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DESCRIPTION:What is the SHU?   The Security Housing Units in California's prisons are 
 another name for  the same Control Units found in prisons across the 
 country. Control   units are prisons within a prison. They are solitary 
 confinement cells,   usually 6 x 8 foot, where prisoners are locked up 23 
 hours a day for years at a time. The one hour a day these prisoner 
 sometimes get outside of their cell is spent alone in an exercise pen not 
 much larger than their cell, with no direct sunlight. This long term 
 isolation causes serious mental and physical health problems for many 
 prisoners. And these torture cells are used to target politically active 
 prisoners using a system of classification that makes it impossible for 
 prisoners to appeal their assignment.  Why YOU should be there:  This is an 
 opportunity to gain knowledge, get involved, and take action about 
 abolishing prison torture in California.   We will also be planning for a 
 national conference in October 2005. The location is tentatively Oxnard, 
 California and the tentative date is October 8th. This conference will 
 focus on education and organizing around the struggle to shut down prison 
 control units. It will include several workshops about prisons and control 
 units, and workshops about organizing strategy. The conference is geared 
 towards organizers, but we hope to attract new people to our struggle to 
 attend the event as well. The format of workshops will be participatory 
 rather than focusing on a few big name speakers just talking at the crowd. 
 But we will invite a few speakers to open and close the conference.  All 
 events at the conference will be bilingual.   Right now we are focused on 
 the following tasks:  1. Produce a list of organizations to invite  2. 
 Produce a list of speakers to invite  3. Put together a fund raising 
 committee to raise money to bring   speakers and orgs from out of state  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/03/51103.php
SUMMARY:Statewide Meeting to Abolish the SHU
LOCATION:Cell Space  2050 Bryant St (at 18th)  San Francisco  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/03/51103.php
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