Kudos to Obama and Holder: Mandatory minimum' sentences to end for many drug offenders

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87. Will Holder do anything to help end the CA Prisoner hunger strike?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023454677

Day 36 of California Hunger Strike: Hundreds Still Protesting Isolation Policies

http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/education/

More than 30,000 California prisoners initiated an indefinite hunger strike. They are calling on the Governor and the CDCR to meet their 5 Core Demands.

California holds nearly 12,000 people in extreme isolation at a cost of over $60 million per year. The cells have no windows, and no access to fresh air or sunlight. The United Nations condemns the use of solitary confinement for more than 15 days as torture, yet many people in California state prisons have been encaged in solitary for 10 to 40 years!

In 2011, over 12,000 prisoners and their family and community members participated in statewide hunger strikes protesting the inhumane conditions in the SHU. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) promised meaningful reform. In February 2013, prisoners announced that another hunger strike would begin July 8th because of CDCR’s failure to fulfill that promise.

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IN PRISONS all across the US

8 x 8 cell 23 hours for 365 a year for 40 years