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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a very important discussion on how prison activists can 
 support Pelican Bay SHU inmates in their struggles against the inhumane 
 conditions of confinement and racist gang validation policies.\n\nSpeakers 
 for our Dec. 1st discussion include:\n\nCharles Carbone - lawyer for Steve 
 Castillo, a Pelican Bay inmate who who has been leading the hungers strikes 
 for the last\ntwo years.\n\nSteve Fama - Saff attorney for the Prison Law 
 Office, Steve handled the Madrid vs. Gomez case, a class action lawsuit 
 on\nbehalf of Pelican Bay SHU inmates.\n\nThis is a potluck, so please 
 bring food and drink if you can!\nHope to see you there!\n\n\nAs of 
 November 4, close to 100 prisoners at Pelican Bay  were entering the third 
 week of a hunger strike to protest CDC's racist gang validation policies. 
 Under current policies prisoners who are determined to be members or 
 associates of a gang can get sent to a security housing unit (SHU) with 
 indeterminate sentences.  In the SHU prisoners are subected to maximum 
 deprivation and minimumprivileges. They\n spend 23 hours a day on lock down 
 in 8 x 10\nfoot cells. They are released for daily exercise and showers 
 three times a week. The only way out of the SHU is through\nparole or 
 informing on fellow prisoners. The SHU is a tool of repression and is often 
 used as punishment for prisoners organizing on the inside and the racist 
 gang validation policy works to divide prisoners along racial lines.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/13363.php
SUMMARY:Reportback on Pelican Bay  Prisoner Hunger Strike
LOCATION:Prison Activist Resource Center\n1215 2nd Ave, b/w 12th & International
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/13363.php
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