Thousands of people are being held in solitary confinement in California for years - decades even. This is torture, regardless of the circumstances. Some get put in there not for any even remotely justifiable reason but because they read the "wrong" book, or there is a picture of them with the "wrong" person, or they used the "wrong" phrase.
It will only take a moment.
DAY 9: CALL GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN.
Phone: (916) 445-2841, (510) 289-0336, (510) 628-0202
A hunger strike involving thousands of prisoners protesting this treatment has been going on for a week now. Those who stand in solidarity are asking the rest of us wh on the outside to make it clear to the powers-that-be how we feel.
"I'm calling in support of the prisoners on hunger strike. The governor has the power to stop the torture of solitary confinement. I urge the governor to compel the CDCR to enter into negotiations to end the strike. RIGHT NOW is their chance to enter into clear, honest negotiations with the strikers to end the torture."
It will only take a moment.
DAY 9: CALL GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN.
Phone: (916) 445-2841, (510) 289-0336, (510) 628-0202
JOIN US and USE YOUR POLITICAL POWER!
MONDAY JULY 15, 2013; 9am-5pm PST
Let's make 30,000
PHONE CALLS for the 30,000 HUNGER STRIKERS!
Phone: (916) 445-2841, (510) 289-0336, (510) 628-0202
Prisoner Hunger Solidarity: Call the Governor!
Read more about the California Prisoners' Hunger Strike here:
Some Dare Call It Torture.
Can the 8th Amendment Defeat California's Out of Sight, Out of Mind Supermax Prisons?
CA Gov. Brown Smacked Down (Again) By Federal Judges... And About to Face Yet Another Prison Crisis.
You Will Never Find A More Wretched Hive Of Scum And Villainy.
30,000 Prison Voices Speak In California Hunger Strike. MSM: Crickets.
It's Official. CA Bureaucrats Say Prisoners Really On Hunger Strike... and Start Spouting Assholery.
Neither Beating Sun nor Boiling Sand Can Keep Them From Marching for Justice.
And if you are willing to help please rec this diary so that others will see it and make the call too!
Thanks!
9:29 AM PT: New York Times article on California's prisons:
At the California Institute for Men, in San Bernardino County, several prisoners were labeled LOBs — for “lack of beds” — because there was no place to properly house them, Mr. Bien said. While waiting to be processed, they spent months in cells meant for solitary confinement.
“These are mentally ill patients who were literally going crazy,” Mr. Bien said. “It’s a Kafkaesque situation, where they didn’t know why they were there or when they were going to get out.”
http://www.nytimes.com/...
9:51 AM PT: