Sacramento inmate at Pelican Bay one of three charged in stabbing attack on prison guard
A Sacramento County inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison is one of three facing attempted homicide charges in an attack on a ...
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INDEPENDENT LENS: The Strike
Feb. 3, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. How California's Pelican Bay prison ignited a statewide hunger strike as a feat of unity by 30,000 incarcerated people.
A mass hunger strike transformed solitary confinement in California prisons. This documentary captures the fight
In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...
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The Strike
Pelican Bay State Prison is California's highest security ... we need to do something to make a change." Folks inside started thinking about ways to protest. Jack: Somebody started reading about ...
Crime and Public Safety
They were prospective applicants for CCWF’s pioneering new newspaper, put together in a newsroom next door, and Vasquez told ...
Changing California prison culture and people’s lives through prison newspapers
Not too long ago, Vasquez was incarcerated himself with two life sentences for an attempted murder that occurred when he was ...
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A group of incarcerated men endured decades of solitary confinement in “The Strike” on INDEPENDENT LENS – Feb. 3 at 10 pm
The film reveals the panic that gripped the highest echelons of state government, with unprecedented access to prison officials and never-before-seen footage from inside Pelican Bay. Hunger ...
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Aryan Brotherhood on trial: Prison gang leaders ordered 5 L.A. County murders, feds say
They died inside and out of prison ... Sentenced to a life term, Johnson was sent to Pelican Bay, the maximum-security prison in Northern California where all of the state’s alleged prison ...