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This summer’s prison hunger strike, which eventually spread to some 6,600 inmates in dozens of California facilities, was organized and launched in the “short corridor” of Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU). The strike ended three weeks after it began, with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation making a few small concessions to […]

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Pelican Bay Prisoners Plan to Resume Hunger Strike

“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

New Solitary Watch Print Edition (Summer 2011) Now Available

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

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay