“On the first day of this month, inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison, joined by inmates in other prisons around the state, began a hunger strike to protest “inhumane and torturous conditions” in the Security Housing Unit, which holds inmates in solitary confinement for decades at a time. They’re still at it; the state has admitted that as many as 6,600 inmates around the state have participated in the strike….”
http://blog.sojo.net/2011/07/18/who-is-organizing-the-california-prison-hunger-strike/
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Jonathan Erdman
Writer. In the summers, I live and work in the incredible state of Alaska, in the bush community of McCarthy, as the Executive Director of the Wrangell Mountain Center. When not in McCarthy, you'll typically find me in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, writing and working with local activists. My primary writing project right now is a novel set in remote bush Alaska, of the magical realism genre wherein an earnest and independent young woman finds a mysterious radio belonging to her grandmother, a device that has paranormal bandwidth and a disturbing ability to mess with one's mental stability.
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