Eight years since the Frisco 5 hunger strike: Learning from local revolutionary movements of the past
By Joshua Baltodano on The group fought police brutality by putting their own lives on the line.
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Reforming Solitary Confinement at Pelican Bay Prison
Nearly 4,000 inmates in the Security Housing Units in California’s prisons endure harrowing conditions of extreme isolation for years and even decades in concrete, soundproof cells measuring only six feet by eight feet, leaving only to exercise for about an hour a day in windowless “dog runs.”
Historic Hunger Strike Launches a Movement
The strike’s magnitude was historic, with 6,600 prisoners fasting in 13 prisons. Many prisoners around the world, and many people on the outside, fasted in solidarity. The movement to end the tortuous conditions of long-term solitary confinement was revitalized.