The latest Solitary Watch print edition features an article on the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike as well as a letter from a California hunger striker, along with excerpts from an interview on solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. The four-page publication can be downloaded in PDF format here: Solitary Watch Print Edition Summer 2011 […]
prisoners’ rights
Prisoner Sent to Solitary Based on Reading Materials
Prisoners are often assigned to solitary confinement cells–sometimes indefinitely or permanently–because corrections officials have identified them as gang members. Some prisoners complain that the criteria for being “validated” as a gang member are arbitrary and inaccurate, and also subject to abuse by prison staff. Recently, a California prisoner charged that he was put in solitary confinement based largely on his […]