The struggle for SHU (Security Housing Units) prisoner’s voices to be heard and humanity to be recognized has been immensely strengthened by families & community members speaking out on behalf of their loved ones inside.
Loved ones and family members of SHU prisoners across CA & the West Coast/South West have been organizing press conferences, rallies, community events, fundraisers, speaking to reporters, writing letters & jamming phone lines as well as sharing invaluable information on the status and well-being of hunger strikers.
This page is a work in progress to demonstrate some of the invaluable work family members have been doing for their loved ones.
Watch videos of prisoners’ family members discussing the impacts of the SHU on their families, and their loved one’s experiences here.
Read letters & statements by prisoners’ family members here.
If you have a loved one locked up and would like to share some words/info: please leave a comment at the bottom of this page! If you have writing, pictures, videos–any other information or materials you would like us to post to this page– email us at: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity@gmail.com
If you’d like to send your loved one a newsletter with information on the hunger strike, check out our Resources page and download the Basta Ya! Newsletter.
If you have experienced different issues while visiting your loved ones that you think are either petty, arbitrary or illegal (such as not being allowed to take documents into visiting, clothing hassles, or punitive regulations when prisoners can get bathroom breaks) read this action alert from Life Support Alliance and consider reporting the issue to the State Senate.
THIS IS GREAT!!!! I THANK U SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING US TO BE HEARD.
The Senate Select Community Committee on California’s Correctional System, http://WWW.SSCCCCS.ORG is an organization of friends and realtives of SHU prisoners.
We are a primarily, though not exclusively, a prior sovereign Mexican American National Minority organization.
We believe Torture, Cruel and Unusua Punishement and Demeaning Treatment of California Prisoners belies the “Golden State” progressive image until such time SHU prisons are abolished.
yes I support the strike my cousin is at corcoran he is Daniel Arellano
i know him too daniel arellano jr.
I got a letter from Bryan, my friend at Pelican Bay SHU who was recently moved to Administrative Segregation (ASU). It was dated Oct. 1, on day 6 of the hunger strike… read the letter here:
http://julie-tackett.blogspot.com/2011/10/letter-from-bryan-written-oct-1-from.html
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I have a brother that has recently been validated . I am interested in creating awareness of this inhumane torture that the CDCR is doing to their SHU status inmates . I’m in the inland empire/ los Angeles area . My family wants to join the fight against this violation against these inmates . How do We do that ?
Hello Patricia, please email us and we will link you up with some family members in Southern CA who have been organizing. our email is prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity@gmail.com. Also, we just posted their call out for a day of outreach at Huntington Beach that will be happening this Sunday, July 1st, to commemorate the strike. You can find the posting here
thank you!
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