As over 12,000 prisoners continue their hunger strike at prisons across California, supporters gear up for a state-wide rally
at the 'maximum security' Corcoran State Prison Saturday to stand with
those on the inside who are putting their bodies on the line.
Prisoners at two thirds of California's 33 prisons are going without food to demand an end to the 'state-sanctioned torture' that plagues the California prison system, including long-term solitary confinement spanning decades.
"This moment is historic in the ability of comunities inside prison
to work with communities outside of prison towards common goals," Isaac
Ontiveros of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition—which includes scores of prisoner advocacy and prison abolition groups, loved ones, and civil rights lawyers—told Common Dreams.
"[The mobilization] is really profound. It pushes forward the spirit
of humanity prisons are meant to crush and opens a wide range of
possibilities in which winning the demands of hunger strikers is
something we can do together," he adds
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