Corcoran SHU prisoners join Pelican Bay hunger strike
from the NCTT Corcoran SHU Prison guard George Sherman carries a rifle in the control room of the Pelican Bay SHU whenever a guard enters one of the groups of 10 cells. Corcoran SHU prisoners say the...
View ArticleOpen letter to Gov. Jerry Brown: Stop the torture now
Dear Gov. Brown: Former prisoners, prisoners’ loved ones, religious leaders, legal and medical professionals and prisoner advocates turned out for a historic hearing into solitary confinement in...
View ArticleCreating broken men?
A discussion on the U.S. domestic torture program by Zaharibu Dorrough, J. Heshima Denham, Kambui Robinson and Jabari Scott, NCTT Corcoran SHU “Any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...
View ArticleCellmate or not, indeterminate SHU confinement is torture
by Heshima Denham, Zaharibu Dorrough, Kambui Robinson and Jabari Scott, NCTT-Cor-SHU Indeterminate SHU confinement is torture, and though not all those thus situated are in cells alone – some have...
View ArticleCalifornia prisoners suspend 60-day hunger strike – families, legislators...
Isaac Ontiveros and Claude Marks, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Oakland – After 60 days on hunger strike, prisoners at Pelican Bay have suspended their peaceful protest. Representatives...
View ArticleCalifornia prisoner representatives: All people have the right to humane...
Main reps mark the first anniversary of suspension of the 2013 Hunger Strike and the second anniversary of the Agreement to End Hostilities by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos and George Franco We...
View ArticleThe way forward to end solitary confinement torture: Where’s the army?
by Todd Ashker “Solitary Confinement Is Torture” – Art: Michael D. Russell, C-90473, PBSP SHU D7-217, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City CA 95532 On the subject of SHU and Ad-Seg constituting torture, for...
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