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Senate Committee on Public Safety votes to lift the media access ban on...
Community members from around state rally at capitol to call for transparency in $9.2 billion prison system by Californians United for a Responsible Budget This censored pelican symbolizes the secrecy...
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CDCR registers last minute opposition to expanding media access to state prisons
by Emily Harris, Californians United for a Responsible Budget Sacramento – The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is formally opposing AB 1270, legislation that would increase...
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Senate passes Prison Media Access Bill
by Emily Harris and Carlos Alcalá, CURB On June 12, prisoners’ families and prison reform advocates demonstrated on the capitol steps in Sacramento to urge the lifting of the media ban, which prevents...
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Assemblymember Ammiano introduces Homeless Bill of Rights
by Carlos Alcalá Sacramento – Assemblymember Tom Ammiano has introduced a groundbreaking bill to protect some of society’s most vulnerable members. The Homeless Person’s Bill of Rights and Fairness Act...
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‘We are grateful,’ say hunger strike reps, as 30,000 join strike and support...
A variety of news briefs received by SF Bay View: Greetings to our supporters and all people of conscience The Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition held a press conference on the morning the...
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SHU isolation cell to be installed on State Capitol South Steps Aug. 14
KPFA Radio News, Aug. 10, 2013 http://www.anngarrison.com/sites/default/files/mp3/CA-Prison-Hunger-Strike-SHU-Installation.mp3 by D’Andre Teeter The Stop Mass Incarceration Network and Assemblymember...
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Hunger strike reminder: SHU isolation cell awaits California lawmakers as...
by Stop Mass Incarceration Bay Area and Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity As California legislators return to work this week, prisoner hunger strike family members, loved ones, advocates and supporters...
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Public Safety chairs Ammiano, Hancock announce hearings on hunger strike issues
by Carlos Alcalá, Communications Director, Office of Assemblymember Tom Ammiano Sacramento, Aug. 30, 2013 – Today Sen. Loni Hancock and Assemblymember Tom Ammiano announced that they will hold public...
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California prisoners suspend 60-day hunger strike – families, legislators...
Isaac Ontiveros and Claude Marks, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Oakland – After 60 days on hunger strike, prisoners at Pelican Bay have suspended their peaceful protest. Representatives...
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Hunger striker considers where we go from here, wonders, ‘Will the...
by Mutope Duguma Written Sept. 8, 2013 – First and foremost we want to give a lot of respect and love to all the human beings who made their voices heard and the countless dedicated supporters and...
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California legislative hearings take on solitary confinement, address hunger...
by Azadeh Zohrabi and Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Sacramento – A rare joint session of the California Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committees held this afternoon...
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Select Committee to hold hearing on diversion and sentencing to reduce prison...
by Carlos Alcalá and Joey Hill Sacramento – The Assembly Select Committee on Justice Reinvestment will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 13, to listen to experts speaking on existing programs in...
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Why is the SF DA trying a 14-year-old as an adult?
by Tim Redmond On June 24, 2103, an SUV pulled up near a Muni shelter at West Point Road and Middle Point Road in Hunters Point. According to video images later collected by the police, someone got out...
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Calling for ABOLITION of solitary confinement
by Denise Mewbourne Lucas Guilkey, who took this photo, says: “Today was a huge day for the prisoner hunger strike movement for human rights. Cars and vans of family members, youth and adult survivors...
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The current state of recycling
by Lisa Marie Alatorre, Coalition on Homelessness San Francisco – A tragic impact of increased gentrification and the rapid development of neighborhoods like the Mission is the almost complete...
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SB 892 and AB 1652: Pelican Bay prisoner representatives speak to the...
by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellano, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (R.N. Dewberry) and Antonio Guillen Dear Members of the California Assembly and Senate: We are writing to offer our position on the two bills...
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Justice Committee co-chairs call for funding priorities change to ease prison...
by Carlos Alcalá and Stephanie Burri “Parole Politics” – Art: Marcus A. Bedford Jr., K-00220, DVI, P.O. Box 400, Tracy CA 95378 Sacramento – Assemblymembers Tom Ammiano and Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer...
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Ammiano: Accreditation body must give City College more time
Bill to prevent recurrence of Board of Governor’s ‘coup’ passes Assembly by Carlos Alcalá Sacramento – Assemblymember Tom Ammiano today called on the Accreditation Commission for Community and Junior...
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Ammiano’s bill on prosecutor misconduct goes to governor
by Carlos Alcalá Sacramento – On Aug. 29, the California Assembly approved AB 885 by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, passing a milestone measure to limit trial misconduct by prosecutors. The bill would...
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Governor veto of prosecutor misconduct bill criticized
by Carlos Alcalá Sacramento – Assemblymember Tom Ammiano released this statement on Sept. 29 in response to Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto of Ammiano’s AB 885, a bill that would have created a modest sanction...
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