On May 25th, 2017 men housed in building four of the Administrative Segregation Units at Folsom State Prison in California began a hunger strike. Host Amy Johnson will get an update on the situation one month since the start of the strike. These are the nine demands of the strikers:
Provide adequate access to courts and legal assistance
Provide meaningful education, self-help courses and rehabilitative programs
Allow possession of televisions
Provide exercise equipment, including pull-up bars, for meaningful exercise in yard
End cruelty, noise and sleep deprivation of welfare checks
Keep original proper packaging for commissary and canteen
Give non-disciplinary status to qualifying prisoners
Provide adequate and appropriate clothing and shoes
Provide food bowl and cup
itsgoingdown.org/folsom-hunger-strike-media-release/
itsgoingdown.org/folsom-hunger-strike-update-retaliation-demands-rally/
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