Articles Tagged “san quentin prison”

  • Occupy Groups Converge on San Quentin
    in Support of Prisoners, Protest Prison Conditions

    by Eric Louie on Feb 21, 2012 | 4 Comments

    Speakers, including some who have been incarcerated, talked about reform of the California’s three-strikes sentencing law, the mental punishment of solitary confinement and support for prisoners undertaking hunger strikes to protest conditions inside prisons. They included members of the San Quentin Six, prisoners who faced charges after the 1971 shootings that killed Black Panther George Jackson along with guards and other prisoners. Shane Bauer, one of the three Americans captured in Iran in 2009, talked about the hunger strikes and denial of family letters in his time there.

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