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