“Guards are jarringly waking prisoners in solitary confinement every 30 minutes in the name of “security/welfare checks” throughout all CA prisons’ isolation units. Loudly disturbing and waking people every 30 minutes is serious, ongoing sleep deprivation, a debilitating, internationally-condemned form of torture.”
STOP SLEEP DEPRIVATION in CA Solitary Units
End the “Security/Welfare Checks”
from the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS) Committee to End Sleep Deprivation
Please read the below update and write letters to Lindsay Hayes, the suicide expert who’s endorsed this harmful practice by CA Dept. of Corrections. Hayes can stop the “security/ welfare checks.” We want Hayes to hear the voices of the women and men affected by these torturous checks, and we ask you to be the messengers.
Use these templates and prisoner quotes, and send to the listed addresses:
- Short TEMPLATE LETTER to Hayes http://wp.me/P1BB1k-2IM
- Longer TEMPLATE LETTER to Hayes http://wp.me/P1BB1k-2Je
- QUOTES from people in ten CA prisons about checks
http://wp.me/P1BB1k-2K5
Write to:
Lindsay M. Hayes
40 Lantern Lane
Mansfield, MA 02048
Copy to:
Matthew A. Lopes, Jr.
Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West LLC
317 Iron Horse Way, Suite 301
Providence, RI 02908
If possible, send us…
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