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• California: Pelican Bay State Prison - Crescent City (From inmate) .

• SAN FRANCISCO - Wearing red jumpsuits and shackles around their wrists and ankles, 13 suspected prison gang members made their first appearance in U. ...
• The crackdown on organized crime linked to prison gangs would be expanded to more than a dozen Northern California counties under a $10 million budget request sent this week to Gov. ...
• Bolstered by federal indictments against 13 gang members, state Sen. Wes Chesbro urged Davis to create a task force "to target prison gangs and the neighborhood violence and terror they have spawned on the North Coast. ...
• Even with federal indictments handed out and prison gang suspects in custody, authorities expressed concern Monday that lower-level members already may be climbing the Nuestra Familia ranks and plotting to continue criminal operations.
• State urged to crack down on prison gangs .
• The break came in late 1997 as Santa Rosa gang investigators questioned a Pelican Bay prison parolee about his knowledge of death threats made against a 15-year-old witness to a Sonoma County gang shooting.
• Inside Pelican Bay .
• Instructions are written in tiny print on small scraps of paper that are wrapped in protective coverings and hidden in body cavities of departing prison parolees and inmate visitors. ...
• The maximum in maximum security: Pelican Bay facts and figures .
• Pelican Bay inmates communicated via underground mail .
• Indictments crack vast prison crime ring.
• A federal grand jury has issued sweeping indictments that accuse the "Nuestra Familia" prison gang of orchestrating killings and street crime across Northern California from behind bars at Pelican Bay State Prison.
• Pelican Bay connection: Indictments against 13 Latino gang members .
• Authorities from local, state and federal agencies held a news conference to make public details of Operation Black Widow. ...

• A riot at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, Calif. ...
• Pelican Bay guards fire to halt racial fight.
• -- Guards shot 13 inmates, killing one, to stop a race riot Wednesday at the maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, which houses some of California's most dangerous criminals.
• Others were treated at the prison. ...
• The violence erupted in the exercise yard serving the general population of the prison, which houses 3,484 prisoners, many of whom are considered the state's most dangerous and escape-prone inmates. Prisoners involved in violence at other facilities are often sent to Pelican Bay.
• Pelican Bay was on lockdown until the warden decides otherwise.
• Last August, guards used tear gas and rubber bullets to end another riot at the prison, which is 20 miles south of the Oregon border and about 290 miles north of San Francisco. ...
• Wednesday's riot was the most forceful and intensely violent outbreak in the prison's history, Grundy said.
• In 1997, six inmates were killed, all in clashes between cellmates at the prison, where more than 1,200 inmates are in permanent lockdown conditions. ...

• Locked in time are we, the incarcerated Chicano, imprisoned in a labyrinth of cubicles inside the utter madness that is Pelican Bay State Prison. ...
• As our apocalyptic world, the inner-city cesspool of crime and poverty, orbited upon its bloody axis, we were systematically relegated to the bottom of society and painted as the worst of the worst-dysfunctional, illiterate dregs who could not function on our own but must be chained, warehoused, and controlled by the state, separated from all that defined our unacceptable characteristics and recalcitrant behavior. Thus the Chicano was made a prime candidate for Pelican Bay's infamous SHU, a prison environment designed solely to test an individual's threshhold for unabated pain and physical abuse, as though we deserve nothing better than a steel-toed boot to the face and balls. ...
• It is obvious to me, facing a lifetime of incarceration and spitting in its eye, that ten or twenty Pelican Bays erected on the morrow will not alter the crime rate one iota! There will always be a need to pour billions of dollars into prison after prison to incarcerate Chicanos so long as we continue to spawn chavalitos who don't know who they are nor where they came from-chavalitos who will never know of such men as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, and Jose Vasconcelos-all men of color and vision who sought to enlighten the minds of Chicano/Mexicano children. ...

• Prison Zines.
• The Kalifornia Department of Korrections and Pelican Bay State Prison by Abdul Olugbala Shakur $2.
• Mississippi State Penitentiary Human Rights Violations by Victor Hurns, Stamp.
• Prison A Testimony by Sara Lindsay Falls.
• Prison Zines Workshop by Anthony Rayson, Stamp.

• Pelican Bay State Prison, 526 U. ...

• Even the mainstream media has begun to worry that our prison system is becoming scarier than the criminals, and there's reason to suspect that they're right. ...
• Fox Butterfield of The New York Times, whose crime reporting has been one of the bright spots of the New Correctional Era, describes conditions in a juvenile prison in Louisiana that could justify a military invasion if they occurred in another country or Waco, Texas. ...
• (3) Increasingly, they also profit by contracting out prison labor to private companies. ...
• Worse, privatized, for-profit prison labor creates a lobby of employers dependent on maintaining a supply of convict labor — a well-heeled lobby with a financial stake in social degeneracy! Whoever believes that private prisons will save us money must be heeding the voice of that little dog who keeps whispering to psychos: "Kill them all!" .
• It makes sense for prisoners to work (as many now do) to repay their victims, to support their families and to recompense the state for the cost of keeping them, provided that they work at jobs that society needs done but can't seem to finance — like rebuilding schools,(5) or producing school textbooks, furniture and equipment. ...
• But, to reassure those who fear that a humane prison is an attractive alternative to life on the streets, we could let anyone who wanted the steady work, the health care and the glamorous, B-movie company simply pay to go to jail without committing a crime. ...
• "Opened in 1989, Pelican Bay has been a long-running scandal for the Department of Corrections. ...
• "Despite its problems, Pelican Bay has become a model for dozens of supermax prisons popping up around the country. ...
• Louisiana Boys' Prison Is Epitome of Neglect and Abuse.
• "Here in the middle of the impoverished Mississippi Delta is a juvenile prison so rife with brutality, cronyism and neglect that many legal experts say it is the worst in the nation. ...
• Corrections officials say the forces that converged to create Tallulah — the incarceration of more and more mentally ill adolescents, a rush by politicians to build new prisons while neglecting education and psychiatric services, and states' handing responsibility for juveniles to private prison companies — have caused the deterioration of juvenile prisons across the country. ...
• (3) AFSCME's Prison Privatization page.
• "More than 40 assaults, including 20 stabbings and two inmate homicides in an Ohio for-profit prison. ...
• "The private prison that opened one year ago in Youngstown, Ohio, brought the promise of new jobs and $47 million in construction contracts. ... More than 13 inmates have been stabbed there since the prison opened its gates a year ago, some say as many as 20. ...
• "All over South Dakota these days, one can find work crews pulling cable, installing electrical outlets and doing the other work necessary to get the state's classrooms connected to the Internet. ...

• The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal returned two cases affecting California prisoners for further hearings to determine if relief should be terminated under the Prison Litigation Reform Act. ... California,providing books for prison law libraries, are both long-standing cases that had been terminated by the district courts.
• Prison officials propose to allow Grade A prisoners (those who do not present safety or security problems) to have legal and peronsal visits in a modified visiting room. ...
• A laboratory that was used to screen thousands of state prisoners for AIDS, hepatitis, and other serious diseases was shut down in 1997 for faking results. State officials and prison advocates have called for an investigation. ...
• On July 10, a coalition of Bay Area activists and the Fresno County NAACP sued to block construction of a maximum-security prison in Delano, disputing a state Department of Corrections contention that it's badly needed. ...
• French, the United States Supreme Court affirmed that the automatic stay provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) is constitutional.
• Eight correctional officers were acquitted of violating prisoner's civil rights by staging gladiator-style fights at Corcoran State Prison. ...
• A correctional lieutenant who blew the whistle on abuses at Corcoran State Prison has encountered problems as a result of his action. ...
• A federal court monitor faulted Pelican Bay State Prison for failing to move quickly or firmly enough against officers and other staff who use excessive force against prisoners. The monitor concluded that the prison violated a 1988 court order designed to remedy problems at the prison. ...
• A California appeals court has accused the state Board of Prison Terms of openly defying the law in refusing to grant parole for a man convicted of second degree murder, committed when he was a teenager. ...
• The United States Supreme Court will review Washington state's treatment of sexual offenders. ...
• African-American correctional officers charge that institutional racism is a daily fact of life within the prison system. ...
• Descriptions of a private prison in Louisiana run by Wackenhut and its treatment of juveniles do not suggest that prisons run for profit are any answer to the current system. ...
• Board of Prison Terms Chairman James Nielsen's term of office has expired without a last-minute hearing to reconfirm him.

• California guards shoot prison rioters; one inmate dead, eight wounded .
• An aerial photo of Pelican Bay State Prison .
• CRESCENT CITY, California (CNN) -- Guards at the maximum security Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, opened fired on rioting prisoners on Wednesday, killing one inmate and wounding eight -- one critically. ...
• A spokeswoman for the state Corrections Department said several other inmates were stabbed by fellow inmates using makeshift knives. ...
• "We confiscated several knives and the prison is in total lockdown," said Corrections spokesman Steve Green. ...
• The riot was fueled by racial disputes between about 200 black and Hispanic inmates in a recreation yard at the prison that houses some of the state's most dangerous inmates in Northern California. ...
• No prison employees were hurt in the unrest. ...
• A special state investigative team was flown in from Sacramento to examine Wednesday's riot. ...
• Wednesday's death was the first time since May 1997 that an inmate had been killed during a prison disturbance in California. ...
• Guards were able to put down another riot at Pelican Bay last August by firing tear gas and rubber bullets. ...
• Wednesday's riot happened the same day two former correctional officers at Pelican Bay were indicted on federal civil rights charges for allegedly allowing attacks by inmates or guards against prisoners serving time for sex offenses or those prisoners otherwise disliked. ...
• Last week, another former Pelican Bay correctional officer was convicted of civil rights violations for shooting and wounding an inmate following such an attack. ...
• The prison, which opened in 1989, is situated on 270 acres of forest land 20 miles on the rugged Northern California Coast south of the Oregon state line. ...
• Many inmates are sent to Pelican Bay after being involved in violence at other California prisons. ...
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• Pelican Bay Slammed by UN (March 1996).

• Trevor Paglen | Security Housing Unit, 2002 The recordings on this CD were made in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison, one of the nation's premiere "supermax" prisons. ... 5 million, Pelican Bay represents the apex of California incarceration. The SHU units at Pelican Bay are designed for maximum isolation: prisoners are kept in small cells 23 hours a day and automated doors ensure an absolute minimum of interaction with other human beings. ...
• Despite repeated court rulings of Eighth-Amendment violations at Pelican Bay, the supermax model of incarceration has grown dramatically over the last ten years as American prison policy has shifted from a philosophy of rehabilitation to one of punishment and retribution. When it was built, Pelican Bay was one of the first prisons toregularly keep inmates in isolation for more than 30 days at a time. ...
• These recordings are part of a large project undertaken by Trevor Paglen with various prison-activist groups about the everyday geographies of California incarceration. ...

• PELICAN BAY STATE PRISON.
• PELICAN BAY STATE PRISON.

• Witness Says Dog Mauling Defendants Were Associated with Prison Gang.
• In the third day of the fatal dog mauling case involving a San Francisco couple, evidence was presented portraying Marjorie Knoller (shown at left) and Robert Noel as associates of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.
• Testifying at the Los Angeles trial, Devan Hawkes, a gang expert for the state Corrections Department, said letters found at the apartment of the defendants show them working with two Aryan Brotherhood members. Both are inmates at the maximum security Pelican Bay prison in northwestern California.
• He also noted correspondence that attempted to inform a member of the Aryan Brotherhood about the location of an inmate that had dropped out of the prison gang.
• In one of the letters, Noel appeared to encourage Pelican Bay State Prison inmate Paul "Cornfed" Schneider to attempt an escape. ...

• " Unfortunately, the actual experiences of some prisoners within CCWF differ greatly from the prison mandate. Tucked away in the California desert, the Chowchilla facility houses the state's only Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), where many women incarcerated there are terminally ill and sometimes critically mistreated. ... Last April nearly 100 protestors brought the fight to the prison gates. Among those in attendance were LSPC, Critical Resistance, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, California Prison Focus, Prison Moratorium Project, Amnesty International, and Justice Now. ... Accordingly, LSPC has been working with our incarcerated clients and other Bay Area prison groups to compel the state's Department of Health Services (DHS) to investigate the SNF. ...
• After filing several complaints concerning her treatment in the SNF, prison officials transferred Ms. Garcia to Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW) located across the street from CCWF. This prison does not house a SNF and, therefore, is ill-equipped to render long-term patient care. ... Once inside VSPW, prison staff prevented her from meeting with attorneys from Justice Now who, upon arriving there, were informed that Ms. ... Others have been denied medication: an outside specialist prescribed a specific medication, only to have the order changed by the internal prison staff. ... The suit was settled in 1997 and the state was exculpated from any wrongdoing in exchange for agreeing to upgrade the prison health care system. ... In 1998, CCWF and CIW were cited for various violations, and ultimately failed an inquiry by state-appointed evaluators. ... Davis—the largest class action lawsuit on prison conditions to date—was filed on January 29, 2002, claiming that state officials operating the largest prison population in the nation displayed a "deliberate indifference" to prisoners' health care needs. The settlement stipulates a total reevaluation of the state's procedures, including a significant allocation of funds over the next several years in order to meet the standards set by an independent medical panel that has been empowered to oversee the state's progress. This suit was brought by several named plaintiffs representing all prisoners who are currently, and will be in the future, the custody of the CDC (with the exception of Pelican Bay State Prison). ... We hope that one day, women confined to the Chowchilla desert—far away from both their families and the world that exists outside the prison walls— will no longer want for justice in the SNF.

• “The dog that killed a San Francisco woman had a long history of viciousness and was secretly owned by two Aryan Brotherhood prison gang members as part of an underground scheme to breed and sell animals while in maximum security at Pelican Bay a California maximum-security prison , officials said. ... Authorities said Pelican Bay inmates Paul ‘Cornfed’ Schneider and Dale Bretches were investigated by state prison authorities last year and found guilty in February of running a dog-breeding scheme while in the maximum-security housing unit at the prison. ” (“Prison gang Duo Linked to Dog that Killed Woman” by Jaxon Van Derbeken; San Francisco Chronicle; 1/30/2001; p. ...
• “News that the lawyers whose dog mauled a San Francisco woman to death have adopted the animal’s prior owner—a prison inmate and a member of the Aryan Brotherhood—has veteran family attorneys shaking their heads in disbelief. Adult adoptions are not unusual, but when Robert Noel, 59, and Marjorie Knoller, 45, became the parents of 38-year-old Paul John ‘Cornfed’ Schneider, now serving time in Pelican Bay for aggravated assault and attempted, it turned a tragic situation into a bizarre one. ...
• Three days after the attack a judge finalized the couple’s adoption of Paul ‘Cornfed’ Schneider, a 38-year-old convict serving a life sentence at Pelican Bay State Prison. ...
• “What’s more, prison officials said Hallinan’s investigators found nude photos of Knoller in Schneider’s cell while searching for evidence. ...
• Yet, according to one affidavit, Pelican Bay Prison Sgt. ...
• ’ Lathrop asked Noel in 1981 to join him at the San Diego office of Rogers & Wells, headed by William Rogers, attorney general under Eisenhower and Nixon’s secretary of state. ...
•            An odd coincidence enabled Noel’s son by his first marriage to escape prison himself. ...
• they started taking cases involving guards accused of wrongdoing at Pelican Bay. ...
•       Interestingly, guards at Pelican Bay have been accused of collaborating with Aryan Brotherhood members, whom they allegedly used as enforcers within the institution. At the same time that the Whipple death made headlines, the Aryan Brotherhood were alleged to have conspired to murder Arizona prison officials. “The Aryan Brotherhood prison gang has an ‘ongoing plan’ to kill Terry Stewart, state prisons director, and other correctional officers, according to a Department of Corrections intelligence report, written late last year. ... ” (“Prison Officials on Aryan Death List” by Dennis Wagner; The Arizona Republic; 2/4/2001; p. ...
• He points to the prison program here, just outside Houston, as a model of the sort of thing he would like to see spread across the country. ... Bush helped persuade state-prison officials to embrace the program in 1997. ...

• Local killings linked to prison gang violence .
• The Operation Black Widow investigation of gang activities directed from Pelican Bay State Prison uncovered links to seven killings in Santa Rosa since 1994. ...
• In a plea bargain announced five years later, Flores enters a no contest plea to a charge of voluntary manslaughter and is sentenced to state prison. ...
• Zubiate is sentenced in November 1995 to 19-years-to-life in state prison after being convicted of second-degree murder. During the Pelican Bay prison gang investigation, Joseph Lincoln's name is discovered on a norteño "hit" list. ...
• Iniquez is sentenced to 14 to 21 years in state prison. During the prison gang investigation, Hardin's name is discovered on a norteño "hit" list. ... He is currently in protective custody within the state prison system. ...
• In October 1998, Peralta is convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. It is the first time Sonoma County prosecutors invoke a law that increases prison time because the homicide was committed to promote a street gang. ...
• The prison gang investigation uncovered evidence that Victor de la Cruz was targeted for assassination by Hardin supporters among the norteño leadership. ...
• Gang investigators say the intense rivalry between leaders of the two most powerful prison gangs -- Nuestra Familia and Mexican Mafia -- is fueling the street killings.

• Prison Issues. ...
• Box 7500, Crescent City, CA Since my arrival to Pelican Bay State Prison sapato (SHU), not much has changed from one and a half years ago when I first stepped through the front door of this immense bunker-like prison complex. ...
• Pelican Bay and places like it should not render us hopeless or trigger our mental downfall. Time utilized wisely can be the difference between dwelling in a mental state of heaven or living in our own isolated hell.
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• State Repression & Political Prisoner News.
• It is not known what charges the state will bring down on those involved. ...
• VANCOUVER ISLAND: A riot by about a dozen inmates at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Center caused $40,000 damage to prison property. ...
• One prison guard had a minor injury to his hand. ...
• Video footage that was taken by the Justice Ministry and aired on Georgian television, showed inmates banging the bars of their cells and flames shooting out a prison window. ...
• SANTIAGO: As of January 31, Chilean political prisoners Jorge Espínola Robles and Marcelo Gaete Mancilla were in the 21st day of a liquid-only hunger strike in isolation cells at the Colina II prison. They began the fast on January 11 after prison guards and police agents from the "Special Anti-Riot Group" beat them, sprayed them with cold water and moved them into the isolation cells in retaliation for alleged involvement in a riot earlier that day in Colina II. ...
• Rioting prisoners took control of part of a jail in eastern France during the evening, smashing equipment and prompting police to seal off the prison, the Justice Ministry said. ... None of the prison's 156 inmates, all of whom are serving lengthy sentences, escaped, the Ministry said. ... The rioters "smashed everything up," including security doors, surveillance cameras, electrical equipment and locks on cell-doors, said a guard and union representative at the prison. ...
• Pelican Bay Inmates Hold Hunger Strike.
• CRESCENT CITY: A group of sixty prisoners in the Control Unit of the Pelican Bay State Prison began a hunger-strike protesting the prison system's policy of classifying prisoners as gang members based on vague criteria and then indefinitely segregating them. For more info on the horrors of Pelican Bay Prison, read Derrick Jensen's book The Culture of Make-Believe. ...
• LANCASTER: Inmates at the state prison attacked two guards -- the second such incident in the past three months. The prison guards were attacked by two inmates early in the day while escorting prisoners to breakfast. ...
• Two Cops Dead, More Than 20 Injured in Salvador Prison Riot.

• The major federal cases successfully litigated by the Prison Law Office include: .
• In re Rosenkrantz (BPT): In an on-going battle against the Board of Prison Terms' and Governor Davis's lifer parole policies, a California Court of Appeals condemned the BPT for failing to fairly consider evidence of a life prisoner's suitability for parole, and ordered the BPT to re-hear the prisoner's case. ... The state appealed the order and the California Supreme Court granted a stay of the Los Angeles Court's order pending appeal. ... The state sought review in the California Supreme Court; in an opinion isssued December 16, 2002, the Court denied the challenge to the Governor's "No-Parole" policy, setting back many model life prisoners' hopes for parole. ...
• 319578): In May 2002 the San Francisco Superior Court ruled ithat the California Department of Corrections (CDC) has been and violated the law by failing to license health care facilities that provide inpatient treatment to the almost 160,000 prisoners throughout the state. ...
• Davis (BPT): A federal District Court judge issued an injunction , ordering the Board of Prison Terms to remedy its shocking and appalling failure to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act during parole hearings. ...
• Wilson: After finding that the CDC was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, the Court issued an injunction to improve access to prison programs for prisoners with physical disabilities at all of California's prisons and parole facilities. ... 1997) (ADA and Rehabilitation Act abrogated State's 11th Amendment immunity). ...
• 206, that the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to state prisoners. ...
• California: After extensive discovery in a class action lawsuit, prison officials agreed to develop and implement a plan to screen inmates for developmental disabilities, and to provide developmentally disabled prisoners with safe housing and supportive services. ...
• Gomez: Conditions at California's "super-maximum" Pelican Bay State Prison have been subject to injunctions aimed at eliminating excessive force, improving health care and removing prisoners with mental illness from the Security Housing Unit. As a result of this case, Pelican Bay is currently being monitored by a court-appointed special master. ...
• Wilson: The court found that the entire mental health system operated by the California Department of Corrections was unconstitutional and that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to the needs of mentally ill inmates. ...
• Deukmejian: Prison officials agreed to a consent decree to improve medical care, psychiatric care, the treatment of HIV+ prisoners and to reduce crowding at the California Medical Facility. ...
• Deukmejian: The state court found that the conditions in the general population units at San Quentin were cruel and unusual punishment and issued an injunction to ensure that conditions improved. ...
• In addition to federal impact cases, the office has won numerous state court actions concerning prisoners' rights. These cases include petitions that have vindicated the right to marry, protected prison visits, and established rights to free expression and to refuse medical care.

•     Top Stories - Coastal - Inland - Californian - State - Special Reports - National - Columnists - Letters - Obituaries .
• Court officer says prison department corruption probe a sham.
• The 71-page report by a court-appointed monitor of the department's own internal affairs practices also recommended that a federal judge charge the agency's former director, Edward Alameida, and the department's chief investigator with contempt of court -- a charge that could result in days or months of prison time if proven. ...
• Alameida resigned from the California Department of Corrections last month amid allegations he impeded investigations into allegations that Pelican Bay State Prison guards committed perjury in inmate-abuse federal trials. ...
• District Judge Thelton Henderson said Alameida succumbed to pressure from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the state's most powerful labor union, and shut down investigations of inmate abuse "well before their completion" and lied about it in court. The agency had promised Judge Henderson two years ago that it would investigate whether guards committed perjury in court when fellow Pelican Bay guards were on trial for abusing inmates. The promise came after Pelican Bay guards Jose Ramon Garcia and Edward Michael Powers were convicted and sentenced to seven and six years in prison, respectively. ... "He testified in Henderson's court here last month that the CDC started the perjury and abuse probe with about 40 cases targeting Pelican Bay guards and staff, but none of them were deemed worthy of administrative action. ...

• Prison Art Work (PAW).
• The following words accompanied by an art rendering was donated by an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison in California. ( This facility is considered "a prison of prisons" and inmates are transferred there from other prisons, not directly from the courts. ...
• One inmate told me, "I'm sentenced to die in prison, but I live through my freedom of expression. ...
• Although prison rules regulating the sending, receiving and distributing of artwork have become increasingly difficult, the work flourishes now more than ever. ...
• An exploding trend in "Hip Hop" style is the Gangster or Old School theme which is often portrayed in classical prison art style. Occasionally, prison artists such as Robert Garcia are featured in magazines like Low Rider and Hispanic with their "Aztec" renderings.
• Prison Artists share information when possible, and pass articles found in magazines. ...
• Recently, people have begun to recognize the talent behind prison walls and its possible marketing potential. ...
• One man, Steve "Sonny" Balderrama, founder of Club PAW, has spent considerable time and energy coordinating a networking movement that represents approximately 260 California prison artists. Most of the artists are housed at Pelican Bay and Corcoran Prisons, considered among the most violent prisons in the United States. ...
• Prison artists continue to invent ways to nurture their creativity but a question remains: "Is there a future for prison art?".

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• Medical Care at Pelican Bay State Prison .
• I arrived at Pelican Bay Prison on April 6, 1992 from San Quentin Prison after having my sentence reduced from a death sentence to life without parole  and subsequently, transferred in retaliation by administrators to the Pelican Bay Prison SHU. ...
• As I'd previously heard all sorts of horror stories from other prisoners about Pelican Bay Prison, I was rather leery upon my arrival, to say the least. ...
• They gave me a cell partner in Pelican Bay Prison, despite my objections, on May 22, 1992. ...
• Finally, after a few days of complaining to the officers, they agreed to remove him from the cell on a stretcher, purportedly for the purpose of taking him to the prison hospital for medical care. ...
• test, (I had already been tested in early May, 1992, soon after my arrival to Pelican Bay Prison, as there was an epidemic of T. ...
• Writing complaints for others as well as myself, including federal civil rights law suits, and state court petitions for writs of habaes corpus, as well as my efforts to expose these types of facts about the judicial and prison system to the news media. ... Pelican Bay prison, where ´they´ claim the 'worst of the worst', the 'most dangerous', the 'toughest and meanest', etc. ... Being a "lifer" prisoner now, I can, without question, conclude that even being in ´lock-up´ on Death Row is not as bad as SHU lock-up in Pelican Bay State Prison. Doesn´t that clearly indicate that something is blatantly wrong with this system and treatment of prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison, the classification process and the mendacious hyperbolic excuses for building and placing prisoners under such conditions?.

• California prison chief says he didn't thwart perjury probe.
• SAN FRANCISCO - California's prison director has denied that he obstructed an investigation into allegations that guards at Pelican Bay State Prison committed perjury in inmate-abuse cases.
• Hagar called Alameida to testify amid allegations that Alameida wrongly dismissed internal affairs investigations targeting Pelican Bay State Prison guards - an assertion the director repeatedly rejected Friday and one that conflicts with previous testimony.
• The probe began last year after Pelican Bay guards Jose Ramon Garcia and Edward Michael Powers were convicted and sentenced to seven and six years in prison, respectively. ...
• Among the allegations is that prison guards lied in federal court to protect Powers and Garcia. ...
• Alameida testified Friday that the department, whose internal affairs division is temporarily being supervised by the state attorney general's office, started the probe with about 40 cases, which was whittled to three.
• According to previous testimony by Joseph Barbara, a CDC attorney, he told Alameida at the March 27 meeting that the department had enough evidence of perjury to not only discipline a prison guard but to also have him criminally prosecuted in state court.
• " Romero, chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on the California Correctional System, said "somebody has or is committing perjury" in the case and urged Alameida's removal from overseeing the 160,000-inmate prison system.
• Lockyer's office has reported that the prison department has missed the statute of limitations to file misconduct charges in 43 percent of its cases.
• Editors: David Kravets has been covering state and federal courts for a decade.

• Sanyika Shakur on Pelican Bay control unit.
• While in prison he converted to New Afrikan politics and has since written extensively on the relationship of prisons and white supremacy to the struggle for New Afrikan Independence. He was to speak at our program on this struggle as well as the horror of being caged in one of the worst prisons in the US, the Pelican Bay Special Housing Unit (SHU). Sanyika, who was released from Pelican Bay two weeks before the program, was assured by the California Parole Board that he could travel to Chicago. ...
• Of course it is being euphemized as a need to protect me, to protect them, namely the Department of Corrections and those officials who have deemed my existence outside of prison as a threat. ...
• By politics i mean all relations centered on the seizure and retention of state power. ... A lot of political prisoners and pows are feared by the state of ever getting out for being able to articulate the position to the people of our status and where We need to go, as a people, as a nation, as a movement, as an organization, as a party. ...
• Question: i understand that you spent four years in a control unit at Pelican Bay State Prison. ...
• i spent four years in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay. ... Pelican Bay is no different than Westville, the control complex at Westville, Indiana, or the MCU at Trenton State or Florence, or previously Marion. ...
• So Pelican Bay as a control unit has worked in one sense and, of course, it has failed in another. ...
• This is not to say that prisoners don't have full schedules, but there's just more time, and so when you have conscious revolutionaries out amongst people in general population, you have a problem, because there is so much exploitation, workwise, racist abuse by pigs and there is the parasitical prison element which conscious revolutionaries must deal with. ...
• And that's why control units, with Pelican Bay being the flagship of a lot of control units, are proliferating from one end of the empire to the next. ...
• However, there are instances where individuals' minds have been broken as a consequence of the social, environmental and sensory deprivation of places like Pelican Bay. ...
• Popularize the New Afrikan Independence Movement in every particular age group, every particular strata, every situation our people find themselves in, whether it's in prison or in college, whether Morehouse or Pelican Bay, Florence or Alcorn State, whether it's at DePaul or Juvenile Hall or in the Board Room, We must reach New African people, primarily the working class. ...
• The whole issue of political prisoners and prisoners of war strikes terror in the beast, in the state, in the empire and the imperialists. ... Fred himself was put in prison because they said he stole ice cream and distributed it among children, $70 worth of ice cream. He was sentenced to three years in prison and in fact he was murdered while he was out on bail. ...

• Prison email ban upheld.
• Anonymity and spam threaten security at Pelican Bay, court finds.
• Officials at California's most notorious prison won the right to block inmates from receiving printed email messages though the regular U. ... mail, in a ruling by a state appeals court Tuesday.
• "We conclude that given the unique characteristics of e-mail, the ban on receipt by regular mail of Internet-generated material was neither arbitrary nor irrational and was logically related to the prison's legitimate security concerns," reads the decision by the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, overturning a lower court ruling.
• The appellate ruling decided a First Amendment suit filed by inmate Aaron Collins, a lifer at the maximum security Pelican Bay State Prison. ...
• In 1998, Pelican Bay officials reacted to the service by adopting a new policy prohibiting inmates from receiving anything originating from the Internet. ... A state trial judge agreed, ruling that the prison couldn't prohibit otherwise-allowed material simply because it originated online.
• In overturning that ruling, the appeals court Tuesday accepted the prison's argument that email, even in printed form, could threaten prison security. ...
• The court also agreed with officials that allowing printed email to reach inmates would lead to an "avalanche" of such mail, overwhelming prison screeners tasked with keeping coded messages, narcotics and weapons out of the prison-a prospect exacerbated by "the likelihood that their e-mail would include junk mail or 'spam' as well as personal communications. ...
• Pelican Bay warehouses approximately 3500 inmates, half of whom are isolated from virtually all human contact in the prison's hi-tech Security Housing Unit (SHU), a frequent target of criticism human rights organizations.

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