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Starving for Freedom: The Pelican Bay Prison Strike That Transformed Solitary Confinement

Starving for Freedom: The Pelican Bay Prison Strike That Transformed Solitary Confinement

Lobel, Jules

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral LawSocial Movements

PREORDER - Expected ship date June 29, 2027

ISBN10: 1620979659
ISBN13: 9781620979655
Publisher: New Press
Published: Jun 29 2027
Pages: 256
Language: English

A groundbreaking, insider account by the attorney who represented the prisoners who risked their lives to end an inhumane form of punishment--with lessons for resisting government oppression

The obstacles to organizing a statewide hunger strike seemed insurmountable. Their only means of communication was to shout through cell doors, drainage pipes and vents, and then only to the eight other men in their pod. --from the Introduction

Starving for Freedom tells the stirring story of a group of California prisoners in America's toughest supermax prison, who successfully waged a series of hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013 to protest their incarceration in solitary confinement, often for decades on end. Their hunger strikes radically reduced the use of indefinite solitary confinement in the United States--a practice considered a form of mental torture in most of the world --leading to the release of 99 percent of the so-called secure housing population (or 160,000 people) to general population units in California alone.

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