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Open Letter to Former San Quentin Warden Jeanne Woodford, from Kevin Cooper

Dear Jeanne Woodford,

I am writing this to say to you that I and many others are glad that you
have had a change of heart and mindset concerning this State’s use of
the death penalty.

SOLITARY WATCH CONFRONTS TORTURE IN U.S.PRISONS

by Angola 3 News Jun 14th, 2011 11:54 PM While spotlighting the Solitary Watch website, this new interview also focuses on the upcoming hunger strike at the Pelican Bay supermax prison in California (it begins on July 1), and Hugo Pinell, of the San Quentin Six, who has been in continuous solitary even longer than the Angola 3.

MEDIATOR IMPOSES CONTRACT AFTER WORKERS REJECT IT

by Richard Mellor

Tuesday Jun 14th, 2011 1:53 PM
This is where the concessionary policies of
the Union hierarchy have led us. The Bay area Labor movement has the
potential power to turn this tide, but the leadership will not fight
until a movement from below forces them. This is what activists have to
help build.

PRISON EDICT BACKLASH REVEALS RACE BIAS

SACREMENTO BEEPublished Sunday, Jun. 05, 2011

The fearmongering responses to the U.S. Supreme Court declaring
California's prison system "cruel and unusual" in violation of the
Eighth Amendment were predictable. The court ordered the population
thinned so medical services can be effectively delivered to the state's
wards, a necessity given the uncontested fact that "an inmate in
California's prisons needlessly dies every six or seven days." Some
justices, politicians, law enforcement and pundits insist on a coming