PELICAN BAY HUNGER STRIKE RESUMES: The Continued Struggle to End Solitary Confinement in California

Join us TODAY for a panel discussion revisiting the recent Pelican Bay Hunger Strikes -- which are set to resume July 8, 2013 -- and California's continued use of extreme isolation in solitary confinement.

>>> 'Tours' of a life-sized model SHU (Secured Housing Unit) cell will be hosted ALL DAY at 198 McAllister Street. <<<

Speakers include:

Charles Carbone, Esq., prisoner rights attorney
Jose Murillo, UC Berkeley student formerly incarcerated in Pelican Bay SHU for 5 years
Terry Kupers, MD, forensic mental health expert
Marie Levin, PHSS Coalition member & family member of current SHU prisoner
Azadeh Zohrabi, JD, Soros Justice Fellow and former HRPLJ co-Editor-in-Chief (2011-2012)

Moderated by UC Hastings Professor Hadar Aviram, creator/author of California Correctional Crisis Blog

Presented by Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity.

Facebook Event Link

California Correctional Crisis: Realignment and Reform

The Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal, the UC Hastings Criminal Justice Institute, and the California Correctional Crisis Blog presents:

The conference will examine the many changes and challenges that the State's correctional apparatus has been going through since 2009, when a federal three-judge panel found health care conditions in California prisons unconstitutional and attributed them to prison overpopulation. Since then, and after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the order to reduce prison population, California has undergone a seismic change with regard to its correctional approach. One of the main changes has been the Criminal Justice Realignment.

Register here. Free and open to the public. ADA Accessible. MCLE credit available.

Tweeting Live from Our Public Forum & Film Screening: The Outer Limits of Solitary Confinement