California

Shut Down the Control Units

News and resources

  • Inside AD-SEG (February 2004)
  • CA plans to take away SHU TV and radio (February 2004)
  • Shut down the SHU torture chambers (February 2004)
  • Corcoran prison:deadly guard brutality and corruption LA Times (December 2003)
  • SHU Protesters join California strike (12/12/03)
  • Report on October 18 Shut Down the SHU rally in San Francisco
  • Report on September 15 Senate SHU hearings in Los Angeles
  • Interviews on the streets
  • California SHU protest reach Berkeley (23 November 2002)
  • San Francisco Prison protest exposes SHU brutality (November 2002)
  • California SHU brutality flyer (includes a history of control units in the U$)
  • California SHU petition

    Reports from behind the bars

  • Crips under attack (February 2004)
  • CDC tactics of oppression (February 2004)
  • CA forces all prisoners into "gangs" (January 2004)
  • Prison Industry Association (PIA) and slave labor (December 2003)
  • Federal prisons set up "gang fights" (December 2003)
  • Prison staff at Tehachapi retaliate against jailhouse lawyer (December 2003)
  • CA class action lawsuit (December 2003)
  • CA ad-seg and SHU are inhumane (November 2003)
  • MIM Release program threatened by parole conditions (November 2003)
  • Ad-seg = control units (October 2003)
  • MIS-classification in the SHU (October 2003)
  • SHU conditions = repression (October 2003)
  • Prisoners forced to exercise in dog pens (October 2003)
  • SHU lacks healthcare (October 2003)
  • Injustice in the SHU (October 2003)
  • Another Corcoran prisoner on SHUs (September 2003)
  • Repression at Salinas Valley, California (September 2003)
  • CA SHU testimony from Corcoran (August 2003)
  • Corruption at Corcoran
  • Repression at Soledad administrative segregation
  • Corcoran SHU reduces prisoner safety
  • SHU: no yard time, no medical care, plenty of guard brutality
  • New SHU at Soledad
  • CA SHU battle gets Senator's attention
  • CDC plans: a SHU in every prison
  • California SHU violates rights
  • California plans to expand SHU program
  • USW interviews another SHU prisoner
  • Demand hearing on gang and segregation policies: send this letter to Senator Romero
  • California gang classification: policies behind the SHU
  • USW interview with SHU prisoner
  • Prisoners speak about horrors of the SHU

    Check out more info about MIM's campaign to shut down control units

    California prison guard union; guard abuse and the 'wall of silence'

  • Officials feel heat over prison report LA Times (January 2004)
  • Prison officials accused of causing riot, covering it up thekcrachannel (January 2004)
  • Ex-prison chief could face charges San Francisco Chronicle (January 2004)
  • A 'code of silence' allows unchecked miconduct LA Times (January 2004)
  • California Prison Guards union: Strong Arm of the Law

    Fight Prison Expansion

  • Fight the California Super-Jail for Kids
  • California governor increases funding for prisons, cuts everything else

    End the Three Strike Laws

  • 3 Strikes law fills prisons and wastes money
  • 3 Strike Backlash campaign continues
  • Supreme Court upholds Three Strikes Law (March 2003)
  • Petition to end Three Strikes Law
  • Court hears 3 strike argument
  • Three Strike Backlash

    Fight visitation restrictions

  • SHU visitation rights revoked
  • CDC tries to cut visitation privileges
  • CDC gives in on some issues, makes other parts worse
  • Prisoner discusses cuts to visitation privileges

    CA governor denies parole

  • CA supreme court upholds governor's power to deny parole

    DOC repression

  • Prisoner strike fights repression
  • TB injection protest
  • Hunger Strike May 2003
  • Prisons set up gang fights
  • Letter to Senator Romero protesting corruption
  • California DOC tries to take more of prisoner's money
  • Corruption in California's state prison
  • CA prisons deny legal material