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Medical care and other essential services will continue, the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department did not say when the restrictions will end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts and advocates called the department’s move drastic and said the approach is solitary confinement in all but name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very lonely space to be in,” said Warren Hands, supervising parole success advocate at UnCommon Law, a nonprofit. “Addiction is real. Mental health issues are real. 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Angel Torrez said it feels unbearable to have no contact with his father, who is incarcerated at Folsom State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wonder if he’s safe and sound,” said Torrez. The department “is playing propaganda warfare. They are professionals of abstract, obtuse, and vague statements that are generated to keep families in the dark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At prisons across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/us/wisconsin-prison-lockdown.html\">lockdowns have become increasingly common\u003c/a> due to staffing shortages. In California, the corrections department has imposed broad restrictions on incarcerated people twice in the span of three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prisons report ‘surge in violence’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The last restrictions on March 8 were placed on nearly a dozen prisons due to a “surge in violence against staff and incarcerated people.” They ended on April 11. During that time, at least three incarcerated people were killed and one officer reportedly was attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the department has come under fire for its approach to managing violent incidents and contraband. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article266991716.html\">It was criticized by\u003c/a> a Sacramento County Superior Court Judge in 2022 for creating violence when it merged incarcerated people from the general population with those who were previously protected, such as informants, bypassing established procedures in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, an oversight agency found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CDCR-Controlled-Substances-Contraband-Interdiction-Efforts-Audit.pdf\">drugs continued to get inside California prisons\u003c/a> during the pandemic when public health protocols prohibited visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an open secret that staff are the primary vector of contraband into the prison,” said Sharon Dolovich, a law professor at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a lockdown may be a useful tool if it’s done in a limited way, but the department’s blanket policy appears to be hard to defend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a blunt instrument when they should be using a scalpel,” she said. “The question is the relationship between the ill that they are trying to wrestle with and the strategy that they are adopting to try to address it. 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"content": "\u003cp>“I haven’t seen the moon since 1998.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s inmate Jeremy Beasley, talking to me while sitting–shackled–in an interview room at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s highest security lockup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley, a convicted murderer, was clearly surprised by my presence—he told me he hadn’t met with a visitor since 1994, when he was incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the moon Beasley hadn’t seen in 15 years. During that time, in fact, Beasley rarely glimpsed the outside world. Before being transferred to another prison, he was held in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, a windowless, bunker-like facility that houses more than 1,000 California inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 22-and-a-half hours a day, each inmate here is locked, usually alone, in an 8-by-10 feet cell. For 90 minutes the inmate is allowed to exercise in an adjacent room with 25-30 feet high walls. And that’s their entire day — every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen guys lose their minds back here,” Beasley tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRO9BHbF9GA&w=800&h=450]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Isolation Unit Conditions: Torture?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday in Sacramento lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units like Pelican Bay’s that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture, while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the state there are four of these Security Housing Unit facilities. Pelican Bay’s is the most controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>For 22-and-a-half hours a day, each inmate is locked, usually alone, in an 8-by-10 feet cell. They get 90 minutes of exercise in an adjacent room. That’s their entire day — every day\u003c/strong>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Conditions in the units are one part of the debate. Many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls. Also at issue: criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they can get back into the regular population again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the long amount of time some inmates spend in the facilities. More than 500 California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by the prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit except for a section that houses leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team recorded Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff began allowing the balls last year). At all other times–day and night—he was held in his cell, alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/127065819/Ruiz-Amended-Complaint-May-31-2012\" target=\"_blank\">class action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last year by a coalition of civil rights groups states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California’s uniquely harsh regime of prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay is inhumane and debilitating. Plaintiffs and class members languish, typically alone, in a cramped, concrete, windowless cell, for 22 and one-half to 24 hours a day. They are denied telephone calls, contact visits, and vocational, recreational or educational programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants persistently deny these men the normal human contact necessary for a person’s mental and physical wellbeing. These tormenting and prolonged conditions of confinement have produced harmful and predictable psychological deterioration among Plaintiffs and class members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solitary confinement regime at Pelican Bay, which renders California an outlier in this country and in the civilized world, violates the United States Constitution’s requirement of due process and prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, as well as the most basic human rights prohibitions against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Indeed, the prolonged conditions of brutal confinement and isolation at Pelican Bay cross over from having any valid penological purpose into a system rightly condemned as torture by the international community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But state corrections officials maintain that conditions in the special units are humane; that they do not practice solitary confinement; that inmates are “segregated” but not “isolated”; and that there is a valid purpose for keeping prisoners in the units—protecting other inmates, staff and the public from men who have been linked to violent prison gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the men who are propagating the violence, the drug trafficking, the extortions and the murders throughout the larger communities of our state,” said Pelican Bay warden Greg Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New prison policy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90081\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0800/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90081\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90081\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0800-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Units at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Units have no windows, so inmates' only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Units at Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Units have no windows so inmates’ only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without conceding any shortcomings, however, corrections officials are embarking on a new policy to bring in more educational and self-help programs, and to reduce the amount of time some inmates spend in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last October, officials have reviewed the cases of 144 inmates and determined that 75 should be transferred immediately to regular prisons because they were not active in gangs. Some of the inmates have been held in the special units for more than 20 years, according to Kelly Harrington, an associate corrections director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay inmates who led the 2011 hunger strike, as well as some prisoner rights groups, have denounced the new policy and are threatening more protests this summer. Amid a long list of demands, they are seeking shorter, fixed terms for inmates in the special units (currently, most are held there on “indeterminate” terms), more programs and more frequent visits with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline, I would have killed somebody…”\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>–Convicted murderer Jeremy Beasley\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For his part, Jeremy Beasley said that while the conditions at Pelican Bay are awful, he doesn’t think they amount to solitary confinement. Although he can’t see other inmates from his cell (doors are made of perforated steel and face a wall), Beasley says he can carry on conversations with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “It sucks in here. I hate it. But some prisoners have found that they can get a lot of attention by exaggerating how bad it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley said he was an active member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-power gang, and committed assaults on behalf of the group. He agreed to drop out and provide authorities with incriminating information about other members, a process known as “debriefing.” In exchange, officials recently transferred Beasley to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline,” he said, using the term for the general prison population, “I would have killed somebody or at the very least I would have stabbed somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Pelican Bay inmates see it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is only one option to get out of here and that is to make up lies about other people,” said 39-year-old Henry Albanez, who is serving a 27-year sentence for kidnapping. Albanez said he expected the department’s new policies would fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90082\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0830/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90082\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90082\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0830-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. (Monica Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How do you expect to take all of these guys out of the SHU (Security Housing Unit) and throw them in the same yard and expect them to get along when you have all this sensory deprivation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Albanez said he probably would take part in a new step-down program that begins later this year. Corrections officials have said the program allows inmates to earn their way out of the special units in 2-4 years without being required to renounce the gangs they have been affiliated with. Instead, they must declare that they won’t participate in gang activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who visited Pelican Bay early this month, said he found the prison clean and professionally staffed but was troubled thinking that some inmates are locked up for decades in small cells with little or no regular human contact. Inmates must also be shackled whenever they are outside their cells and in the presence of another individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it’s psychologically devastating to be in such a tight space for so long,” Ammiano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What, then, about the question of torture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammiano said the strangest thing he saw at the prison was a group therapy room where inmates are locked in small cages during sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Could I say that’s torture? Perhaps I could,” he said. “But did we witness any torture? No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can listen to Michael Montgomery report from California’s most controversial, highest security lockup on Monday morning on The California Report, on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/tunein/\" target=\"_blank\">following stations\u003c/a> around the state. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“I haven’t seen the moon since 1998.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s inmate Jeremy Beasley, talking to me while sitting–shackled–in an interview room at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s highest security lockup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley, a convicted murderer, was clearly surprised by my presence—he told me he hadn’t met with a visitor since 1994, when he was incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just the moon Beasley hadn’t seen in 15 years. During that time, in fact, Beasley rarely glimpsed the outside world. Before being transferred to another prison, he was held in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, a windowless, bunker-like facility that houses more than 1,000 California inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 22-and-a-half hours a day, each inmate here is locked, usually alone, in an 8-by-10 feet cell. For 90 minutes the inmate is allowed to exercise in an adjacent room with 25-30 feet high walls. And that’s their entire day — every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen guys lose their minds back here,” Beasley tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wRO9BHbF9GA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wRO9BHbF9GA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Isolation Unit Conditions: Torture?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday in Sacramento lawmakers are delving into a growing national controversy over special security units like Pelican Bay’s that are used to isolate thousands of inmates from the regular prison population. Civil rights groups say long-term isolation amounts to torture, while state corrections officials say the units are necessary and the conditions are humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the state there are four of these Security Housing Unit facilities. Pelican Bay’s is the most controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>For 22-and-a-half hours a day, each inmate is locked, usually alone, in an 8-by-10 feet cell. They get 90 minutes of exercise in an adjacent room. That’s their entire day — every day\u003c/strong>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Conditions in the units are one part of the debate. Many inmates are held in windowless cells and have been denied everything from calendars and sweatpants to phone calls. Also at issue: criteria that determine which prisoners are placed there and how they can get back into the regular population again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the long amount of time some inmates spend in the facilities. More than 500 California prisoners have been locked in the special units for 10 years or longer, according to state data. Of those, 78 prisoners have been held inside for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, authorities have allowed media into Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, but access has been limited and the inmates carefully selected by the prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, top corrections officials granted unusual access to a team of reporters and videographers from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED. We visited all areas of Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit except for a section that houses leaders of a 2011 hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using a small camera mounted to a wall, our team recorded Beasley exercising with a rubber handball in the small concrete pen (prison staff began allowing the balls last year). At all other times–day and night—he was held in his cell, alone. While skylights allow filtered sunlight into the units, there are no windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/127065819/Ruiz-Amended-Complaint-May-31-2012\" target=\"_blank\">class action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last year by a coalition of civil rights groups states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California’s uniquely harsh regime of prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay is inhumane and debilitating. Plaintiffs and class members languish, typically alone, in a cramped, concrete, windowless cell, for 22 and one-half to 24 hours a day. They are denied telephone calls, contact visits, and vocational, recreational or educational programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants persistently deny these men the normal human contact necessary for a person’s mental and physical wellbeing. These tormenting and prolonged conditions of confinement have produced harmful and predictable psychological deterioration among Plaintiffs and class members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solitary confinement regime at Pelican Bay, which renders California an outlier in this country and in the civilized world, violates the United States Constitution’s requirement of due process and prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, as well as the most basic human rights prohibitions against cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Indeed, the prolonged conditions of brutal confinement and isolation at Pelican Bay cross over from having any valid penological purpose into a system rightly condemned as torture by the international community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But state corrections officials maintain that conditions in the special units are humane; that they do not practice solitary confinement; that inmates are “segregated” but not “isolated”; and that there is a valid purpose for keeping prisoners in the units—protecting other inmates, staff and the public from men who have been linked to violent prison gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are the men who are propagating the violence, the drug trafficking, the extortions and the murders throughout the larger communities of our state,” said Pelican Bay warden Greg Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New prison policy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90081\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0800/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90081\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90081\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0800-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Units at Pelican Bay's Security Housing Units have no windows, so inmates' only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Units at Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Units have no windows so inmates’ only regular view of the outside world is through the top of the exercise pens. (Monica Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without conceding any shortcomings, however, corrections officials are embarking on a new policy to bring in more educational and self-help programs, and to reduce the amount of time some inmates spend in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last October, officials have reviewed the cases of 144 inmates and determined that 75 should be transferred immediately to regular prisons because they were not active in gangs. Some of the inmates have been held in the special units for more than 20 years, according to Kelly Harrington, an associate corrections director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelican Bay inmates who led the 2011 hunger strike, as well as some prisoner rights groups, have denounced the new policy and are threatening more protests this summer. Amid a long list of demands, they are seeking shorter, fixed terms for inmates in the special units (currently, most are held there on “indeterminate” terms), more programs and more frequent visits with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline, I would have killed somebody…”\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>–Convicted murderer Jeremy Beasley\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For his part, Jeremy Beasley said that while the conditions at Pelican Bay are awful, he doesn’t think they amount to solitary confinement. Although he can’t see other inmates from his cell (doors are made of perforated steel and face a wall), Beasley says he can carry on conversations with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t get me wrong,” he said. “It sucks in here. I hate it. But some prisoners have found that they can get a lot of attention by exaggerating how bad it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beasley said he was an active member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white-power gang, and committed assaults on behalf of the group. He agreed to drop out and provide authorities with incriminating information about other members, a process known as “debriefing.” In exchange, officials recently transferred Beasley to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that some people should be isolated. If they were to cut me loose before I debriefed and I went back to the mainline,” he said, using the term for the general prison population, “I would have killed somebody or at the very least I would have stabbed somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Pelican Bay inmates see it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is only one option to get out of here and that is to make up lies about other people,” said 39-year-old Henry Albanez, who is serving a 27-year sentence for kidnapping. Albanez said he expected the department’s new policies would fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90082\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video/_mg_0830/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90082\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90082\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/MG_0830-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pelican Bay's Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. (Monica Lam/CIR)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit is organized into small pods housing eight cells set side-by-side on two tiers. Through the perforated steel doors inmates can only see a blank wall. (Monica Lam/CIR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How do you expect to take all of these guys out of the SHU (Security Housing Unit) and throw them in the same yard and expect them to get along when you have all this sensory deprivation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Albanez said he probably would take part in a new step-down program that begins later this year. Corrections officials have said the program allows inmates to earn their way out of the special units in 2-4 years without being required to renounce the gangs they have been affiliated with. Instead, they must declare that they won’t participate in gang activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who visited Pelican Bay early this month, said he found the prison clean and professionally staffed but was troubled thinking that some inmates are locked up for decades in small cells with little or no regular human contact. Inmates must also be shackled whenever they are outside their cells and in the presence of another individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do think it’s psychologically devastating to be in such a tight space for so long,” Ammiano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What, then, about the question of torture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammiano said the strangest thing he saw at the prison was a group therapy room where inmates are locked in small cages during sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Could I say that’s torture? Perhaps I could,” he said. “But did we witness any torture? No.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can listen to Michael Montgomery report from California’s most controversial, highest security lockup on Monday morning on The California Report, on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/tunein/\" target=\"_blank\">following stations\u003c/a> around the state. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59316\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/pelicanbay1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/pelicanbay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pelicanbay1\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59316\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay Prison\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year hundreds of inmates staged two \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/prison-hunger-strike/\">hunger strikes\u003c/a> that spread to 13 prisons in California. The prisoners were protesting conditions in super-maximum security units known as SHUs, where a majority of state prisoners are held in extreme isolation for alleged ties to prison gangs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation issued a new set of policies aimed at overhauling how these units are managed, what prisoners are sent there, and how long they're held in isolation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes were spelled out in a Dept of Corrections document, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/85362385/Security-Threat-Group-Prevention-Identification-and-Management-Model-V5-5-03-01-2012\">embedded here\u003c/a> and below. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked KQED's Michael Montgomery, a longtime reporter of California prison issues, to annotate a key section of the document, cracking open some of the bureaucratic language to reveal the harsh isolation and deprivation in which some prisoners have been housed, as well as the rewards they are now being offered to toe the line and potentially exit these most restrictive of conditions. Rewards that, to a person at liberty, may seem poignantly meager or even absurd, but ones that the California Department of Corrections & Rehabiliation thinks will be incentive enough to coax good behavior.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the crux of the policy. \u003cstrong>Click on the \"view explanation\" link to be taken to Montgomery's analysis\u003c/strong>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The SDP will establish an incentive based multi-step process for the management of STG offenders. This program will assign, transition, and monitor offenders who by their behavior have demonstrated the need for CDCR’s utilization of special strategies for their management. This program is designed for STG offenders who require structured activities and programming, who choose to discontinue criminal activity. Additionally, it affords offenders the opportunity to earn enhanced privileges proportionate to their ability to reintegrate and effectively interact with others. As an alternative to the SDP, offenders may choose to participate in the debriefing process at any time. As part of the program development, an assessment will be conducted to determine additional resource needs. CDCR will seek resources where available, to assist with this effort. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par1\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The STG SDP shall be normally completed in five steps and provides a process for offenders engaged in STG behavior to demonstrate their ability to refrain from criminal gang behavior, preparing them for return to a general population, or SNY program setting. The initial four steps are generally designed to be completed within 48 months. The fifth step which consists of observation and monitoring of behavior within the general population or SNY will normally be completed within the 12 months following Step 4. Each step will consist of programs and privileges that increase as the offender progresses through the SDP... \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par2\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in Steps 1, 2 and 3 will be reviewed by ICC at least every 180 days for evaluation of program participation. If, during the ICC review, it is determined that the offender has participated in the required programs for successful step completion, the offender may be considered for placement into the next successive step. Participants in Step 4 shall be reviewed by ICC at least every 90 days. The successful completion of each step will require a minimum of 12 months program participation. \u003ca href=\"//ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par3\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"par1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paragraph 1\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDP is the \"Step-Down Program,\" the type of carrot-and-stick system that has been used in other states to encourage inmates to change negative behavior, including violent conflicts with members of other races or prison groups. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program would be set up to gradually give prisoners more \"privileges\" in exchange for following the rules. In addition to refraining from participating in gang activity and, presumably, committing racially motivated offenses, they will be be expected to take part in educational, self-help or anger management classes of the type offered to prisoners in the mainstream population, most likely alone in their cells. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rewards component consists of things like phone calls, exercise equipment (currently prohibited), freedom from physical restraints, and the ability to participate in group activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently SHU inmates are almost always shackled when outside their cells, and inmates who successfully work their way through to the 3rd year of the new Step-Down Program will be afforded the privilege of being unshackled around other inmates. By the 4th year, they would be able to eat meals with other inmates \"unrestrained.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other rewards: By the end of the 1st year, an inmate would be allowed one phone call home; that number increases to two by the second year. At the end of the 1st year, an inmate would also be allowed to send one photograph home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"STG\" that is mentioned stands for \"Security Threat Group,\" made up of prison gangs and other prohibited groups. The number of groups whose members could face enhanced SHU terms is being widened under the new plan to include street gangs like the Crips and Bloods. This expansion of red-flagged groups is one reason prison advocates are worried that the new policy may actually result in an increase in the SHU population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"debriefing process\" cited in the document refers to what is commonly called snitching. Inmates have felt that once you're in the SHU as a gang member, the only way you can exit is to inform on other inmates. The corrections department says currently there is another way out of the SHU -- refraining from any gang-related activity for six years. Under the new regulations, inmates will be able to work their way out of the SHU without explicitly renouncing any gang, though they will have to prove that they no longer take part in gang-related activities, can mix with inmates from other racial and ethnic groups, etc. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"par2\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paragraph 2\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SNY program cited here refers to \"Sensitive Needs Yard.\" The term refers to housing for prisoners who are vulnerable to assault, including gang dropouts and convicted pedophiles, child murderers and rapists. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timeline laid out indicates that the minimum amount of time a prisoner can spend in a SHU is four years, unless he agrees to inform. That's down from a six-year minimum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Michael Montgomery says, a close reading of the proposal indicates that prisoners who are in the SHU facility at Pelican Bay, home of the notorious windowless isolation cells where last year's prisoner strike started, would have to be transferred out of those units in two years, as they don't include areas where inmates could participate in group activities unrestrained. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many penal experts say two years should be the limit for solitary confinement. It may be that the department is seeking to reduce the time that inmates who are participating in the program spend in the SHU due to legal concerns associated with long-term isolation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy refers to refraining from \"criminal gang behavior\" as a prerequisite to reentering the mainstream prison population. This is a move toward the national norm within penitentiaries, in which isolation is restricted to those who have committed criminal offenses, as opposed to the loosely defined \"gang affiliation\" that has landed many inmates in California SHUs. Out of 3,100 inmates in isolation units, 2,000 have been labeled as gang \"associates.\" The department says it will do a case-by-case review of these so-designated prisoners, in consideration for transfer to less isolated units. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new criteria may prevent inmates like Ernesto Lira from winding up in isolation. As \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/15/a-tale-of-2-maximum-security-inmates-gang-lord-petty-thief-both-wind-up-in-windowless-isolation-units/\">reported by Montgomery last year\u003c/a>, Lira was serving a sentence for drug possession in a low-security prison when he was sent to Pelican Bay for an “indeterminate” term because authorities contended he was an associate of a violent Latino group known as Nuestra Raza. Lira was never accused of doing anything tangible for the group, and the key piece of evidence against him was a drawing found in his locker that allegedly contained gang symbols. 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As part of the program development, an assessment will be conducted to determine additional resource needs. CDCR will seek resources where available, to assist with this effort. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par1\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The STG SDP shall be normally completed in five steps and provides a process for offenders engaged in STG behavior to demonstrate their ability to refrain from criminal gang behavior, preparing them for return to a general population, or SNY program setting. The initial four steps are generally designed to be completed within 48 months. The fifth step which consists of observation and monitoring of behavior within the general population or SNY will normally be completed within the 12 months following Step 4. Each step will consist of programs and privileges that increase as the offender progresses through the SDP... \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par2\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in Steps 1, 2 and 3 will be reviewed by ICC at least every 180 days for evaluation of program participation. If, during the ICC review, it is determined that the offender has participated in the required programs for successful step completion, the offender may be considered for placement into the next successive step. Participants in Step 4 shall be reviewed by ICC at least every 90 days. The successful completion of each step will require a minimum of 12 months program participation. \u003ca href=\"//ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/14/anatomy-of-a-prison-policy-document-on-new-isolation-rules-annotated/#par3\">\u003cstrong>View explanation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"par1\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paragraph 1\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDP is the \"Step-Down Program,\" the type of carrot-and-stick system that has been used in other states to encourage inmates to change negative behavior, including violent conflicts with members of other races or prison groups. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program would be set up to gradually give prisoners more \"privileges\" in exchange for following the rules. In addition to refraining from participating in gang activity and, presumably, committing racially motivated offenses, they will be be expected to take part in educational, self-help or anger management classes of the type offered to prisoners in the mainstream population, most likely alone in their cells. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rewards component consists of things like phone calls, exercise equipment (currently prohibited), freedom from physical restraints, and the ability to participate in group activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently SHU inmates are almost always shackled when outside their cells, and inmates who successfully work their way through to the 3rd year of the new Step-Down Program will be afforded the privilege of being unshackled around other inmates. By the 4th year, they would be able to eat meals with other inmates \"unrestrained.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other rewards: By the end of the 1st year, an inmate would be allowed one phone call home; that number increases to two by the second year. At the end of the 1st year, an inmate would also be allowed to send one photograph home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"STG\" that is mentioned stands for \"Security Threat Group,\" made up of prison gangs and other prohibited groups. The number of groups whose members could face enhanced SHU terms is being widened under the new plan to include street gangs like the Crips and Bloods. This expansion of red-flagged groups is one reason prison advocates are worried that the new policy may actually result in an increase in the SHU population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"debriefing process\" cited in the document refers to what is commonly called snitching. Inmates have felt that once you're in the SHU as a gang member, the only way you can exit is to inform on other inmates. The corrections department says currently there is another way out of the SHU -- refraining from any gang-related activity for six years. Under the new regulations, inmates will be able to work their way out of the SHU without explicitly renouncing any gang, though they will have to prove that they no longer take part in gang-related activities, can mix with inmates from other racial and ethnic groups, etc. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"par2\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paragraph 2\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SNY program cited here refers to \"Sensitive Needs Yard.\" The term refers to housing for prisoners who are vulnerable to assault, including gang dropouts and convicted pedophiles, child murderers and rapists. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timeline laid out indicates that the minimum amount of time a prisoner can spend in a SHU is four years, unless he agrees to inform. 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Those inmates include so-called associates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to department data obtained by California Watch, 79 percent of the validated inmates being held in the special units are classified as prison gang associates rather than full-fledged members. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview prior to his retirement, Kernan said a new policy was needed to move some of those inmates out of Security Housing Units to make room for other prisoners who pose a greater security threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve said very publicly we over-validate and don’t do enough documentation for those associates,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Kernan said the new policy should focus on isolating gang leaders and inmates involved in acts of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are the people we should put in places like the SHU,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former corrections officials say the transfer could extend to hundreds of prisoners if the department uses a criteria that focuses largely on an inmate's behavior. Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton said it was impossible to speculate on precise numbers until the new policy guidelines are finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2007 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/240261-final-draft-policy-statements-14-2.html\">study\u003c/a> commissioned by the corrections department recommended establishing “Security Threat Groups” and focusing on the biggest troublemakers inside those groups, so inmates are not locked in the Security Housing Units merely for alleged affiliation with a prison gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan said officials were looking closely at the report's recommendations but would approach any changes to the Security Housing Units with caution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not going to be pushed by the inmates or their advocates to change policy of this magnitude and get people killed,\" he said. \"We're going to do it slow and methodical and make sure we're doing the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story aired on KQED’s \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201110270850/b\">The California Report\u003c/a>,\" where the audio is available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>from \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/inmates-vow-resume-hunger-strike-12739\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrections officials are taking security precautions and gearing up medical staff in response to growing indications that inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison will resume a hunger strike that was suspended July 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40811\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/pelicanbay1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40811\" title=\"pelicanbay\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/pelicanbay1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelican Bay Prison\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Strike leaders are calling on state inmates to begin refusing state-issued food Monday to protest conditions in controversial Security Housing Units, according to handwritten letters, Internet postings, and communications with lawyers and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Formal and informal sources say they’re going to start the strike again,\" said Dorsey Nunn, executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, an advocacy group that was involved in mediation efforts during the last hunger strike. \"They’re tired of being tortured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement posted on an advocacy website, strike leaders accused officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation of reneging on promises for major changes in how they manage the state’s four Security Housing Units, the isolation cells that were at the center of the previous strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDCR has responded with more propaganda, lies and vague double-talk of promises of change in time,\" the statement reads. \"SHU prisoners are dissatisfied with CDCR’s response to their formal complaint and … core demands and therefore will continue to resist via peaceful protest indefinitely, until actual changes are implemented.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department officials have agreed to allow personal items for Security Housing Unit inmates that were previously banned, such as sweats, wall calendars and art supplies. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/pelicanbay2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/pelicanbay2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pelicanbay\" width=\"180\" height=\"154\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35038\">\u003c/a>After most of the state prisoners on a hunger strike \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/22/BAL71KDE63.DTL\">ended it\u003c/a> last week, attorney Carol Strickman of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, who represented the demands of the strikers to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, made a statement as to what she thought the strike accomplished. Strickman refers to SHUs -- Security Housing Units, where inmates deemed as affiliated with prison gangs are housed in extreme isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The CDCR promised to make long-term positive changes in its policies regarding SHU (Security Housing Unit) confinement. But these changes will of course take much longer than a hunger strike can last. So to demonstrate its good faith the CDCR granted some small concessions, and to show theirs, the prisoner leaders ended the hunger strike. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hunger strike was successful because (in the prisoners' view) it has brought CDCR into the open regarding: its torutous and barbaric practices in the SHU. And second it has boosted a growing movement for the rights of prisoners. And third it has unified prisoners of different racial groups for a struggle against the policies of CDCR.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>You can listen to her entire statement here: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/hungerstrike.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Attorney Carol Strickman on the hunger strike\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/hungerstrike.mp3|titles=hungerstrike]\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nAs Scott Shafer \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107250850/b\">reported \u003c/a>on The California Report this morning, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says it hasn't agreed to anything related to Security Housing Units other than a comprehensive review. Reasons for being sent to and conditions within these isolation cells, which KQED's Michael Montgomery \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/20/interview-what-is-the-hunger-strike-by-california-prisoners-about/\">characterized\u003c/a> to us as \"windowless boxes,\" were at the heart of the strike. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it remains to be seen whether these polices will seriously be reconsidered (a previous review resulted in few if any changes), some of the smaller requests by prisoners were agreed to. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even among the larger demands regarding conditions that some prison advocates characterize as \"torture,\" it was these smaller requests that actually stood out for me. Because they seem so trivial. That is, until you try to put yourself in the place of someone who experiences the following in an SHU, as described by Michael Montgomery: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(Prisoners) do not leave their cell at all except for around an hour of exercise they get individually. That takes place in an adjoining concrete exercise pen. They don't go outside; in fact they don’t see the outside at all unless they have a very infrequent visit, for example, to a medical facility, or they go to court for a trial...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inmates really have little contact with each other. You can't really even see out of the cell doors themselves. 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Allow us to have the items in their original packaging [the cost for cosmetics, stationary, envelopes, should not count towards the max draw limit]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>F) More TV channels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>G) Allow TV/Radio combinations, or TV and small battery operated radio\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H) Allow Hobby Craft Items - art paper, colored pens, small pieces of colored pencils, watercolors, chalk, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I) Allow sweat suits and watch caps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J) Allow wall calendars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K) Install pull-up/dip bars on SHU yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L) Allow correspondence courses that require proctored exams.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The full list of demands below: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"complete\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>OUR FIVE CORE DEMANDS:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Individual Accountability - This is in response to PBSP's application of \"group punishment\" as a means to address individual inmates rule violations. This includes the administration's abusive, pretextual use of \"safety and concern\" to justify what are unnecessary punitive acts. This policy has been applied in the context of justifying indefinite SHU status, and progressively restricting our programming and privileges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Abolish the Debriefing Policy, and Modify Active/Inactive Gang Status Criteria - the debriefing policy is illegal and redundant, as pointed out in the Formal Complaint [IV-A, p. 7]. The Active/Inactive gang status criteria must be modified in order to comply with state law and applicable CDC are rule and regulations [eg, see Formal Complaint, p. 7, IV-B] as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A) cease the use of innocuous association to deny an active status,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>B) cease the use of informant/debriefer allegations of illegal gang activity to deny inactive status, unless such allegations are also supported by factual corroborating evidence, in which case CDCR-PBSP staff shall and must follow the regulations by issuing a rule violation report and affording the inmate his due process required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Comply with US Commission 2006 Recommendations Regarding an End to Long-Term Solitary Confinement - CDCR shall implement the findings and recommendations of the US commission on safety and abuse in America's prisons final 2006 report regarding CDCR SHU facilities as follows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A) End Conditions of Isolation (p. 14) Ensure that prisoners in SHU and Ad-Seg (Administrative Segregation) have regular meaningful contact and freedom from extreme physical deprivations that are known to cause lasting harm. (pp. 52-57)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>B) Make Segregation a Last Resort (p. 14). Create a more productive form of confinement in the areas of allowing inmates in SHU and Ad-Seg [Administrative Segregation] the opportunity to engage in meaningful self-help treatment, work, education, religious, and other productive activities relating to having a sense of being a part of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>C) End Long-Term Solitary Confinement. Release inmates to general prison population who have been warehoused indefinitely in SHU for the last 10 to 40 years (and counting).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>D) Provide SHU Inmates Immediate Meaningful Access to:\u003cbr>\n\ti) adequate natural sunlight\u003cbr>\n\tii) quality health care and treatment, including the mandate of transferring all PBSP-SHU inmates with chronic health care problems to the New Folsom Medical SHU facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. 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The strike protesting the conditions in \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=Security+Housing+Units\">Security Housing Units\u003c/a> began at Pelican Bay State Prison \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/07/01/pelican-bay-prisoners-go-on-hunger-strike/\">on July 1\u003c/a>, and has since spread to other prisons across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prisoners in SHUs spend 23 hours a day in their cells and one hour in a windowless, concrete exercise pen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protesters want an end to indefinite detention in those units — which they say amounts to torture. They also say they’re prepared to die to force prison officials to meet their demands. But Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate says he’ll intervene to save their lives.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My view of it as I sit here today, and this may change, is that I’ll seek court orders to ask that they be force-fed,” said Cate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approximately a dozen of the striking inmates have signed advance health directives that order prison medical staff not to feed or treat them, no matter what. But Secretary Cate thinks he can persuade a judge to override those directives. He’ll also seek an order that would apply to any inmate who refuses food and whose health is in danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with California Watch reporter Michael Montgomery, however, Nancy Kincaid, Communications Director for California Prison Health Care Services, said prison medical staff will not force-feed the prisoners should their condition deteriorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inmates have the right to refuse food to the point of death,” she said. “And physicians will not force-feed, go against the medical ethics if someone chooses to not eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kincaid also describes the physical condition of some of the inmates who have lost 15-20 pounds and are showing more advanced symptoms from starvation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to that interview here:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/prisonkincaid.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Nancy Kincaid of California Prison Health Care Services on the hunger strike\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/prisonkincaid.mp3|titles=prisonkincaid]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Thursday Jul 21\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe California Report’s Sarah Varney did a report yesterday on the medical ethics involved in dealing with hunger strikes. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201107210850/b\">Listen\u003c/a> below:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Here are some numbers related to the strikes, according to California Prison Health Care Services:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tehachapi\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n228 (additional 168 joined yesterday)\u003cbr>\n40 assessed by RNs, 3 referred to PCP for evaluation; one refused\u003cbr>\n47 hunger strike participants refused assessments\u003cbr>\nAll are consuming liquids\u003cbr>\n0 refused meds\u003cbr>\n1 IV fluids\u003cbr>\n2 referred to (TTA) clinic\u003cbr>\n0 in outside facility\u003cbr>\n20 have lost 10 or more lbs. Highest loss is 29 lbs, but that inmate was last weighed in May and staff believe some of that loss was prior to the hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Corcoran\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n92 on the strike (17 transferred from Pelican Bay)\u003cbr>\n42 began strike yesterday\u003cbr>\n22 assessed by nurses\u003cbr>\n10 refused (Kincaid met with several inmates who refused assessments and asked why. All said they just didn’t feel they needed one that day, and have had assessments in the past and will again if they feel they need one).\u003cbr>\nKincaid also observed assessments of Pelican Bay transfers and spoke with several inmates)\u003cbr>\nAll consuming liquids\u003cbr>\n0 refused meds\u003cbr>\n0 IV fluids\u003cbr>\n0 in emergency clinic\u003cbr>\n3 referred to GACH for medical evaluation. Three were PB transfers who had some symptoms of starvation, such as dehydrated and lightheaded. All 3 are stable, with no critical health issues..\u003cbr>\n0 in outside medical facility\u003cbr>\n7 have lost 10 lbs or more\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pelican Bay\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n75 on hunger strike\u003cbr>\n75 offered assessments,\u003cbr>\n5 scheduled to see PCP\u003cbr>\n# refused assessments was unknown at time of report\u003cbr>\nAll consuming liquids\u003cbr>\n0 IV fluids\u003cbr>\n0 in emergency clinic\u003cbr>\n0 in outside facility\u003cbr>\n8 greater than 10 lbs lost\u003cbr>\n17 transferred to Corcoran state prison, to be near medical resources, should their condition require medical treatment for starvation symptoms or they decide to eat and need medical supervision for refeeding.\u003cbr>\nAll four institutions have incurred some overtime and registry use for LVNs and RNs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calipatria\u003c/strong> (These inmates are on their own hunger strike with issues separate from the statewide strike)\u003cbr>\n33 on hunger strike\u003cbr>\n22 assessed by RNs, 7 of those seen by primary care physician (PCP) – all stable no health issues\u003cbr>\n11 refused assessment\u003cbr>\n0 refused PCP assessment\u003cbr>\nAll are consuming liquids\u003cbr>\n0 IV fluids\u003cbr>\n0 refused meds\u003cbr>\n1 sent to clinic for evaluation, stable and no medical issues\u003cbr>\n0 in outside medical facility\u003cbr>\nStill 12 have lost 10 or more lbs. 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