I am an inmate housed at Corcoran SHU and have been here for the last year and a half. The SHU is a very degrading situation for any humyn being to have to endure. I am a brother that considers himself a revolutionary. I've been trying to fight the system from within. I have been placed in Ad Seg before based on my political views. I have helped to organize inmates to strike in the past based on our mistreatment.
Here at Corcoran SHU, there's a lot of mistreatment of us inmates. I have been assaulted and racially discriminated against by two officials. The pigs refused to send my report on staff abuse to the DAs office and that's a felony! That's a foul play that's going on here at Corcoran SHU. Inmates are being assaulted and the pigs are covering it up. They are charging the inmate with staff assault and the pigs refuse to send the case to Kings County DAs so they find us guilty in a kangaroo court here at Corcoran SHU. There's no appeal system here because the same pigs that commit these crimes are the same pigs that pick up our mail. Our cases do not leave the building.
These SHUs are made to break a man down, both mentally and physically. But for the real soldier, it only makes us stronger and more angry. Continue the fight to shut down these modern-day concentration camps. They should be illegal.
-- A California Prisoner, May 2004