Tag Archives: SHU

Hunger Strikes, Force Feeds, and Solitary Dreams

While the California prisoners enter their fourth day of hunger strikes, the people of Guantanamo enter their 40th. Meanwhile, Herman Wallace has spent over forty years in solitary confinement in Louisiana. These three aspects, all coming to new awareness this … Continue reading

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Dying for Human Rights: Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike Tomorrow

What exactly is a hunger strike?  It is when someone, or a group of people, will choose death over their current living conditions.  But not an unknown pointless death; instead, they will commit a long, grueling, public death designed to … Continue reading

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Abu Ghraib Comes to Amerika

Torture Unit Under Construction at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison October 30, 2010 by prisoner Kevin “Rashid” Johnson Virginia Justifies a Torture Unit This past summer a Black prisoner was strangled to death on a segregation exercise yard at Virginia’s remote … Continue reading

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