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Hunger strike analysis: Thinking outside the concrete box
By sfbayview.com - Brian Keith Barnett
Published: 03/26/2012

As a convict commentator, I would be remiss if I failed to provide an analysis of my own observations and those from various sources relative to the prisoncrats’ response to our legitimate efforts to compel accountability and transparency within the CDCR (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation).

The initial mass hunger strike, a nonviolent protest, did catch prisoncrats flat-footed since the institutionalized promotion of ethnic sectarianism and tribal conflicts was generally a non-factor, which means it proved successful in many ways and educational to the prisoners.

We all should know that what prisoncrats provided the public media was subterfuge so as to relax their guard. As to prisoners, they have sought to patronize us with petty privileges while the erosion of civil and human rights continues.

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