU are forced to sit or stand idle in in idle stand or sit to forced are ASU B4 in Prisoners

“We put these protocols in place for the safety of everyone everyone of safety the for place in protocols these put “We

denying this status based on an underground memo of criteria criteria of memo underground an on based status this denying commissary prices, allow mental health prisoners to to prisoners health mental allow prices, commissary

Since President Trump took office, GEO stock has risen risen has stock GEO office, took Trump President Since

provides is in line with Lewis v. Casey Casey v. Lewis with line in is provides

treatment.

and 11 p.m. 11 and

(1) outlines and stipulates criteria for NDS. FSP’s warden is is warden FSP’s NDS. for criteria stipulates and outlines (1) provide inmates access to more clothing, decrease decrease clothing, more to access inmates provide

would otherwise have to hire employees. hire to have otherwise would

to properly trained legal assistance that a law library library law a that assistance legal trained properly to

fiil te wl b hl acutbe o ti type of this for accountable held be will they officials

turned out individually at intervals, anytime between 7 a.m. a.m. 7 between anytime intervals, at individually out turned

prisoners: Title 15 Article 7 Segregation Housing §3335 (A) §3335 Housing Segregation 7 Article 15 Title prisoners:

the use of long-term or indefinite solitary confinement, confinement, solitary indefinite or long-term of use the

profits by forcing detainees to do work for which they which for work do to detainees forcing by profits

a proper defense or do legal research on their own. Access Access own. their on research legal do or defense proper a

like human beings? We will continue to remind CDCR CDCR remind to continue will We beings? human like

them to prioritize. Gutierrez said the segregated inmates are are inmates segregated the said Gutierrez prioritize. to them

Denial of NDS (Non Disciplinary Status) to qualifying qualifying to Status) Disciplinary (Non NDS of Denial around the nation, asking prison officials to prohibit prohibit to officials prison asking nation, the around

The lawsuit claims GEO Group is unlawfully boosting boosting unlawfully is Group GEO claims lawsuit The

life sentences and even the most educated could not mount mount not could educated most the even and sentences life

life, involve lawyers and courts, in order to be treated treated be to order in courts, and lawyers involve life,

have 30 minutes to get out of their cells, making it difficult for for difficult it making cells, their of out get to minutes 30 have

QUALIFYING PRISONERS QUALIFYING

Their demands echoed those made by other inmates inmates other by made those echoed demands Their

out.

Many of the men here are facing serious charges that carry carry that charges serious facing are here men the of Many

California prisoners continue to sacrifice health and and health sacrifice to continue prisoners California

schedule letting the inmates know in advance when they will will they when advance in know inmates the letting schedule

GIVE NON-DISCIPLINARY STATUS TO TO STATUS NON-DISCIPLINARY GIVE

California, launched a hunger strike. hunger a launched California,

absence of the class-action mechanism,” DiSalvo points points DiSalvo mechanism,” class-action the of absence

illiterate, non-English speaking and/or undereducated. undereducated. and/or speaking non-English illiterate,

been hard fought for and accomplished. Why must must Why accomplished. and for fought hard been

According to the woman, jail personnel do not maintain a a maintain not do personnel jail woman, the to According

packages is allowed within the SHU. the within allowed is packages at the Robert Presley Detention Center, located in in located Center, Detention Presley Robert the at

vulnerable populations have accessing the courts in the the in courts the accessing have populations vulnerable

The “law cage” is inadequate for prisoners who are are who prisoners for inadequate is cage” “law The their bodies, health, and life to achieve what has already already has what achieve to life and health, bodies, their

that stuff in so little time?” she said last week. last said she time?” little so in stuff that

proven by the fact that all packaging in canteen and quarterly quarterly and canteen in packaging all that fact the by proven On April 13, at least 30 inmates inmates 30 least at 13, April On outdoors. exercising

courts which I think speaks mostly to the difficulties that that difficulties the to mostly speaks think I which courts

“Men stand again, just as unified, ready to sacrifice sacrifice to ready unified, as just again, stand “Men Denial of adequate access to courts and legal assistance: assistance: legal and courts to access adequate of Denial

calls, get exercise in 30 minutes? How does anybody do all all do anybody does How minutes? 30 in exercise get calls,

an irrational practice with no real security or safety reason, as as reason, safety or security real no with practice irrational an

conditions that included inmates being barred from from barred being inmates included that conditions

very long time, but they have yet to be challenged in the the in challenged be to yet have they but time, long very

strike: LEGAL ASSISTANCE LEGAL

segregated inmates are supposed to take showers, make phone phone make showers, take to supposed are inmates segregated

trash bags which causes coffee to go stale and harden. This is is This harden. and stale go to coffee causes which bags trash according to family members, was initiated due to prison prison to due initiated was members, family to according

“These are practices that GEO has engaged in for a a for in engaged has GEO that practices are “These The strikers declared in the announcement of their their of announcement the in declared strikers The PROVIDE ADEQUATE ACCESS TO COURTS AND AND COURTS TO ACCESS ADEQUATE PROVIDE “He’s locked down 23.5 hours a day, and he and the other other the and he and day, a hours 23.5 down locked “He’s

purpose to keep the funk away. Coffee jars are repackaged to to repackaged are jars Coffee away. funk the keep to purpose Department of Corrections ended a hunger strike hunger a ended Corrections of Department which, which,

store), and appropriate clothing and food bowls and cups. and bowls food and clothing appropriate and store), community the power to fight such a powerful organization. powerful a such fight to power the community on his ability to communicate with her and their two children. two their and her with communicate to ability his on line with fair and dignified treatment of a human being: human a of treatment dignified and fair with line

bags, which causes the deodorant to evaporate and lose its its lose and evaporate to deodorant the causes which bags, eety O Arl 1 imts t the at inmates 11, April On recently. Mississippi Mississippi

packaged food and toiletries at the commissary (prison (prison commissary the at toiletries and food packaged class-action status gives a frightened and marginalized marginalized and frightened a gives status class-action about his treatment in AD-SEG, mostly because of the curbs curbs the of because mostly AD-SEG, in treatment his about

idle, in forced single cell. The following demands are in in are demands following The cell. single forced in idle,

out of trash bags. Deodorant that is gel is repackaged to trash trash to repackaged is gel is that Deodorant bags. trash of out Strikes by other inmates have occurred even more more even occurred have inmates other by Strikes

equipment, an end to noisy “welfare checks,” properly properly checks,” “welfare noisy to end an equipment, the attorneys behind the lawsuit. She says the case’s new new case’s the says She lawsuit. the behind attorneys the Markham told CNS that her husband has been incensed incensed been has husband her that CNS told Markham

depending on the offense. This leads to prisoners sitting sitting prisoners to leads This offense. the on depending TRASH BAGS! This is forcing prisoners to use toothpaste toothpaste use to prisoners forcing is This BAGS! TRASH officials were trying to kill him. kill to trying were officials

rehabilitation, televisions, and appropriate recreation recreation appropriate and televisions, rehabilitation,

parked alongside Interstate 10 in Whitewater. in 10 Interstate alongside parked DiSalvo, Executive Director of Towards Justice and one of of one and Justice Towards of Director Executive DiSalvo,

term confinement of anywhere from a year to 14 months months 14 to year a from anywhere of confinement term Commissary and canteen: All items are repackaged into into repackaged are items All canteen: and Commissary The Free Alabama Movement told Democracy Now that that Now Democracy told Movement Alabama Free The

access to courts, legal assistance, education, education, assistance, legal courts, to access

who was stabbed multiple times with a screwdriver in a car car a in screwdriver a with times multiple stabbed was who

Protection Act prohibition on forced labor,” explains Nina Nina explains labor,” forced on prohibition Act Protection

This forces prisoners to remain housed in ASU for long long for ASU in housed remain to prisoners forces This COMMISSARY AND CANTEEN AND COMMISSARY Kilby Correctional Facility after initiating a work strike. strike. work a initiating after Facility Correctional Kilby

include adequate adequate include Folsom in demands strikers’ The last May of 37-year-old Rosemary Barrasa of Bloomington, Bloomington, of Barrasa Rosemary 37-year-old of May last

the complaint that could violate the Trafficking Victims Victims Trafficking the violate could that complaint the of court proceedings. court of KEEP ORIGINAL PROPER PACKAGING FOR FOR PACKAGING PROPER ORIGINAL KEEP by officials at the the at officials by water denied was Council year, same

injustice and exploitation. and injustice 6-foot-2, 300-pound Villanueva is also charged with the slaying slaying the with charged also is Villanueva 300-pound 6-foot-2,

said no, if you are in fact doing all the things alleged in in alleged things the all doing fact in are you if no, said report is pending district attorney rejection or conclusion conclusion or rejection attorney district pending is report night. against him in return – did not end. In November that that November In end. not did – return in him against

and human dignity in a prison system based on racism, racism, on based system prison a in dignity human and

“GEO filed a motion like that in this case and the judge judge the and case this in that like motion a filed “GEO retaliation, thus waking prisoners every half hour the entire entire the hour half every prisoners waking thus retaliation, term or be transferred to “SHU housing” because the 115 115 the because housing” “SHU to transferred be or term But Council’s strikes – and the punitive action taken taken action punitive the and – strikes Council’s But

incarceration. We salute those fighting for their lives lives their for fighting those salute We incarceration.

attended a rally held outside of Folsom on June 4 June on Folsom of outside held rally a attended SS PH

the federal government but judges aren’t convinced. aren’t judges but government federal the

when asked for courtesy, the noise is made extreme as a a as extreme made is noise the courtesy, for asked when

garnering media attention. media garnering MERD imposed, prisoners still cannot be deemed “SHU” “SHU” deemed be cannot still prisoners imposed, MERD

th. th.

PF and and PF C of members strike, hunger Folsom the of support In

the United States against racist oppression and mass mass and oppression racist against States United the

their so-called volunteer work program policies are set by by set are policies program work volunteer so-called their secured on their person to prevent the excessive noise, yet yet noise, excessive the prevent to person their on secured ending Council’s hunger strike and preventing him from from him preventing and strike hunger Council’s ending

due process of hearing and evidence. With the projected projected the With evidence. and hearing of process due

strikers and their demands, and for the struggle in in struggle the for and demands, their and strikers

Since the case was filed in 2014, GEO Group has insisted insisted has Group GEO 2014, in filed was case the Since punishment. A CO’s equipment and keys can be properly properly be can keys and equipment CO’s A punishment. the force-feeding was done with the additional motive of of motive additional the with done was force-feeding the

initial 115 report, as if found guilty for the offense, violating violating offense, the for guilty found if as report, 115 initial

Samidoun expresses its strongest support for the the for support strongest its expresses Samidoun

metal on metal contact, it creates unnecessary cruelty and and cruelty unnecessary creates it contact, metal on metal vigorously defend [the] company against the claims.” claims.” the against company [the] defend vigorously Movement, a prison reform advocacy group, believes believes group, advocacy reform prison a Movement,

MERD” (Minimum Eligible Release Date) based on the the on based Date) Release Eligible (Minimum MERD”

people in the unit that announced the strike.” the announced that unit the in people

while walking every half hour; mixed with uncourteous loud loud uncourteous with mixed hour; half every walking while But Dara Folden, a member of the Free Alabama Alabama Free the of member a Folden, Dara But the forced labor allegations, and “intend to continue to to continue to “intend and allegations, labor forced the

Classification Committee) still imposes a “Projected “Projected a imposes still Committee) Classification

are refusing meals, but we know that there are roughly 30 30 roughly are there that know we but meals, refusing are

officers (COs) on first watch create excessive noise with keys keys with noise excessive create watch first on (COs) officers had reached dangerous levels. dangerous reached had

This is important to note, because ICC (Institutional (Institutional ICC because note, to important is This

60,000 Immigrants...... Continued from page 13 page from Immigrants...... Continued 60,000

that “we cannot say exactly how many people people many how exactly say cannot “we that reported

Sleep deprivation from welfare checks: Correctional Correctional checks: welfare from deprivation Sleep

force-fed him intravenously, as his blood sugar levels levels sugar blood his as intravenously, him force-fed

receive findings of “guilty” to receive a disciplinary action. disciplinary a receive to “guilty” of findings receive

Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Coalition Solidarity Strike Hunger Prisoner The

OF WELFARE CHECKS WELFARE OF on hunger strike for 10 days. Medical staff at the prison prison the at staff Medical days. 10 for strike hunger on

reports against them cannot and have not been heard to to heard been not have and cannot them against reports

and has instead responded with increased repression. increased with responded instead has and

to the abuses that take place in their prisons.● their in place take that abuses the to END CRUELTY, NOISE AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION DEPRIVATION SLEEP AND NOISE CRUELTY, END Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility after being being after Facility Correctional Limestone Alabama’s

district attorney referrals; therefore, all 115 disciplinary disciplinary 115 all therefore, referrals; attorney district

has refused to address their just and legitimate demands demands legitimate and just their address to refused has

authorities who want to draw as little attention as possible possible as attention little as draw to want who authorities bars and build the equipment at minimum to no cost. no to minimum at equipment the build and bars sprawled unconscious on the floor of his cell his of floor the on unconscious sprawled found in in

same prisoners are all awaiting court proceedings and/or and/or proceedings court awaiting all are prisoners same

solitary confinement. The prison administration administration prison The confinement. solitary in held

coverage in the first place, which plays into the hands of of hands the into plays which place, first the in coverage FSP has the necessary vocational jobs and classes to install the the install to classes and jobs vocational necessary the has FSP On Oct. 30, 2016, Robert Earl Council was was Council Earl Robert 2016, 30, Oct. On

CSP-Sacramento, High Desert and SATF prisoners. These These prisoners. SATF and Desert High CSP-Sacramento,

in which they are are they which in conditions inhumane the protest to

most mainstream news networks aren’t pushing for any any for pushing aren’t networks news mainstream most saying ASU prisoners shall be provided meaningful exercise. exercise. meaningful provided be shall prisoners ASU saying | seddine Cham Roqayah By

(FSP), the majority of prisoners being housed here are are here housed being prisoners of majority the (FSP),

Isolated prisoners launched their strike on 25 May May 25 on strike their launched prisoners Isolated

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v. McCarthy, 597 F. Supp. 1388 9N.D. Cal 1984) covers FSP, FSP, covers 1984) Cal 9N.D. 1388 Supp. F. 597 McCarthy, v.

Within ASU Building 4 at Old Folsom State Prison Prison State Folsom Old at 4 Building ASU Within the United States. United the

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have been few and far between, leaving prisoners’ prisoners’ leaving between, far and few been have S strikes, as independent publications are forced to rely on on rely to forced are publications independent as strikes, left to sit idle for hours. CDCR agreed the pull-up bars were were bars pull-up the agreed CDCR hours. for idle sit to left

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poor conditions. But news reports on the strikes strikes the on reports news But conditions. poor It is difficult to obtain reliable information about prison prison about information reliable obtain to difficult is It ability to run around and exercise our legs, prisoners are are prisoners legs, our exercise and around run to ability

expresses our solidarity with the hunger strike strike hunger the with solidarity our expresses Hardships We Are Forced To Endure In Folsom Folsom In Endure To Forced Are We Hardships

of thousands of inmates protesting abuse and and abuse protesting inmates of thousands of of candy, and sometimes not even that.” even not sometimes and candy, of in the small dog kennel type cages used as yards. With no no With yards. as used cages type kennel dog small the in

amidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Network Solidarity Prisoner Palestinian amidoun onstitutional Violations And Significant Significant And Violations onstitutional

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commissary prices, access to educational programs, raising raising programs, educational to access prices, commissary PROVIDE EXERCISE EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING INCLUDING EQUIPMENT, EXERCISE PROVIDE offenses. The most obvious and statewide expression of that and setting out any and all consideration impliedly or least three-fourths of the matches are still corresponding. shift was the passage of Propositions 64, 47 and 57. In 2014 expressly offered or promised to, or requested or received This unique pen pal program stems from the belief that all Proposition 47 passed, which reduced many non-violent by, the in-custody informant. The bill would require the human beings have human rights, whether they are inside felonies (including drug possession) to a misdemeanor. statement to contain specified information, including the or outside the prison walls. The response from prisoners In 2016, Proposition 64 passed, which decriminalized informant’s complete criminal history, including pending to engage in a human rights-oriented dialogue has been so possession of marijuana and reduced penalties for growing criminal charges or investigations in which the informant enthusiastic, that regretfully, in 2016 HRPP was compelled or selling marijuana. Also in 2016, Proposition 57 passed, is a suspect, and whether the informant is a substance to stop taking requests for pen pals from the ‘inside’. There making people in prison with non-violent convictions abuser or has a history of substance abuse. The bill would continues to be an extensive waiting list, though efforts to eligible for parole after completing their base terms – prior also revise the definition of consideration for purposes of recruit 'outside' pen pals to be matched with those inside, to serving timeon any sentence enhancements. these provisions. continue. We invite and encourage folks from the outside However, Proposition 57 does not impact people in This bill would expand the scope of the prohibition to join the HRPP community., a special group of people, county jail. Thus, people in county jail can serve longer against a law enforcement or correctional official giving, indeed. Check out humanrightspenpals.org sentences than those in state prison, even if they have been offering, or promising to give a monetary payment to make In addition, PHSS continue to follow, support and/or convicted of the same crime. it applicable to a member of a prosecutorial entity, among challenge legislative activity. We hvae supported a bill for The policy of sentencing people with nonviolent other changes. The bill would also make the provision good time credits, a bill to abolish use of solitary for youth, convictions to long periods of incarceration is an expensive applicable to property and gifts, among other benefits, a bill to limit use of confidential informers, etc. While failure that does not reduce the availability of drugs in our and would limit the combined value of those benefits to not always successful, we did succeed in efforts which communities. Instead, it cripples state and local budgets that $100. The bill would also make technical changes.● ultimately reduced the number of new Institutional Gang should prioritize our best policies against drug sales and Investigators (IGI), from CDCR's original proposition drug use - drug prevention and treatment, education, and Editor's Note: of 150, to 49. PHSS has participated in “Lobby Days” employment for individuals with a history of incarceration. There have been concerns about this Bill, but overall organized by Californian's United for a Responsible Budget THIS BILL it is good. The idea is to disclose to the defense counsel (CURB), as well as Quest for Democracy events, most SB 180 RISE Act repeals specified sections of Health & the records of the informer. The prosecutor is supposed recently on May 7-8, 2017. Safety Code 11370.2 to remove sentencing enhancements to give info if it's potentially exculpatory, but frequently After the Ashker settlement CDCr wanted to be done that add additional three-year terms of incarceration for they don't do it. It's the most common cause of conviction with our excellent mediation team. We convinced the courts each prior conviction of nonviolent drug offenses. The bill reversals. In California, if an informant is in jail; testifies that there were still systemic issues and abuses that still does not repeal sentence enhancements for using a minor to against another prisoner and is then released, repeating need to be monitored, such as lack of programing, obstacles commit drug offenses, nor does it amend any other felony this behavior several times, it establishes a track record to visiting and the discrimination and retaliation against enhancement. that he is an informant, indicating that he may be a former SHU prisoners. BACKGROUND liar. California has fewer protections against the use of Space does not permit the listing of all the public Sentence enhancements, which were central strategies informants than other states. outreach and awareness activities that we have organized or to the failed War on Drugs, were utterly ineffective in participated in over the last two years, exposing some of the reducing or deterring drug use and availability. Controlled many problems within California's prisons, and California’s substances are now cheaper and more widely available than PHSS update sweeping use of solitary confinement. They varied widely ever before, despite a massive investment of tax revenue from an academic conference at Pitt Law School in April ast time we wrote up an update was in Aug 2015, and human lives in an unprecedented buildup of prisons 2016, at which sociology professors who already knew how almost 2 years ago! How time flies! A lot has harmful solitary confinement is, only then connected it to and jails. happened since, starting with the settlement of the The drug war has devastated families, low-income L the over-use/abuse of the practice in U.S. prisons, to rallies Ashker case, which abolished the use of indeterminate and tables held on the 23rd of each month in many locations communities, and communities of color who are solitary confinement in California (See page 2). Since then disproportionately incarcerated. Young people are swept up monitoring the implementation of the settlement has been a around the state to bring awareness of the deplorable in minor crimes and suffer years of incarceration followed priority for the legal team consisting of the rep’s inside and practices in prisons to widest audiences possible. We held by lifetime barriers to employment and ineligibility a group of dedicated lawyers outside. “readers theaters” asking participants in the rally to read for education and housing benefits. The emphasis on PHSS discussed and distributed the “Prisoners Human prisoners’ statements to the audience. We tabled at theatrical incarceration rather than public health strategies contributed Rights Movement Blueprint.” The Blueprint provides a performances about solitary confinement, including The to the worst epidemic of fatal opioid overdoses in our background of where Prisoners Human Rights Movement Box, Solitary Man and Mariposa and the Saint. We put on country’s history, and high rates of HIV and viral hepatitis (PHRM) came from, how it envisions organizing itself and showings of movies: Breaking down the Box, Up the Ridge, among drug users. the tasks it sets for itself. The first task is the monitoring of Thirteenth. We assembled our newly-painted model SHU Research shows that community based programming the Ashker settlement’s implementation,. Others include at a number of events in which former SHU prisoners and is the most effective in reducing the suffering caused by continued organization around the historic Agreement to families of prisoners were the featured speakers. substance use disorders and illegal drug sales in our End Hostilities, developing political education for prisoners The Struggle continues! In Solidarity, Urszula Wislanka communities. Examples of those programs are community- and others, and establishing Freedom Outreach, an official based drug treatment, employment and housing for persons clearinghouse for PHRM to provide informational packets. with prior convictions, and preschool and afterschool As many of the prisoners formerly held in the SHU have California programs which have been proven to reduce adolescent been moved out, they now face new challenges. PHSS drug use and involvement in the drug market.● formed a Parole Committee to address the fact that the parole lawmakers unveil a board may unfairly hold, as proof of continued “criminal list of bills meant to mentality”, 115s issued for participation in the 2011 and keep children out of AB 359, as amended, In- 2013 hunger strikes, as well as refusal to debrief. The Parole Committee gathered information to show the board’s the juvenile justice custody informants. executive officer, met with her and other CDCr officials, xisting law defines an in-custody informant to mean and prepared “Advice for Prisoners and Their Supporters system a person, other than a codefendant, percipient wit- Regarding Board of Parole Hearings Psychological By Jazmine Ulloa Eness, accomplice, or coconspirator whose testimony Evaluations, Including Special Advice for Ashker Class Published by the LA Times on May 31, 2017 is based upon statements made by the defendant while both Members.” (See page 23) The Committee set up educational On-line at: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac- the defendant and the informant are held within a correc- sessions on parole hearings and has compliled informational juvenile-justice-bills-20170320-story.html tional institution. Existing law prohibits a law enforcement packets, also available upon request. California lawmakers on Monday said they have filed or correctional official from giving, offering, or promising Another new challenge encountered because of prisoners’ a package of bills in an attempt to divert children from a to give any monetary payment in excess of $50 in return release out of the SHU has been visiting. Family members school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately affects for an in-custody informant’s testimony in any criminal and friends are finally able to have contact visits with their low-income and black and Latino families. proceeding, as specified. Existing law requires the prosecution to file with the court a written statement prior to loved ones who were previously in SHU. We were all Sens. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) and Ricardo trial setting out any and all consideration, as defined, prom- moved by the stories of peoples' first contact visit in years Lara (D-Bell Gardens) have introduced eight proposals ised to, or received by, the in-custody informant when the - sometimes decades. Pictures from them were shared and that would extend protections for children facing arrest or prosecution calls an in-custody informant as a witness in inspired everyone! Family members accustomed to fighting detention and ease punishment and burdensome fees for any criminal trial. powers-that-be faced the many obstacles to visiting head those inside the juvenile justice system. This bill would revise the definition of an in-custody on: In several prisons they re-activated Inmate Family In a news conference at Sacramento’s Leataata Floyd informant to refer to a person, other than a codefendant, Councils, which have been challenging different aspects Elementary School, home to what lawmakers called model percipient witness, accomplice, or coconspirator of CDCR's visiting policies, such as the inadequacies of educational programs meant to empower children, Mitchell who provides testimony or information for use in the the new VPASS system for scheduling visits, the health and Lara said they wanted their legislation to center on investigation or prosecution of a suspect or defendant dangers caused by scanners for both visitors and prisoners prevention, rehabilitation and keeping families together. based upon statements made by the suspect or defendant (discontinued) and staff misconduct during visits. “Jail is no place for a child under 11,” Mitchell told while both the suspect or defendant and the informant are Although many long-time prisoners have been released reporters. “Children are not pint-sized adults. They have a housed within a correctional institution. The bill would from the SHU, significant problems, both old and new, developmental process that they go through to grow into require the prosecutor, when the prosecution intends to persist. The most egregious is sleep deprivation caused by adults. So, for us to expect that a child will have the same call an in-custody informant as a witness in any criminal so-called “welfare checks.” The PHSS Committee to End judgment, understanding of legal terminology is simply trial, to file with the court a written statement no less than Sleep Deprivation continues to challenge and address this naive.” 19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W3 Web 3Top 6/21/2017 12:00:22 PM Black $[LayerName] 30 days prior to the preliminary hearing setting out the on-going crisis. (See page 5) The news conference was the first of several events substance of all communications between the informant Human Rights Pen Pals (HRPP), which began in Spring of over the next two months that will commemorate the 50th and any member of the prosecution, or a law enforcement 2013 as a project of PHSS, has matched over 400 community anniversary of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision or correctional agency, regarding the informant’s possible pen pals with men who were or are in California’s SHU and testimony or participation in information gathering, AD-seg units. In a recent survey it was determined that at ......

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clemency, but he rejected the offer because it excluded excluded it because offer the rejected he but clemency,

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entombed in a room the size of your small bathroom. bathroom. small your of size the room a in entombed

every step, and the fat cats profiting from our misery, must must misery, our from profiting cats fat the and step, every

after a second conviction for attempting to escape. to attempting for conviction second a after

reality for a guy sentenced to a 100 years in prison, prison, in years 100 a to sentenced guy a for reality

any possibility of parole. This system must be challenged challenged be must system This parole. of possibility any

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and a beautiful family. He still felt the need to escape escape to need the felt still He family. beautiful a and

thus the Puerto Rican people have a right to fight for for fight to right a have people Rican Puerto the thus

CEO; that had it made; with a beautiful house, a yacht, yacht, a house, beautiful a with made; it had that CEO; the rich and the law enforcement officers. officers. enforcement law the and rich the

“Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States and and States United the of colony a is Rico “Puerto conditions. I watched a news story about a millionaire millionaire a about story news a watched I conditions.

justices, one for the poor and another for for another and poor the for one justices,

to Rico by force”, armed robbery and lesser charges. lesser and robbery armed force”, by Rico to thing: To escape their brutal, hostile, and cruel slavery slavery cruel and hostile, brutal, their escape To thing:

system; that is known to have two types of of types two have to known is that system;

- Puer in States United the of government the overthrow

CDCr’s Drugs: The slaves do their drugs for one one for drugs their do slaves The Drugs: CDCr’s

ut, that is expected from a racist judicial judicial racist a from expected is that ut, B

were convicted in 1981 of seditious conspiracy “to “to conspiracy seditious of 1981 in convicted were tion dealing with these vices.) these with dealing tion

- Lopez Rivera and about a dozen FALN members members FALN dozen a about and Rivera Lopez will go crazy calling us a danger to society for any cita any for society to danger a us calling crazy go will

asking. asking.

with people.” with die behind bars. (The Board of Parole Hearings “BPH” “BPH” Hearings Parole of Board (The bars. behind die

ing to rule against any types of cf relief; that we will be be will we that relief; cf of types any against rule to ing

report) violating any of these three traps is doomed to to doomed is traps three these of any violating report) ganising, helping young people - that I want to share share to want I that - people young helping ganising,

Constitutions.) Of course, most likely the judges are go are judges the likely most course, Of Constitutions.) -

olence/gangs, and cell phones.” CDC 115 (Disciplinary (Disciplinary 115 CDC phones.” cell and olence/gangs, - or - skills some have I work. to like I But family. my

(It must be backed with regulations, statutes, and both both and statutes, regulations, with backed be must (It

- starters, there are three main contradictions: “Drugs, vi “Drugs, contradictions: main three are there starters, Dia, Lopez Rivera said: “I want to enjoy Puerto Rico, Rico, Puerto enjoy to want “I said: Rivera Lopez Dia,

petition for writ of habeas corpus or civil complaints. complaints. civil or corpus habeas of writ for petition

and rehabilitation (hereafter always “CDCr.”); just for for just “CDCr.”); always (hereafter rehabilitation and In an interview with the Puerto Rican daily El Nuevo Nuevo El daily Rican Puerto the with interview an In

a CDC 602 grievance; then brought to the courts, via a a via courts, the to brought then grievance; 602 CDC a

Now, in the California Department of Corrections Corrections of Department California the in Now,

political status. political

Each one of these CDC 115s must be challenged via via challenged be must 115s CDC these of one Each

our children. our

cluding climate change, the economy and the island’s island’s the and economy the change, climate cluding

tion system is a joke, a sick, damned joke. damned sick, a joke, a is system tion

is nothing worse, than to be executed, right in front of of front in right executed, be to than worse, nothing is

- in issues, on work to think-tank a create and family,

- rehabilita their that them; to shows it Because, with. up

not wise for other people to know where we sleep; there there sleep; we where know to people other for wise not

returning to Puerto Rico, he wants to spend time with with time spend to wants he Rico, Puerto to returning

incident are some of the worst CDC 115s, one can show show can one 115s, CDC worst the of some are incident

to fifty little snakes must be wiped out. Although, it is is it Although, out. wiped be must snakes little fifty to

According to AP, Lopez Rivera has said that upon upon that said has Rivera Lopez AP, to According

The BPH is unforgiving a CDC115 cell phone related related phone cell CDC115 a unforgiving is BPH The

the head of the snake must be chopped it off, or hundred hundred or off, it chopped be must snake the of head the for charging and sentencing. and charging for

ing up as a child, on Thursday. on child, a as up ing

to keep its cells full. Everybody wins except the slave. slave. the except wins Everybody full. cells its keep to

times it has to be done in broad daylight; occasionally, occasionally, daylight; broad in done be to has it times high standards required of the Department of Justice of Department the of required standards high

- grow time some spent he where Chicago, to go to set is

guard goes laughing all the way to the bank; CDCr gets gets CDCr bank; the to way the all laughing goes guard

times, the fight must be done from the shadows, other other shadows, the from done be must fight the times,

attorneys who impliment this policy will meet the meet will policy this impliment who attorneys

Following celebrations in Puerto Rico, Lopez Rivera Rivera Lopez Rico, Puerto in celebrations Following

ily doesn’t get to see me, ever, as a free man. And the the And man. free a as ever, me, see to get doesn’t ily

merous mass graves found all over the world. – Some – world. the over all found graves mass merous

Working with integrity and professioinalism, professioinalism, and integrity with Working

rant in New York’s financial district. financial York’s New in rant

as a slave for a cell phone sold by prison staff; my fam my staff; prison by sold phone cell a for slave a as -

- we are not gonna be of any good help buried in the nu the in buried help good any of be gonna not are we

- restau a Tavern, Fraunces at 60 wounded and people

This isn’t right, they mean to tell me that: I get to die die to get I that: me tell to mean they right, isn’t This

forces; without putting our safety in danger. Because Because danger. in safety our putting without forces;

its just and consistent application. consistent and just its

killed in a still-unsolved 1975 explosion that killed four four killed that explosion 1975 still-unsolved a in killed

penings, the hypocrisy of this policy jumps out at him. him. at out jumps policy this of hypocrisy the penings,

We have to be pragmatic, and learn how to fight these these fight to how learn and pragmatic, be to have We

clarification and guidance he deems appropriate for appropriate deems he guidance and clarification months pregnant when her husband, Alex Berger, was was Berger, Alex husband, her when pregnant months

- hap and surroundings his to attention pay to likes that us ignorant, enslaved, broken, and eventually dead. eventually and broken, enslaved, ignorant, us

implementation of this policy and to issue any any issue to and policy this of implementation support,” said Diane Berger Ettenson, 70, who was six six was who 70, Ettenson, Berger Diane said support,”

phone, one is doomed to die in prison.” For the slave slave the For prison.” in die to doomed is one phone, declared war; there is a dark force involved in keeping keeping in involved force dark a is there war; declared

I have directed the Deputy General to oversee oversee to General Deputy the directed have I ing to figure out what I am missing, why he has all this this all has he why missing, am I what out figure to ing ket. There is a drawback though. “If caught with a cell cell a with caught “If though. drawback a is There ket.

- bies,” as they call us. I understand, that we are in a un a in are we that understand, I us. call they as bies,”

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“I’ve had long hours in the middle of the night try night the of middle the in hours long had “I’ve - - So, it is back to us: “The paper pushers; the crying ba crying the pushers; paper “The us: to back is it So,

cost phone bills. Solution: Black market cell phones phones cell market Black Solution: bills. phone cost

But others were less enthusiastic. less were others But core principle are justified by unusual fact. unusual by justified are principle core institutionalized, comfortable in their slave conditions. conditions. slave their in comfortable institutionalized,

is not possible due to overcrowding conditions and high high and conditions overcrowding to due possible not is

right now.” right policy is followed, and that any deviations from the the from deviations any that and followed, is policy want to get in trouble.” They have become officially officially become have They trouble.” in get to want

in contact with his family every day. Unfortunately, this this Unfortunately, day. every family his with contact in

ated Press news agency. “It’s exactly what we need need we what exactly “It’s agency. news Press ated Attorney General is responsible for ensuring that this this that ensuring for responsible is General Attorney tion or grievance; they won’t do it; “They say, I don’t don’t I say, “They it; do won’t they grievance; or tion

Cell Phones: Almost every slave wishes he could be be could he wishes slave every Almost Phones: Cell

- Associ the told independence, Rican Puerto supports - inoes all day. When they are approached to sign a peti a sign to approached are they When day. all inoes Each United States Attorney and Assistant Assistant and Attorney States United Each

keep us enslaved for life. for enslaved us keep

- land,” Nelson Cortes, a New York-based waiter who who waiter York-based New a Cortes, Nelson land,” games on their tablets, watching T.V., and playing dom playing and T.V., watching tablets, their on games

115 received for STG’s related activities will be used to to used be will activities related STG’s for received 115

- is our for life his giving for him thank to have “We Most slaves are quite comfortable playing children children playing comfortable quite are slaves Most

rescinded, effective today. effective rescinded,

place? Of course, it goes without saying that any CDC CDC any that saying without goes it course, Of place?

don’t want to even read a book. a read even to want don’t Carter and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. Lin-Manuel creator “Hamilton” and Carter

Department of Justice relating to these matters is is matters these to relating Justice of Department

lock downs. Why insist in keeping a flawed system in in system flawed a keeping in insist Why downs. lock

make sense of the intricate legal system. When, they they When, system. legal intricate the of sense make support from Pope Francis, former President Jimmy Jimmy President former Francis, Pope from support

Any inconsistent previous policy of the the of policy previous inconsistent Any

ing up the gang leaders, killing their soldiers, nor 24/7 24/7 nor soldiers, their killing leaders, gang the up ing

ber, drug/alcohol addict, illiterate and ignorant slave to to slave ignorant and illiterate addict, drug/alcohol ber, campaign to free Lopez Rivera over the years, drawing drawing years, the over Rivera Lopez free to campaign

- lock by resolved be to going not is problem The failed.

- May 12, 2017 12, May habilitation. We can’t truly expect, that the gang mem gang the that expect, truly can’t We habilitation. before leaving office in January. There has been a been has There January. in office leaving before tence

not give education a shot; after all, everything else has has else everything all, after shot; a education give not

dangerous as a petition to be given education and re and education given be to petition a as dangerous

- sen his commuted Obama Barack President US former

older H ric E eneral G Attorney

vide paper, pens, pencils, and GED instructors? Why Why instructors? GED and pencils, pens, paper, vide

request for spoon/cup for every slave. Or something as as something Or slave. every for spoon/cup for request

Lopez Rivera was placed under house arrest after after arrest house under placed was Rivera Lopez

Statement by Former Former by Statement

- pro building, every in computers install books, of ty

every year; it can be something, as – unimportant, as a a as unimportant, – as something, be can it year; every

New York City’s massive Puerto Rican Day parade. Day Rican Puerto massive City’s York New

- plen with libraries law its of all stock to going CDCr is

that are literate or semi-literate. We can take one battle battle one take can We semi-literate. or literate are that

prison, are also expected to honour him next month in in month next him honour to expected also are prison,

Which is the chief cause of gang recruitment. When When recruitment. gang of cause chief the is Which

duty to challenge this racist system falls on those of us us of those on falls system racist this challenge to duty

Supporters of the 74-year-old, who spent 35 years in in years 35 spent who 74-year-old, the of Supporters

thing on paper, but turns around and does another. The The another. does and around turns but paper, on thing

Puerto Rico. Puerto

war on ignorance? ignorance? on war

the slavery system is full of contradictions. It says one one says It contradictions. of full is system slavery the

Rivera’s release later on Wednesday at a celebration in in celebration a at Wednesday on later release Rivera’s

r going to launch a a launch to going r C D C is hen W

It doesn’t matter where, we are enslaved in the USA; USA; the in enslaved are we where, matter doesn’t It

Thousands of supporters are expected to cheer Lopez Lopez cheer to expected are supporters of Thousands

watching T.V. watching

ries. He was never tied to specific bombings. specific to tied never was He ries.

to do our fight for us; while we sit on our asses all day day all asses our on sit we while us; for fight our do to

- inju few caused which 1980s, and 1970s the in Rico on “STG” members. members. “STG” on

this is easier said than done. But, nobody else is going going is else nobody But, done. than said easier is this

ings in New York, Chicago, Washington and Puerto Puerto and Washington Chicago, York, New in ings from ignorance. So, it is time to question CDCr’s war war CDCr’s question to time is it So, ignorance. from

war." the past. 3. Work/dismantle CDCr from the inside out; out; inside the from CDCr Work/dismantle 3. past. the

and intimidation; especially, if these pressures came came pressures these if especially, intimidation; and - bomb of dozens for responsibility claimed that group

escalating the failed policies of the drug drug the of policies failed the escalating dogma of prison being a rite of passage be a thing of of thing a be passage of rite a being prison of dogma

position to question impositions, orders, manipulation, manipulation, orders, impositions, question to position 1981 for his involvement with FALN, a Puerto Rican Rican Puerto a FALN, with involvement his for 1981

is taking the country back to the 1980s by by 1980s the to back country the taking is those, (youth/others) that are still free; so that the false false the that so free; still are that (youth/others) those,

nation attempts. Once, a slave is educated; he is in a a in is he educated; is slave a Once, attempts. nation Lopez Rivera was sentenced to 55 years in prison in in prison in years 55 to sentenced was Rivera Lopez

in a statement emailed to NPR. "Sessions "Sessions NPR. to emailed statement a in that must never be abandoned. 2. Educate and organize organize and Educate 2. abandoned. be never must that

- indoctri gangs’ the defeat to tools the me given have Puerto Rico. Puerto in arrest

lenged three take priority: 1.The fight for our freedom, freedom, our for fight 1.The priority: take three lenged O director at the Drug Policy Alliance, said said Alliance, Policy Drug the at director

uments, poetry, arts, and access to all known sciences sciences known all to access and arts, poetry, uments,

ers in US history, has been released from house house from released been has history, US in ers

- way. Among the many worthy causes that can be chal be can that causes worthy many the Among way.

another supervisor. Michael Collins, deputy deputy Collins, Michael supervisor. another

- doc books, the education, the that fact a for know I die.

- prison political longest-serving the of one and

duty to challenge their conditions every step of the the of step every conditions their challenge to duty

U.S. attorney, assistant attorney general or or general attorney assistant attorney, U.S.

gang. A gang without soldiers is lost, once the leaders leaders the once lost, is soldiers without gang A gang.

scar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican nationalist nationalist Rican Puerto a Rivera, Lopez scar

I believe that the USA’s enslaved masses have a a have masses enslaved USA’s the that believe I

to obtain approval for the exception from a a from exception the for approval obtain to

is the key to take away the soldiers needed to make a a make to needed soldiers the away take to key the is

for these low-level crimes, they will need need will they crimes, low-level these for

this time, CDCr’s administrations know that education education that know administrations CDCr’s time, this

By Lucio Cabanas Lucio By

prosecutors wish to pursue lesser charges charges lesser pursue to wish prosecutors

STG problem supposed to disappear, as by magic? By By magic? by as disappear, to supposed problem STG

s n tio c adi r t n Co

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mandatory minimum sentences. Now, if if Now, sentences. minimum mandatory

become an educated and civilized human being? Is the the Is being? human civilized and educated an become

drug offenders with crimes that carried carried that crimes with offenders drug

tives are given to the “STG” member to change and and change to member “STG” the to given are tives

prosecutors to avoid slapping nonviolent nonviolent slapping avoid to prosecutors - incen or alternatives What what? then But, paper. on

General, Eric Holder. Holder had asked asked had Holder Holder. Eric General, or Prison Gangs.). All right, it is a nice policy, at least least at policy, nice a is it right, All Gangs.). Prison or

policies established by previous Attorney Attorney previous by established policies A “STG” as known better (i.e. groups threat security for

dums that Puerto Rico has held on its political status political its on held has Rico Puerto that dums ●

reversing some of the lenient lenient the of some reversing Prison Gangs: CDCr alleges to have a zero tolerance tolerance zero a have to alleges CDCr Gangs: Prison

garner

ing less than 6 percent of the vote in four referen four in vote the of percent 6 than less ing -

recently sent a memo to his staff, staff, his to memo a sent recently selves of the disease. the of selves

ing independence remain a small group, with the option option the with group, small a remain independence ing

ttorney General Jeff Sessions Sessions Jeff General ttorney

- our cure us help to means available the all provide and

for president and have no vote in Congress. in vote no have and president for - seek Those

ck a b p e st to the roots of the problem: Eradicate the supply lines, lines, supply the Eradicate problem: the of roots the to

billions in federal funds, but Puerto Ricans cannot vote vote cannot Ricans Puerto but funds, federal in billions

nesses used to extend our stay? And two, why not go go not why two, And stay? our extend to used nesses

The island, considered a commonwealth, receives receives commonwealth, a considered island, The ne ne o , d r a rw fo

- ill are overcrowded, morbidly is that system a in Why

dents are US citizens and can serve in the military. the in serve can and citizens US are dents

parole in perpetuity. This policy calls for two questions: questions: two for calls policy This perpetuity. in parole

ps e st 2

- resi million 3.5 island’s The War. Spanish-American

report will be a dirty mark in my file, used to deny my my deny to used file, my in mark dirty a be will report

The US seized Puerto Rico from Spain during the the during Spain from Rico Puerto seized US The

use, I will be issued a CDC 115 disciplinary report. This This report. disciplinary 115 CDC a issued be will I use,

the capital of San Juan. San of capital the

any drug that I want. When I am tested positive for drug drug for positive tested am I When want. I that drug any MAY 17th 2017 http://www.aljazeera.com 2017 17th MAY

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shorten commuted his sentence. sentence. his commuted shorten In any given day: I can go to the yard, with a $100.00 $100.00 a with yard, the to go can I day: given any In May 10, 2017 10, May

- un sentence his of remainder the serve to Rico Puerto

looked, as a way to make a buck. a make to way a as looked, arack Obama’s decision to to decision Obama’s arack B following

essions essions S Jeff General Attorney

from prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, and arrived in in arrived and Indiana, Haute, Terre in prison from

overcome his addictions. In the USA our diseases are are diseases our USA the In addictions. his overcome

ivera freed after 35 years years 35 after freed ivera R Lopez Oscar

After Obama’s order, Lopez Rivera was released released was Rivera Lopez order, Obama’s After Statement by by Statement

the sick drug/alcohol – addicted is given the tools to to tools the given is addicted – drug/alcohol sick the

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commutations granted by Obama. by granted commutations

ing, who can blame us? In some European countries; countries; European some In us? blame can who ing,

ez ez op L alist n atio n released on Wednesday, Lopez Rivera was among 209 209 among was Rivera Lopez Wednesday, on released - speak truly And box. the escape to more and more,

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way, to make our stay more pleasant and comfortable. comfortable. and pleasant more stay our make to way, two associates who have since been released. been since have who associates two The Life Line of and Mexicans in which to establish the crime market PRIVILEGES of bar admission, liquor license, for prison commerce. To help us analyze and define hunting license, special driver’s license, merchant Prison Commerce prison commerce, we must first understand its relation license, day care and nursing license, etc. By Louis Powell to the Thirteenth Amendment, of which reads: Section RIGHTS of freedom of association and assembly, 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as freedom of travel, security and property, freedom oday, prison commerce is an evolving social a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have of thought and speech, freedom to be part of science dealing with the economics and politics been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States government and freedom to vote. of surplus labor of unemployed workers in the T or any place subject to their jurisdiction. It is recognize that the ex-offenders are left with context of franchise and disfranchise. Like all system .The United State is the only country in the history of 1/3 of a legal livelihood to work with, and they must under capitalism, expansion is essential to neutralize the civilized world with a constitutional government that somehow supplement by way of odds and ends type potential conflict over the distribution of capital, needed legalized slavery. It is the origin of prison commerce and of jobs or else turn to crime. The demographic means for a livelihood in today’s world. institutionalized racism, which allows the combining of laid down against the ex-offenders, it arbitrarily In California, between the years of 1960 and 1980, two schools of thought on the subject of (a) slavery affects their families and communities, insofar as prison commerce was exclusively a market that traffics being indeterminate and (b) involuntary servitude crime would become a commodity in demand. in males of color, who had become systematically being determinate. By demographic means and institutionalized racism unsuitable for employment. Around 1980, prison .Therefore, the psycho-political lifeline of prison and invidious discrimination, those living in repressive commerce expanded its market by trafficking in females commerce is the 13th Amendment. In the contradictory city zones will see: (First) The unemployment rate of color as well. existence of the Constitution, the 13th Amendment of the able-bodied, unemployable will decrease There are psycho-political objectives of prison is the Exceptional Amendment that supersedes the geometrically (Second) While employment increases commerce of which is the output of producing while political rights of Amendments I, II, IV, XIV, XV, etc., for for the employable arithmetically. crippling millions of Black and Mexican, male children those convicted of a felony. It is by virtue of a felony It is the type of social, economical and political in particular, so that by the age of discretion, when conviction that the ex-offenders can never pay their contradictions that we must expose. We must it comes to laboring for working wage, they will be debt to society without being pardon from: (1) The advocate that if two-thirds of the voting population nothing more than a surplus of unemployables, waiting Governor for State Crime (2) The President for Federal were the reject the language of slavery and involuntary to be processed into the prison-industrial complex. Crime. servitude expressed in the 13th Amendment, by There are four principal modes of prison commerce The preventives checks and measures of the 13th amending it to read: Neither slavery nor involuntary and they are as follows: Amendment have three components, which are: (1) the servitude shall exist within the United States or any Disfranchising: It began during the formative years loss of social citizenship resulting in the disintegration place subject to their jurisdiction. of orientation and indoctrination, by way of menticide, of the ex-offenders, their families and communities. Under such amending of the language, the subculture living conditions, dysfunctional environment, (2) The loss of economical citizenship resulting in prison-industrial complex would transform into a all of which lead to the loss of citizenship. It is also the destitution of the ex-offenders, their families sandcastle, because the profit motives would be re-districting, gentrification, ecological competition, and communities. (3) The loss of political citizenship taken away. Competitive capitalism should not exist inequality, deregulation, residential segregation and resulting in the oppression of the ex-offenders, their in the judiciary branch of government. The 13th the de-alignment between people of color. families and communities. Amendment doesn’t service public interests or the .Breeding – Male children of color are born into a The external scheme of the 13th Amendment does cause of democracy. Instead it is the number one premature death situation, a world where everything is act conspiratorially beyond the psycho-political fraud of creator of crime that eats up tax dollars that should systematically arranged towards their de-employment, the democratic treatment of its citizens. The loss of first be going to public education, health care, programs, de-allocation, de-commercialization, de-politicization, class social, economic, and political citizenships will take and jobs. de-license, de-regulation, de-Americanize, de-civilize, away two thirds of a legal livelihood. It will force the ex- There is the belief that by propagating the and de-population. offenders to supplement their livelihood by way of the amending of the 13th Amendment, it’s a theory that .Capturing – seizing the surplus of unemployables, underground economy or odd jobs. It also guarantees taxpayers would never have to pay another penny waiting for internment inside the prison-industrial that civil liberties of their law-abiding families and towards the maintenance and security of the prison complex. communities living in environmentally deprived crime system. Every state prison system would become self- .Output – The increasing prison commerce production. zones will be under special restrictions. sufficient. Also the social phenomena of crime as we Frantz Fannon coined the psycho-political term, the There may be some readers who ask the question: is know it would decrease and then duties, privileges Wretched of the Earth. It is the wretched conditions, prison commerce a legitimate term? It continues to be and rights would no longer be impeded for the ex- the de-functionalization of families and communities an evolving political and economic term, and it must be offenders, and the possibility for a livelihood and of color that undergo systematic criminalization, incorporated into our understanding of the economic comprehensive rehabilitation will be transformed while making men and women permanently unfit for and political doctrine of the 13th Amendment. into a reality. The incarcerated criminals would no employment because there are no jobs to be had in Back in the 1970’s, the economists understood that longer be working for an inmate pay rate of eight a capitalist market of exploitation of labor. Without employment has always been a competitive market, cents hourly to the maximum of thirty-seven cents labor, people cannot live a full and meaningful life; and in order to give the White male surplus labor force hourly. Their pay rate would be the State minimum therefore the State and Federal Government step in a competitive advantage, prison commerce would wage. Learning to work for pay in prison would be and provide for the unemployed care and welfare until become a permanent employment solution. It opened an effective, sociological advancement in crime a prison bed can occupy the residue of a wretched life. up a whole new market (crime), while putting a halt prevention. For those who never held a wage earning Prison commerce is the purging of the unemployables to class-consciousness. The state government would job, the incarcerated criminals would then be able to: out of society, in order to get use-value from their systematically force males of color, in particular, and financially support their outside families, bring an end socio-economical and political incapacitation. The females of color, into the criminal enterprise. The 13th to their own destitution, pay off restitution, learn the use-value garnished from the unemployables are Amendment takes way the ex-offenders, their duties, value of an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay, actual employment for the surplus labor force of privileges, and rights. and establish bank accounts, buy insurance, stocks, White males to have employment of keeping guard DUTIES of military service, jury service, martial and bonds. It would lead to the abolition of prison over people of color, preventing them from making a responsibility, moral and legal obligation of providing commerce and to the real and only rehabilitation of political revolution. Back in the 1970’s, the California for their families, and paying income tax. criminal behaviors.● Department of Correction was forced to hire a token number of prison guards of color. It was one of the demands of the prison reform movement. The hiring of prison guards of color was viewed as infringing of jobs Los Angeles 1998) @ ELAC Campus: meant solely for White males. CJC Conference on Prison Justice The make up of prison commerce is as follows: Street Top Left to Right Gengiap/SQ6 Bato/SQ6 gang activity, Underworld Activity, School Dropouts, Geronimo/Jaga Rip Chispas/HM Rip (far right:Unidentified) Dysfunctional Families/Communities, Drugs and Bottom: Shabaka/Jaga Dano/G Alcohol Addictions, Prison Gang Activity, Underground Rip Remembrances from Solidarity Prison Economy, Non-rehabilitation programs, Sub- built inside Max SHU›s: To the Free Culture Living, Criminal Behavior. Streets:To Eternity Godspeed: From 4B/4A ol› Folsom/New Folsom/ The external scheme of prison commerce exerts Tehachapi/Soledad-O-wing/SQ AC/CIW/ opposition to the economics and politics of the Attika/ Atlanta/PelikanBay/Corcoran/ lower social classes. 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217 African Americans African 217 this journey, speaking on the State Assembly Bill, Bill, Assembly State the on speaking journey, this indicates the vastly different experience immigrants immigrants experience different vastly the indicates

commerce and to the real and only rehabilitation of of rehabilitation only and real the to and commerce

responsibility, moral and legal obligation of providing providing of obligation legal and moral responsibility,

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149: True suspects and/or perpetrators identified. identified. perpetrators and/or suspects True 149:

privileges, and rights. rights. and privileges,

actual employment for the surplus labor force of of force labor surplus the for employment actual

solitary confinement will continue until the complete complete the until continue will confinement solitary said at the time. “But you need the money to do it.” do to money the need you “But time. the at said

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Amendment takes way the ex-offenders, their duties, duties, their ex-offenders, the way takes Amendment

use-value garnished from the unemployables are are unemployables the from garnished use-value

differences being made, the fight to end the practice of of practice the end to fight the made, being differences “I’m really happy I was able to come here,” he had had he here,” come to able was I happy really “I’m

183: DNA exonerations worked on by the Innocence Innocence the by on worked exonerations DNA 183:

to their own destitution, pay off restitution, learn the learn restitution, off pay destitution, own their to

females of color, into the criminal enterprise. The 13th 13th The enterprise. criminal the into color, of females

socio-economical and political incapacitation. The incapacitation. political and socio-economical

While there have been many changes, small and big big and small changes, many been have there While above her eye that required eight stitches. eight required that eye her above 256: DNA exonerees compensated compensated exonerees DNA 256:

financially support their outside families, bring an end end an bring families, outside their support financially

systematically force males of color, in particular, and particular, in color, of males force systematically

out of society, in order to get use-value from their their from use-value get to order in society, of out

17%: Involved informants Involved 17%: confinement conditions in Pelican Bay SHU. Bay Pelican in conditions confinement after the attack was covered in blood with a gash gash a with blood in covered was attack the after

job, the incarcerated criminals would then be able to: to: able be then would criminals incarcerated the job,

to class-consciousness. The state government would would government state The class-consciousness. to

at the time of arrest of time the at Prison commerce is the purging of the unemployables unemployables the of purging the is commerce Prison

ones are personally affected by the current solitary solitary current the by affected personally are ones days in 2015 for physically assaulting his wife, who who wife, his assaulting physically for 2015 in days

prevention. For those who never held a wage earning earning wage a held never who those For prevention.

up a whole new market (crime), while putting a halt halt a putting while (crime), market new whole a up 52% of the false confessors were 21 years old or younger younger or old years 21 were confessors false the of 52%

a prison bed can occupy the residue of a wretched life. life. wretched a of residue the occupy can bed prison a

opportunity to speak to many families whose loved loved whose families many to speak to opportunity defenseman Slava Voynov, who was sentenced to 90 90 to sentenced was who Voynov, Slava defenseman

an effective, sociological advancement in crime crime in advancement sociological effective, an

28%: Involved false confessions false Involved 28%:

become a permanent employment solution. It opened opened It solution. employment permanent a become

and provide for the unemployed care and welfare until until welfare and care unemployed the for provide and

program from Southern California. It afforded me the the me afforded It California. Southern from program It was the choice jail for Los Angeles Kings Kings Angeles Los for jail choice the was It

46%: Involved misapplication of forensic science forensic of misapplication Involved 46%:

wage. Learning to work for pay in prison would be be would prison in pay for work to Learning wage.

a competitive advantage, prison commerce would commerce prison advantage, competitive a

therefore the State and Federal Government step in in step Government Federal and State the therefore

California. The event benefited a Pelican Bay bus ride ride bus Bay Pelican a benefited event The California. of 365 days or less at county?” at less or days 365 of

the use of a composite sketch composite a of use the

hourly. Their pay rate would be the State minimum minimum State the be would rate pay Their hourly.

and in order to give the White male surplus labor force force labor surplus male White the give to order in and

labor, people cannot live a full and meaningful life; life; meaningful and full a live cannot people labor,

an event sponsored by her program, in San Rafael, Rafael, San in program, her by sponsored event an with spreads asking, “Why spend your jail sentence sentence jail your spend “Why asking, spreads with 28% of these cases involved misidentification through through misidentification involved cases these of 28%

cents hourly to the maximum of thirty-seven cents cents thirty-seven of maximum the to hourly cents

employment has always been a competitive market, market, competitive a been always has employment

a capitalist market of exploitation of labor. Without Without labor. of exploitation of market capitalist a of the same person same the of

confinement in California, who invited me to speak at at speak to me invited who California, in confinement US$766,662. The facility advertises in local papers papers local in advertises facility The US$766,662.

longer be working for an inmate pay rate of eight eight of rate pay inmate an for working be longer

Back in the 1970’s, the economists understood that that understood economists the 1970’s, the in Back

32% of these cases involved multiple misidentifications misidentifications multiple involved cases these of 32%

employment because there are no jobs to be had in in had be to jobs no are there because employment

solitary solitary of use the end to advocate an Canales, Delores its inmates, close to half of the jail’s total budget of of budget total jail’s the of half to close inmates, its

into a reality. The incarcerated criminals would no no would criminals incarcerated The reality. a into

41% of these cases were a cross-racial misidentification cross-racial a were cases these of 41% and political doctrine of the 13th Amendment. Amendment. 13th the of doctrine political and

while making men and women permanently unfit for for unfit permanently women and men making while

to develop a strong working relationship with one one with relationship working strong a develop to Last June, Seal Beach took in US $365,000 from from $365,000 US in took Beach Seal June, Last

comprehensive rehabilitation will be transformed transformed be will rehabilitation comprehensive 71%: Involved eyewitness misidentification eyewitness Involved 71%:

incorporated into our understanding of the economic economic the of understanding our into incorporated

of color that undergo systematic criminalization, criminalization, systematic undergo that color of

One of many highlights was having the opportunity opportunity the having was highlights many of One young or old inmates. old or young

37 of 350: Pled guilty to crimes they did not commit not did they crimes to guilty Pled 350: of 37

offenders, and the possibility for a livelihood and livelihood a for possibility the and offenders,

an evolving political and economic term, and it must be be must it and term, economic and political evolving an

the de-functionalization of families and communities communities and families of de-functionalization the

related activist work. activist related county jail, such as sex offenders, celebrities and very very and celebrities offenders, sex as such jail, county

wrongful conviction wrongful

and rights would no longer be impeded for the ex- the for impeded be longer no would rights and

prison commerce a legitimate term? It continues to be be to continues It term? legitimate a commerce prison

Wretched of the Earth. It is the wretched conditions, conditions, wretched the is It Earth. the of Wretched

solitary confinement, the STG program and other other and program STG the confinement, solitary 26.5: Average age of exonerees at the time of their their of time the at exonerees of age Average 26.5: alternative” to those that would be “vulnerable” in in “vulnerable” be would that those to alternative”

know it would decrease and then duties, privileges privileges duties, then and decrease would it know

There may be some readers who ask the question: is is question: the ask who readers some be may There

Frantz Fannon coined the psycho-political term, the the term, psycho-political the coined Fannon Frantz 4,787: Total number of years served years of number Total 4,787:

and public appearances discussing topics such as as such topics discussing appearances public and The jail’s administrators tout that they’re a “valuable “valuable a they’re that tout administrators jail’s The

sufficient. Also the social phenomena of crime as we we as crime of phenomena social the Also sufficient.

zones will be under special restrictions. restrictions. special under be will zones 14: Average length of time served by exonerees by served time of length Average 14:

Output – The increasing prison commerce production. production. commerce prison increasing The – . Output

nonprofit organization. I was doing various speeches speeches various doing was I organization. nonprofit possession of child pornography. child of possession

system. Every state prison system would become self- become would system prison state Every system.

20 of 350 people exonerated served time on death row death on time served exonerated people 350 of 20

communities living in environmentally deprived crime crime deprived environmentally in living communities

complex. complex.

proceeded to volunteer with Fathers and Families Families and Fathers with volunteer to proceeded battery, sexual assault, sexual abuse of children and and children of abuse sexual assault, sexual battery,

37: States where exonerations have been won been have exonerations where States 37: towards the maintenance and security of the prison prison the of security and maintenance the towards

ht ii lbris f hi lwaiig aiis and families law-abiding their of liberties civil that

waiting for internment inside the prison-industrial prison-industrial the inside internment for waiting

a new chapter in life, and having found my calling, calling, my found having and life, in chapter new a

crimes including assault, robbery, domestic violence, violence, domestic robbery, assault, including crimes

1989: The first DNA exoneration took place took exoneration DNA first The 1989:

taxpayers would never have to pay another penny penny another pay to have never would taxpayers

underground economy or odd jobs. It also guarantees guarantees also It jobs. odd or economy underground

Capturing – seizing the surplus of unemployables, unemployables, of surplus the seizing – . Capturing

It was at this stage that I found myself embarking on on embarking myself found I that stage this at was It 2015, more than 160 had been convicted of serious serious of convicted been had 160 than more 2015,

Fast facts: Fast

amending of the 13th Amendment, it’s a theory that that theory a it’s Amendment, 13th the of amending

offenders to supplement their livelihood by way of the the of way by livelihood their supplement to offenders

and de-population. de-population. and

living. sober fosters that environment an in housing region’s pay-to-stay programs between 2011 and and 2011 between programs pay-to-stay region’s

There is the belief that by propagating the the propagating by that belief the is There

away two thirds of a legal livelihood. It will force the ex- the force will It livelihood. legal a of thirds two away

Published by Innocence Projejct Innocence by Published de-license, de-regulation, de-Americanize, de-civilize, de-civilize, de-Americanize, de-regulation, de-license,

Circle of Friends, I acquired AB109 funds and found found and funds AB109 acquired I Friends, of Circle the more than 3,500 people who served time in the the in time served who people 3,500 than more the

and jobs. jobs. and

class social, economic, and political citizenships will take take will citizenships political and economic, social, class S E STAT d e it Un he t

de-allocation, de-commercialization, de-politicization, de-politicization, de-commercialization, de-allocation,

six months, and a 45 day re-entry program, with with program, re-entry day 45 a and months, six Marshall Project and the LA Times found that of of that found Times LA the and Project Marshall

be going to public education, health care, programs, programs, care, health education, public to going be

the democratic treatment of its citizens. The loss of first first of loss The citizens. its of treatment democratic the

systematically arranged towards their de-employment, de-employment, their towards arranged systematically

Directions drug rehabilitation program, where I spent spent I where program, rehabilitation drug Directions in Los Angeles and Orange counties. A report by the the by report A counties. Orange and Angeles Los in

n n i s n atio ner o x E A N D

creator of crime that eats up tax dollars that should should that dollars tax up eats that crime of creator

act conspiratorially beyond the psycho-political fraud of of fraud psycho-political the beyond conspiratorially act

premature death situation, a world where everything is is everything where world a situation, death premature

Having graduated from Stockton’s very own New New own very Stockton’s from graduated Having There are about 26 “pay-to-stay” or “private jails” jails” “private or “pay-to-stay” 26 about are There

cause of democracy. Instead it is the number one one number the is it Instead democracy. of cause

The external scheme of the 13th Amendment does does Amendment 13th the of scheme external The

Breeding – Male children of color are born into a a into born are color of children Male – . Breeding

burden. overwhelming the by discouraged being, he told the LA Times. LA the told he being,

Amendment doesn’t service public interests or the the or interests public service doesn’t Amendment

families and communities. communities. and families

the de-alignment between people of color. color. of people between de-alignment the

60 persons per location. Many men find themselves themselves find men Many location. per persons 60 supply of hot water. Plus, he’s treated like a human human a like treated he’s Plus, water. hot of supply

in the judiciary branch of government. The 13th 13th The government. of branch judiciary the in

eutn i te prsin f h e-fedr, their ex-offenders, the of oppression the in resulting

nqaiy drglto, eieta sgeain and segregation residential deregulation, inequality,

got as bad as having six persons per room, and up to to up and room, per persons six having as bad as got

a large selection of DVDs and books and an endless endless an and books and DVDs of selection large a

taken away. Competitive capitalism should not exist exist not should capitalism Competitive away. taken

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and communities. (3) The loss of political citizenship citizenship political of loss The (3) communities. and

re-districting, gentrification, ecological competition, competition, ecological gentrification, re-districting,

another due to overcrowding. The housing conditions conditions housing The overcrowding. to due another

Paying a total of US$7,300 at Seal Beach, Jack finds finds Jack Beach, Seal at US$7,300 of total a Paying

sandcastle, because the profit motives would be would motives profit the because sandcastle,

“All I’ve ever asked for is the hope that someone will will someone that hope the is for asked ever I’ve “All

the destitution of the ex-offenders, their families families their ex-offenders, the of destitution the

all of which lead to the loss of citizenship. It is also also is It citizenship. of loss the to lead which of all

as if I was being transpacked from one institution to to institution one from transpacked being was I if as sentence.

prison-industrial complex would transform into a a into transform would complex prison-industrial

record once and for all. for and once record

(2) The loss of economical citizenship resulting in resulting citizenship economical of loss The (2)

subculture living conditions, dysfunctional environment, environment, dysfunctional conditions, living subculture

Agency Program (SASCA). At times, it was almost almost was it times, At (SASCA). Program Agency for a more comfortable jail for the remainder of his his of remainder the for jail comfortable more a for

Under such amending of the language, the the language, the of amending such Under paroled next year but he wants the murder charge off his his off charge murder the wants he but year next paroled

of the ex-offenders, their families and communities. communities. and families their ex-offenders, the of

of orientation and indoctrination, by way of menticide, menticide, of way by indoctrination, and orientation of

tance via the Substance Abuse Service Coordinating Coordinating Service Abuse Substance the via tance his case to a different judge, who allowed him to pay pay to him allowed who judge, different a to case his

Tribune, Amor would have been been have would Amor Tribune, the to According place subject to their jurisdiction. jurisdiction. their to subject place

loss of social citizenship resulting in the disintegration disintegration the in resulting citizenship social of loss

Disfranchising: It began during the formative years years formative the during began It Disfranchising:

- assis monetary accumulate can one which by enues was then able to get his defense attorney to transfer transfer to attorney defense his get to able then was

faulty arson testimony. arson faulty servitude shall exist within the United States or any any or States United the within exist shall servitude

Amendment have three components, which are: (1) the the (1) are: which components, three have Amendment

and they are as follows: follows: as are they and

- av are there department, parole your from funds by emblematic of most county jails in the region. He He region. the in jails county most of emblematic

the indictments against him, since they were obtained via via obtained were they since him, against indictments the

amending it to read: Neither slavery nor involuntary involuntary nor slavery Neither read: to it amending

The preventives checks and measures of the 13th the of measures and checks preventives The

There are four principal modes of prison commerce commerce prison of modes principal four are There

becoming an activist. Though it’s not easy to come come to easy not it’s Though activist. an becoming jail that was overcrowded, dirty and dangerous – – dangerous and dirty overcrowded, was that jail

the Illinois Innocence Project filed a motion to dismiss dismiss to motion a filed Project Innocence Illinois the

servitude expressed in the 13th Amendment, by by Amendment, 13th the in expressed servitude

Crime. Crime.

to be processed into the prison-industrial complex. complex. prison-industrial the into processed be to

2015. With no help, I went from being an inmate to to inmate an being from went I help, no With 2015.

Jack previously spent 17 days in an Orange County County Orange an in days 17 spent previously Jack

Amor is scheduled to be retried in September. Last week, week, Last September. in retried be to scheduled is Amor

were the reject the language of slavery and involuntary involuntary and slavery of language the reject the were

Governor for State Crime (2) The President for Federal Federal for President The (2) Crime State for Governor

nothing more than a surplus of unemployables, waiting waiting unemployables, of surplus a than more nothing

I parolled from Pelican Bay SHU in September September in SHU Bay Pelican from parolled I the influence of heroin. of influence the

taking it hour by hour.” by hour it taking

advocate that if two-thirds of the voting population population voting the of two-thirds if that advocate

debt to society without being pardon from: (1) The The (1) from: pardon being without society to debt

it comes to laboring for working wage, they will be be will they wage, working for laboring to comes it

where he served his 90-day sentence for driving under under driving for sentence 90-day his served he where

Chicago Tribune. “I’m “I’m Tribune. Chicago the told he overwhelming,” “It’s

otaitos ht e ut xoe W must We expose. must we that contradictions

conviction that the ex-offenders can never pay their pay never can ex-offenders the that conviction

By Armando Rodriguez Armando By

in particular, so that by the age of discretion, when discretion, of age the by that so particular, in

US$100-a-night stay at Seal Beach’s pay-to-stay jail, jail, pay-to-stay Beach’s Seal at stay US$100-a-night

Illinois Innocence Project. Innocence Illinois the from team legal

It is the type of social, economical and political political and economical social, of type the is It

tivist Ac those convicted of a felony. It is by virtue of a felony felony a of virtue by is It felony. a of convicted those

crippling millions of Black and Mexican, male children children male Mexican, and Black of millions crippling

named Jack told the LA Times, speaking of his his of speaking Times, LA the told Jack named

first time since 1995. He was received by friends and his his and friends by received was He 1995. since time first

for the employable arithmetically. arithmetically. employable the for

political rights of Amendments I, II, IV, XIV, XV, etc., for for etc., XV, XIV, IV, II, I, Amendments of rights political

commerce of which is the output of producing while while producing of output the is which of commerce

“This is like paradise,” an Orange County man man County Orange an paradise,” like is “This Amor was released from custody on Tuesday for the the for Tuesday on custody from released was Amor to e mat In om Fr

geometrically (Second) While employment increases increases employment While (Second) geometrically

s h Ecpinl mnmn ta spree the supersedes that Amendment Exceptional the is

There are psycho-political objectives of prison prison of objectives psycho-political are There

subjected to degrading living conditions living degrading to subjected the fire to have started that way. that started have to fire the

of the able-bodied, unemployable will decrease decrease will unemployable able-bodied, the of

existence of the Constitution, the 13th Amendment Amendment 13th the Constitution, the of existence

of color as well. well. as color of

experts testified that it was “scientifically impossible” for for impossible” “scientifically was it that testified experts time behind bars in relative comfort while others are are others while comfort relative in bars behind time

city zones will see: (First) The unemployment rate rate unemployment The (First) see: will zones city

commerce is the 13th Amendment. In the contradictory contradictory the In Amendment. 13th the is commerce

commerce expanded its market by trafficking in females females in trafficking by market its expanded commerce

condominium. At a hearing earlier this spring, three arson arson three spring, this earlier hearing a At condominium. where those with more cash flow can ride out their their out ride can flow cash more with those where

and invidious discrimination, those living in repressive repressive in living those discrimination, invidious and

Therefore, the psycho-political lifeline of prison prison of lifeline psycho-political the . Therefore,

unsuitable for employment. Around 1980, prison prison 1980, Around employment. for unsuitable

he used vodka and a lit cigarette to set fire to the victim’s victim’s the to fire set to cigarette lit a and vodka used he California operates a two-tiered system of jails, jails, of system two-tiered a operates California

By demographic means and institutionalized racism racism institutionalized and means demographic By

being determinate. determinate. being

in males of color, who had become systematically systematically become had who color, of males in fire that killed his mother-in-law. He allegedly claimed that that claimed allegedly He mother-in-law. his killed that fire

they are paradise. These facilities show that Southern Southern that show facilities These paradise. are they

crime would become a commodity in demand. demand. in commodity a become would crime

being indeterminate and (b) involuntary servitude servitude involuntary (b) and indeterminate being

prison commerce was exclusively a market that traffics traffics that market a exclusively was commerce prison interrogated for 15 hours when he confessed to starting the the starting to confessed he when hours 15 for interrogated

Southern California, and for deep-pocketed offenders, offenders, deep-pocketed for and California, Southern

affects their families and communities, insofar as insofar communities, and families their affects

two schools of thought on the subject of (a) slavery slavery (a) of subject the on thought of schools two

William Amor had been detained for two weeks and and weeks two for detained been had Amor William In California, between the years of 1960 and 1980, 1980, and 1960 of years the between California, In

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The bill would require the human beings have human rights, whether they are inside 9, 2016 prison strikes. Jailhouse Lawyers Speak has been anyone who absconded would not receive any monies felonies (including drug possession) to a misdemeanor. statement to contain specified information, including the or outside the prison walls. The response from prisoners planning its challenge to the thirteenth in collaboration owed and allowing the state an additional 5 days to make In 2016, Proposition 64 passed, which decriminalized informant’s complete criminal history, including pending to engage in a human rights-oriented dialogue has been so with iamWE Prison Advocacy Network since mid 2015. the payment. While the bill cleared the committee without possession of marijuana and reduced penalties for growing criminal charges or investigations in which the informant enthusiastic, that regretfully, in 2016 HRPP was compelled Announcing Millions This challenge is the Millions for Prisoners Human Rights a single no vote now awaits readings and votes on the or selling marijuana. Also in 2016, Proposition 57 passed, is a suspect, and whether the informant is a substance to stop taking requests for pen pals from the ‘inside’. There for Prisoners March March, hosted by iamWE Prison Advocacy Network. Assembly floor, we consider this bill, as amended, to be making people in prison with non-violent convictions abuser or has a history of substance abuse. The bill would continues to be an extensive waiting list, though efforts to Presently coalitions are being formed that we envision will worthless. eligible for parole after completing their base terms – prior also revise the definition of consideration for purposes of recruit 'outside' pen pals to be matched with those inside, become a recognizable force for change beyond the March. AB 1308: (Extends the provision of Youth Offender these provisions. continue. We invite and encourage folks from the outside he Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to serving timeon any sentence enhancements. Likewise, we envision every August 19th afterwards being Parole Hearings to those who were under 25 at the time of This bill would expand the scope of the prohibition to join the HRPP community., a special group of people, reads as follows: "Section 1. Slavery prohibited. However, Proposition 57 does not impact people in a day of solidarity and demonstrations in recognition of the crime.) This bill, which extends YOPH consideration against a law enforcement or correctional official giving, indeed. Check out humanrightspenpals.org Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except county jail. Thus, people in county jail can serve longer T human rights for the incarcerated, and highlighting the be 2 years, is now in the Assembly Floor process, awaiting sentences than those in state prison, even if they have been offering, or promising to give a monetary payment to make In addition, PHSS continue to follow, support and/or as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have violations of such for collective action. a third reading and vote. It passed narrowly out of it applicable to a member of a prosecutorial entity, among challenge legislative activity. We hvae supported a bill for been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, convicted of the same crime. “Black August is a month of divine meaning, of committee, largely along party line votes. We support this other changes. The bill would also make the provision good time credits, a bill to abolish use of solitary for youth, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The policy of sentencing people with nonviolent repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine bill. applicable to property and gifts, among other benefits, a bill to limit use of confidential informers, etc. While Salamu! Greetings of solidarity from behind enemy lines. convictions to long periods of incarceration is an expensive justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual AB 1448: (Would codify the elderly parole process, and would limit the combined value of those benefits to not always successful, we did succeed in efforts which Thank you for giving me the opportunity to publish this failure that does not reduce the availability of drugs in our and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains making it a law rather than simply an agreement). The $100. The bill would also make technical changes.● ultimately reduced the number of new Institutional Gang communication. I am a new Afrikan freedom fighter from communities. Instead, it cripples state and local budgets that that bind us.” -Mumia Abu-Jamal Elderly parole bill, which does not change the current Investigators (IGI), from CDCR's original proposition the ranks of JLS (Jailhouse Lawyers Speak), a collective of should prioritize our best policies against drug sales and Black August was selected by JLS prisoners, due to elderly parole qualifications of 60 years or older and 25 Editor's Note: of 150, to 49. PHSS has participated in “Lobby Days” jailhouse lawyers organized to fight for prisoners' human drug use - drug prevention and treatment, education, and its significance as a historical month of commemoration years of incarceration, also exempts from elderly parole There have been concerns about this Bill, but overall organized by Californian's United for a Responsible Budget rights against a system that is designed to dehumanize its employment for individuals with a history of incarceration. of fallen new Afrikan freedom fighters. This is a month consideration 3rd Strikers, LWOP inmates, and those it is good. The idea is to disclose to the defense counsel (CURB), as well as Quest for Democracy events, most captives. I am also the National Secretary for Amend the THIS BILL in which the spirit of liberation is encouraged amongst convicted of killing a policeman or former policeman. It the records of the informer. The prosecutor is supposed recently on May 7-8, 2017. 13th, an inclusive coalition-based national campaign and SB 180 RISE Act repeals specified sections of Health & prisoners and within our communities. Black August is a passed out of the committee process and now awaits a floor to give info if it's potentially exculpatory, but frequently After the Ashker settlement CDCr wanted to be done community-based organizing effort to address the legal Safety Code 11370.2 to remove sentencing enhancements special month to many of us confined. Comrade George vote. We support the bill, but opposed the amendments. they don't do it. It's the most common cause of conviction with our excellent mediation team. We convinced the courts and social basis for dehumanization in Amerika. that add additional three-year terms of incarceration for L. Jackson is a light to many of us struggling to maintain SB 26: (Would allow those convicted of a sex offense reversals. In California, if an informant is in jail; testifies that there were still systemic issues and abuses that still The purpose of this press release is to notify prisoners, each prior conviction of nonviolent drug offenses. The bill our sanity and dignity within these concentration camps. to enter school grounds on election days for the express against another prisoner and is then released, repeating need to be monitored, such as lack of programing, obstacles community organizers, and all those who care of the does not repeal sentence enhancements for using a minor to It is only fitting that this event be scheduled during this purpose of casting a vote). We support this bill, currently this behavior several times, it establishes a track record to visiting and the discrimination and retaliation against upcoming Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March commit drug offenses, nor does it amend any other felony month, in hopes of connecting more people to the prison in Senate Appropriations. that he is an informant, indicating that he may be a former SHU prisoners. scheduled for August 19, 2017 in Washington D.C.. This enhancement. resistance movement, its history, its future challenges and SB 343: (Inmates 70 years could petition for release, liar. California has fewer protections against the use of Space does not permit the listing of all the public is a nationwide effort to bring global attention to the 13th BACKGROUND needs. As I write this today, confirmation is coming in that those 70 years and older with chronic and debilitating informants than other states. outreach and awareness activities that we have organized or Amendment's exception clause, its ramifications, and to Sentence enhancements, which were central strategies prisoners around the country are in collective discussions medical conditions to be moved to a medical facility, participated in over the last two years, exposing some of the solidify organizing efforts to amend it. to the failed War on Drugs, were utterly ineffective in to stand solidarity with the Millions for Prisoners Human and those 60 and older with chronic debilitating medical many problems within California's prisons, and California’s MILLIONS FOR PRISONERS HUMAN RIGHTS reducing or deterring drug use and availability. Controlled Rights March. conditions to petition CDCR for consideration of release sweeping use of solitary confinement. They varied widely CORE DEMANDS OF ACTION: substances are now cheaper and more widely available than For those prisoners that would like to participate, it is on parole). This bill is in the committee process and may PHSS update from an academic conference at Pitt Law School in April 1. We DEMAND the 13th amendment EXCEPTION ever before, despite a massive investment of tax revenue asked that you: be stalled. Although this bill contains several exemptions, ast time we wrote up an update was in Aug 2015, 2016, at which sociology professors who already knew how CLAUSE of the United States Constitution be amended and human lives in an unprecedented buildup of prisons ●● Fast from sun rise to sun set such as LWOP inmates and those convicted of killing a almost 2 years ago! How time flies! A lot has harmful solitary confinement is, only then connected it to to abolish LEGALIZED slavery in America. and jails. happened since, starting with the settlement of the ●● Participate in intense political studies with emphasis peace officer, we support this bill, the over-use/abuse of the practice in U.S. prisons, to rallies 2. We DEMAND a Congressional hearing on the 13th The drug war has devastated families, low-income L Ashker case, which abolished the use of indeterminate on the 13th amendment. SB 394: (Would allow those sentenced to LWOP for and tables held on the 23rd of each month in many locations Amendment EXCEPTION CLAUSE being recognized communities, and communities of color who are solitary confinement in California (See page 2). Since then ●● Perform daily prayer or meditation crimes committed before the age of 18 to be automatically around the state to bring awareness of the deplorable in violation of international law, the general principles of disproportionately incarcerated. Young people are swept up monitoring the implementation of the settlement has been a ●● Perform daily exercise regimen seen by the Board of Parole Hearings after 25 years of practices in prisons to widest audiences possible. We held human rights, and its direct links to: in minor crimes and suffer years of incarceration followed priority for the legal team consisting of the rep’s inside and ●● Refrain from purchasing any and all prison products incarceration. This bill is presently up for consideration on “readers theaters” asking participants in the rally to read a). Private entities exploiting prison labor by lifetime barriers to employment and ineligibility a group of dedicated lawyers outside. to that require spending of money during this month the Senate floor, having passed handily out of committee prisoners’ statements to the audience. We tabled at theatrical b). Companies overcharging prisoners for goods and for education and housing benefits. The emphasis on PHSS discussed and distributed the “Prisoners Human ●● Refrain from smoking and drinking alcoholic bever- along party lines. No date yet set for a vote; we support performances about solitary confinement, including The services incarceration rather than public health strategies contributed Rights Movement Blueprint.” The Blueprint provides a ages this bill.SB 421: (Creates a tiered registration system for Box, Solitary Man and Mariposa and the Saint. We put on c). Private entities contracted by states/federal to the worst epidemic of fatal opioid overdoses in our background of where Prisoners Human Rights Movement ●● If possible, wear a black arm band or wrist band sex offenders, with registration lengths based on severity showings of movies: Breaking down the Box, Up the Ridge, government to build and operate prisons. This would also country’s history, and high rates of HIV and viral hepatitis (PHRM) came from, how it envisions organizing itself and (i.e.shoelace) around left wrist. of crime and age at conviction, among other facts) This Thirteenth. We assembled our newly-painted model SHU include immigration detentions among drug users. the tasks it sets for itself. The first task is the monitoring of Around the Nation and across the world, August 19, 2017 bill is awaiting a floor vote in the Senate, having passed at a number of events in which former SHU prisoners and d). Racial disparities in America’s prison population and Research shows that community based programming the Ashker settlement’s implementation,. Others include will be remembered as a day of collective action, with the out of committee largely along party lines. We support families of prisoners were the featured speakers. sentencing is the most effective in reducing the suffering caused by continued organization around the historic Agreement to national objective of abolishing legalized enslavement in this bill.SB 620: (Would allow the court to strike firearm The Struggle continues! In Solidarity, Urszula Wislanka e). Policing: the disproportionate (unaccountable) killings substance use disorders and illegal drug sales in our End Hostilities, developing political education for prisoners Amerika. People from all walks of life on both sides of the enhancements, in certain cases). This bill passed the by police in the black and brown communities communities. Examples of those programs are community- and others, and establishing Freedom Outreach, an official prison walls have answered the call. Many are organizing Senate floor and has been referred to the Assembly, with f). Felony Disenfranchisement laws based drug treatment, employment and housing for persons clearinghouse for PHRM to provide informational packets. their communities to travel to the march in D.C., while action there pending. We support this bill, which passed g). Immigration and Customs Enforcement 34,000 with prior convictions, and preschool and afterschool As many of the prisoners formerly held in the SHU have California others will be hosting local solidarity demonstrations in the floor along party lines. detention quotas programs which have been proven to reduce adolescent been moved out, they now face new challenges. PHSS their state or country, and still others are distributing info SB 676: (Would have expanded the list of crimes h). Producing the world largest prison population drug use and involvement in the drug market.● formed a Parole Committee to address the fact that the parole lawmakers unveil a and sharing resources and time.● considered violent for the purposes of parole consideration; In essence this is an abolitionist movement focused on board may unfairly hold, as proof of continued “criminal a reaction to the passage of Prop. 57). This bill failed to list of bills meant to ending legalized enslavement - a practice that is not only To learn more about this event and how you can get mentality”, 115s issued for participation in the 2011 and pass out of committee and is now dead.● keep children out of limited to prisoner-labor, but includes the profitability of a involved visit www.iamweubuntu.com or write: AB 359, as amended, In- 2013 hunger strikes, as well as refusal to debrief. The prisoners' own body in an isolation cell. iamWE Prison Advocacy Network Parole Committee gathered information to show the board’s the juvenile justice According to the U.S. Supreme Court in its long P.O. Box 58201 custody informants. executive officer, met with her and other CDCr officials, standing precedent in Ruffin v. Commonwealth, 62, Va (21 Raleigh NC 27658 SB 180 RISE Act xisting law defines an in-custody informant to mean and prepared “Advice for Prisoners and Their Supporters system a person, other than a codefendant, percipient wit- Regarding Board of Parole Hearings Psychological By Jazmine Ulloa Gratt.) 790, 796 (1871): “A convicted felon, whom the law In Solidarity, JLS Repeal Ineffective Sentencing ness, accomplice, or coconspirator whose testimony Evaluations, Including Special Advice for Ashker Class Published by the LA Times on May 31, 2017 in its humanity punishes by confinement in penitentiary(s) The Prison Resistance Movement New Abolitionist E instead of death, is subject while undergoing punishment, Enhancement Act is based upon statements made by the defendant while both Members.” (See page 23) The Committee set up educational On-line at: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac- Bill introduced by Senators Holly J. Mitchell and Lara the defendant and the informant are held within a correc- to all the laws which the legislature in its wisdom may sessions on parole hearings and has compliled informational juvenile-justice-bills-20170320-story.html B 180 is one modest step in implementing the bi- tional institution. Existing law prohibits a law enforcement packets, also available upon request. California lawmakers on Monday said they have filed enact for the government of that institution and control of partisan movement to end wasteful incarceration or correctional official from giving, offering, or promising Another new challenge encountered because of prisoners’ a package of bills in an attempt to divert children from a its inmates. For the time being, during his term of service Bill Watch spending in favor of community reinvestment. to give any monetary payment in excess of $50 in return in the penitentiary, he is in a state of penal servitude to S release out of the SHU has been visiting. Family members school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately affects Published May 2017 in Volume 8 Issue 4 of Lifer-Line: The Repeal Ineffective Sentencing Enhancement Act for an in-custody informant’s testimony in any criminal and friends are finally able to have contact visits with their low-income and black and Latino families. the state. He has, as a consequence of his crime, not only The Newsletter of Life Support Alliance. (RISE) will reduce jail overcrowding by amending the proceeding, as specified. Existing law requires the pros- loved ones who were previously in SHU. We were all Sens. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) and Ricardo forfeited his liberty, but all of his personal rights except s Lifer-Line goes to press, below is the status of code section that doubles or triples the sentence for a ecution to file with the court a written statement prior to moved by the stories of peoples' first contact visit in years Lara (D-Bell Gardens) have introduced eight proposals those which the law in its humanity accords him. He is various bills affecting lifers; this status is subject nonviolent drug offense if a person has been previously trial setting out any and all consideration, as defined, prom- - sometimes decades. Pictures from them were shared and that would extend protections for children facing arrest or for the time being a slave of the State. … They are slaves to rapid change as the legislature returns from convicted of a similar offense. As of 2014, there were ised to, or received by, the in-custody informant when the A inspired everyone! Family members accustomed to fighting detention and ease punishment and burdensome fees for prosecution calls an in-custody informant as a witness in of the State undergoing punishment for heinous crimes Memorial Day holiday and once again takes up business. more than 1,635 people in county jails across California any criminal trial. powers-that-be faced the many obstacles to visiting head those inside the juvenile justice system. committed against the laws of the land. …” AB 335: (Would codify the 35 mile parolee placement sentenced to five to ten years. There were at least 124 This bill would revise the definition of an in-custody on: In several prisons they re-activated Inmate Family In a news conference at Sacramento’s Leataata Floyd In other words, prisoners themselves become a exclusion allowed victims of certain crimes and adds to the people sentenced to more than ten years in county jail. informant to refer to a person, other than a codefendant, Councils, which have been challenging different aspects Elementary School, home to what lawmakers called model commodity. Which explains why the entire apparatus of list of crimes for which this exclusion would be available; The leading causes of these excessive sentences are drug percipient witness, accomplice, or coconspirator of CDCR's visiting policies, such as the inadequacies of educational programs meant to empower children, Mitchell law enforcement is geared towards capturing and caging primarily sex offenses). This bill is still in the committee sales, possession for sale, or similar nonviolent drug who provides testimony or information for use in the the new VPASS system for scheduling visits, the health and Lara said they wanted their legislation to center on humans for the highest bidder. It should not be of any process, a hearing in Assembly Public Safety Committee offenses, which are compounded by cruel and costly investigation or prosecution of a suspect or defendant dangers caused by scanners for both visitors and prisoners prevention, rehabilitation and keeping families together. surprise that black and brown communities are prime is slated for June 13. We oppose this bill. sentencing enhancements. Thousands more are serving based upon statements made by the suspect or defendant (discontinued) and staff misconduct during visits. “Jail is no place for a child under 11,” Mitchell told targets for extractions. We cannot overemphasize the AB 610: (Would require CDCR to initiate an outreach such sentences in prison. while both the suspect or defendant and the informant are Although many long-time prisoners have been released reporters. “Children are not pint-sized adults. They have a connection between slavery and the Prison-Industrial effort to find victims of crimes who are not currently Sentence enhancements compound previous sentences housed within a correctional institution. The bill would from the SHU, significant problems, both old and new, developmental process that they go through to grow into Enslavement Complex. Prison slavery is a direct outgrowth registered, so that they may be notified of upc ming retroactively for which a person was already punished, require the prosecutor, when the prosecution intends to persist. The most egregious is sleep deprivation caused by adults. So, for us to expect that a child will have the same of the 13th Amendment and the exception clause is a direct hearings or releases). This bill is still in the committee resulting in a “double jeopardy” injustice. By repealing call an in-custody informant as a witness in any criminal so-called “welfare checks.” The PHSS Committee to End judgment, understanding of legal terminology is simply outgrowth of the pre-1865 chattel enslavement system. process and may be stalled. We oppose this bill. sentencing enhancements for people who already served You can analyze the different periods and the transitions AB 620: (4 year pilot program to provide trauma trial, to file with the court a written statement no less than Sleep Deprivation continues to challenge and address this naive.”

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CPF old timers on the outside, such as Ed Mead, Marilyn are collaborating on an activism guide for imprisoned one hundred years ago by heroes of the working class, One of the juvenile justice bills filed this legislative McMahon and Ron Ahnen, are no longer working with the human rights defenders. We’re hoping to compile the IWOC has been around for a couple of years, and now has session would take those protections further, requiring Free Sesame Street App Offers organizationn in the same capacity as in the past. Though stories of imprisoned human rights defenders who have hundreds of inmate members across the country, as well as people younger than 18 to consult with an attorney before PHSS Request for Information staff turnover brings fresh energy to the organization, it found ways to advocate for their own rights and the a growing network of support outside. IWOC’s goal is to waiving their constitutional rights in interviews with Resources for Families of the The PHSS Parole Subcommittee is focusing on parole also makes it difficult to maintain continuity. Many of you rights of others during their detention. Examples of this support prisoners in creating functioning union branches advocacy may include prison labor strikes, book clubs, in every facility, with an army on the outside building police. issues specific to prisoners who have been released from are far more familiar with CPF then the newcomers who Incarcerated letter writing, and interviews via family members to the solidarity with prisoners’ collective actions. Other proposals would prohibit authorities from esame Street, one of the most watched is offering an indeterminate SHU, both before and after the Ashker we are so grateful to have on the team, but who still have media. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions. IWOC is accepting IWW membership applications incarcerating children 11 and younger, mandate that judges “Incarceration” application that can be downloaded settlement. We are particularly interested in seeing a lot to learn. First and foremost, we don't want to offend Mail can be sent to: from prisoners who believe that to truly change prison cannot sentence juveniles to life in prison without parole and used free of charge on both iOS and Android language from transcripts of parole hearings and psych anybody who may be wondering why we have stopped S corresponding with you, or why you've received a letter The Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic conditions, prisoner must be organized and working with and end the collection of costly court and administrative devices. evaluations that contain references to unsuitability for c/o Avidan Y. Cover the support of the working class on the outside. IWW detention fees against their families. Originally launched in 2013 as the latest in the “Little from a CPFer who does not know of your familiarity and parole based on: 11075 East Blvd, membership is free for prisoners. If you’re not a member “We have made major progress in California toward Children: Big Challenges” series, the Incarceration app is relationship with the organization. Though we may not 1. Failure to debrief Cleveland Ohio 44106 yet and would like to be, just write us at: fairness,” Lara said. “But in some parts of our juvenile part of a larger online toolkit of information and activities know the role you have played in our accomplishments, 2. Participation in the hunger strike (CPF invites you to send us a copy as well. See CPF's P.O. Box 6305, Oakland, CA 94612 system, we are still stuck in the past.” that can be accessed in any web browser. With that toolkit 3. Factors related to long-term indeterminate SHU, such your knowledge and experience is of great value to us, and Confidentiality Statement.) Improved data on Latinos in the juvenile justice system came the introduction of a new character to the long-run- as inadequate programming. contributes to the work we still have to do.We hope you Note: IWOC is not able to address individual legal issues. could soon be available under bill sent to governor » ning program: Alex is a blue-haired, red-faced puppet boy We are reaching out to prisoners, family members, friends will continue to correspond with CPF, contribute to Prison A report released in February by Human Impact Partners, with a nose the color of a tennis ball, and a father in prison. and penpals, including all those who may be familiar with Focus. We want to continue working with you, as we find a research and advocacy organization, found black and Told through the show’s characteristic blend of live-action prisoners for whom these issues have been raised in psych our way through the many transitions, inside and out. Excerpts from "Advice For Prisoners and Their Latino children “are overrepresented at every stage of the and puppetry, singing and dialogue, The episode in which evaluations in preparation for parole, or in denials for Supporters Regarding Board of Parole Hearings criminal justice system,” even when controlling for alleged Alex is featured, personalizes the experience of growing up parole. Status of CPF's Psychological Evaluations" criminal behavior. Such children are arrested, detained and with an incarcerated parent, an experience shared by rough- We are asking for documents, both psych evaluations Legal Visits Program and More "Including Special Advice For Ashker Class Members" put on probation more often than their peers. ly 2.7 million American children today. It also fosters a and BPH transcripts, (or relevant language from those Due to the inevitable shifts and changes within FAD: The California Board of Parole Hearings has established the Forensic Assessment Division (FAD), a staff of psychologists In California in 2015, the report found, they also made sensitivity in children who have not had this experience. documents) in order to try to determine patterns and the a small all-volunteer organization such as CPF, we who conduct evaluations of prisoners for Board hearings....The FAD psychologist uses two formal risk assessment tools - the up 88% of young people tried as adults. The app is divided into three sections: advice for parents extent to which these issues are stated as factors indicating will be conducting less visits this year, as we work Historiacal Risk Management 20, Version 3 (HCR-20V3) and the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R). The psychologist also In recent years, state legislation and propositions have and caregivers, a children’s storybook, and a resource unsuitability for parole. through changes in leadership and continue our makes a diagnosis as to whether the prisoner has a mental disorder, such as Antisocial Personality Disorders or a substance attempted to create greater court protections for young section. While it’s not a huge amount of material, the Please provide the following information: Documents or efforts to increase programming capacity. Though use disorder, under the standards of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)... The HCR-20V3 offenders and to lower the population of incarcerated youth, presentation is excellent and user-friendly. Parents can swipe quoted language, prisoner’s name and CDC number, and we will still be conducting some visits, there will be and the PCL-R both revolve around the concept of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). They measure other things and as research on brain development has found that children through pages of practical tips on ways to communicate length of time in SHU. It would also help to have the date less than in recent years. We will continue to write use different ways of measuring risk, but Antisocial Disorder is a central building block in each of them...The diagnosis of learn differently from adults and should be afforded a with, and emotionally support their children. Children get of the parole hearing. This information will be used by prison reports based on the many letters we receive, ASPD is important because the FAD psychologist and the Board weigh it as a big risk factor for future criminality...The criminal justice approach centered on rehabilitation. to put their own name in the interactive storybook, which the committee in connection with its advocacy and may and look forward to getting our Legal Visits Program DSM-5 definition of ASPD centers on behavior that shows a "pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of The latest victory for criminal justice advocates then tells them the story of Rosita’s Family Fun Night at be shared with advocacy groups, as well as with CDCR, back in full swing. others." ...Although criminal and rule-breaking behavior is only one aspect of ASPD, many psychologists (particularly FAD was Proposition 57, which will now require a judge’s school, and the unexpected emotions she encounters there. Board of Parole Hearings, and other state officials. psychologists) focus on it... One of the biggest problems with the ASPD diagnosis for long-term prisoners, is the idea that this approval before most juvenile defendants can be tried in Resources include links to other free sesame street apps Send to: Community OUTreach an adult court. and activities for kids, as well as links for parents, covering PHSS Parole Committee personality type is fixed for lige and amenable to change...The truth is that people who once evidenced antisocial traits change ed by local writer, teacher and community But disparities in the juvenile justice system remain, everything from general children’s health to counseling & PO Box 5586, with age, time and positive influences...Since all of the FAD's tools and approaches over-emphasize past history, it's up to the organizer Steve Martinot, a number of lawyers and criminal justice advocates said. The harsh therapy, and financial & legal assistance. Lancaster, CA 93539 prisoner and his supporters to fill in the blanks for the Board. Without trying to comment on criticisms or debates about these activists at California Prison Focus are tools, they should make sure the materials submitted to the Board emphasize the things that have changed since the prisoner penalties and high fees for the families of juvenile detainees The Sesame Street Incarceration toolkit can be found at: L planning a community outreach effort in the vary by county and disproportionately affect low-income http://www.sesamestreet.org/toolkits/incarceration came to prison, how he accomplished that change, and how long it's been since the negative acts that led to a prison term. California’s Bay Area (Home of CPF). The focus will children and children of color. Are you eligible for Prop 57, and He should list accomplishments and activities that demonstrate his stability and compliance with rules and expectations. It be on developing collaborative relationships within In one case, a federal appeals court recently admonished have received unsubstantiated is important to address the impact of age, and the steps the prisoner has taken to reinforce the natural tendency for substance “The prison boom helps us understand the communities most affected by mass incarceration. Orange County for aggressively pursuing payment on a abuse, crime and violence to subside with age. It is also important for supporters to show how the individual has changed over how racial inequality in America was 115s since the passing of Prop 57? We look forward to having dialogues with various more than $16,000 juvenile fee bill, forcing a family to sell time to become much more pro-social," responsible, loving, empathic, motivated to succeed, etc., and to explain why they are sustained, despite great optimism for the California Prison Focus has received a report from individuals within the nieigbhorboods most effected its home and declare bankruptcy. convinced the individual is not a risk for future substance abuse, crime or violence. While authorities generally say ASPD is social progress of African Americans,” San Quentin that men who are eligible for Prop 57 have by over-policing and mass incarceration, and who At Leataata Floyd Elementary on Monday, 17-year- hard to treat, studies have concluded that a form of therapy called Cognitive Behavorial Therapy (CBT) is the most effective. Bruce Western, the Harvard sociologist, been recieving multiple 115 violations for petty and/or have concerted interests in the work we do. We aim old Lupita Carballo, who traveled to Sacramento from writes. “The prison boom is not the main If the prisoner has been through CDCR's Step Down Program, "Thinking for Change" or other programs identified in section nonsubstantiated infractions. Help keep CPF informed. to hear about the experiences, needs and perspectives Inglewood with members of a youth justice coalition, said cause of inequality between blacks and 3040.1 of Title 15, it should be raised as a positive point, because these programs are based on the model of CBT... In materials If you are eligible for Prop 57 and have received bogus on mass incarceration, police brutality, and prisoner she watched her mother struggle to pay the bills and her whites in America, but it did foreclose from supporters and the prisoner, it is usually better not to mention Antisocial Personality Disorder...Rather, supporters should 115s, and/or know others that are, let us know. We cannot reentry into society. now 19-year-old brother’s court and detention fees. He upward mobility and deflate hopes for racial simply talk about the traits in the individual prisoner that are clearly opposite of those described in these pshycological advocate for individuals, but will continue to report the We will begin our outreach by contacting and was in and out of the juvenile justice system on auto theft equality.” TA-NEHISI COATES definitions and concepts.For example, to show that a prisoner is sensitive, empathetic, concerned about the plight of others, information we gather. connecting with religious organizations and other charges and other offenses, she said. supporters should talk about what they know about and have seen the prisoner do, like help younger individuals in the family community-based support organizations. From there “Not everybody is able, can pay for the fees,” Carballo or community stay away from drugs, crime and prison... we will begin to cultivate collaborative relationships said, recalling her mother was charged for her brother’s Educational Resources Adams State University (ASU): Issues that are particularly relevant for Ashker class members include: time in SHU,refusal to debrief and participation in the with these local allies and figure out how we can best drug tests, surveillance and other incarceration expenses. With Prop 57 many people are able to qualify Located in Alamosa, Colorado.and has a long history of hunger strikes. For the complete packet, write to CPF. Please include 3 or more stamps to cover costs.. work together. Michael Rizo, 21, who helped set up the Sacramento for milestone credits and are looking to enroll in offering correspondence courses to incarcerated students in office of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, once shuffled correspondence colleges to receive an Associates of Arts all states. ASU offers both undergraduate and master-level through the juvenile justice system himself — starting at (AA) or Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. Below are three degrees. Tuition for correspondence courses is $185 per age 11 after an arrest for burglary. quality colleges that offer distance learning options for semester hour. ASU Extended Studies is the only institution He said he watched his single mother have to choose those who are incarcerated. Due to laws and guidelines in Co. that processes VA benefits for incarcerated students. Acuerdo para poner Fin a Enemistades between putting food on the table or paying his detention no person incarcerated in a state or federal institutions can Each student is assigned an advisor who is a single point of A Quien Corresponda y Todo Prisionero en California: fees. He felt like such a burden on his family, he said, he receive financial aid for college. (Some federal institutions contact, available year round by toll-free telephone or US Saludos de parte de todos los Representantes de la Huelga de Hambre del Corredór Corto PBSP-SHU Por este medio, estamos presentando este Acuerdo Mutuo de parte de todos los ran away and ended up in the system again. She was in have pilot programs) Unfortunately we are unaware of any mail. grupos raciales que se encuentran aquí en el PBSP-SHU(Hoyo). En donde, hemos llegado a un acuerdo mutuo acerca de los siguientes puntos : debt for $25,000 in juvenile detention fees alone when she free college programs. Send request for informational packet to ●● Si de verdad queremos llevar a cabo cambios sustantivos y significantes al sistema de CDCR, de una manera beneficiosa para todo individuo serio , que nunca han sido quebrantado por las tacticas de tortura destinadas a convertirlos a ser soplones estatales via interrogatorio, que ahora es el tiempo que juntos podamos aprovechar este momento, y poner un fin had to file for bankruptcy, he said. Adams State University Coastline Community College (CCC): a los más de 20 a 30 años de enemistades entre nuestros grupos raciales. She still owes $7,500, Rizo said. The pending juvenile Office of Extended Studies Offers several AA options with a focus on transferring Attn: Jim Bullington ●● Por lo tanto, comenzando el 10 de Octubre, 2012, todas las enemistades entre nuestros grupos raciales … en el HOYO/ SHU, Ad-Seg, la Población General, y Cárceles de Condado, justice legislation is crucial, he said, to make sure other to a four year degree institution. CCC is the most popular 208 Edgemont Blvd., Suite 3000 oficialmente terminaran . Esto indica que, de esta fecha y adelante, toda enemistad entre grupos raciales tienen que terminar… y si asuntos personales se presentan entre indivíduos, children do not go down the same path he did. choice because it is the lowest cost however, this makes it Alamosa, CO 81101 todos tenemos que hacer todo lo posible por agotar los medios diplomáticos para resolver disputas; no debemos permitír que los asuntos personales e individuales se conviertan “We are setting up kids for failure,” Rizo said. “I wasn’t difficult to get into because of the high demand. Students en problemas raciales!! Ohio University (OU): a bad kid. I was misguided.”● must connect with an education proctor to have their exams ●● Tambien queremos advertirles a aquellos en la Población General que IGI continuará a mandando Informantes encubiertos al Patio de Necesidades Sensitivas (SNY) entre los Offers both undergraduate and master-level degrees , proctored. Many CA institutions have an educational prisioneros serios de la PG, prisoneros con órdenes del IGI a ser informadores, soplones, ratas, y obstruir, con el fin de perturbar y debilitar el entendimento mutuo de nuestros Including a Legal Studies Certificate for those interested grupos colectivos sobre los temas deseados para nuestras causas mutuas [es decir, obligar a CDCR a abrir las lineas principales a la GP , y regresar a un sistema rehabilitador de proctor already registered with in furthering their education without completing an entire programas significativos /privilegios, inclusive visitas conyugales para los sentenciados a vida, etc. via actividades de protestas pacíficas/no cooperación e.g., huelgas de hambre, , CCC. Try and contact that person degree program. All OU students who have been convicted no trabajar, etc. etc.]. Todos deben seguir concientes y vigilantes a tales tácticas, y rehusar permitír que tales soplones de IGI ocasionen caos y reanuden enemistades entre nuestros at the facility for support. Tuition of a felony must complete a review process. This process is grupos raciales. No podemos seguír siendo manipulados con las viejas tácticas de dividir y conquistar de los IGI, ISU, OCS, y SSU’s !!! is $46 a unit for CA residents, deferred for students participating through the Correctional Para concluír, debemos mantenernos fuertes a nuestro acuerdo mutuo desde este punto en adelante y enfocar nuestro tiempo, atención, y energía sobre causas mutuas y beneficiosas $234 per unit plus fees for non- Education program during the period of incarceration only. para todos nosotros [es decir, los prisoneros], y en nuestros mejores intereses. No podemos seguír permitiendole a CDCR usarnos uno contra el otro para su propio beneficio! Porque CA residents. To enroll ,write for la realidad es que juntos, somos una fuerza poderosa que puede positivamente transformar este sistema corrupto a un sistema que en verdad puede beneficiar a los prisoneros, y con Tuition for correspondence courses is $343. There is a an Incarcerated Student Guide for eso, al público en General… y nosotros simplemente no podemos permitir a CDCR/CCPOA – la Union de Guardias, IGI, ISU, OCS, y SSU, a continuár saliendose con su forma $25 application fee. OU offers support for VA benefits for the upcoming semester. constante de opresión progresiva y el almacenamiento de miles de prisoneros, incluyendo los 14,000 (+) prisoneros detenidos en confinamiento solitario en camara de tortura [es incarcerated students. Send request for informational decir,el SHU/HOYO/Unidades de Ad-Seg], por decadas!!! Send request for informational packet to: packet to: Coastline Community Enviamos nuestro amor y respeto a todos aquellos de mentes y corazones similares… adelante en la lucha y solidarida College, Incarcerated Student Ohio University Correctional Education 19087 CA Prison Focus tab A_FB 001W2 Web 2 Top 6/21/2017 12:00:21 PM Black $[LayerName] Presentado por el grupo en el Corredor Corto : Todd Ashker, C58191, Arturo Castellanos, C17275, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (Dewberry), C35671, Antonio Guillen, P81948 Support Services Haning Hall 102, 11460 Warner Avenue 1 Ohio University And the Representatives Body: Danny Troxell, B76578, George Franco, D46556, Ronnie Yandell, V27927, Paul Redd, B72683, James Baridi Williamson, D-34288., Fountain Valley, CA 92708-2597. Athens OH 45701. Alfred Sandoval, D61000, Louis Powell, B59864, Alex Yrigollen, H32421, Gabriel Huerta, C80766, Frank Clement, D07919, James Mario Perez, B48186 Adams State University Prison [NOTE: All names and the statement must be verbatim when used & posted on any website or media, or non-media, publications.] College Program NOTE: CPF invite you to share your thoughts and experiences regarding The Agreement to End Hostilities. Do you feel a change?

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● ● outcome. the regarding “recreation time, properly cleaned laundry, reasonable reasonable laundry, cleaned properly time, “recreation

are leaning increasingly toward mass deportations.● mass toward increasingly leaning are

Sheriff’s Department. CPF has received little information information little received has CPF Department. Sheriff’s reported their demands as being being as demands their reported Stranger The

in the fight against the Trump administration’s policies that that policies administration’s Trump the against fight the in

ended Monday, May 1st, according to the Riverside County County Riverside the to according 1st, May Monday, ended meeting basic demands. basic meeting

protests and legal actions will prove to be powerful weapons weapons powerful be to prove will actions legal and protests Editors Note: Note: Editors The hunger strike lasted for 19 days and and days 19 for lasted strike hunger The

and Customs Enforcement (ICE) representatives into into representatives (ICE) Enforcement Customs and

Durham said. Durham Yet immigrants and their advocates are hopeful that that hopeful are advocates their and immigrants Yet

stocking up on snacks from the commissary before the strike, strike, the before commissary the from snacks on up stocking day in court. in day

Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington Washington Tacoma, in Center Detention Northwest

are by law nutritionally balanced, even gained weight after after weight gained even balanced, nutritionally law by are

most of the detainees bringing the case may never see their their see never may case the bringing detainees the of most

at the for-profit Tacoma Tacoma for-profit the at detainees undocumented 700

Durham said. Some inmates who refused to eat meals, which which meals, eat to refused who inmates Some said. Durham

the case is likely to drag through the courts for years, and and years, for courts the through drag to likely is case the

In April, over over April, In recourse. lack who those by tactic protest a

The number of inmates taking part on any one day fluctuated, fluctuated, day one any on part taking inmates of number The

class action certification is clearly a legal leap forward. But But forward. leap legal a clearly is certification action class

locations of active resistance, with hunger strikes used as as used strikes hunger with resistance, active of locations

day room. day

For the plaintiffs in the Aurora forced labor lawsuit, the the lawsuit, labor forced Aurora the in plaintiffs the For

Immigration detention facilities have also become become also have facilities detention Immigration

which included increased phone access and more time in the the in time more and access phone increased included which

a day. a

. conditions labor slave-like and

did not make any changes in response to the inmates’ demands, demands, inmates’ the to response in changes any make not did

Northwest Detention Center are also forced to work for $1 $1 for work to forced also are Center Detention Northwest place, such as unsanitary conditions, abusive treatment, treatment, abusive conditions, unsanitary as such place,

Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Chris Durham said the department department the said Durham Chris Sgt. spokesman Sheriff’s

work stoppage. Like the Aurora facility, detainees at the the at detainees facility, Aurora the Like stoppage. work the factors that lead inmates to go on strike in the first first the in strike on go to inmates lead that factors the

County Sheriff’s Department said. Department Sheriff’s County

Riverside ended Monday, May 1, at 19 days, the Riverside Riverside the days, 19 at 1, May Monday, ended Riverside

The hunger strike at Robert Presley Detention Center in in Center Detention Presley Robert at strike hunger The

along from state and prison officials. Conventional news news Conventional officials. prison and state from along This week, more than 750 immigrants held in another another in held immigrants 750 than more week, This

on county officials to publicly address the inmates’ complaints. inmates’ the address publicly to officials county on

sparse at best, often parroting information that is passed passed is that information parroting often best, at sparse

the unjust treatment of immigrants jailed within. jailed immigrants of treatment unjust the Starting Over Inc. are supporting the hunger strike and calling calling and strike hunger the supporting are Inc. Over Starting

Historically, media coverage of prison strikes has been been has strikes prison of coverage media Historically,

Aurora ICE facility and many others nationwide, decrying decrying nationwide, others many and facility ICE Aurora The prisoner advocacy groups All of Us or None of Us and and Us of None or Us of All groups advocacy prisoner The

Matters reported. Matters

For years, the public has regularly protested outside the the outside protested regularly has public the years, For I’m not about to negotiate safety and security.” and safety negotiate to about not I’m

half-minute NPR Weekend Edition interview…” Media Media interview…” Edition Weekend NPR half-minute

explains DiSalvo. explains Gutierrez told CNS. “We’ll evaluate this with our staff. But But staff. our with this evaluate “We’ll CNS. told Gutierrez

through of headlines on NBC’s Today and a three-and-a- a and Today NBC’s on headlines of through “We’re always looking at processes to see how can improve,” improve,” can how see to processes at looking always “We’re be detained. Which I think just adds urgency to our case,” case,” our to urgency adds just think I Which detained. be

sd fo a ige 0scn mnin uig run- a during mention 20-second single a from aside

up almost completely empty on coverage of the strikes, strikes, the of coverage on empty completely almost up

and MSNBC — and National Public Radio…has come come Radio…has Public National and — MSNBC and

networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, Fox News, News, Fox CNN, PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, — networks

Inmates are being monitored by medical and psychiatric psychiatric and medical by monitored being are Inmates important than ever. than important

“[A] search of Nexis transcripts from the major news news major the from transcripts Nexis of search “[A] “It was not a retaliatory measure,” he said. he measure,” retaliatory a not was “It

detentions is all the more reason why this lawsuit is more more is lawsuit this why reason more the all is detentions

strike movements in U.S. history. U.S. in movements strike according to the assistant sheriff. assistant the to according

DiSalvo says the planned increase in immigrant immigrant in increase planned the says DiSalvo

then considered to be one of the largest national prison prison national largest the of one be to considered then

and a direct response to the strike, but it was just a coincidence, coincidence, a just was it but strike, the to response direct a and

capacity here, to hold as many as 1,400 detainees at a time. a at detainees 1,400 as many as hold to here, capacity

that no major media outlets had covered what was was what covered had outlets media major no that found

inmates and their relatives interpreted the action as deliberate deliberate as action the interpreted relatives their and inmates

900 immigrants a day and they say the plan is to increase increase to is plan the say they and day a immigrants 900

Media Matters Matters Media began, strikes the after month One

their loved ones locked up in AD-SEG and other wards. Some Some wards. other and AD-SEG in up locked ones loved their

get bigger and busier. The facility can hold as many as as many as hold can facility The busier. and bigger get

ramp up ICE detentions, this location is only expected to to expected only is location this detentions, ICE up ramp

GED. Gutierrez said that earlier this week, the visitor elevator at at elevator visitor the week, this earlier that said Gutierrez

facility. Considering the Trump administration’s plan to to plan administration’s Trump the Considering facility.

There’s been a lot of activity outside the Aurora ICE ICE Aurora the outside activity of lot a been There’s

and release policies of the past are over.” are past the of policies release and

the abdication of duty to enforce our laws, and the catch catch the and laws, our enforce to duty of abdication the requested that mentally ill inmates be kept in treatment treatment in kept be inmates ill mentally that requested The AD-SEG inmates are rejecting meal trays delivered delivered trays meal rejecting are inmates AD-SEG The

This is the Trump era,” Sessions said. “The lawlessness, lawlessness, “The said. Sessions era,” Trump the is This beverages.” to be compensated for their labor, as well as as well as labor, their for compensated be to requested

entry into this country, be forewarned: This is a new era. era. new a is This forewarned: be country, this into entry been denied access to the commissary to buy soup, snacks or or snacks soup, buy to commissary the to access denied been prisoners prisoners Carolina, South in prison one At conditions.”

“For those that continue to seek improper and illegal illegal and improper seek to continue that those “For “That’s absolutely untrue,” he told CNS. “No one has has one “No CNS. told he untrue,” absolutely “That’s were protesting what have been described as “slave-like “slave-like as described been have what protesting were

commitment to increased immigration enforcement. immigration increased to commitment privileges, but Gutierrez flatly denied that. denied flatly Gutierrez but privileges, who who inmates 24,000 some involving states, 24 in place

retribution in the form of revoking commissary and visitation visitation and commissary revoking of form the in retribution more immigration judges as part of the administration’s administration’s the of part as judges immigration more Prison Uprising, work stoppages and hunger strikes took took strikes hunger and stoppages work Uprising, Prison

inmates began their strike, jail personnel have exacted exacted have personnel jail strike, their began inmates On last year’s September anniversary of the Attica Attica the of anniversary September year’s last On visit in Arizona, Sessions announced plans to hire 125 125 hire to plans announced Sessions Arizona, in visit

According to Markham, since her husband and the other other the and husband her since Markham, to According programs. use of private prisons. And this week, during a border border a during week, this And prisons. private of use

seriously.” to gain access to educational, religious and self-help self-help and religious educational, to access gain to was sworn in, he reversed plans to phase out federal federal out phase to plans reversed he in, sworn was

in the jail,” he said. “Inmates are treated fairly. We take safety safety take We fairly. treated are “Inmates said. he jail,” the in

be moved out of general population and allow inmates inmates allow and population general of out moved be 98 percent. Just weeks after Attorney General Jeff Sessions Sessions Jeff General Attorney after weeks Just percent. 98

“We put these protocols in place for the safety of everyone everyone of safety the for place in protocols these put “We

commissary prices, allow mental health prisoners to to prisoners health mental allow prices, commissary Since President Trump took office, GEO stock has risen risen has stock GEO office, took Trump President Since

and 11 p.m. 11 and

provide inmates access to more clothing, decrease decrease clothing, more to access inmates provide would otherwise have to hire employees. hire to have otherwise would

turned out individually at intervals, anytime between 7 a.m. a.m. 7 between anytime intervals, at individually out turned

the use of long-term or indefinite solitary confinement, confinement, solitary indefinite or long-term of use the profits by forcing detainees to do work for which they which for work do to detainees forcing by profits

them to prioritize. Gutierrez said the segregated inmates are are inmates segregated the said Gutierrez prioritize. to them around the nation, asking prison officials to prohibit prohibit to officials prison asking nation, the around

The lawsuit claims GEO Group is unlawfully boosting boosting unlawfully is Group GEO claims lawsuit The

have 30 minutes to get out of their cells, making it difficult for for difficult it making cells, their of out get to minutes 30 have

Their demands echoed those made by other inmates inmates other by made those echoed demands Their

out.

schedule letting the inmates know in advance when they will will they when advance in know inmates the letting schedule

California, launched a hunger strike. hunger a launched California,

absence of the class-action mechanism,” DiSalvo points points DiSalvo mechanism,” class-action the of absence

According to the woman, jail personnel do not maintain a a maintain not do personnel jail woman, the to According

at the Robert Presley Detention Center, located in in located Center, Detention Presley Robert the at

vulnerable populations have accessing the courts in the the in courts the accessing have populations vulnerable

that stuff in so little time?” she said last week. last said she time?” little so in stuff that

On April 13, at least 30 inmates inmates 30 least at 13, April On outdoors. exercising

courts which I think speaks mostly to the difficulties that that difficulties the to mostly speaks think I which courts

calls, get exercise in 30 minutes? How does anybody do all all do anybody does How minutes? 30 in exercise get calls,

conditions that included inmates being barred from from barred being inmates included that conditions

very long time, but they have yet to be challenged in the the in challenged be to yet have they but time, long very

segregated inmates are supposed to take showers, make phone phone make showers, take to supposed are inmates segregated

according to family members, was initiated due to prison prison to due initiated was members, family to according

“These are practices that GEO has engaged in for a a for in engaged has GEO that practices are “These “He’s locked down 23.5 hours a day, and he and the other other the and he and day, a hours 23.5 down locked “He’s

which, which, strike hunger a ended Corrections of Department

community the power to fight such a powerful organization. powerful a such fight to power the community on his ability to communicate with her and their two children. two their and her with communicate to ability his on

Mississippi Mississippi the at inmates 11, April On recently.

class-action status gives a frightened and marginalized marginalized and frightened a gives status class-action about his treatment in AD-SEG, mostly because of the curbs curbs the of because mostly AD-SEG, in treatment his about

Strikes by other inmates have occurred even more more even occurred have inmates other by Strikes

the attorneys behind the lawsuit. She says the case’s new new case’s the says She lawsuit. the behind attorneys the Markham told CNS that her husband has been incensed incensed been has husband her that CNS told Markham

officials were trying to kill him. kill to trying were officials

parked alongside Interstate 10 in Whitewater. in 10 Interstate alongside parked DiSalvo, Executive Director of Towards Justice and one of of one and Justice Towards of Director Executive DiSalvo,

The Free Alabama Movement told Democracy Now that that Now Democracy told Movement Alabama Free The

who was stabbed multiple times with a screwdriver in a car car a in screwdriver a with times multiple stabbed was who Protection Act prohibition on forced labor,” explains Nina Nina explains labor,” forced on prohibition Act Protection

Kilby Correctional Facility after initiating a work strike. strike. work a initiating after Facility Correctional Kilby

last May of 37-year-old Rosemary Barrasa of Bloomington, Bloomington, of Barrasa Rosemary 37-year-old of May last

the complaint that could violate the Trafficking Victims Victims Trafficking the violate could that complaint the by officials at the the at officials by water denied was Council year, same

6-foot-2, 300-pound Villanueva is also charged with the slaying slaying the with charged also is Villanueva 300-pound 6-foot-2,

said no, if you are in fact doing all the things alleged in in alleged things the all doing fact in are you if no, said against him in return – did not end. In November that that November In end. not did – return in him against

“GEO filed a motion like that in this case and the judge judge the and case this in that like motion a filed “GEO But Council’s strikes – and the punitive action taken taken action punitive the and – strikes Council’s But

attended a rally held outside of Folsom on June 4 June on Folsom of outside held rally a attended SS PH

the federal government but judges aren’t convinced. aren’t judges but government federal the

garnering media attention. media garnering th. th.

PF and and PF C of members strike, hunger Folsom the of support In

their so-called volunteer work program policies are set by by set are policies program work volunteer so-called their ending Council’s hunger strike and preventing him from from him preventing and strike hunger Council’s ending

Since the case was filed in 2014, GEO Group has insisted insisted has Group GEO 2014, in filed was case the Since the force-feeding was done with the additional motive of of motive additional the with done was force-feeding the

had reached dangerous levels. dangerous reached had

60,000 Immigrants...... Continued from page 13 page from Immigrants...... Continued 60,000

force-fed him intravenously, as his blood sugar levels levels sugar blood his as intravenously, him force-fed

on hunger strike for 10 days. Medical staff at the prison prison the at staff Medical days. 10 for strike hunger on

to the abuses that take place in their prisons.● their in place take that abuses the to Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility after being being after Facility Correctional Limestone Alabama’s

authorities who want to draw as little attention as possible possible as attention little as draw to want who authorities in in cell his of floor the on unconscious sprawled found

most mainstream news networks aren’t pushing for any any for pushing aren’t networks news mainstream most | seddine Cham Roqayah By

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requests for humane treatment in the dark. the in treatment humane for requests information delivered by organizers and relatives due to to due relatives and organizers by delivered information

have been few and far between, leaving prisoners’ prisoners’ leaving between, far and few been have strikes, as independent publications are forced to rely on on rely to forced are publications independent as strikes,

of thousands of inmates protesting abuse and and abuse protesting inmates of thousands of of candy, and sometimes not even that.” even not sometimes and candy, of

Prisoners across the U.S. have been holding holding been have U.S. the across Prisoners

undocumented detainees painted prison walls and washed washed and walls prison painted detainees undocumented

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, said the center’s center’s the said , Inc. Advocacy Latino of founder

Maru Mora-Villalpando, community organizer and and organizer community Mora-Villalpando, Maru

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their children. their

e e u n ti n Co s ner iso Pr contact visits” so that detained parents could meet with with meet could parents detained that so visits” contact

the $1-per-day prison wage, more nutritional food and and food nutritional more wage, prison $1-per-day the

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and AA make up ⅓ of United States general population population general States United of ⅓ up make AA and of me reminded worst” the of “worse the of falsehood

Eliminate the discretionary application of the law that that law the of application discretionary the Eliminate criminals these see to begin we SHU, the of out and in

people must expect more from ourselves and our leaders. leaders. our and ourselves from more expect must people and mind of discipline developed prisoners these how The Aurora facility is one of more than 140 detention detention 140 than more of one is facility Aurora The

to die in there.” in die to themselves into thinking that they are doing something something doing are they that thinking into themselves violent for there” way their “earned SHU the in inmates

anonymous detainee say carries a lot of weight: “It was was “It weight: of lot a carries say detainee anonymous programs that never unfold into the promise of healing, healing, of promise the into unfold never that programs of purpose real the to as perplexed left are We conditions.

confinement. A threat immigrants like this former, former, this like immigrants threat A confinement. and actions, while supervisors create more ill planned planned ill more create supervisors while actions, and SHU and policy validation gang CDCr the of protest in

Those who refuse are threatened with solitary solitary with threatened are refuse who Those

avoid discussing the ethical dilemmas of some policies policies some of dilemmas ethical the discussing avoid California across prisoners 30,000 of strike hunger 2013

for free or $1 a day. a $1 or free for

out fires that it becomes very easy to look away and away look to easy very becomes it that fires out the organized peacefully they as silenced be not could they

janitorial work, clerical work, landscaping and other jobs jobs other and landscaping work, clerical work, janitorial

them from the urgency of action. Staff is so busy putting putting busy so is Staff action. of urgency the from them proved inmates SHU The 194). (p history by supported

detainees held at the Aurora ICE facility were forced to do do to forced were facility ICE Aurora the at held detainees

the daily demoralizing prison experience that removes removes that experience prison demoralizing daily the not is too this but 1970s” the in Attica the and Jackson

for a lawsuit alleging at least 60,000 past and present present and past 60,000 least at alleging lawsuit a for

compartmentalization that many staff utilize to survive survive to utilize staff many that compartmentalization George by characterized resistance collective widespread

In March, a federal judge approved class-action status status class-action approved judge federal a March, In

Reiter uncovers reminds me of the detachment and and detachment the of me reminds uncovers Reiter the eliminating in “succeeded has SHU the that argues

forced to keep this place spic and span. and spic place this keep to forced

very existence of solitary confinement. Each discovery discovery Each confinement. solitary of existence very Reiter 13 violence. prison of reduction a in result not did

detainees themselves may be a non-consenting work crew crew work non-consenting a be may themselves detainees

Keramet Reiter masterfully provokes us to question the the question to us provokes masterfully Reiter Keramet disruptive or dangerous as labeled prisoners of isolation

staff to keep it so well-maintained. But as it turns out, the the out, turns it as But well-maintained. so it keep to staff

get worse. get the that shown has confinement solitary of introduction the

a large, kempt looking institution would employ a large large a employ would institution looking kempt large, a

our leaders accountable nothing will change and will only only will and change will nothing accountable leaders our after and before violence prison on data However violence.

older government-run facilities. One would assume such such assume would One facilities. government-run older

As long as we the people fail to do our civic duty and hold hold and duty civic our do to fail people the we as long As prison reduce to was SHU the for argument original The

a bright blue. It looks very new, not at all like lot of the the of lot like all at not new, very looks It blue. bright a

of the fragmentation costing much suffering and money. money. and suffering much costing fragmentation the of policy. is it yet good called the Denver Contract Detention Facility – is painted painted is – Facility Detention Contract Denver the called

different systems (legal system to mental hospitals) speaks speaks hospitals) mental to system (legal systems different than harm more to points practice this of assessment risk The ICE Detention Center in Aurora, Colorado – also also – Colorado Aurora, in Center Detention ICE The

Incarceration is not treatment, and cycling through through cycling and treatment, not is Incarceration benefit thoughtful A less. not suicide increase for recipe Hannah Leigh Myers reports. Myers Leigh Hannah

to build a new 1000 bed, $110 million immigration prison prison immigration million $110 bed, 1000 new a build to Health Act prematurely closed psychiatric hospitals hospitals psychiatric closed prematurely Act Health suicides. reduce to intention reported the with segregation,

Private prison operators are already cashing in on the the on in cashing already are operators prison Private ill. Twenty five percent of the prison population have population prison the of percent five Twenty ill. risk. mortality

or for traveling in the same car. same the in traveling for or are the de facto mental health hospitals for our mentally mentally our for hospitals health mental facto de the are and morbidity increasing were combinations medication

be used against them for things as basic as living together together living as basic as things for them against used be

most vulnerable and marginalized. Our prisons and jails jails and prisons Our marginalized. and vulnerable most dangerous the that or programming, in participate to cell

members of mixed status families fear that provision could could provision that fear families status mixed of members

and “freedom” yet incarcerates the most, especially the the especially most, the incarcerates yet “freedom” and his leaving not was or care, basic for provide to prompting

While the stated goal aims to target people smugglers, smugglers, people target to aims goal stated the While

hypocritical system. Our country preaches “democracy” “democracy” preaches country Our system. hypocritical needed they that sedated so was patient the if matter to

in transporting or harboring undocumented immigrants. immigrants. undocumented harboring or transporting in

economic, social, and political policies that legitimize a a legitimize that policies political and social, economic, seem not did It violations.” rules getting not are they as

guidelines also call for the prosecution of anyone involved involved anyone of prosecution the for call also guidelines

have racism and discrimination that creates oppressive oppressive creates that discrimination and racism have long “As be to seemed success of measure greatest The

repeat entrants be charged with felony crimes. The new new The crimes. felony with charged be entrants repeat

the contradictions of our nation we will continue to to continue will we nation our of contradictions the on. arrived patients polypharmacy of “cocktail” based

undocumented immigrants when possible and directed that that directed and possible when immigrants undocumented

transformative systemic change. As long as we ignore ignore we as long As change. systemic transformative evidence- non complex the reduced often I value. face at

He ordered additional charges be brought against against brought be charges additional ordered He

what feeds and maintains CDCr, there can be little little be can there CDCr, maintains and feeds what reports take not to learned I resistance. collective violent

new guidelines for ramped up immigration enforcement. enforcement. immigration up ramped for guidelines new

Prison is a tentacle of society and without addressing addressing without and society of tentacle a is Prison non- for support building peacefully and/or frustration

Mexico border in Arizona this week, where he issued issued he where week, this Arizona in border Mexico

repression. Vigilance is in order. order. in is Vigilance repression. understandable expressing were they when “agitators”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to the US- the to traveled Sessions Jeff General Attorney

ouain my rv b mr efcet ntuet of instruments efficient more be prove may Population, them labeled custody because them restrain chemically to

Published by Free Speech Radio News, April 14, 2017 2017 14, April News, Radio Speech Free by Published

alternative to SHU, the Restrictive Custody General General Custody Restrictive the SHU, to alternative refused I evaluation. through substantiated not was that

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The newly adopted 2-year step down program and the the and program down step 2-year adopted newly The misrepresentation a obviously was There medications.

d rce fo r fo oup r G merited continuation in such restrictive environment. environment. restrictive such in continuation merited adjust to indication clinical no see would often and

arbitrary was CDCr’s criteria, and how few prisoners prisoners few how and criteria, CDCr’s was arbitrary realistically, risks perceiving calm, thinking, in linear

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settlement. 15 This astonishing reduction illustrates how how illustrates reduction astonishing This 15 settlement. coherent, be to patient the assess would I riot. a start to

confinement has dropped by 99%” one year after the after year one 99%” by dropped has confinement trying and paranoid, manic, was patient the custody, per ado r Colo at ld he

numbers of California prisoners in indefinite solitary solitary indefinite in prisoners California of numbers supposedly, because medicines patient’s increase to asked

ts n a gr immi 60,000

According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, “the “the Rights, Constitutional for Center the to According was I Often principles. our or patients our of expense

or validation status may remedy this grave injustice. injustice. grave this remedy may status validation or the at purpose CDCr’s advance to used be to ourselves

inmates into a SHU based solely on gang affiliation affiliation gang on solely based SHU a into inmates allow cannot Physicians psychiatrist. CDCr a as abound

settlement which now prohibits CDCr from placing placing from CDCr prohibits now which settlement dilemmas ethical confinement, solitary from Aside

slowly exterminate them. The 2015 Asher vs Brown Brown vs Asher 2015 The them. exterminate slowly 3,6,7 torture. constitute can and health,

Rights. Rights.

intent to steal their lands and demean, marginalize, and and marginalize, demean, and lands their steal to intent individual’s an to harmful and degrading, inhumane,

1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” 15. Center for Constitutional Constitutional for Center 15. Jail” Birmingham from “Letter 1963

through Christianization and reeducation, with the real real the with reeducation, and Christianization through cruel, is days 15 than longer segregation prolonged that Criminology, Vol.41 (4) pp 1341-1376. 14. Martin Luther King King Luther Martin 14. 1341-1376. pp (4) Vol.41 Criminology,

security prisons on aggregate levels of institutional violence’, violence’, institutional of levels aggregate on prisons security Americans as uncivilized savages in need of “saving” “saving” of need in savages uncivilized as Americans agree all which position Nations United the and NCCHC,

Program” 13. Briggs et al. (2003) ‘The effects of supermaximum supermaximum of effects ‘The (2003) al. et Briggs 13. Program”

oppression reminded me of how colonizers defined Native Native defined colonizers how of me reminded oppression Organization, Health World the with solidarity in more be

Harm: Health Professionals’ Central Role in the CIA Torture Torture CIA the in Role Central Professionals’ Health Harm:

and the SHU has been a tool for social control. This This control. social for tool a been has SHU the and would so Doing 5 policy. current its modify to and illness,

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Prison is a by-product of society’s racist’s underpinnings, underpinnings, racist’s society’s of by-product a is Prison mental have they not or whether of regardless beings Man against man: Brainwashing.” Correct Psychiatry J Soc Ther Ther Soc J Psychiatry Correct Brainwashing.” man: against Man

with mental illness 10. Mitford, Jessica. 1973 Kind and Usual Usual and Kind 1973 Jessica. Mitford, 10. illness mental with

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and not worthy of the fight for justice. We must never forget forget never must We justice. for fight the of worthy not and the as APA, the that Appelbaum Kenneth psychiatrist with

in American prisons.” Psychiatry Services 62: 285-90. 9. Am. Am. 9. 285-90. 62: Services Psychiatry prisons.” American in

dehumanize prisoners to the public” so they are forgotten forgotten are they so public” the to prisoners dehumanize agree I 7 isolation.” in placed be to able psychologically RL, et al. 2011 “A national survey of self injurious behavior behavior injurious self of survey national “A 2011 al. et RL,

2011 “Solitary Confinement Should Be Banned in Most Cases, Cases, Most in Banned Be Should Confinement “Solitary 2011

sentence you to an 8 by 10 feet box indefinitely. A SHU SHU A indefinitely. box feet 10 by 8 an to you sentence in involved be not must staff “health that stated position

Confinement.” J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 43:406-15. 6. U.N U.N 6. 43:406-15. Law Psychiatry Acad Am J Confinement.”

strip you of your identity and criminalize your culture and and culture your criminalize and identity your of you strip 2016 April their in (NCCHC) Care Health Correctional

“American Psychiatry Should Join the Call to Abolish Solitary Solitary Abolish to Call the Join Should Psychiatry “American

of institutional safety, CDCr could simultaneously legally legally simultaneously could CDCr safety, institutional of on Commission National the Even practice. the to Emerging Safe Alternatives"5. Appelbaum, Kenneth 2015 2015 Kenneth Appelbaum, Alternatives"5. Safe Emerging

4. Vera Institute of Justice, "Common Misconceptions and and Misconceptions "Common Justice, of Institute Vera 4. Workers or Mexico. By censoring these items in the name name the in items these censoring By Mexico. or Workers legitimacy and approval give we so do To containment.

Long-Term Solitary Confinement 3. World Health Organization Organization Health World 3. Confinement Solitary Long-Term

certain tattoos, letters, and the eagle of the United Farm Farm United the of eagle the and letters, tattoos, certain risk high of type this for cleared anyone declaring be not

Reiter, Keramet 2016 23/7 Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of of Rise the and Prison Bay Pelican 23/7 2016 Keramet Reiter,

music, the Mexican or Puerto Rican flag, Aztec calendar, calendar, Aztec flag, Rican Puerto or Mexican the music, should providers health Mental existence. continued its

References: 1. James Baldwin 1963 The Fire Next Time, 294 2. 2. 294 Time, Next Fire The 1963 Baldwin James 1.

such as pictures or books of Malcolm X or Che, cultural cultural Che, or X Malcolm of books or pictures as such supporting way any in involved be to less much practices,

until the promises are fulfilled. fulfilled. are promises the until was alarming Equally process. due any without discretion social our and patients our to obligation clinical our is it