Are we a part of Black Lives Matter?
January 29, 2021
By consolidating stonewalled grievances together under one class action lawsuit, Marquise Caliz aims to make a legal move that cannot be ignored by the devastating Prison Litigation Reform Act. As you can see in the graph, the filing rate by prisoners has greatly dropped since the act’s 1996 passing. – Credit: Prison Policy Initiative, 2016
by Marquise Caliz
On May 23, 2020, while I was enslaved at Kern Valley State Prison in B-1 Ad Seg overflow, Correctional Officer M. Olivarez Tamayo (badge No. 86481) opened the door to the cell I was assigned to – and no, this was not a cell extraction.