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Solitary confinement is a crime

STARTING in 2010 a series of work and hunger strikes took place in US prisons involving thousands of prisoners. These actions culminated in 2012 in a historic statement an Agreement to End Hostilities issued by men held in long-term solitary in Pelican Bay State Prison. It reads: “Beginning on October 10 2012, all hostilities between our racial groups…will officially cease… We can no longer allow [the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] to use us against each other for their benefit!” They urged their families campaigning for them to also cease racial hostility. This agreement laid the basis for more unified collective action and a groundbreaking two-month hunger strike the following year of over 30,000 prisoners in California which accomplished massive change – starting with visibility and respect for this prisoner-led struggle, but also the release of over 1,600 prisoners from solitary, the prospect of parole for thousands more, concrete improv

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