BY DONALD RAY YOUNG Using the Norwegian model as a template, San Quentin State Prison wants to be the model gulag for California, the nation and beyond. This comes with a sticker price of $380 [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Industrial Complex
Letters to the Editor
Not in Clovis Regarding “Clovis Is Not in Compliance with Housing Laws” (May 2023 issue): Well, as a Clovis resident, that's a bummer. We live here to get away from lower-income housing. Too bad [...] Continue Reading
May 2023 Final
You can read the print version of the paper below. This is a .pdf of the May 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
“Animals,” Gladiators and California Prisons
(Author’s note: Talk to any incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person and they will tell you that prisoners in California jails and prisons are treated like animals. I can personally attest to this [...] Continue Reading
State-Sponsored Carnage in California Prisons
“The integrated yard policy (IYP) is per force a staged fight because integrating rival factions will always lead to violence…In my experience, the IYP was always a device used to break the leadership [...] Continue Reading
Hunger Strike at Immigration Detention Centers
On Feb. 26, several detainees at two immigration detention centers in Kern County—the Golden State Annex and Mesa Verde—went on a hunger strike to protest inhumane treatment and unsanitary conditions. [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
About Your “Prison Gladiator Fights” Article Reader comments regarding “California Prison Gladiator Fights, Again!” (March 2023 issue): First of all, that was a really good article. You covered [...] Continue Reading
California Prison Gladiator Fights, Again!
In July 2022, populations inside all California prisons began being forced by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to intermix across hostile groups, resulting in [...] Continue Reading
Decontextualized Analysis That Drives Gang Legislation in Fresno
In the spring of 2016, an ordinance to “protect” Fresno’s youth from the insidious encroachment of gangs was proposed by a Fresno City Council member. Triggered by a complaint, or maybe several [...] Continue Reading
Rehabilitating the Finances of California Incarceration
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), the Transformative In-Prison Workgroup (TPW) and many more community-based organizations and coalitions are shining a light on taxpayer funds that [...] Continue Reading
FUSD Reminds Us of the Punishment-Racism Commitment
The U.S. cultural fixation on punishment relies on major institutions to recycle and recirculate beliefs and practices that make chronic punishment look “natural,” “inevitable” and “timeless.” The [...] Continue Reading
The June Community Alliance is now online
The June 2022 Community Alliance newspaper is being printed today and will be mailed to subscribers this afternoon. You can see the online version here: www.fresnoalliance.com [...] Continue Reading