Being ignored by the corporate media since July 1st are hundreds of prisoners across some 13 prisons in California conducting a hunger strike to the death. Many prisoners are also refusing water and medical care.
Prisoners are protesting a variety of conditions, including poor medical treatment, indeterminate sentences in the Segregated Housing Units (SHU), collective punishment, and a coercive form of debriefing that relies on snitches to determine one’s criminality and allegation of gang membership. more…


