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Solitary Watch (8/7/12): Political or Gang Activity? “New Afrikan” Inmates in Solitary Confinement
SF BayView (8/6/12): On the Abolition of Solitary Confinement
San Francisco Bay View (3/21/12): Prisoners in solitary petition United Nations: ‘CDCR destroys our minds, souls and spirits’
Fresno Bee (2/14/12): Corcoran Inmate in Hunger Strike Dies
Bay View (12/30/11): New hunger strike: Petition for improved conditions in Administrative Segregation Unit at Corcoran State Prison
Solitary Watch (12/30/11): Isolated CA Inmates Continue their Fight for Reform
Solitary Watch (12/28/11): New Video: National Religious Campaign Against Torture Takes a Stand on Solitary Confinement
Colorlines (11/21/11): Secrecy Surrounds Inmate Suicides in CA State Prisons
SF Weekly (11/18/11): Advocates Link Inmate Suicides to Recent Hunger Strike
Criminal Injustice (11/16/11): Pelican Bay is Not Enough: Continuing the Struggle Against Extreme Isolation & Sensory Deprivation by Victoria Law
California Watch: (10/27/11): Reform could transfer hundreds of inmates out of isolation units
BayView: National Black Newspaper (10/11/11): Medical condition of hunger strikers deteriorates, some days away from death
CNN (10/4/11): Thousands of California Prisoners on Hunger Strike
Revolution Newspaper (10/3/11): 12,000 Prisoners Resume Hunger Strike in California
KQED (10/3/11): Prison Officials Investigate Inmate Advocates
Huffington Post (10/3/11): Inmates Prolong Prisoner Hunger Strike By Eating In Shifts
LA Times (9/30/11): Lawyers for Hunger Striking Inmates Want Meeting With Gov. Brown
New York Times (9/29/11): Prisoners Renew a Protest in California
San Francisco Chronicle (9/29/11): Prisoners Resume Hunger Strike
KQED (9/29/11): State Officials Warn Discipline for Inmates on Hunger Strike
Sacramento Bee (9/29/11): CA Prisoners Launch Second Hunger Strike
Central Coast News (9/29/11): Inmates Across California Going on Hunger Strike
GrubStreet Los Angeles (9/29/11): Prison Officials Threaten Hunger Strikers with Taking Away their Food
North Coast Journal (9/29/11): Caged
The Nation (9/28/11): Cruel America
Mercury News (9/23/11): California Prisoners Plan to Renew Hunger Strike
California Watch (9/23/11): Inmates Vow to Resume Hunger Strike
Revolution Newspaper (9/8/11): Hidden Behind Concrete and Barbed Wire: Hearings Expose Torture in California’s SHUs
KPCC (8/23/11): Under Scrutiny, Pelican Bay Prison Officials Say They Target Only Gang Leaders
Sacramento Bee (8/23/11): Prison Officials Promise Review of High-Security Cells
Mercury News (8/23/11): State to Reconsider Prisoner Placement in Highest Security Units: Watsonville Teacher Testifies in favor of more Education for Inmates
KQED (8/18/11): Prison Officials Say Conditions Will Improve, Inmates Ready to Strike Again
SF Gate (8/17/11): Prison Tour Counters Charges of Poor Conditions
Solitary Watch (8/17/11): Give US in Here the Strength to See this Thing Through: A Chronicle of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
San Antonio Express (8/15/11): ‘Baddest of the Bad’ Lead Solitary Lives
The Daily Triplicate (8/10/11): Coastal Voices: Why Inmates are Fed Up
Alternet/Angola 3 News (8/9/11): After the Hunger Strike: Criminal Justice Activist Discusses the Potential Impact of Prisoners’ Action
Al Jazeera (8/5/11): Supermax Prisons: 21st Century Asylums
Yahoo News (8/1/11): Untitled
New York Times (8/1/11): Cruel Isolation
The Examiner (8/1/11): 1000s Stand with America’s Tortured Prisoners: Solidarity Day Success
Revolution Newspaper (7/31/11): Prisoners at Pelican Bay End Hunger Strike…The Struggle Against the Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement Continues
Good To Go (7/28/11): The Shame of California
Color Lines (7/27/11): From Attica to Pelican Bay: A Brief History of Prison Rebellions
North of Center (7/27/11): Hunger Strike
National Catholic Reporter (7/27/11): CA Prisoners Assert Their Humanity with Hunger Strike
Workers World (7/27/11): Pelican Bay Prison Hunger Strikers Declare Victory
The Examiner (7/27/11): City of Angels Defends Pelican Bay Prison Hunger Strikers Thursday
The Informant, KALW News (7/27/11): Prison Dispatch: Critical Resistance & the Hunger Strike
New York City Independent Media Center (7/26/11): Starving for Justice–CA Prisoners Still Need Support
The Examiner (7/26/11): America’s 100,000 Tortured Inmates: Most Pressing, Ignored Human Rights Issue
Revolution Newspaper (7/24/11): The Humanity & Courage of the Prisoners…
Times Standard (7/22/11): Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 20 Days; Advocates Say Strike Raised Awareness about Prison Conditions
UPI (7/21/11): Hunger Strike Still on at 3 Calif. Prisons
Philly News (7/20/11): Marc Lamont Hill: Why We must Stand in Solidarity with the Pelican Bay Prisoners
Colorlines (7/19/11): Inmate Health Dwindles as As Prison Hunger Strike Enters Fourth Week
LA Times (7/18/11): Prisoners’ Hunger Strike in its Third Week
MWC News (7/18/11): Prisoners Strike Against Torture in CA Prisons
PhillyIMC (7/18/11): Banner Drop in Solidarity with the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
Imperial Valley News (7/18/11): Hunger Strike Rally at CDCR Headquarters
BuzzFlash (7/18/11): Hunger Strike: CA Prison Inmates Protest Cruel & Unusual Conditions
San Francisco Bay View (7/18/11): A Matter of Life & Death
Sojourners (7/18/11): Who is Organizing the CA Prison Hunger Strike?
The Examiner (7/18/11): Dying for Human Rights: Calif. Mass suicide in prisons continues, Day 18
SolitaryWatch (7/18/11): Who are the Hunger Strikers? How Prisoners Land in Pelican Bay’s SHU
New York Times (7/17/11): Barbarous Confinement
The Daily Censored (7/17/11): Prisoner Hunger Strike Enters Crisis Stage
The Examiner (7/17/11): Statewide Calif prison called, human rights protests spread nationally
Revolution Newspaper (7/17/11): We are Human Beings!
FireDogLake (7/16/11): Isolation, Indeterminate Sentences Used to Extract Confessions at California Supermax Prison
The Nation: (7/15/11): Budget Cuts and the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
The Nation (7/14/11): Support the Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers
The Daily Triplicate (7/14/11): State Denies Inmates are in Bad Shape: Advocates Say Some Fasters Seriously ill
Solitary Watch (7/14/11): Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate
SF Chronicle (7/14/11): Calif. sees gang ties in prisoners’ hunger strike
Ocean Beach Rag (7/14/11): CA Prison Inmates End 2nd Week of Hunger Strike– State Continues it’s Disinformation Campaign
The Informant (7/13/11): California Prison Hunger Strike Continues through Twelth Day
SF Gate & Oakland Local (7/11/11): Solidarity Supporters gather in Oakland, continue protests in SF today (with slideshow)
FireDogLake (7/11/11): Pelican Bay Prison Hunger Strike Shines Light on True Character of US Prison System
Common Dreams (7/9/11): CA Prisoner Join Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Conditions
ColorLines (7/8/11): Thousands of CA Inmates Show Solidarity with Prison Hunger Strike
GrubStreet Los Angeles (7/8/11): Massive Hunger Strike Unites California’s Factious State Prisoners
SF Chronicle (7/7/11): Inmates Stage Hunger Strike for Better Conditions
Seattle PI (7/711): Thousands of CA prisoners refusing state food
New York Times (7/711): Hunger Strike by Inmates is Latest Challenge to California’s Prison System
The Daily Triplicate (7/7/11): The Hunger Strike Continue at Pelican Bay
LA Times (7/6/11): Inmate Hunger Strike Expands to more California Prisons
UPI (7/6/11): Hunger Strike Expands to 11 Calif prisons
The Informant (7/6/11): Is CA Torturing Prisoners at Pelican Bay?
KPCC (7/6/11): Thousand’s Join Strike Over State’s Prison Isolation Units
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Press Release (7/5/11): Prisoners across at Lease 6 CA Prisons Join Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
LA Times (7/3/11): State says prison hunger strike involves fewer than two dozen inmates
KQED News (7/1/11): Pelican Bay Prisoners Reportedly on Hunger Strike
SF Gate (7/1/11): Pelican Bay Prison Inmates go on Hunger Strike
SF BayView (6/30/11): Corcoran SHU Prisoners Join Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
California Watch (6/29/11): High-Security Prisoners to Start Hunger Strike
The Informant/KALW News (6/29/11): Pelican Bay SHU inmates plan hunger strike
SF Weekly (6/29/11): Pelican Bay Prisoners Plan Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Confinement
San Francisco Bay Guardian (6/29/11): Hunger Strike Highlights Horrible Prison Conditions
Black Agenda Report (6/28/11): Pelican Bay: Hunger Strike in Super-Max
Revolution Newspaper (6/26/11): The Living Hell in Pelican Bay State Prison
International Press Articles
Al Jazeera- English (8/3/11): Overcrowded Jails Inimical to Justice
Al Jazeera- English (7/10/11): Hungry for Californian Prison Reform
UK
The Guardian (7/25/11): A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay
International Observatory on Stability & Conflict (7/18/11): Hunger Strike in CA prisons: the Human Cost of Incarceration
Canada
Montreal Mirror (7/14/11): No to Prison Business
Cuba
CubaDebate (7/16/11): When the Strike is in the US
Germany
Anarchist Black Cross- Berlin (9/29/11): Wieder Hungerstreik in Knästen in Kalifornien
Junge Welt (7/7/11): Gefangene hungern: Proteste gegen Isolationshaft in Kalifornien weiten sich aus. Bereits Tausende im Streik
RADIO
KPFA Hard Knock Radio (9/30/11): Without Walls (begins @ 14:45)
KPCC (8/23/11): At hearing, Prison Officials Says Pelican Bay Isolation Policies will Change
NPR (8/23/11): Conditions of California Prisons to be Reviewed
KQED (8/23/11): Security Housing Units, Extreme Isolation at Heart of Hunger Strike, is Subject of Hearing
KQED: California Report (8/23/11): Inside Pelican Bay Prison: A Tale of Two Inmates
KPCC (8/18/11): Inside Pelican Bay State Prison’s ‘Secure Housing Unit’
KPCC (8/15/11): KPCC’s Sacramento Reporter Julie Small tours the Secure Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison
KPFA (7/29/11): Without Walls Show: Update from Family Members (starts around 19:15).
Uprising Radio (7/28/11): Pelican Bay Prisoners Suspend Hunger Strike, Call for Continued Solidarity
BlogTalkRadio (7/19/11): Update on CA Hunger Strike
KPFA (7/18/11): Evening News Coverage of Demonstration in Sacramento. (Starts at 39:50).
KPCC w/ Julia Small (7/18/11): CA Inmates on Third Week of Hunger Strike Risk Injury, Death
Prison Reform Movement/BlogTalkRadio (7/16/11): Pelican Bay–CA Hunger Strike Solidarity!
KQED Public Radio (7/15/11): California Prison Hunger Strike
On The Block (7/14/11): Pelican Bay State Prison Hunger Strike: CDCR Response From the CA Prison System w/ Terry Thorton
KPCC w/ Julie Small (7/12/11): Relatives Say CA Inmates on Hunger Strike Getting Sick, Weak
KPCC w/ Julie Small (7/11/11): CA Prison Inmates Enter 11th Day of Hunger Strike
KPFK (7/8/11): The Michael Slate Show
KCSB No Alibis (7/6/11): CA Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
KQED The California Report (7/6/11): Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Spreads to Other Prisons
KPCC with Julie Small, Southern CA Public Radio (7/1/11): Pelican Bay Prisoners on Hunger Strike to Protest Conditions
Hard Knock Radio, KPFA (6/24/11): Interview by Manuel La Fontaine with Laura Whitehorn & Ed Mead
TELEVISION
Press TV (10/6/11): CA Inmates’ Hunger Strike Continues
KCRA (7/18/11): Demonstrators Gather to Support Inmate Hunger Strike
AlyonaShow/ RT America News (7/15/11): Massive CA Prison Hunger Strike
KTVU Channel 2 News (7/15/11): Protestors in Support of Pelican Bay Prisoners March in SF
Democracy Now! (7/15/11): Protests Grow in Solidarity with CA Prisoners As Hunger Strikers Enter 3rd Week
TheRealNews (7/15/11): Ongoing Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay Prison
Free Speech TV (7/11/11): CA Prison Hunger Strike
Univision 34 (Los Angeles): Reos de CA siguen en huelga de hambre (CA Inmates Still on Hunger Strike)
