You can help us end solitary confinement
by Kijana Tashiri Askari, Yafeu Iyapo and Kamau Askari for the W.L. Nolen Mentorship Program Now picture this: a human being entombed in his or her bathroom 22½ hours out of the day for 10 to 40-plus...
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by Kijana T. Askari, Yafeu Iyapo and Kamau Askari for the W.L. Nolen Mentorship Program “It wasn’t always like this. The wide-scale use of isolation is, almost exclusively, a phenomenon of the past 20...
View ArticleHunger strikers write to the Bay View: ‘I don’t know how much more my body...
by Mary Ratcliff Randall Sondai Ellis Mail to the Bay View from the hunger strikers has been very sparse since the strike began with 30,000 participants on July 8. Prison officials may be holding their...
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