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The following is excerpted from a letter from Alfred Sandoval, a Pelican Bay SHU inmate and one of the original leaders and participants in this summer’s three-week hunger strike. Addressed to “All Media, Prisons Supporters, etc.,” it was written on June 26th, a few days before the strike began. Sandoval describes his own experiences, and outlines a series of abuses […]

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Voices From Solitary: Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Was “the Only Way to Get the Word Out” About Prison Abuses

Pelican Bay Prisoners Plan to Resume Hunger Strike

“The Destruction of the Human Spirit”: Testimony of Rev. William McGarvey on Solitary Confinement

“Pawns in a Failed Experiment”: Testimony of Dr. Craig Haney on Solitary Confinement

“Toxic Conditions”: Testimony of Dr. Terry Kupers on Solitary Confinement

Historic California Assembly Hearing on Solitary Confinement

Voices from Solitary: “Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere”

Washington Post Takes a Stand Against the “Invisible Brutality That Is Solitary Confinement”

“Give Us in Here the Strength to See This Thing Through”: A Chronicle of the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike

Supermax Prisons: “21st Century Asylums”

New York Times Heeds a Cry from the Depths of Pelican Bay Prison

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a California Prison Hunger Striker

As Prisoners End Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay, Their Cause Continues

Statements from Human Rights and Civil Rights Groups Support Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers

Who Are the Hunger Strikers? How Prisoners Land in Pelican Bay’s SHU

Update: Pelican Bay Prisoners Reject State Proposal, Continue Hunger Strike

Starving in Solitary: California Prison Hunger Strikers’ Health Declines, But State Will Not Negotiate

Voices from Solitary: Letter from a Pelican Bay Hunger Striker

Hunger Strike in the Supermax: Pelican Bay Prisoners Protest Conditions in Solitary Confinement

Confronting Torture in U.S. Prisons: A Q&A With Solitary Watch

Solitary Confinement Widely Used in California’s Juvenile Jails

Doctors Prescribe Cure for “Epidemic of Mass Incarceration”

Supreme Court Takes the “Radical” Stance That Prisoners Are Human Beings

Voices from Solitary: A Mother’s Story

Report from Panel Discussion on Prison Isolation Units

Prisoner Grievances: “The System for Going Up Against the System”

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Death Row Inmates Sue the FDA Over Execution Drugs