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Liberate our elders! California Prison Focus demands Gov. Newsom protect...
On Feb. 19, activists, organizers and supporters, many formerly incarcerated, gathered under the banner of Liberate the Caged Voices at the Freedom and Movement Center, 4400 Market St. in West...
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Liberate the Caged Voices: Where’s the humanity?
Bay View Managing Editor Nube Brown, from the Bay View office-kitchen-dining room, calls on you to join the Liberate Our Caged Elders campaign by calling Gov. Newsom, 916-445-2841. Demand he release...
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Agreement to End Hostilities
“Support the Agreement to End Hostilities” – Art: Michael D. Russell. Russell, one of the Bay View’s favorite artists, is apparently free, as he can no longer be found in the California Inmate...
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Message from Pelican Bay prisoner representatives to UN Special Rapporteur on...
by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, Antonio Guillen and Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa Oct. 18, 2013 – We, the four principal representatives of the prisoners confined in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at...
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Prison hunger strikers face reprisals as papers that back them are censored
by John Studer Since some 30,000 California prisoners launched a hunger strike July 8 against the practice of long-term solitary confinement and other abuses, participants have faced punitive...
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Pelican Bay Short Corridor Human Rights Movement: Banned testimony of the...
by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (Dewberry) and Antonio Guillen Feb. 11, 2014 – We are prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison who have all lived for over 15 years locked 23...
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‘Condemned’ by Keith LaMar (Bomani Shakur)
Review by Denis O’Hearn When I was asked to write a review of Keith LaMar’s “Condemned,” I wondered if I was the best person to do it. First of all, I wrote the foreword to the book. Plus, as you’ll...
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Lawyers Guild honors prison hunger strikers
by the PHSS Media Committee On the evening of April 5, hundreds gathered in downtown Oakland for the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter’s (NLGSF) annual fundraising dinner. The...
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Prisoners and advocacy groups oppose Sen. Loni Hancock’s prison reform bill,...
Lawyers from the LA-based Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law recently spent two days at Pelican Bay discussing with prisoners bills now introduced in the Senate by Sen. Loni Hancock and in...
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Antonio Guillen: May Day message to the working class people of the world...
by Antonio Guillen I am one of the hunger strike representatives from Pelican Bay State Prison. I along with my family are also part of the working class people of America. Thousands turned out for the...
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SB 892 and AB 1652: Pelican Bay prisoner representatives speak to the...
by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellano, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (R.N. Dewberry) and Antonio Guillen Dear Members of the California Assembly and Senate: We are writing to offer our position on the two bills...
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Calipatria riots need to cease and unity needs to spread
by Kendra Castaneda “Power of Unity” – Graphic: Soundthings Over the last few months, there has been an excessive amount of fighting between different races at Calipatria State Prison within the...
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Largest hunger strike in history: California prisoners speak out on first...
One year ago, on July 8, 2013, 30,000 California prisoners initiated the largest hunger strike the world has ever seen. Sixty days later, 40 prisoners, who had eaten nothing in all that time, agreed to...
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Prisoners and advocates commemorate the one-year anniversary of the hunger...
by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law A year ago on July 8, over 30,000 people inside California prisons began a hunger strike to bring an end to the state’s use of indefinite solitary...
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SB 892: Letter from four main reps at Pelican Bay to California legislators
by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (R.N. Dewberry), Antonio Guillen Dear Members of the California Senate and Assembly, California corrections officials located and designed...
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California prisoner representatives: All people have the right to humane...
Main reps mark the first anniversary of suspension of the 2013 Hunger Strike and the second anniversary of the Agreement to End Hostilities by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos and George Franco We...
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The Agreement to End Hostilities must be re-implemented in all California...
by Raymond “Chavo” Perez and Kendra Castaneda-Perez “Stronger Together: Black Brown Unity in Prison” – Art: Jose Villarreal, H-84098, SHU C11-106, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City CA 95532 It has been two...
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Pelican Bay Hunger Strike: Four years and still fighting
by Claude Marks and Isaac Ontiveros Four years ago prisoners in California – led by those in the control units of Pelican Bay – organized a hunger strike to demand an end to the torturous conditions of...
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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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In our fifth year of the Agreement to End Hostilities, it’s time for Gov....
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Principal Negotiator, Prisoner Human Rights Movement Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa in a photo taken in July 2016 We are within our fifth year of the August 2012 historical document,...
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