September 26, 2011
California prisoners resume hunger strike today
This sign posted outside the San Quentin gate alerted visiting friends and family on July 2 that the hunger strike had begun at Pelican Bay. Within two weeks, more than 6,600 prisoners in at least 13 California prisons, including those in San Quentin Ad-Seg, were participating – the word spread primarily by visitors.
Today, prisoners at Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) and Calipatria’s Administrative Segregation Unit (Ad-Seg or ASU) resume their hunger strike.
Community members and prisoners’ families are holding a press conference outside UC Hastings School of Law in San Francisco at 2 p.m. A panel discussion featuring legal experts, activists, advocates and prisoners’ family members will follow at UC Hastings, highlighting the prisoners’ conditions and reasons for their renewed strike...
LINK - SFBayView.com
