Reduced environmental stimulus: sensory deprivation in California control units

Inside control units or SHU (Security Housing Units), as they are called on a daily basis, those who are confined there are subject to denial of environmental stimulus, the methods which this takes place can be cells with a window which is painted, or a cell with no window at all. There are cages which have no mirrors so you can't even see your face. While captive in such housing sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell are severely limited. The food is tasteless. After a while in these conditions it damages the spirit of human being retarding the natural states of interaction. Some adjust to these conditions by becoming depressed, suicidal, taking psych medications, or becoming paranoid. Some maintain by exercising, reading and trying to maintain balance. Despite best efforts none go away unaffected by being subjected to unnatural conditions.

Often politically active prisoners are held in these conditions to disrupt activities of organization and solidarity. The public should be aware that the crime-think newspeak apparatus is constructed to relay misinformation. To keep the public in fear just as the war of terror is to rally support for the continued occupation of Iraq. The mechanisms of press, media, cinema, aid the government agenda for whatever plans they unroll. In a society that claims to have a war on crime, why is there such a need for depictions of murder, violence, robbery, rape, etc., in cinema, TV and press. What is the effect of long term desensitization to violence? What about buying into the dehumanizing stereotypes that are daily projected; are these not hate campaigns, exploitations of the populace. Did not Hitler utilize similar methods to annihilate millions?

As knocentration kamps continue to saturate the landscape of the United States, corporations go outside the u.s. to get cheap labor. The clearest signs of declining are seen in what corporations are doing. The comfort that capitalism, imperialism and colonialism has brought America and its citizens over the last century has rocked many to sleep but what's coming is sure to make all face the reality that freedom, democracy, and liberty are all paper freedoms.

Politicians without wealth and influence are nothing more than mere puppets being controlled by lobbyist who have contacts with corporations. Those politicians on the hill are crooks stealing all they can get their hands on. Monopoly capital can get whatever it wants by having a financial war chest. If only the masses could see that there is a significant degree of manipulation going on misinforming them as to the future of this country. What's being set up is a twenty first century holocaust. With every approaching day we are coming closer to martial law state wide: the suspension of the constitution and a totalitarian rule. Currently America is $7 trillion dollars in debt. There is a economic collapse coming and mass genocide if not outright invasion is surely to follow. No doubt this is a powerful country but many nations seek the destruction of this philosophy of vampirish capitalist, imperialist greed where the privileged class hordes all the wealth and denies the right to life of the lower classes of people.

For all amerikkas ventures of modern colonialism what has it reaped? Resentment, hatred, and thoughts of revenge are directed to the centuries of lies America has told. But never the less the lies continue to the very end. It's as though the politicians believe the doublespeak but in their hearts they know that the time is near but stay committed to the lie. These companies, politicians, and profiteers need to be exposed for what they are. Now is the time for action, not complacency.

- a California prisoner, September 2005