Conflicting reports on hunger strike at California’s Corcoran State Prison
by Sal Rodriguez In Corcoran State Prison’s Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU), where prisoners have been on hunger strike to protest solitary confinement conditions, the death of one hunger striker...
View ArticleFamily of California prisoner who died on hunger strike speaks out
Christian Gomez The death of Christian Gomez, first martyr of the California hunger strike, was the top story on Democracy Now! for Feb. 24, 2012, broadcast on 1,024 TV and radio stations around the...
View ArticlePrisoners in solitary confinement petition United Nations: ‘CDCR destroys our...
by Mary Ratcliff Families of prisoners have come out of the shadows since last year’s hunger strikes and taken on much of the work of recruiting the 400 prisoners who signed the U.N. petition. – Photo:...
View ArticleTrayvon, Christian, Jason, Gerardo, Kendrec and nine children in Afghanistan:...
by the NCTT Corcoran SHU “’Racism’ is used to justify and facilitate the exploitation of peoples, and it’s based on the false belief that humanity is divided into a plurality of ‘races’ that stand in...
View ArticleCorcoran hunger strike petitioner denied care for broken back
by Juan Jaimes It’s hard to believe that prison authorities’ refusal to treat Juan Jaimes’ broken back is not yet another instance of retaliation against him for being a petitioner in the Corcoran...
View ArticleCorcoran hunger strike petitioner Juan Jaimes, who broke his back, now faces...
by Juan Jaimes It’s hard to believe that prison authorities’ refusal to treat Juan Jaimes’ broken back is not yet another instance of retaliation against him for being a petitioner in the Corcoran...
View ArticleSolitary confinement policies in California revised again, as inmate leaders...
by Sal Rodriguez The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has recently circulated a memo regarding the most recent revised edition of its Step Down Program (SDP) and Security Threat...
View ArticleRevenge vs. a Kage Brother’s tolerance
by King William E. Brown, Jr. “It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.” – Maulana Karenga William E. Brown Jr. with his family – all of...
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 ArticleMotion denied, Governor: Medical neglect is still killing prisoners
by Mutope Duguma, Sitawa N. Jamaa, Abdul O. Shakur and Sondai K. Dumisani Gov. Brown has declared that the prison crisis that allowed prisoners to die is over and that prisoners are receiving good...
View ArticleCorcoran SHU staff told to ignore legal mandate to protect lives of hunger...
by J. Heshima Denham, Zaharibu Dorrough, Kambui Robinson and Jabari Scott, NCTT-Cor-SHU On Monday, April 8, they ran no yard on the 4B Facility in the Corcoran SHU (Security Housing Unit). We of course...
View ArticleCrooked laws, crooked cops
by Ronald Thomas I am a 28-year-old Black man from Troy, Alabama, locked down at Holman Maximum Security Prison in Atmore, Alabama. While in segregation (lock up), a brotha gave me a stack of Bay View...
View ArticleJuly 8, 2013: United KAGE Brothers’ demands
by William E. Brown, UKB “A wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.” – Assata Shakur Declaration of the United Kage Brothers We, the United KAGE (Kings Against Genocidal...
View ArticleHunger strike rally at Corcoran Prison: The sound before the fury
by Malaika Kambon It is hot enough in Corcoran, California, to melt people. That being said, it still wasn’t hot enough to keep upwards of 400 people from braving 103-degree weather to mobilize and...
View ArticleJerry Brown in Germany: ‘From Dachau with love’
by the German Network against the Death Penalty and the Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal “Understand that … people are dying who could be saved, that generations more will die or live poor butchered...
View ArticleNegotiate, Gov. Brown! How many more prisoners must die?
Advocates call for investigation of Corcoran prison death; medical professionals, religious leaders and prisoners’ families demand governor negotiate with hunger strikers by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner...
View ArticlePelican Bay guards ask why are we hunger striking
by Kijana Tashiri Askari It is no secret that I am a prolific political writer and an adherent and practitioner of New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist (NARN) ideological doctrine, as this is widely...
View ArticleHunger striker considers where we go from here, wonders, ‘Will the...
by Mutope Duguma Written Sept. 8, 2013 – First and foremost we want to give a lot of respect and love to all the human beings who made their voices heard and the countless dedicated supporters and...
View ArticleLargest hunger strike in history: California prisoners speak out on first...
One year ago, on July 8, 2013, 30,000 California prisoners initiated the largest hunger strike the world has ever seen. Sixty days later, 40 prisoners, who had eaten nothing in all that time, agreed to...
View ArticleIn our fifth year of the Agreement to End Hostilities, it’s time for Gov....
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Principal Negotiator, Prisoner Human Rights Movement Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa in a photo taken in July 2016 We are within our fifth year of the August 2012 historical document,...
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