California Supermax = living death

We stand so that the other won't have to die in Pelican Bay a supermax living and graveyard units. This living death of physical and psychological torture is our tribe. We refuse to condemn other men to this tortuous place. Yet the CDC won't tell you that it is the political prisoners, jail house lawyers and the resisters of the CDC corrupt officials who are put here. They wont tell you that four hundred billion dollars is their budget to keep you from the worst of the worst, a failed policy, and maybe someday or even eventually we will be released from these walls. Without any education or rehabilitation, we just be thrown or like they say "introduced" back into society. There are no programs built on our independence that help our first step of torture outside these walls to adapt to something so unfamiliar to us.

That's what $400 hundred billion dollars does. It creates the social illusion of supermax graveyard units. This is embedded in the conscience of society that you are being protected by $ 400 billion dollars on prisons and they want you to believe that $400 billion dollars are also being spent on education!!!

But they won't tell you that in 1820 the penitentiary of Philadelphia in which they believed in solitary confinement, stimuli deprivation, they believed that by torturing prisoners it would lead them to feel remorse and rehabilitate. In 1830 Charles Darwin was invited to tour the facility. He observed that the prisoners seemed dead to all it's surroundings, self torture extreme bouts of paranoia a horrible despair. In 1840 Charles Dickens toured the prison and remarked" I hold this tampering with the mysteries of the brain this is immeasurably worse then any physical torture of the body. Dickens then writes the dull response and quiet that prevails is awful.

Over the head and face of each prisoner who comes into this melancholy house, a black hood is drawn, and in this dark shroud, an emblem of the curtain dropped between him and the living world. He is led to his cell from which he never again comes fourth, until his whole imprisonment has expired, He is a man buried alive to be dug out in the slow round of years and, in the meantime dead to everything and the horrible despair.

Now the black hoods have returned and it is now draped over us here, our only outlet to outside world is our TVs and radios. These maximum security prisons want to take them away and make the extreme even more extreme!! It's a scientific fact that the worse thing you can do to the brain is to deprive it of stimuli, if it becomes so deprived the brain then starts to stimuli itself and intern people start hallucinating, mutilating there on bodies. I have seen people kill themselves because of despair of being so isolated. You have a great psychiatrist against this program, it has not helped or made the state of California safer. These torture chamber have done the opposite: torture and kill humans in a slow process. But again California prison systems want just that, to take our only tool of stimuli and say it's to save money. But in reality it is just another way to introduce to there higher degree of physical and psychological torture.

They say that removing our electrical power will save us money, that policy is false because that would mean more staff, because now we will ask our families for more books and writing material and the mail and property rooms will be flooding. As it is it takes a month or two for us to receive our mail. Not only will the CDC hire more staff to accommodate the overflowing of mail. But if they take or Tvs we will now have much more time for intensive research on civil laws and, in turn they would have to hire more lawyers as a result of lawsuits.

As it is now with all the studying and research we have done ourselves show many violations the CDC has committed. The CDC today is a violation of our eighth amendment and thirteenth amendment.

-- a California prisoner, March 2004