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Riverside Charges Inmates for Stays In 'Prison Hotels'

Should inmates have to pay the county back for taxpayer money spent on their jail time? This week, Riverside County supervisors unanimously voted yes.

As the Los Angeles Times reports, Supervisor Jeff Stone called jails "prison hotels," costing an average of $142.42 a day.

According to the Press-Enterprise, he said "I think we're blazing a new trail here. In these very challenging economic times, I believe this can be a source of revenue. I believe this can return 3 to 5 million (dollars) a year during these very challenging economic times."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/riverside-charges-inmates_n_1075129.htm...

Florida: Prison Privatization Plan Is Scrapped

"A plan by the State of Florida to transfer 29 of its prisons to private management is dead, at least for now. Gov. Rick Scott has decided not to appeal last month’s court decision that called the plan unconstitutional. The judge said in the ruling that Florida lawmakers had erred in tucking the measure into a budget bill to get it passed. The judge said the privatization plan — a “substantive” policy change — merited its own debate and should have been presented as a stand-alone bill."

Informational Link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/us/florida-prison-privatization-plan-is-scrap...

Justice for Christy Clinton Phillips CDC# W-94100

Informational Link:

http://www.change.org

Views from Behind the Bars

Hungerstrike NewsOctober 11, 2011 - Day SixteenVol. 2, No. 8

Informational Link:

https://www.prisonactivist.org/hstrikenews%40yahoo.ca

DISCOVER YOUR HUMANITY

Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are dying who could be saved, that generations more will die or live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love of Revolution. Pass on the torch. Join us, give your life for the people.
-George Jackson

Informational Link:

http://www.criticalresistance.org

OCCUPY OAKLAND SUPPORT FOR HUNGER STRIKERS

CHECK OUT PICTURE 9 AND 11

https://plus.google.com/103043630316201926210/posts/65XbkuWS9aR

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https://plus.google.com/103043630316201926210/posts/65XbkuWS9aR

FROM CALIPATRIA PRISON ASU UNIT: SOLIDARITY IN PROTEST

Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:23pm

From Calipatria ASU: SOLIDARITY IN PROTEST:

We are currently housed in Calipatria State Prison, in Southern California, where hundreds of men are going on day 8 of a "solid food hunger strike" in protest of the cruel and unusual punishment and the abuse of authority this prison has been doing.

Informational Link:

http://www.facebook.com/notes/kendra-castaneda/from-calipatria-prison-asu-unit-s...