This concentration camp I'm being held hostage at in Salinas Valley is now retaliating on prisoners for exercising their 5th amendment rights to remain silent during interrogation. As of late, every time an incident transpires on the yard, the administration here is making it mandatory that every prisoner attend an interview process, and answer questions about what happened, and sign a form promising basically to behave and continue programming. Those of us who don't cooperate are being subjected to retaliation, loss of contact visits, canteen, packages, special purchases, yard privileges and the whole 9 yards. It's arbitrary, because the Title 15 and the penal code say the only punishment for not attending or participating in an interview process is just supposed to be documented, and that's it. But these people are going above and beyond the call of duty, isolating people, and stripping them of all their property for choosing not to comply. It's a few of us here fighting, but not nearly enough of us though.
- a California prisoner, November 2006