Hunger Strike

Californians need to find the compassion in their hearts to recognize the heroism of incarcerated citizens.

Incarceration has become a very lucrative business for an array of private contractors, most of whom send lobbyists to Washington to make sure the laws and legislation continue to …

On July 8, more than 30,000 prisoners in California refused meals in the third such strike in two years. Prisoners in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, some …

George Pauk takes a closer look at the Gitmo hunger strikers and hypothesizes about how starvation relates to freedom.

Paul Redd, former Oakland resident who grew up on the streets of Oakland, is now a resident of Pelican Bay State Prison SHU Dungeon Windowless Cells.

In a letter that illuminates the present hunger strike at Pelican Bay prison, an anonymous correspondent wrote Truthout contributor Victoria Law in 2011 about how California's Department of Corrections …

J. Baridi Williamson: We strike for freedom, justice and humyn rights against prolonged isolation and torture in US-California solitary confinement prisons, facilities, units, cell dungeons across this nation's mass …

‘One of the worst challenges I have faced is witnessing so many other SHU prisoners lose their minds.’

Marie Levin, sister to Ronnie Dewberry, a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement, describes how he was not allowed to donate a kidney …

Paul Redd, a plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement, was sent to the SHU for political organizing. He talks about being cut off …