Resources
Articles
Ashker, Todd; Castellanos, Arturo; Franco, George; and Jamaa, Sitawa Nantambu: "Solidarity Message from The Four Prisoner Reps and California Prison Update," February 2020, https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/4reps-statement_feb2020-withintro-agreement.pdf
Coppola, Federica: “The brain in solitude: an (other) eighth amendment challenge to solitary confinement,” Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 6, Issue 1, page numbering correction published September 2019, Pages 184–225, Columbia University in the City of New York, The Center for Science and Society, New York, NY, USA, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsz017; PDF
Haney, Craig, Williams, Brie, & Ahalt, Cyrus: “Consensus Statement from the Santa Cruz Summit on Solitary Confinement and Health,” Northwestern University Law Review Vol. 115, Issue 1, August 2020, 335-360, https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1435&context=nulr
Haney, Craig: “Restricting the Use of Solitary Confinement,” Annual Review of Criminology, Vol. 1:285-310, volume publication date January 2018, first published as a Review in Advance on November 3, 2017; https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-criminol-032317-092326
Haney, Craig: “The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement: A Systematic Critique,” Crime and Justice 47 (2018): 365-416. https://doi.org/10.1086/696041, Abstract ONLINE: Mar 09, 2018
Katz, Willow: “Herman Wallace: 26 Years of Letters, Art, Inspiration, and Loving Friendship: Interview with Sharon Willis,” February 4, 2021, Social Workers and Allies Against Solitary Confinement Newsletter, permission granted for distribution, https://socialworkersasc.org/herman-wallace-26-years-of-letters-art-inspiration-and-loving-friendship-interview-with-sharon-willis
O’Hearn, Denis: “The History of a One-sided Dialogue With Todd Ashker,” CounterPunch, August 23, 2013, https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/23/the-history-of-a-one-sided-dialogue-with-todd-ashker/
O’Neil, Cheri: “Speakers challenge audience to rethink modern incarceration,” May 29, 2018, https://news.ucsc.edu/2018/05/haney-incarceration.html
Smith, Dana G.: “Neuroscientists Make a Case Against Solitary Confinement: Prolonged social isolation can do severe, long-lasting damage to the brain,” November 9, 2018, Scientific American, https://portside.org/2018-11-09/neuroscientists-make-case-against-solitary-confinement
Zigmond, Michael J., PhD, organizer: Social Issues Roundtable: “Solitary Confinement: Psychological and Neurobiological Insights Into Isolation.” 2018 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Workshops Meetings and Events. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2018. Online. https://www.sfn.org/Workshops; announced in “Solitary Confinement Puts Brains at Risk,” https://globalhealthnewswire.com/2018/11/05/solitary-confinement-puts-brains-at-risk/
Zilkha, Noga & Kimchi, Tali: “A Molecular Signature for Social Isolation is Identified in the Brain,” Nature 559, 38-40, June 2018, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05447-9
Books, Publications
Abu-Jamal, Mumia: Live from Death Row, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1995
Arguelles, Marilla, ed: Extracts from Pelican Bay: An Anthology of Prisoner Poetry, Drawings, and Essays, The Pelican Bay Information Project, Pantograph Press, Berkeley, CA, 1995
Buser, Mary E.: Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 2015
Casella, Jean, Ridgeway, James, and Shourd, Sarah: Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement, The New Press, New York, NY, 2016.
Chapters especially relevant to the California Prisoner Human Rights Movement Hunger Strikes:
Gibbons J, Katzenbach N.: Confronting Confinement: A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons. Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY, 2006
Guenther, Lisa: Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, 2013
Hinton, Anthony Ray, with Hardin, Lara Love: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 2018
King, Robert Hillary: From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther, intro by Dr. Terry Kupers, M.D., M.S.P., PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2009
Kupers, Terry Allen: Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It, University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2017. Dr. Kupers includes numerous references to the California Prisoner Human Rights Movement and Hunger Strikes.
Kurshan, Nancy: Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons, The Freedom Archives, San Francisco, CA, 2013
López Rivera, Oscar: Between Torture and Resistance, PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2013
Mendez, Juan, Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: Interim Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, U.N. Doc A/66/268, 2011
Pelican's Progress: Anthology of Prison Writing from Pelican Bay State Prison, Crescent City, California, Arts in Corrections Program, 2009. (The California Prisoner Human Rights Movement, 2011 and 2013 Hunger Strikes, and Ashker v. CA Governor federal class action lawsuit were initiated by men incarcerated in Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit-SHU.)
Pendergrass, Taylor & Hoke, Mateo, editors: Six By Ten: Stories from Solitary, Voice of Witness, Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2018
Purvis, Aisha: Stories from Solitary Confinement: Kalief Browder, Blurb, Incorporated, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Reiter, Keramet: 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, London, 2016
Rosenberg, Susan: An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country, Citadel Press Books, New York, NY, 2011
Shalev, Sharon: A Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, 2008, electronic copy available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2177495
Shalev, Sharon: Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement, 1st Edition, Willan, London, UK, 2013
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), United Nations General Assembly, Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015, https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/NelsonMandelaRules.pdf
Venters, Homer: Life and Death in Rikers Island, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2019
Villarreal, Jose H.: Aztlan Realism: Chicano Revolutionry Art From Pelican Bay S.H.U., Aztlan Press, San Jose, CA, 2017
Woodfox, Albert, with George, Leslie: Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope, Grove Press, New York, NY, 2019
Films
Breaking Down the Box, The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, USA, 2015, 41 minutes
Cruel and Unusual: The Story of the Angola 3, Directed by Vadim Jean, USA, 2017, 102 minutes, Trailer for Cruel and Unusual, 1:52
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation, Narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Directed by Jimmy O’Halligan, PM Press, Oakland, CA, USA, 2008, 109 minutes
Videos
SHU Survivor Steven Czifra's Testimony, CA State Legislature Informational Hearing: The Personal Experience, Effect, and Lasting Impact of Segregated Confinement in California Prisons, hearing held after the 2013 CA Prisoner Hunger Strike, Sacramento, 2013, 6:09, https://youtu.be/BUXhyin3lMA
By Any Other Name: A 15 Day Spotlight on Solitary Confinement in Canada
Events coordinated by Willow Katz, videos produced by Lucas Wolf Video:
· Cruel and Unusual-the Story of the Angola 3, Film & Discussion
· Solitary Confinement, Readers Theater: California Prisoner Human Rights Movement 2011-2016
· Dolores Canales Speaking at Social Justice Shabbat
Websites
Center for Constitutional Rights, https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/ashker-v-brown; https://ccrjustice.org/pelican-bay-prison-hunger-strikers
End Solitary Santa Cruz County, https://endsolitary-scc-ca.weebly.com/
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Social Workers and Allies Against Solitary Confinement, https://socialworkersasc.org/
Solitary Watch, https://solitarywatch.org/
Unlock the Box Campaign: A National Campaign to End Solitary Confinement, https://www.unlocktheboxcampaign.org/
Articles
Ashker, Todd; Castellanos, Arturo; Franco, George; and Jamaa, Sitawa Nantambu: "Solidarity Message from The Four Prisoner Reps and California Prison Update," February 2020, https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/4reps-statement_feb2020-withintro-agreement.pdf
Coppola, Federica: “The brain in solitude: an (other) eighth amendment challenge to solitary confinement,” Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 6, Issue 1, page numbering correction published September 2019, Pages 184–225, Columbia University in the City of New York, The Center for Science and Society, New York, NY, USA, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsz017; PDF
Haney, Craig, Williams, Brie, & Ahalt, Cyrus: “Consensus Statement from the Santa Cruz Summit on Solitary Confinement and Health,” Northwestern University Law Review Vol. 115, Issue 1, August 2020, 335-360, https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1435&context=nulr
Haney, Craig: “Restricting the Use of Solitary Confinement,” Annual Review of Criminology, Vol. 1:285-310, volume publication date January 2018, first published as a Review in Advance on November 3, 2017; https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-criminol-032317-092326
Haney, Craig: “The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement: A Systematic Critique,” Crime and Justice 47 (2018): 365-416. https://doi.org/10.1086/696041, Abstract ONLINE: Mar 09, 2018
Katz, Willow: “Herman Wallace: 26 Years of Letters, Art, Inspiration, and Loving Friendship: Interview with Sharon Willis,” February 4, 2021, Social Workers and Allies Against Solitary Confinement Newsletter, permission granted for distribution, https://socialworkersasc.org/herman-wallace-26-years-of-letters-art-inspiration-and-loving-friendship-interview-with-sharon-willis
O’Hearn, Denis: “The History of a One-sided Dialogue With Todd Ashker,” CounterPunch, August 23, 2013, https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/23/the-history-of-a-one-sided-dialogue-with-todd-ashker/
O’Neil, Cheri: “Speakers challenge audience to rethink modern incarceration,” May 29, 2018, https://news.ucsc.edu/2018/05/haney-incarceration.html
Smith, Dana G.: “Neuroscientists Make a Case Against Solitary Confinement: Prolonged social isolation can do severe, long-lasting damage to the brain,” November 9, 2018, Scientific American, https://portside.org/2018-11-09/neuroscientists-make-case-against-solitary-confinement
Zigmond, Michael J., PhD, organizer: Social Issues Roundtable: “Solitary Confinement: Psychological and Neurobiological Insights Into Isolation.” 2018 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Workshops Meetings and Events. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2018. Online. https://www.sfn.org/Workshops; announced in “Solitary Confinement Puts Brains at Risk,” https://globalhealthnewswire.com/2018/11/05/solitary-confinement-puts-brains-at-risk/
Zilkha, Noga & Kimchi, Tali: “A Molecular Signature for Social Isolation is Identified in the Brain,” Nature 559, 38-40, June 2018, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05447-9
Books, Publications
Abu-Jamal, Mumia: Live from Death Row, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, New York, NY, 1995
Arguelles, Marilla, ed: Extracts from Pelican Bay: An Anthology of Prisoner Poetry, Drawings, and Essays, The Pelican Bay Information Project, Pantograph Press, Berkeley, CA, 1995
Buser, Mary E.: Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York's Notorious Jail, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 2015
Casella, Jean, Ridgeway, James, and Shourd, Sarah: Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement, The New Press, New York, NY, 2016.
Chapters especially relevant to the California Prisoner Human Rights Movement Hunger Strikes:
- Todd Lewis Ashker: "A Tale of Evolving Resistance," pp. 83-91;
- Dolores Canales: "Because I Could Laugh," pp. 137-145;
- Stuart Grassian: "Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement," pp. 155-161;
- Terry Kupers: "How to Create Madness in Prison," pp. 163-177;
- Laura Rovner: "Solitary Confinement and the Law," pp. 179-194:
- Lisa Guenther: "The California SHU and the End of the World," pp. 211-220;
- Juan E. Méndez: “Afterword: Exposing Torture,” pp. 221-226;
- “Acknowledgments,” p. 227
Gibbons J, Katzenbach N.: Confronting Confinement: A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons. Vera Institute of Justice, New York, NY, 2006
Guenther, Lisa: Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, 2013
Hinton, Anthony Ray, with Hardin, Lara Love: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 2018
King, Robert Hillary: From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther, intro by Dr. Terry Kupers, M.D., M.S.P., PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2009
Kupers, Terry Allen: Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It, University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2017. Dr. Kupers includes numerous references to the California Prisoner Human Rights Movement and Hunger Strikes.
Kurshan, Nancy: Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons, The Freedom Archives, San Francisco, CA, 2013
López Rivera, Oscar: Between Torture and Resistance, PM Press, Oakland, CA, 2013
Mendez, Juan, Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: Interim Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, U.N. Doc A/66/268, 2011
Pelican's Progress: Anthology of Prison Writing from Pelican Bay State Prison, Crescent City, California, Arts in Corrections Program, 2009. (The California Prisoner Human Rights Movement, 2011 and 2013 Hunger Strikes, and Ashker v. CA Governor federal class action lawsuit were initiated by men incarcerated in Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit-SHU.)
Pendergrass, Taylor & Hoke, Mateo, editors: Six By Ten: Stories from Solitary, Voice of Witness, Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2018
Purvis, Aisha: Stories from Solitary Confinement: Kalief Browder, Blurb, Incorporated, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Reiter, Keramet: 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, London, 2016
Rosenberg, Susan: An American Radical: Political Prisoner in My Own Country, Citadel Press Books, New York, NY, 2011
Shalev, Sharon: A Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, 2008, electronic copy available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2177495
Shalev, Sharon: Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement, 1st Edition, Willan, London, UK, 2013
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), United Nations General Assembly, Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015, https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/NelsonMandelaRules.pdf
Venters, Homer: Life and Death in Rikers Island, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2019
Villarreal, Jose H.: Aztlan Realism: Chicano Revolutionry Art From Pelican Bay S.H.U., Aztlan Press, San Jose, CA, 2017
Woodfox, Albert, with George, Leslie: Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope, Grove Press, New York, NY, 2019
Films
Breaking Down the Box, The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, USA, 2015, 41 minutes
Cruel and Unusual: The Story of the Angola 3, Directed by Vadim Jean, USA, 2017, 102 minutes, Trailer for Cruel and Unusual, 1:52
The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation, Narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Directed by Jimmy O’Halligan, PM Press, Oakland, CA, USA, 2008, 109 minutes
Videos
SHU Survivor Steven Czifra's Testimony, CA State Legislature Informational Hearing: The Personal Experience, Effect, and Lasting Impact of Segregated Confinement in California Prisons, hearing held after the 2013 CA Prisoner Hunger Strike, Sacramento, 2013, 6:09, https://youtu.be/BUXhyin3lMA
By Any Other Name: A 15 Day Spotlight on Solitary Confinement in Canada
- Virtual events coordinated by The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, The John Howard Society of Canada, Prisoners’ Legal Services, and the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University
- Nov. 16-30, 2020
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqIgmAxy3OxiIWeT0cNHh5Q/videos
Events coordinated by Willow Katz, videos produced by Lucas Wolf Video:
· Cruel and Unusual-the Story of the Angola 3, Film & Discussion
- University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), Apr 22, 2018
- Speakers: Marie Levin and Craig Haney
- Reel Work Labor Film Festival
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7kb0PjnU5I&t=2027s
- 0:00 - Moderator Willow Katz; 10:19 - Dr. Craig Haney; 33:38 - Marie Levin
· Solitary Confinement, Readers Theater: California Prisoner Human Rights Movement 2011-2016
- Temple Beth El, Aptos, CA - Jewish Community Center, Social Justice Shabbat, 2016
- Readers: California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC) members: Marie Levin, Randy Levin, Cynthia Fuentes-Sevilla, Willow Katz; and allies
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVcEUuByoQE&feature=youtu.be
· Dolores Canales Speaking at Social Justice Shabbat
- Temple Beth El, Aptos, CA - Jewish Community Center, Social Justice Shabbat, Nov. 20, 2015
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY7--GJLByY&t=1s
- 0:00 - Rabbi Paula Marcus; 1:02 - Willow Katz; 4:48 - Dolores Canales; 19:11 - Judi Sherman + Q&A
Websites
Center for Constitutional Rights, https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/ashker-v-brown; https://ccrjustice.org/pelican-bay-prison-hunger-strikers
End Solitary Santa Cruz County, https://endsolitary-scc-ca.weebly.com/
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, https://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Social Workers and Allies Against Solitary Confinement, https://socialworkersasc.org/
Solitary Watch, https://solitarywatch.org/
Unlock the Box Campaign: A National Campaign to End Solitary Confinement, https://www.unlocktheboxcampaign.org/
