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Death and life of Hugo Pinell

by Jaan Laaman, political prisoner It was with true sadness that, on Aug. 13, I received the news that legendary California prison activist Hugo Pinell was killed in a California prison. Let me share a...

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KPOO interview: Kiilu Nyasha and Terry Collins remember Hugo ‘Yogi’ Pinell

  This interview was broadcast live on Aug. 18, 2015, on Terry Collins’ show, The Spirit of Joe Rudolph. Listen to it in full at http://www.thespiritofjr.com/show/august-18-2015/21; these are...

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Revolutionary eulogy by Texas Chicano POW-political prisoner Alvaro Luna...

by Alvaro Luna Hernandez Power to the people! Power to our fallen Comrade Brother Hugo “Yogi Bear” Pinell! We were saddened by the news that Yogi was murdered last Wednesday, Aug. 12, during an alleged...

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Imprisoned people facing medical neglect and violence: Family members and...

by Dolores Canales, Family Unity Network, and Hannah McFaull, Justice Now Sacramento – On Nov. 11, an imprisoned person at Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) faced extreme violence at the hands...

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David Johnson of the San Quentin 6 on his comrade Hugo ‘Yogi’ Pinell

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Hugo Pinell’s daughter Allegra invites you to join in honoring her father on...

by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250016443″...

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Prisoner Human Rights Movement Blue Print

Overview by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) has systemic and dysfunctional problems that run rampant statewide within California’s prisons for both...

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Prison strikes’ financial impact in California

by Yvonne Yen Liu, Solidarity Research Center Sept. 9, 2016, was the start of the largest prison strike in U.S. history. Over 72,000 incarcerated workers in 22 states refused to provide their labor to...

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Long live the spirit of Comrade W.L. Nolen

by Chairman Kijana Tashiri Askari, W.L. Nolen Mentorship Program W.L. Nolen and his brother, Cornell, grew up street fighting in Oakland and were both prison boxing champions. For those who are not...

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Losing direction: The abysmal history of mental health care at Pelican Bay...

by Mariposa McCall From 2010-2011, while working as a contract psychiatrist for the California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) providing supportive therapy and medication management...

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PTSD SC: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Solitary Confinement

by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and Baridi J. Williamson California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) had been locking classes of prisoners up in solitary confinement since the ‘60s as part...

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Proposition 57 dashes hopes for lifers and Three Strikers, turning cirrhosis...

by Julius ‘Kimya’ Humphrey Sr. Gov. Brown’s Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016 was a sham that gave false hopes of freedom to thousands of juvenile offenders who have grown up – and are now...

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Ongoing isolation in California prisons not governed by settlement, judge rules

Activism needed to remedy solitary conditions in prisons, civil rights attorneys say by the Center for Constitutional Rights Here’s how it all began, how the public first learned of the new California...

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Folsom Manifesto for the California Statewide Prison Strike, 1970

The Folsom Prisoners’ Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Repression Platform This is Folsom Prison, opened in 1880. In 1970, it was one of only a few prisons in California housing about 20,000 prisoners, a...

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