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Prison guards try to incite riots to keep their jobs
August 11, 2009
The Bay View has been hearing from prisoners around the country that guards, fearing the loss of their jobs, are enraged by budget cuts and plans to release prisoners and close prisons. In some cases they are intensifying their harassment and torture of prisoners and in others they are trying to incite them to riot. That may be a factor in the Chino State Prison “race riot” and fire on Sunday, Aug. 9.
Nevada Prison Board hearing, Part 2: Shocking public comments
April 20, 2009
“You could hear a pin drop” when prisoner Marritte Funches’ letter was read at the April 14 hearing of the Nevada Board of Prison Commissioners. These are four of the shocking public comments submitted to the Prison Board on April 14.
How can I watch while they strip us of our humanity and not rebel?
March 1, 2009
On Jan. 6, after 27 days of fasting and an incredible effort on the part of the pigs to interfere and frustrate my fast in protest of what has been happening to me and other men being denied medical care, I was all but forced to end it.
They can’t kill a revolutionary: Showing solidarity with Ikemba (Marritte Funches)
January 1, 2009
They tried to kill a true revolutionary, they tried to do him like George Jackson, and he beat them. So now they really want to do him in!