California plans to build SHU in every prison

Dear MIM Notes,

Respects extended to you and all those in struggle. I write in appreciation of receiving MIM Notes Dec/Jan issues together. Yes, to a surprise I received them with not a problem from this place. I've shared the MIM Notes you sent with other comrades and they've enjoyed it, and say they will be writing to you as well.

Currently I'm in an Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU). Within the past year or so they have opened up new buildings of ASU in Corcoran which I've personally went through. Here in SVSP they're about to open up one of those new ASU buildings here. And they're going to start housing SHU inmates in those buildings. Rumor has it that each prison will now house their own SHU, ASU and General Population inmates.

-- a prisoner in California, April 2003

MIM responds: We have also heard this rumor about the CDC building Security Housing Units (SHU) in every prison. MIM is waging a campaign to abolish all SHU units in California as brutal torture chambers used to punish prisoners who advocate for their legal rights. Prisoners are sent to these isolation cells for years at a time, and many of them go crazy and become physically ill from the sensory deprivation and inadequate facilities and recreation. To get involved in this campaign contact us or visit our web site at http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/agitation/prisons/campaigns/ca/ca.html.