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Thirty-five years of isolation, introspection and torture
Testimony to the 7th Annual Symposium Against Isolation by Herman Bell San Francisco 8 supporters gather at the Hamilton Rec Center on Sept. 24, 2007, to celebrate the release on bail of six of the...
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Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement Bulletin: File your complaint
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa If George Jackson were still alive and in prison, he would be writing a complaint to demand that Corrections follow its own policy: no isolation that is not based on behavior...
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The vortex of dementia
by Abdul Olugbala Shakur, s/n James Harvey Drawing by an unidentified prisoner Though I have been active in the struggle for practically all my life, from a Panther cub to an urban guerrilla in the...
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Reflections on our accomplishments so far – no more suffering in silence
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa We as an oppressed prison class being illegally held in solitary confinement must reflect on our struggle and how we are to continue forward in that struggle. The first thing...
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Wanda Sabir and the Bay View save lives
by S. Muhammad Hyland Bay View arts editor Wanda Sabir I could tell that the guard at my cell door was uptight about something, and when he slid the mail to me, I immediately noticed why: My Bay View...
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How torture is inflicted on prisoners in solitary confinement
by Mutope Duguma and Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa This is a glimpse into torture by prison staff, using any means available, of which solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison in California is only a...
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Abu Jihad: A living, fighting museum for prisoner movement affairs
by Midnight Jones You may take the last strip of my land, Feed my youth to prison cells. You may plunder my heritage. You may burn my books and poems Or feed my flesh to dogs … O enemy of the sun, But...
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Humanity indicted for our silence in the face of torture
by Abdul Olugbala Shakur As imprisoned activists we’ve often asked society: What have your eyes seen to wish to see no more? And what have your ears heard to wish to hear no more? Your self-imposed...
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What would compel a man to try to cut his own face off?
by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson I recently witnessed a man try to cut his own face off. For me this wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, but as it played out, I imagined the reactions and questions that...
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Nurse Paul Spector blows the whistle on torture in a California prison
by The People’s Minister of Information JR This is California Men’s Colony, built in 1954; it houses over 4,000 prisoners. According to Capital Engineering Consultants and Soltek Pacific Construction,...
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Prison rules must abide by human rights standards
by UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan E. Mendez International law regarding the right to personal integrity prohibits physical as well as mental torture and that prohibition is absolute: It...
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