Murders at California State Prison, Los Angeles County
On 27 April 2025 another murder occurred here in California State Prison - Los Angeles County (CSP-LAC). The alarm took place late in the evening so i took little notice of it as yard is on ‘modified program’, which is essentially just a ‘lock down’, however, the next day We learned someone was killed in another building’s dayroom. We initially thought this would be used to justify a complete lock down. We haven’t been up now for even an entire month from the mass lock down where CDCr was forced to pretend:
- it just learned about the excessive amounts of death (allegedly, over 60)
- it intended to take said deaths seriously.
It soon became clear that both CDCr and the media would chalk this one up as par for the course. On the tier word spread that it was a power play for control of which criminal-lumpen group would be allowed or not allowed on yard. It is what’s going on throughout CDCr’s level 4 institutions, both SNY and G.P. The faction that took credit for it hooped and hollered about it and made sure everyone turned to the news when it came on the following day. “A convicted rapist was killed in LAC”… by a convicted murderer. Besides showing the mug shots of each it said nothing else. This is telling because the so-called 60 murders received scant media attention, even the death in the family visiting room was only on the ticker tape the day after, on this same news feed. And, as stated, this did not extend Our lockdown any further… if it’s not clear from the above there is an attempt being made to obfuscate and omit the internal contradictions via external aspects such as the power of the pigs, state, and CDCr’s own aims and desires here. It has dialectics turned upside down!
The entire yard is being converted into both an NDF (“Non Designated Facility”) and a level 3 (lower security than level 4). Additionally, CDCr is now less and less showing favoritism to any one specific criminal-lumpen faction. No need to when the last thing on any “Criminal” lumpen faction’s mind is even prisoner class unity let alone rev consciousness and class solidarity on those terms. So CDCr is letting them fight it out, justifying its existence (class rule) and even though it may not seem like it now, its class/nation/gender oppression of those it holds captive. But today CDCr is sitting pretty, unchallenged on its throne. Far too many men here are simply walking to their slaughter like sheep.
If there was a viable prison movement, one not so heavily influenced by external forces and definitely not CDCr itself, these contradictions could be used to expose the untenability of mass-incarceration police (c/o) reform, the bankruptcy of criminal-lumpen leadership, and show how serious the state’s counterinsurgency is and how it can not survive without mass buy-in from both a petty bourgeois public and a pacified non-revolutionary oppressed population.
Although there is no really cherished criminal-lumpen group now, the group that takes responsibility for killing a “rapist” is the de facto prison liaison (kings of the collaboration between the state and the criminal-lumpen formations). This indeed should be a very easy contradiction to unravel. CDCr responded to the demands of mass program (rehabilitation) with its own call of mass anarchy. I say much of this leeway is to control the narrative, indoctrinate the public, and ensure we do not break out of these contradictions with Our Own forward development (i.e not just recognizing their counterinsurgency against Us but developing Our Own “against” them). Won’t go too far afield here as my main point is how blatant CDCr and its propaganda networks are at thwarting its own rehabilitation narrative on the one hand and empowering as many reactionary elements as will sign up to collab with it.
Developing the rough contours of a cell here and trying to seize Our Own forward development. Right now the priority must be on the unity We have “against” this reactionary front between CDCr and the criminal-lumpen.
Although the tools We’ll need here will be unique to Us, these problems themselves are not new at all and with Our Own forward-development are not even all that complicated or complex. This also speaks to the failures of Our old guard at “educating” revolution. Gotta dip… N.A. Struggle
