“The Strike,” a new documentary produced with the Fund’s support, chronicles the largest hunger strike in U.S. history, to protest solitary confinement at the Pelican Bay “supermax” prison in Northern California. For decades, the prison held mostly Black and brown men alone in tiny cells indefinitely. Then one day in 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on […]
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