Kern Valley deplorable conditions

Revolutionary greetings to all comrades in the belly of the beast. I write from Kern Valley State Prison where I am locked captive in the hole. The conditions here are as expected, deplorable, the food is next to nothing, vermin infest the units so that at night the rodents come into your cell. There is no physical access to law library, only the page system. These are some things that need to be appealed. Those who have action currently to law resources should start to find ways to remedy these issues.

So many people here are fighting cases of assault on peace offices, and many say it was the officer who did the assault. It may be a trend here of excessive force, a closer look from an attorney may find it as so. Luckily the DA here in Kern County is so swamped in cases and this county so broke that no DA referrals are being picked up, no matter what the case - weapons, assault on peace officer, battery, etc. They are not being picked up because there are too many prisons in the county and lack of funds. So the excessive force and false reverse of blame is not going as planned - luckily innocent people are not being sent out to hang like the days of old.

The shaving razors issued here are tiny and defected so that every time one shaves you cut yourself with nicks and cuts. We do not get laundry every week as prescribed. A class action is in the works. This prison should not have been opened in the first place. Just a heads up should you find yourself in this filthy dungeon.

- a California prisoner, November 2006