Secrecy Surrounds Inmate Suicides in California State Prisons

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For the 10th straight year, community members gathered on Black Friday to protest the desecration of the sacred Ohlone shellmounds in Emeryville that were disturbed when the Bay Street Mall was constructed on top of them. The demonstration was on November 25 this year, and organizers of the event hoped to educate shoppers about the Ohlone burial sites, and that there were other shopping alternatives located nearby.

October 20, 2011 in Front Page, GA Statements, General Assembly, News

10/17/2011

A Letter to the prisoners on hunger strike in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of Pelican Bay State Prison and those in other units joining them.

We, as members of Occupy Oakland, send our support for your strike against the cruel and inhumane conditions of imprisonment.

Should inmates have to pay the county back for taxpayer money spent on their jail time? This week, Riverside County supervisors unanimously voted yes.

As the Los Angeles Times reports, Supervisor Jeff Stone called jails "prison hotels," costing an average of $142.42 a day.

According to the Press-Enterprise, he said "I think we're blazing a new trail here. In these very challenging economic times, I believe this can be a source of revenue. I believe this can return 3 to 5 million (dollars) a year during these very challenging economic times."

"A plan by the State of Florida to transfer 29 of its prisons to private management is dead, at least for now. Gov. Rick Scott has decided not to appeal last month’s court decision that called the plan unconstitutional. The judge said in the ruling that Florida lawmakers had erred in tucking the measure into a budget bill to get it passed. The judge said the privatization plan — a “substantive” policy change — merited its own debate and should have been presented as a stand-alone bill."

Hungerstrike NewsOctober 11, 2011 - Day SixteenVol. 2, No. 8 

Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are dying who could be saved, that generations more will die or live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love of Revolution. Pass on the torch. Join us, give your life for the people.
-George Jackson

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