PBSP update: Assessment of meetings with assistant warden
Two letters follow: The first describes the current situation; the second describes what the prisoners were promised a year ago by Mutope Duguma Our four principal negotiators/representatives here in...
View ArticleUrgent request to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez to visit...
The following open letter was sent Aug. 16, 2013, marked “URGENT.” Juan E. Mendez U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment c/o Office of the...
View ArticleCDCr calls hunger strike supplemental demands reasonable, then reneges;...
by Mutope Duguma In all policies, the truth is in the details of their implementation. On the surface, a policy can appear reasonable, but once you get into the actual working out of the details, you...
View ArticlePTSD SC: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Solitary Confinement
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and Baridi J. Williamson California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) had been locking classes of prisoners up in solitary confinement since the ‘60s as part...
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