Mediators just got out of their meeting with Sec. Beard. ".....The hunger strike mediators’ statement included, “We gave [Secretary Beard] ideas that would help bring the prisoners’ hunger strike to a just end in short order. We provided input for revisions to CDCR’s Security Threat Group Policy and Step Down pilot program. Our revisions are intended to create more humane conditions and circumstances. We urged him to follow the lead from other states, such as Illinois, Colorado and Mississippi, to end harsh and long term isolation practices.” Support for the hunger strikers and pressure on Governor Brown and the CDCR has continued to grow, with demonstrations happening nearly daily in cities across the country and the world. “The meeting with Beard is clearly a response to the commitment of hundreds of hunger striking prisoners, and the tireless activism happening in support of the strikers,” says Kamau Walton, a spokesperson for the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition.... ...In a letter received several days ago from Pelican Bay hunger striker Mutope Duguma said he’s lost over 40 pounds is “getting smaller by the day.” Duguma continues: “There are several who already fell out from [the] effects of the hunger strike and we have some who have been placed in the hospital and the prison specialty clinic. But there are many of us who will see this out to the end. We are still strong.”
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 23:19:56 +0000
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