The SENATE SELECT COMMUNITY COMMITTEE on CALIFORNIA'S CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM

is an organization of friends and relatives of people in maximum (in)security housing units in California prisons. We are dedicated to advocate for more humane, less restrictive alternatives to prisons and for restorative justice principles.

California Prison Focus is attempting to do something about the elevated problem in mental health in the Secure Housing Units. According to a recent report from CPF, they are searching for more evidence of the psychological effects of solitary confinement to prisoners who have been confined in the last ten years.
What they need now, is more informat ion from other prisoners who may have noticed the mental deterioration of those around them, or families who have noticed changes in behavior of their loved ones who are in the SHU.

Have signs of ceasing to communicate or unstable behavior been noticed? Have families noticed any new symptoms of changes in behavior of those prisoners transferred to Psychiatric Services Unit? Have family members noticed any changes in behavior or temperament in their loved ones who came home after being released directly from the SHU?

Address letters AS LEGAL MAIL to:
Charles Carbone, ESQ.,
SHU syndrome,
California Prison Focus,
2940 16th Street,
San Francisco 94103.

The time was right, and Rosa Parks stayed put
and did not move
from where she sat.

Today , the time is right for 3-Striker families to get up and move.

Barbara J. Brooks
CA 3-Striker Mom

California Third Striker Gabriel Reyes, confined in a tomb in Pelican Bay's deadly Security Housing Unit (SHU) is crying out for millions.

"Chains around my wrist and ankles, slicing into my skin with every movement, clasped unto my flesh like a hook on the mouth of a fish, the more you fight, the deeper it digs, the pain testing your faith in that which you believe . . .

Family, friends and loved ones left behind sometimes only seem like small fragments of time broken up by the trial of life and those in charge of your fate.

Families struggling to stay afloat in this storm of despair and hate, bonding together in this fight, realizing the power of a united voice, sharing information, knowledge and facts, fighting to bring the captives home, to right a wrong and to stop a crime against humanity.

Till then, 'til they succeed, here I will stay in Pelican Bay, being absorbed into the depths of this tomb,my spirit trapped, encased in the sands of time, waiting for a break in the glass to make my escape, hanging on by the tips of my fingers, trying not to go insane, slipping on my own blood and pain."

Gabriel Reyes

 

From: Facts Striker, November 2005, p. 7