With much respect. Thank you Muneera Shariff Gardezi via Patrisse Marie Cullors-Brignac "On July 8, 2013, 30,000 California prisoners began a hunger strike to end the torture of solitary confinement and for their basic rights and humanity. Their central demand is “comply with the recommendation of the U.S. Commission on Safety and Abuse in Prisons (2006) regarding an end to long-term solitary confinement.” " [...] "Yet Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Department of Corrections refuse to meet their just demands, have retaliated against the hunger strikers, and have publicly vilified the prisoners and the hunger strike. In an Aug. 6 opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times, CDCR Secretary Jeffrey Beard claimed that the notorious SHU “is not ‘solitary confinement.’” On July 5, Amnesty International stated that “rather than improving,” conditions in California prisons “have actually significantly deteriorated.” On July 22, 2013, Amnesty International called California Prisons and the CDCR’s response to the hunger strike an “affront to human rights.” The Stop Mass Incarceration Network states: “This is an EMERGENCY! One hunger striker, Billy ‘Guero’ Sell, has already died. Many more people need to stand NOW with the prisoner hunger strikers!” "
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 03:42:40 +0000
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