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| Reassessing the use of solitary confinement in America’s prisons |
| By sfbayview.com - Dolores Canales |
| Published: 06/18/2012 |
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My name is Dolores Canales, I am a member of California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement (CFASC), I am on the advisory board of CURB (Californians United for a Responsible Budget) and I am also a member of LWSGI (Lives Worth Saving Gang Intervention), all California based organizations. But above all I am a mother of a Pelican Bay SHU prisoner, and since the hunger strike it has been my goal and passion to bring an end to such inhumane and torturous conditions going on right here in America – land of the free and home of the brave! When Americans are held in solitary confinement in other countries, it is considered barbaric and a form of torture, Sen. John McCain himself being one of those Americans. But yet, solitary confinement has been a common practice for years on end right here in our prisons Read More. |
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