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Day 24 of CA Prisoners hunger strike
ornia prisons, protesters on Tuesday delivered more than 60,000 signatures to Gov. Jerry Brown's office in a push to end solitary confinement in California.
Representatives from California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement, the Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition and California Prison Focus delivered the petitions to the Governor's Office Tuesday morning while a group of about 40 protesters waited outside the Capitol.
Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/07/video-protesters-deliver-petitions-to-end-solitary-confinement-in-californi.html#storylink=cpy
annm4peace
(6,119 posts)please join me in Calling Gov Brown, especially if you are from another state.
Call Governor Jerry Brown
Phone: (916) 445-2841, (510) 289-0336, (510) 628-0202
Fax: (916) 558-3160
Suggested script: Im calling in support of the prisoners on hunger strike. The governor has the power to stop the torture of solitary confinement. I urge the governor to compel the CDCR to enter into negotiations to end the strike. RIGHT NOW is their chance to enter into clear, honest negotiations with the strikers to end the torture.
Petition to sign
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51040/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11455
to find out more:
http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
annm4peace
(6,119 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)JimDandy
(7,318 posts)be needed to dramatically reduce the number of prisoners placed in solitary confinement and the length of time prisoners are held in solitary.
I don't think solitary confinement will or should be abolished entirely, because there is a need for facilities to temporarily separate inmates from each other, but I cannot understand how solitary confinement of more than a couple weeks to a month would ever be deserved by inmates coming from the general population.
Private prisons must be eliminated entirely--they are a perversion within our justice system.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)annm4peace
(6,119 posts)I hope more than that are calling Gov Brown.