Thousands of inmates in at least 13 prisons across California’s troubled prison system have been on hunger strike for almost two weeks.
Many are protesting in solidarity with inmates held in Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s first super-maximum security prison, over what prisoners say are cruel and unusual conditions in “Secure Housing Units.” We play an audio statement from one of the Pelican Bay prisoners and speak to three guests:
Dorsey Nunn, co-founder of “All of Us or None” and executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and one of the mediators between the prisoners on hunger strike and the California Department of Corrections;
Molly Porzig, a member of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition and a spokesperson for Critical Resistance; and Desiree Lozoya, the niece of an inmate participating in the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike, who visited him last weekend. [includes rush transcript]
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http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/15/protests_grow_in_solidarity_with_california
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