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Day 23 of the Hunger Strike: Light and Shadow in Press Coverage

July 30, 2013 / Hadar Aviram
Two interesting newspaper articles came out recently, bracketing the range of public opinion about the California inmate hunger strike. The first piece, in the Los Angeles Times, is a profile

The Inmate as Customer: “Pay-To-Stay” and the Commodification of Punishment

July 29, 2013 / Hadar Aviram
This morning Huffington’s Post reports about the Fremont Jail: The Fremont Police Department is now offering its inmates a “pay to stay” option. For a one-time fee of $45 plus

Hunger Strike Bears Fruit at Martinez Detention Facility

July 29, 2013 / Hadar Aviram
On July 19, 2013, all Martinez Detention Facility hunger strikers suspended their hunger strike. (Prisoners there had joined the statewide California hunger strike when it began on July 8, after

Crime, Incarceration, and the Human Spirit: On Billy Sell and the Escape from Alcatraz

July 28, 2013 / Hadar Aviram
Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin, and John Anglin, courtesythe BBC UK. Billy Sell’s tragic death yesterday, ruled a suicide by CDCR, raises some disturbing and urgent questions. How many such casualties

Tragic Breaking News: Billy Sell Succumbs to Hunger Strike

July 28, 2013 / Hadar Aviram
The first known casualty of the hunger strike is Corcoran inmate Billy Sell. The San Francisco Bay View reports: Billy Michael “Guero” Sell, CDCr No. P-41250, age 32, was housed

Emergency State Appeal of Plata Before Supreme Court

July 26, 2013 / Hadar Aviram
Justice Kennedy, the deciding voice in Brown v. Plata, is to tackle overcrowding once more, in responding to an emergency appeal from Gov. Brown to block the Plata panel to

Hunger Strike – Day 18

July 25, 2013 / Hadar Aviram

TV Series Review: Orange is the New Black

July 24, 2013 / Hadar Aviram
The new Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black, is a dramatization of a book by the same name by Piper Kerman (referred to as Piper Chapman in the series),

Film Review: Fruitvale Station

July 20, 2013 / Hadar Aviram
What a tragic week in which to watch Fruitvale Station, a dramatization of the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, shot by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on

Day 11: California Bans Inmates’ Rights Lawyer from Prisons

July 18, 2013 / Hadar Aviram
The Los Angeles Times reports: Marilyn McMahon, executive director of California Prison Focus, on Wednesday said she was sent a fax informing her that her access to inmates participating in