UC Berkeley student, former inmate, speaks out about solitary confinement
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During the years when most young adults go to college, UC Berkeley Steven Czifra was serving a four year sentence in solitary confinement.
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Letters: August 5 – August 12
Student regent needs to represent all students UC student regents are supposed to represent all UC students. Sadia Saifuddin’s leading role in the UC-wide anti-Israel divestment movement calls into question her willingness to represent the Jewish community — its extreme left excepted. In pushing for divestment from the Middle East’s Read More…
Inmates are humans
Discussion regarding epidemic of mass incarceration is not over
Last Wednesday, students from the Human Rights of the Incarcerated Coalition and the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition community organization erected a mock-up of a solitary confinement cell — referred to as a SHU — on the steps outside Sproul Hall. Though the image it cast was effective — one Read More…
Protesters set up mock solitary confinement demonstrations
Demonstrators set up a mock jail cell on Sproul Plaza on Wednesday to protest inhumane treatment of prisoners in California solitary confinement cells.
Students hold demonstration to protest solitary confinement conditions
Demonstrators set up a mock jail cell on Sproul Plaza on Wednesday to protest inhumane treatment of prisoners in California, an issue officials from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation say is much more complicated than the demonstration let on.
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