California

Shut Down the Control Units

  • Report on September 15 Senate SHU hearings in Los Angeles
  • 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
  • Interviews on the streets
  • USW interview with SHU prisoner
  • California SHU brutality flyer (includes a history of control units in the U$)
  • California SHU petition
  • Prisoners speak about horrors of the SHU

    California prison guard union:

  • 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