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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California Assembly bill aims to make prisoners in isolation eligible for early release
The California State Assembly passed a state Senate bill Thursday that will allow prisoners in Security Housing Units, or SHUs, to be eligible for early release based on good behavior.
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Protesters support prisoners’ hunger strike
About 15 protesters gathered at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue on Monday in support of a hunger strike by Pelican Bay State Prison inmates in solitary confinement. In February, prisoners at Pelican Bay announced that on July 8, they would resume their ongoing hunger strike protesting the solitary confinement conditions
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