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On July 8, 2013, 30,000 prisoners refused their meals, launching the largest mass prison hunger strike in U.S. history. One year later, Todd Ashker is marking off his twenty-fourth year in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit (SHU). “I’m still alive, kicking and strong in heart and spirit,” he wrote in a June 2014 letter. Ashker […]

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“We Are Not the Worst of the Worst”: One Year Later, What’s Changed for Pelican Bay’s Hunger Strikers?

“Suicide Checks” Lead to Extreme Sleep Deprivation at Pelican Bay Prison

After California Prisons Release “Gang Affiliates” From Solitary Confinement, Costs and Violence Levels Drop

A Hunger for Justice in Pelican Bay

California Expects to Save $28 Million By Reducing Solitary Confinement

Families of California Prisoners Respond to Controversial Reforms of Solitary Confinement

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement in California Respond to Prison Policy Reforms

California Justice: Three Strikes and Sixteen Years in Solitary

California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike on October 10th

Thousands of California Prisoners, One Hunger Strike, One Week

California Prison Hunger Strike: “It’s an Absolute Madhouse”

Calipatria Hunger Striker: “Putting Everything On The Line For Dignity”

Day 41 of California Hunger Strike: CDCR Still Insists It’s A Gang Power Play

California Assembly Reviews Solitary Confinement Policies As Prisoners Threaten New Hunger Strike

Seven Months After Historic Prison Hunger Strike, Opponents of Solitary in California Gauge the Pace of Change

After Hunger Strikes, Solitary Reforms Come to California’s Prisons—and Leave Thousands Behind

How Many People Are In Solitary Confinement in California’s Prisons?

Case Closed on Supermax Abuses at Pelican Bay

Hundreds Still on Hunger Strike in California Prisons As Situation Becomes Increasingly Dire

California Prison Hunger Strikes Sparked Solitary Reforms, Internal Documents Show

Isolated California Prisoners Continue Their Fight for Reform

UN: Solitary Confinement in the U.S. Can Be Torture, Force-Feeding Unacceptable

Judge Rules California Solitary Confinement Lawsuit Should Have Its Day in Court

California Prisoners Launch New Hunger Strike to Protest Solitary Confinement

As 30,000 Join California Prison Hunger Strike, Corrections Officials Issue Guidelines on Starvation

California Prison Officials Retaliating Against Hunger Strikers

30 Days of Hunger Striking, California Prisons Chief Insists It’s “Gang Power Play”

Day 36 of California Hunger Strike: Hundreds Still Protesting Isolation Policies

Day 39 of California Prison Hunger Strike: Governor Jerry Brown Remains Silent