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For Prison Hunger Strikers: Sign Petition & Call or Fax Governor
The 2013 California Prisoner Hunger Strike has gone on for 10 days now, and the prisoners need your help to win their struggle to end solitary confinement , to receive decent and sufficient food and have serious rehabilitation programs. Call Gov Brown Phone: (916) 445-2841, (510) 289-0336, (510) 628-0202 or Fax: (916) 558-3160 and sign the petition at http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51040/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11455
The 2013 California Prisoner Hunger Strike has gone on for 10 days now, and the prisoners need your help to win their struggle to end solitary confinement , to receive decent and sufficient food and have serious rehabilitation programs. Call Gov Brown Phone: (916) 445-2841, (510) 289-0336, (510) 628-0202 or Fax: (916) 558-3160 and sign the petition at http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51040/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11455
For more information, see
http://curbprisonspending.org/
http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
http://solitarywatch.com/
http://californiaprisonwatch.blogspot.com/
http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/center-constitutional-rights-supports-pelican-bay-hunger-strikers
http://ccrjustice.org/pelican-bay-prison-hunger-strikers
http://sfbayview.com/category/enemylines/
http://www.prisons.org/
http://www.prisons.org/hungerstrike.htm
http://www.prisons.org/links.htm
The petition states:
To: Jerry Brown, Governor of California
Jeffrey Beard, Secretary of CDCR (California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation)
I support the prisoners & their reasonable demands. I am alarmed by the CDCR's refusal to recognize, address, and implement the changes outlined by prisoners being held in Security Housing Units (SHUs). I am further disturbed that, rather than addressing the crisis created by locking people for years and decades in extreme isolation, this peaceful hunger strike is being deemed a "mass prison disturbance" by the CDCR, putting prisoners in further danger.
I urge you to initiate accountable negotiations with these prisoners and/or their chosen representatives. I urge you to take action to implement the fair and reasonable demands immediately, and in good faith. I also want your guarantee that peaceful hunger strikers will not be retaliated against.
*****
The demands are:
The Pelican Bay Five Core Demands:
1. Eliminate group punishments and administrative abuse.
2. Abolish the debriefing policy and modify active/inactive gang status criteria.
3. Comply with the recommendations of the US Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons recommendations and end long-term solitary confinement.
4. Provide adequate and nutritious food.
5. Create and expand constructive programming.
********
Another petition stating the above is at:
http://www.change.org/petitions/support-pelican-bay-shu-prisoners-five-core-demands-hunger-strike
We have a supermajority Democrats in both houses of the state legislature and a Democratic governor, and this prison concentration camp system continues. Nazi Germany would be proud of California's prison concentration camp system for it is an extermination camp for everyone in solitary confinement, all of whom do not receive sufficient calories, and the food is often dirty. They also have no window in these tiny cubicles, nothing to do and no educational and job training programs. Suicide is common in California prisons, especially in solitary confinement. This is how the State of California spends our tax dollars, whether they are Democrats or Republicans. A serious program of rehabilitation is the following:
1. Abolish solitary confinement
2. Abolish the death penalty
3. Close all prisons where Valley Fever is a problem, bring home to their county of origin the 8500 California prisoners currently in prisons in Arizona, Oklahoma and Mississippi. CLOSE ALL PRISONS IN THE REMOTE UNDERPOPULATED AREAS OF CALIFORNIA.
See http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=702
4. Send all prisoners to their COUNTY OF ORIGIN so they can be integrated into their community and be with their families while receiving education, medical care and job training.
5. Legalize all drugs thereby removing them from the street market and ending the prison pipeline
6. Change all prison sentences so that they are not more than 5 years with mandatory education, medical care and job training programs for all prisoners under age 50.
7. Require that all prisoners under age 50, most of whom are functionally illiterate, obtain a high school diploma in prison and sign up for job training programs so that they are out of prison in 5 years or less.
8. All prisoners over age 50 should be given a lifelong pension of at least $3,000 per month, rising with the cost of living annually, free medical care and free housing. If they cannot live on their own, they should be housed in group housing.
For more information, see
http://curbprisonspending.org/
http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
http://solitarywatch.com/
http://californiaprisonwatch.blogspot.com/
http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/center-constitutional-rights-supports-pelican-bay-hunger-strikers
http://ccrjustice.org/pelican-bay-prison-hunger-strikers
http://sfbayview.com/category/enemylines/
http://www.prisons.org/
http://www.prisons.org/hungerstrike.htm
http://www.prisons.org/links.htm
The petition states:
To: Jerry Brown, Governor of California
Jeffrey Beard, Secretary of CDCR (California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation)
I support the prisoners & their reasonable demands. I am alarmed by the CDCR's refusal to recognize, address, and implement the changes outlined by prisoners being held in Security Housing Units (SHUs). I am further disturbed that, rather than addressing the crisis created by locking people for years and decades in extreme isolation, this peaceful hunger strike is being deemed a "mass prison disturbance" by the CDCR, putting prisoners in further danger.
I urge you to initiate accountable negotiations with these prisoners and/or their chosen representatives. I urge you to take action to implement the fair and reasonable demands immediately, and in good faith. I also want your guarantee that peaceful hunger strikers will not be retaliated against.
*****
The demands are:
The Pelican Bay Five Core Demands:
1. Eliminate group punishments and administrative abuse.
2. Abolish the debriefing policy and modify active/inactive gang status criteria.
3. Comply with the recommendations of the US Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons recommendations and end long-term solitary confinement.
4. Provide adequate and nutritious food.
5. Create and expand constructive programming.
********
Another petition stating the above is at:
http://www.change.org/petitions/support-pelican-bay-shu-prisoners-five-core-demands-hunger-strike
We have a supermajority Democrats in both houses of the state legislature and a Democratic governor, and this prison concentration camp system continues. Nazi Germany would be proud of California's prison concentration camp system for it is an extermination camp for everyone in solitary confinement, all of whom do not receive sufficient calories, and the food is often dirty. They also have no window in these tiny cubicles, nothing to do and no educational and job training programs. Suicide is common in California prisons, especially in solitary confinement. This is how the State of California spends our tax dollars, whether they are Democrats or Republicans. A serious program of rehabilitation is the following:
1. Abolish solitary confinement
2. Abolish the death penalty
3. Close all prisons where Valley Fever is a problem, bring home to their county of origin the 8500 California prisoners currently in prisons in Arizona, Oklahoma and Mississippi. CLOSE ALL PRISONS IN THE REMOTE UNDERPOPULATED AREAS OF CALIFORNIA.
See http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=702
4. Send all prisoners to their COUNTY OF ORIGIN so they can be integrated into their community and be with their families while receiving education, medical care and job training.
5. Legalize all drugs thereby removing them from the street market and ending the prison pipeline
6. Change all prison sentences so that they are not more than 5 years with mandatory education, medical care and job training programs for all prisoners under age 50.
7. Require that all prisoners under age 50, most of whom are functionally illiterate, obtain a high school diploma in prison and sign up for job training programs so that they are out of prison in 5 years or less.
8. All prisoners over age 50 should be given a lifelong pension of at least $3,000 per month, rising with the cost of living annually, free medical care and free housing. If they cannot live on their own, they should be housed in group housing.
For more information:
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51040/p/dia/...
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