Pelican Bay's arbitrary policies and the Department of corruption$ gang validation$ policy in general is very arbitrary - this issue was what generated the recent resistance (hunger strike) contra skeleton bay. The California Department of corruption$ have this obsession with validating prisoners as members or associates of prison gangs and giving those who get validated an "indeterminate SHU" term.
The LEIU/SSU (special services unit/intelligence and special operations) in Sacramento reviews the gang validation package that is submitted to them by the institutional IGIS (Institutional gang investigators and coordinators) and then Sacramento decides whether a prisoner is validated as a prison gang member or associate or rejects the validation package. The information that the Gestapo agents use against a prisoner in this process can be classified as non-confidential or confidential. Once a prisoner receives an "indeterminate SHU" term they end up here, or sometimes get housed at Corcoran SHU.
Either way the prisoner is retained in the SHU for at least six years until he is eligible to get his case reviewed by the DRB (Department Review Board). And if the prisoner has been gang free for those six years he may get classified as "inactive" and get cut loose to the general population where, if he gets one more piece of information against him about gang activity, he gets thrown back into the SHU for another six years.
The information these fascists use against people most of the time is very very petty. A drawing or a "get well card" to a dying prisoner at Corcoran constitutes gang activity after these prisoncrats or pigs get done manipulating the information so as to make it constitute gang activity. Most of the time confidential informants fabricate information and the gang coordinators know this, yet it is still used against prisoners to keep them back here in this ossuary!
This six year inactive policy is fairly newly initiated (a couple of years) as before there was no way for us validated prisoners to leave the SHU unless we parole, debrief or die. As the result of many legal battles a few people over here managed to get the court's attention. Thus Pelican Bay and LEIU came out with the six year inactive policy. But this policy is tokenism. Although a few prisoners have been released to the general population, many remain in the SHU due to petty petty info that doesn't even constitute gain activity -- greeting cards, drawings, etc. Informants providing pure lies, uncorroborated info, manipulated info. In short, Skeleton Bay always finds a loophole and most validated inmates remain in the SHU indeterminately -- in the fucking dungeon. Many prisoners are entombed back here in SHU for the rest of their longevity.
-- a prisoner in Pelican Bay, CA, December 2002
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