California prison campaigns
California
DOC repression
Getting a kick out of sniveling (June, 2007)
Education key to fighting injustice (May, 2007)
Starvation in prison (March, 2007)
California trumped up gang validation (March, 2007)
Fighting repression and censorship (January, 2007)
Fighting brutality and gang validation (January, 2007)
Prisons encourage drug use (December, 2006)
Behavior Management Unit used for lockdown (December, 2006)
Prisoners denied right to remain silent (November, 2006)
Kern Valley deplorable conditions (November, 2006)
Prisons run California (November, 2006)
History of the Peace Summit initiative at Pelican Bay (October, 2006)
Books for prisoners program essential for education behind bars! (October, 2006)
Knowledge is power (October, 2006)
More brutality in California (October, 2006)
Retaliation for reporting repression (October, 2006)
Peace between prisoners discouraged in California (October, 2006)
Prison discards legal appeals (September, 2006)
It's the system that needs corrections and rehabilitation (September, 2006)
CDC takes all - a call for unity (September, 2006)
Corruption at Pleasant Valley (August, 2006)
Gangs in the streets and prisons: analysis and discussion (August, 2006)
Revolutionary groups criminalized in California prisons (August, 2006)
Violating humyn rights (July, 2006)
More injustice at Pelican Bay prison (July, 2006)
Corruption Chronicle: Department of Corrections or Corruption? (June, 2006)
Support the Pelican Bay State Prison Peace Summit
On lockdown, fighting for communism (June, 2006)
Fight the snitch program (June, 2006)
No due process in Guantanamo or Pelican Bay (May, 2006)
Fight the system, not each other (May, 2006)
Welcome to notorious Calipatria State Prison, Under Siege! (May, 2006)
Excessive force against prisoners (May, 2006)
Repression breeds resistance (May, 2006)
Support revolutionary literature for prisoners (May, 2006)
The possibility of criminal behavior (May, 2006)
New prisons hold parolees for life (May, 2006)
Migrant repression and prisons (May, 2006)
California prisoners lack basic necessities (April, 2006)
Unite to fight the pigs (April, 2006)
Medical neglect (April, 2006)
North Kern State conditions (April, 2006)
The poetry of Justice (April, 2006)
HDSP racist and oppressive (March, 2006)
Victory over grooming standards (March, 2006)
We need books! (March, 2006)
Criminal neglect of health of prisoners (February, 2006)
MIM accused of being terrorist (February, 2006)
A fool for a client
Prison Medical Malpractice and the Death of Freddy
Retaliation for filing lawsuits (January, 2006)
The unfortunate reality behind all the chaos (January, 2006)
No Prisoner Left Behind
History of repression demands fight back (January, 2006)
California prisoner requests exchange with Nevada prisoner (January, 2006)
Education and politics in prison (January, 2006)
Victory in fight against limitations on receiving books (January, 2006)
Bad water at Pelican Bay (January, 2006)
New BMU program - another name for repression (January, 2006)
BMU pilot program (January, 2006)
Hunger strike at CMF to protests isolation (December 2005)
Corcoran hunger strike protest update (December 2005)
Use the law to fight repression (December 2005)
COs "find" razors in cells at Pelican Bay (December 2005)
'Hospitals' holding people who've served their time (December 2005)
Individual hunger strike ignored by prison (December 2005)
Pelican Bay lockdowns (December 2005)
High Desert protests toilet flush limits (December 2005)
High Desert prisoners protest unsanitary timers on toilets (December 2005)
COs get away with crimes (November 2005)
Cell extraction leads to cruel and unusual punishment (November 2005)
Desert View private prison run by abusive Geo staff (November 2005)
State prison officials sued for violating Americans with disabilities act (November, 2005)
Fighting double celling at Pelican Bay (November 2005)
Follow example of unity in Oregon (November 2005)
Sickened by slave camps (November 2005)
Suicidal prisoners are tortured (November 2005)
Violence provoked by C/Os in prison (November 2005)
Kern Valley prison demonstrates failure of capitalism (November 2005)
Hunger strike ends at SVSP (November 2005)
Poor medical care in California prisons (October 2005)
Racism in death penalty and sentencing symptom of capitalism (October 2005)
COs cover windows to hide abuse of prisoners (October 2005)
Call for unity to fight conditions in prison (October 2005)
Punishment common for no reason (October 2005)
Officers assault prisoner at High Desert (October 2005)
Phoney charges against prisoners at Delano (October 2005)
More abuse at High Desert State Prison (October 2005)
US gulags destroy people (September 2005)
California prisoners on hunger strike to protest lockdown (October 2005)
Individual hunger strike to fight illegal transfers in California (September 2005)
Inhumanity at High Desert State Prison (September 2005)
Work while on lockdown (August 2005)
Punished for being "Indian" (August 2005)
Fight canteen denial (August 2005)
Discarded children (August 2005)
Calling for a United Front
Idle time is the devil's workshop
The Elderly, the Infected, and the Quagmire
The Prohibition Against Tobacco -- A Stupid Law
Record suicides in California prisons (August 2005)
Grooming standards hypocrisy in California (August 2005)
Medical care worsening in California (August 2005)
At SVSP prisoner appeals ignored, lost and denied (August 2005)
SVSP Correction Officers corrupt (August 2005)
The power of a prison work strike (August 2005)
Punishment at PBSP for prisoners refusing to double cell (August 2005)
PBSP - more on punishment for refusing to double cell (August 2005)
Ad-seg mental health unit denied yard and basic necessities (August 2005)
Prisoners beaten and then punished for protesting (August 2005)
Prisoners - don't join the military (July 2005)
Grievance denied - outside protest needed (July 2005)
Financial fraud at Soledad? (July 2005)
Disabled prisoners receive no services (July 2005)
The politics of prison gangs (July 2005)
The Pendulum of Post-Secondary Correctional Education
Handicapped prisoner tortured (July 2005)
California bans smoking, limits soap and cosmetics (July 2005)
Segregation at SVSP unjust (July 2005)
Deaths from negligence (July 2005)
No focus on rehab in California (July 2005)
Freedom of Religion denied (July 2005)
Prisoner files lawsuit against Salinas Valley (June 2005)
Lockdown at High Desert (Soledad) (June 2005)
Lockdown at Soledad (June 2005)
Soledad repression: California prisoner held beyond term (May 2005)
Prisoners prosecuted for guard brutality (May 2005)
Filth at California Medical Facility (May 2005)
Farce of Justice (April 2005)
High Desert sets up whites to attack Blacks (April 2005)
The great deception (March 2005)
False charges and repression at Lancaster (March 2005)
When the lunatics have taken over the asylum (March 2005)
Lack of outdoor exercise (March 2005)
LA County covers up beatings (March 2005)
Discrimination against Mexicans at Folsom (March 2005)
Conditions at High Desert State Prison (March 2005)
Bush government wolf in sheep's clothing (February 2005)
Corrections officer tries to stop education program (January 2005)
LA County beating prisoners (December 2004)
Escape attempt leads to repression (December 2004)
Institutional slavery - the tool of oppression (December 2004)
Prisoner Legal Union (December 2004)
Punished for indigenous culture (November 2004)
Punishment for sagging pants (November 2004)
California prison guards: the real danger (November 2004)
Letter to oppressed prisoners (October 2004)
Prison Abuse (2004)
Institutional corruption (August 2004)
MIM Notes opens eyes (July 2004)
Classification in California (July 2004)
Join the vanguard - fight prison repression (July 2004)
Water contaminated at SVSP (July 2004)
No showers at SVSP (July 2004)
Prisons and the business of slavery (June 2004)
Lockdown at Salinas Valley State Prison (June 2004)
Criminal medical neglect at Corcoran (June 2004)
Phone restrictions deny prisoners access to families (July 2004)
The politics of prison (May 2004)
Indigenous people persecuted (May 2004)
Black prisoners on lockdown (May 2004)
Letter to California Senators: Prison abuse must be stopped (March 2004)
CDC moves to take away prisoner appliances (March 2004)
Corcoran cuts education and visits (March 2004)
The California Prisoncrat: budgets, politics and repression (January 2004)
Folsom package program cut back (September 2003)
Criminal Injustice genocide (July 2003)
BABYLON (May 2003)
Conditions at Lancaster prison horrible(November 2002)
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
Shut Down the Security Housing Units
Campaign petition signature total (September 26, 2005): 5425
Download the petition: California SHU petition
SHU campaign news and resources:
Interview with recently released SHU prisoner (September 2005)
First Saturday SHU organizers welcomed in Oakland (June 2005)
UF to abolish the SHU work advances (May 2005)
United Fron to abolish the SHU demonstrates in San Jose (February 2005)
Audio files from SHU event in Oakland:
Intro - RAIL,
Speaker from the SHU 1,
Barrio Defense Committee,
Maoist Internationalist Movement,
Speaker from the SHU2
(October 2004)
Step up SHU campaign in Oakand (October 2004)
Report from September statewide protests (September 2004)
Criminal medical neglect exposed (SF Chronicle, August 2004)
Monthly SHU protests continue, gain new allies (August 2004)
San Jose forum exposes SHU legal settlement (July 2004)
SF Forum exposes torture in Amerikan prisons (July 2004)
Struggle to shut down SHU advances (June 2004)
Protesters take to streets across CA demanding SHU be shut down (May 2004)
MIM addresses Pacific Sociological Conference on the SHU (April 2004)
Second statewide meeting of United Front to abolish the SHU (April 2004)
Activists continue protests to shut down SHU (April 2004)
Protests take to streets across CA demanding SHU be shut down (March 2004)
Report from Statewide meeting to shut down SHU (February 2004)
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$)
SHU campaign reports from behind the bars:
Conditions at Corcoran SHU (May, 2006)
Corcoran SHU corrupt and cruel (March, 2006)
Support the hunger strike at Corcoran Prison (November 2005)
SHU prisoner maced and then charged with assault (September 2005)
Reduced environmental stimulus: sensory deprivation in California control units (September 2005)
Retaliation at Pelican Bay (August 2005)
SHU stark environment (August 2005)
SHU Struggle is alive in spite of lockdown (August 2005)
Phony charges of gang affiliation (March 2005)
Horrible conditions at new SHU in California (January 2005)
Fighting gang validation in California (January 2005)
Conditions in the California SHU (January 2005)
Corcoran SHU repression update
Lawsuit challenging SHU conditions advances (August 2004)
Pelican Bay State Prison SHU (July 2004)
Torture in SHU causes mental illness (July 2004)
Guards retaliate for court settlement in Castillo case (July 2004)
Abu Ghraib is typical of conditions in Amerikan prisons (July 2004)
Fighting back from administrative segregation at HDSP (July 2004)
Protests at High Desert State Prison fight inhuman conditions (June 2005)
Prisoners stuck with gang affiliation despite evidence (May 2004)
SHUs = Modern-day concentration camps (May 2004)
California Supermax = living death (March 2004)
Prisoner fighting repression gets moved to SHU (January 2004)
Verbal Abuse in AD-SEG (January 2004)
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)
Pelican Bay prison report 2003(September 2003)
California segregates activists (November 2003)
CA ad-seg and SHU are inhumane
(November 2003)
MIM Release program threatened by parole
conditions (November 2003)
In the SHU for fighting injustice (October 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
SHU report from California USW (December 2002)
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
Three Strikes reform movement working towards November 2006 (January, 2006)
Third strike for exchanging clothes without a receipt (August, 2005)
Proposition 66 and Governor Schwarzenegger's misleading of voters (April, 2005)
Three strikes reform bill (July, 2004)
California and North Carolina unjust punishment (July, 2004)
Three Strikes and the Walking Dead (July, 2004)
Three Strikes and the Child Protection Act of 2004 (June, 2004)
Abolishing the Three Strikes law is not enough (May, 2004)
FACTS ignores many Third Strike prisoners (May, 2004)
3 Strikes law fills prisons and wastes money
3 Strike Backlash campaign continues
The Real Truth about Mandatory Minimums (December 2003)
Three strikes lies and deception (October 2003)
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
California Prisoners Legal Clinic
Challenging Censorship: natural expression
Prisoners Legal Clinic: California government claims for property (January, 2006)
How to write a 602 and win