2013 Prisoner Strikes

For more news about the 2013 prisoner strikes, see:

• Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition
• California Prison Focus
• The Rock Newsletter
• Solitary Watch: News from a Nation Under Lockdown

Some background documents:

• The New Boss Looks A Lot Like The Old Boss (by Ed Mead, March 2012)
• The 2011 Hunger Strikes Remembered: Resistance Against Neocolonial Imprisonment and Torture (Kersplebedeb, 2012)
• USA: the Edge of Endurance: Prison Conditions in California’s Security Housing Units (Amnesty International, September 2012)
• Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America’s Prisons (Shane Bauer, Mother Jones November/December 2012)
• Slow Motion Torture (Jeff Tietz, Rolling Stone, December 6, 2012)

And background documents from the Short Corridor Collective:

• Pelican Bay Human Rights Movement: Short Corridor Collective’s Counter-Proposal to CDCR (2012)
• Pelican Bay SHU Short Corridor Collective’s Rejection of CDCR Proposal (2012)
• Short Corridor Collective Announces Agreement to End Hostilities (September 2012)
• Prisoners reject CDCR proposal; threaten new hunger strike (December 2012)
• Peaceful Protest to Resume July 8th 2013, If Demands Are Not Met (February 2013)
• June 20 Statement From Pelican Bay Short Corridor Collective (June 2013)

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Recent news articles (from sources good and bad) relevant to the California prisoners’ struggle: