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As Americans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, inmates in solitary confinement at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison are standing up for their rights in the only way they can–by going on a hunger strike. The prisoners, who are being held in long-term and often permanent isolation, have sworn to refuse food until conditions are improved in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit […]

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Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: Gang “Validation” and Permanent Isolation in California Prisons

Voices from Solitary: A Little Taste of “Freedom”

Voices from Solitary: Letters from the Hole

Voices from Solitary: Live from Lockdown

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

Voices from Solitary: “Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere”

Voices from Solitary: Message from the Father of a California Prison Hunger Striker

Voices from Solitary: “The SHU Is California’s Equivalent of Waterboarding”

Voices from Solitary: Isolated for Having a “Gang” Calendar

Voices from Solitary: Can’t You Hear Us?

Voices from Solitary: “Where Cold, Quiet and Emptiness Come Together”

Voices from Solitary: “I Live Each Day Contemplating Death”

Voices from Solitary: This Place Is Nothing More Than a Torture Chamber

A Month in Solitary [8/31/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/21/13]

Seven Days in Solitary [10/22/17]

Seven Days in Solitary [6/3/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [7/22/19]

Seven Days in Solitary [1/4/20]

A Month in Solitary [5/3/21]

“As Long As Solitary Exists, They Will Find a Way to Use It”: Five Years After California’s Prison Hunger Strike

After California Prisons Release “Gang Affiliates” From Solitary Confinement, Costs and Violence Levels Drop

California Announces Reform of Controversial Policies That Led to Prison Hunger Strike

California Prisoners in Solitary Confinement Petition the UN to Intervene

Pelican Bay SHU Prisoners Respond to California’s Proposed Prisons Reforms

Families of California Prisoners Respond to Controversial Reforms of Solitary Confinement

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms

Political or Gang Activity? “New Afrikan” Prisoners in Solitary Confinement