CDCR – San Francisco Bay View

In the wake of deep pain inflicted, this collection of excerpts from prisoners gives testimony to compassion, love, support, integrity, intelligence, faith, heart, depth and humanity from those ...

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Responding to CDCr ‘s practice of crushing lives, prisoner Vincent Callender is creating his dream of prisoners giving life to those in need. The post Bypassing CDCr’s promotion of death to...

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In this second part of Nube’s interview with Minister King X we learn how he found his own way through his unfolding Artivism to using art to bring the message in the struggle for true freedom....

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CDCr fine tunes and perpetuates slave holder, racist dehumanization culture in the spirit of Empire. The post Guards steal from a California death row artist and he gets the hole appeared firs...

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Editor Nube Brown’s interview illuminates shared humanity and how Artivists formerly incarcerated Minister King X and 26-years currently incarcerated Keelo G work together to win release for CA...

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An update of this 10th anniversary of the California Prisoner Hunger Strikes from PHSS shows that the Five Core Demands are yet unmet by CDCr as prescribed by the Asker v. Governor of California ...

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Juneteenth is a celebration of resilience, strength and beauty of Black people – and – a focus on our history and strengthening the momentum towards gaining freedom and dismantling new forms ...

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No one is coming to save us or our loved ones. Soon we move from the terror and inequities of 2020 into undeniably more of the same in 2021, and we are reminded that change is upon us, and up to ...

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Alfred Sandoval digs deeper into the label “Worst of the Worst.” Sandoval deftly explores how this label is applied as an apparatus sustaining fear of each other, us (out here) and them (in t...

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A group of Black Soledad prisoners document and denounce the violent and racist attacks by white guards against them and issue various calls to action! The post Soledad’s Black prisoners brut...

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200+ exclusively Black prisoners were brutally assaulted under Soledad State Prison Warden Craig Koenig’s command at 3 a.m. Monday – Tuesday Koenig reacted with a massive excuse binge after r...

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The California Senate Public Safety Committee will hold hearings on Senate Bill 1064, introduced by Sen. Nancy Skinner, on Wednesday, May 20, and letters of support are needed as soon as possible...

https://sfbayview.com/2020/05/seeking-letters-of-support-for-sb-1064-to-limit-abuse-of-confidential-information-in-california-prisons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seeking-letters-of-support-for-sb-1064-to-limit-abuse-of-confidential-information-in-california-prisons

Families of incarcerated people and criminal justice advocates condemned the failure of state officials to act urgently in order to protect people in prisons, one of the populations most vulnera...

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Ivan Kilgore is retaliated against for speaking out about inhumane conditions amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in California’s prisons, and Talib Williams denounces CDCr’s irresponsible handling ...

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Malik Ali chronicles the atmosphere at San Quentin State Prison amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Asymmetrical tactics for surviving the pandemic at the Q appeared first on San Francisco ...

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It’s important we avoid using “violent criminal” rhetoric to justify abandoning thousands of elderly people, which endangers us all. And, it is no longer acceptable to put white folks’ fe...

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Following up on “Justice organizations call on California Gov. Newsom to act now to reduce COVID-19 risks in state prisons,” The Justice Collaborative sent these more specific and detailed re...

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“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are dying who could be saved ... Do what must be done, discov...

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“The is over there watching these men kill themselves and they’re OK with it.” The post Officials ignored warnings before massive ‘gladiator fight’ at Soledad State Prison in Califor...

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by Marcus Bedford On January 17, 2019, I paroled. I would like to say that it was a smooth transition, but it wasn’t. I would like to say I was happy, but I can’t. I did 8,829 days in prison,...

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