Author Bios

Karen Spring is a Honduras-based human rights activist.

Sandra Cuffe is a freelance journalist reporting on human rights, politics, social movements and migration in Central America. Follow her on twitter at @Sandra_Cuffe.

Paul Redd is a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement.

J. Baridi Williamson has spent 20 years in SHU. Williamson sent Truthout contributor Victoria Law ‘Why We Strike’ in 2012 after she sent him the one-year hunger strike anniversary …

Jeffrey Franklin is a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement.

Michael Stoll is executive director of the Public Press (www.sfpublicpress.org), a startup nonprofit news service for the San Francisco Bay Area that does for print and Web what public …

Mohammed Ilyas has a PhD in sociology. His work focusses on Islamism, Islam, Muslims in Europe and human rights. He is currently working on an International project that looks …

Jessica Bernstein, Psy.D. is a doctor of psychology who has been co-producing a Lyme disease series on KPFA radio with host Dennis Bernstein. She is directing a documentary about …

Jasmin Ramsey is a report for IPS.