Good morning, San Leandro! Here are your morning news, as derived from my tweeter feed 🙂 – 30,000 prisoners are in hunger strike in California. Complaints center on state policies that allow prison officials to keep prisoners in isolation indefinitely by merely accusing them of having gang ties. When forced to actually look into the cases, prison authorities have had to acknowledge that at least half of them had no ties at all. Solitary confinement is considered a cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment – though after watching a couple of documentaries on isolation (netflix has them), the more appropriate term [Continue Reading]