End Solitary Santa Cruz
corner of Pacific and Cooper (112 Cooper St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060)
Thurs. Mar. 23rd, Sun. April 23rd, and 23rd of every month (for the 23+ hours a day people in solitary are in their cells).
End Solitary Confinement Torture! End mass incarceration in the Prison Industrial Complex and mass criminalization and crimmigration.
11:30 am - set up.
12 noon – signs and outreach to passersby.
12:30-2:00 pm – rally, speak-out, readers’ theater, take action, write letters to end sleep deprivation torture of people in CA solitary units.
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End sleep deprivation torture of people in CA solitary units:
In Central CA Women's Facility, people are now being awakened every 15-30 minutes at night.
Guards doing “security/welfare checks” jarringly awaken people every 30 minutes night and day in isolation units throughout California prisons (in Pelican Bay State Prison, every 60 minutes at night). Ordered to prevent suicide, these noisy checks cause sleep deprivation and extreme mental and physical harm. This increases the risk of suicide.
Sleep deprivation is torture (like what was done at Guantánamo), immoral, and inhumane, and violates the CA penal code and constitutional and international human rights law. It has no "security" or “welfare” interest.
People need compassionate care, rehabilitation, and restorative justice, not the torture of solitary confinement and sleep deprivation.