Welcome back to On the Tier with the Underground Scholars. Continuing with our solitary confinement series, our topic of discussion will focus on the California Department of Correction’s retaliation tactics against those who participated in the California prison hungers strikes to end long-term solitary confinement, these tactics include the perverse use of confidential information and Non-Designated Program Facilities, aka: merger yards. The Non-Designated Programming Facility is a program in which Sensitive Needs Yard (SNY), previously known as Protective Custody (PC) and General Population (GP) are forced to cohabitate and program on a Non-Designated Yard together. We welcome back former guests, civil rights attorney, Anne Anne Weills and SHU survivor and Berkeley Underground Scholar, Kevin McCarthy.
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