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Report from the Pelican Bay SHU Short Corridor Representatives: Continued...
Part 1: Open letter to CDCR and PBSP officials To: CDCR (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) Undersecretary of Operations Terri McDonald, PBSP (Pelican Bay State Prison) Warden...
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Scare tactics: How loved ones are terrorized into breaking bonds with prisoners
Dear Readers, I am writing to inform you of the scare tactics that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) here at Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit (PBSP SHU) uses...
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It’s time to replace prison oppression with prisoner solidarity
by Ajene Nkrumah, Abdul O. Shakur, Sondai Kamdibe, Abasi Banda and Mutope Duguma It’s time that we prisoners take advantage of this End All Hostilities Agreement between our racial groups and our...
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Prisoners’ peaceful protest to resume July 8 if demands are not met
Attention Gov. Jerry Brown, CDCR Secretary Jeffrey Beard and all other parties in interest by Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit Short Corridor Representatives Todd Ashker, Arturo...
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Being on the outside, writing in
Solitary confinement in California prisons, resistance and prisoner correspondence by Dendron Utter This semester in the Anthropology and Social Change program at the California Institute of Integral...
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Hands off the Bay View
Statement from the Pelikan Bay Human Rights Movement First Amendment Campaign by Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Sondai Kamdibe Dumisani, Abasi Ganda, Ifoma Modibo Kambon, Dadisi Yero, Askari Joka, Mutope...
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Treating us like slaves: an analysis of the Security Threat Group Step Down...
by Dadisi Kambon, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Sondai Kamdibe Dumisani, Mutope Duguma and Abasi Ganda For the past two years we’ve heard the state claim it’s reforming its long term...
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I will agitate until you comply with the five core demands or I’m dead!
by Kubwa Damu Katika Chimurenga Supreme salutations and a profound regards are extended to the California prisoner hunger strikers and those participating in the work stoppage and all supporters, from...
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CDCr calls hunger strike supplemental demands reasonable, then reneges;...
by Mutope Duguma In all policies, the truth is in the details of their implementation. On the surface, a policy can appear reasonable, but once you get into the actual working out of the details, you...
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We are relying on the legislature to rein in CDCR’s gross abuse of power,...
by Todd Ashker As a principal representative of the PBSP SHU (Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit) Short Corridor Collective Human Rights Movement, I begin this personal perspective update...
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Power concedes nothing, Part 2: a discussion on retaliation, censorship and...
by the NCTT-Cor-SHU “Free discussion of the problems of society is a cardinal principal of Americanism … Censorship is utterly foreign to our way of life; it smacks of dictatorship.” – U.S. Supreme...
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California transfers Pelican Bay SHU prisoners to general population despite...
by Mutawally Joka Kambon It has been a few months since my release from 20 years of solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison (SHU) to Step 5 of the Step Down Program (SDP). I thought I should...
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Tehachapi SHU is the worst of any SHU, prison or jail I have seen in 23 years
by Aaron Jabari Scott On Aug. 28, 2014, I spoke with the Corcoran State Prison Step Down Program (SDP) facilitator who confirmed I was on the list to be transferred to Tehachapi (California...
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CDCR’s new con game to undermine our class action suit
by Randall ‘Sondai’ Ellis In order to successfully advance in each step of CDCR’s newly enacted Step Down Program (SDP), prisoners are expected to fill out and complete a series of thought policing or...
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Mission Statement of the Free Speech Society
by Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Mutope Duguma and Heshima Denham The Free Speech Society is a movement that is dedicated towards protecting and defending the First Amendment rights of imprisoned activists....
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We can’t breathe! Thoughts on our Agreement to End Hostilities
by Kijani Tashiri Askari and Akili Castlin The Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary defines the word “hostility” as 1) a hostile state, condition or attitude; enmity; antagonism;...
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Prisoner Human Rights Movement Blue Print
Overview by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) has systemic and dysfunctional problems that run rampant statewide within California’s prisons for both...
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CDCr must effect genuine changes in its old policies, culture and practices
by Baridi and Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa Baridi X Williamson Sitawa hugs his sister, Marie Levin, a leading advocate during the struggle against solitary confinement, for the first time in 31 years. He was...
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Brutha Sitawa: CDCr and Soledad Prison retaliate with false reports to return...
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, principal negotiator, Prisoner Human Rights Movement Sitawa gets a visit from his sister, Marie Levin, on Feb. 27, 2017. She worked tirelessly for his release from solitary...
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