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In July 2011, over 6600 prisoners went on hunger strike to protest the conditions and policies surrounding the use of solitary confinement in California’s state prisons. Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition invite you to a discussion with folks ewho are engaged with this issue on multiple fronts.
Saturday, 30 June 2012 00:00 By Victoria Law, Truthout | News Analysis
Robert Luca, an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison who was a gang member, looking out the grates of his cell, near Crescent City, California, February 10, 2012.
Charles E. Samuels Jr., far right, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, at a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday that included a replica of a solitary confinement cell, rear.