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DESCRIPTION:Four years ago Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (PB SHU) prisoners staged 
 their first hunger strike, awakening a nationwide movement in and outside 
 prisons against the pervasive use of long term solitary confinement. Today 
 there are many challenges to what is internationally recognized as state 
 sanctioned torture: from ongoing negotiations with the original PB strike 
 representatives, to legal challenges including a law suit Ashker v. Brown, 
 to swing-vote Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy inviting a challenge to 
 the way solitary confinement is used as an unconstitutional form of "cruel 
 and unusual punishment." The prisoners' movement has continued on the 
 ground, even as guards are staging their own actions to punish the 
 prisoners and make the PB SHU more unbearable. Come hear prison rights 
 activist, Urszula Wislanka, on her recent visit to the PB SHU and to Folsom 
 where prisoners have their own story on the guard staged murder of Hugo 
 Pinell.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/25/18776650.php
SUMMARY:Struggle against solitary confinement and a new humanism
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave.\nOakland, Ca.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/25/18776650.php
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