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Banning Revolution newspaper from Pelican Bay State Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Banning Revolution newspaper from Pelican Bay State Prison Imagine you are in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of a prison that is as far from your family as it can be and still be located in the same state. You are locked in a solitary cell for 23 or more hours a day, everyday, year after year. Your window, your lifeline to the world is a newspaper and all of a sudden prison officials decide that you cannot read it anymore. As a prisoner wrote: "I've been getting the Revolution paper for about 8 years and can't imagine being in this dungeon without it." Welcome to California's remote supermax Pelican Bay State Prison, just miles from the border with Oregon. Here 1200 of the 3400 inmates are in the most restrictive prison within-a-prison found anywhere in the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 22, 2010 (boomark / email).