Hunger Strike by California Inmates, Already Large, Is Expected to Be Long - NYTimes.com

Estimates that 30,000 inmates, 2/3 of CA prisons involved in strike.  Read the entire article for all the issues involved.

 

By JENNIFER MEDINA

Published: July 10, 2013

The protest is centered on the state’s aggressive solitary confinement practices, but it appeared to have attracted support from many prisoners with their own demands for changes in prison conditions.

California is facing the threat of being charged with contempt of court after a Supreme Court order in May 2011 to reduce its prison population by 10,000 inmates this year. The court said crowding and terrible conditions inside the prison system constituted inhumane treatment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. On Wednesday, the state filed for a stay of the court’s order to release prisoners.

 

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