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美国12000名加州囚犯再度开始绝食斗争
12,000 Prisoners Resume Hunger Strike in California
一场非常正义、非常重要和勇敢的斗争正在加利福尼亚州的州立监狱迅速展开，并扩大。 9月26日，在Pelican Bay State Prison in the Security Housing Unit (SHU)州立监狱的囚犯再度开始绝食，以反击加州监狱当局（CDCR）和其他州级官员（包括州长Jerry Brown）对于囚犯七月绝食的恶意造谣攻击和报复。 曾经在7月1日至 7月20日期间绝食，要求结束他们所面临的恐怖的非人待遇。 监狱当局承认，从9月26日（星期一）起，截至9月29日，4252名在8所州立监狱的犯人已经连续九顿饭停止了进食，（以下为8所监狱名称）。 （监狱当局CDCR计算绝食人数的方法是从某名囚犯连续九顿餐拒绝进食算起。）
A very just, very significant and courageous battle is rapidly spreading in California’s state prisons—and beyond. On September 26, prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) resumed their hunger strike—in the face of vicious lies and attacks and retaliation by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and other state officials, including Governor Jerry Brown. They had been on a hunger strike from July 1-July 20, demanding an end to the horrifically inhuman conditions they face. On September 29, the CDCR admitted that 4,252 inmates in eight state prisons had missed nine consecutive meals since Monday, September 26, and that state prisons at Calipatria, Centinela, Ironwood, Pelican Bay, San Quentin, and Salinas Valley, as well as the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and state prison at Corcoran, had all reported inmates on hunger strike. (The CDCR won’t count a prisoner as being on hunger strike until he or she has refused nine straight meals.)
事实证明，这些官方的数字，大大低估了囚犯绝食的人数。 10月1日，“囚徒绝食抗议团结会”的网站报道，“联邦政府收到的数据显示，9月28日，近12000囚犯绝食，包括在亚利桑那州，密西西比州和俄克拉荷马州安置的加州囚犯。”（该网站补充说，“绝食代表曾表示，这将是一个滚动轮流的绝食斗争，期间容许囚徒中断绝食以恢复体力。正因为如此，数字很可能会在整个绝食期间波动”。）
These officials figures, it turns out, underestimated the number of prisoner hunger strikers. On October 1, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity’s website reported, “Numbers released by the federal receiver’s office show that on September 28, nearly 12,000 prisoners were on hunger strike, including California prisoners who are housed in out-of-state prisons in Arizona, Mississippi, and Oklahoma.” (The website adds, “Representatives of the hunger strikers have previously stated that this will be a rolling strike, allowing prisoners to come off strike to regain strength. Because of this, numbers will likely fluctuate throughout the duration of the strike.”)
7月份的长达三个星期的绝食，有超过6500名囚犯参加了。当时监狱官员承诺，他们会满足囚犯的一些要求并研究囚犯提出的主要问题，于是，Pelican Bay的囚犯于7月20日中止了绝食。然而到9月份，囚犯们在一份书面声明中说，这些承诺并没有兑现：“我们无限期地被押在单人监房内，被剥夺了基本人权，这是非法的政策和做法，我们实际是在受到酷刑折磨，也折磨了我们在外面的家人和友人。CDCR仍然拒绝改变，并继续传播谎言，以非人化/妖魔化我们，……”
More than 6,500 prisoners joined the three-week hunger strike in July. Prisoners at Pelican Bay suspended the strike on July 20 after prison officials promised they would meet some of the prisoners’ demands and address the main issues prisoners were raising. Then in September, prisoners wrote a statement saying these promises had not been kept: “We remain in SHU indefinitely, deprived of our basic human rights—based on illegal policies and practices, that amount to torture; torture of us, as well as our family members and loved ones on the outside. CDCR remains in denial, and continues to propagate the lies re: ‘worst-of-the-worst’ 3000 gang generals, etc.—in order to dehumanize/demonize us,” (Go to revcom.us/s/pelicanbay-hungerstrike-en.html for extensive coverage of the July hunger strike.)
这些囚犯现在再次不顾生命危险，要求被当作人类对待，要求CDCR结束整个加州监狱的野蛮的、不人道的监禁状况，特别是在“Security Housing Units”即SHUs（就是“小号监牢”）。在那里，数以千计的囚犯被隔离闭锁、单独监禁在没有窗户的小囚室里，7.6英尺宽，11.6英尺长，终年累月每天22小时以上不得与任何人接触。
仅仅在Pelican Bay 一所监狱内，就有1111名囚犯被隔离禁闭在 SHU（单人监房）内，而且平均闭锁期竟长达6.8年! 超过500人被禁闭10年以上；78人竟然已经被禁闭20年以上了。
These prisoners are now putting their lives on the line again, demanding to be treated as human beings—demanding that the CDCR end the barbaric, inhumane conditions of imprisonment throughout California prisons, particularly in the “Security Housing Units” or SHUs. There, thousands of prisoners are locked in solitary confinement in windowless cells, 7.6 feet by 11.6 feet, for 22 hours or more a day for years, denied human contact.
There are 1,111 inmates confined to the SHU at Pelican Bay alone, where the average length of confinement is 6.8 years. More than 500 prisoners have been in the Pelican Bay SHU for more than 10 years; 78 have been in the SHU for more than 20 years! 图片链接
当局对于绝食行动的恶意报复
Vicious Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers
Prison officials were deeply shaken by the breadth and strength of the July 1-20 hunger strike. This courageous action brought to light the horrific conditions of solitary confinement—amounting to torture—and there was broad support for the prisoners’ just demands.
监狱官员对于7月1-20日绝食的广度和强度深感震惊。 因为这种勇敢的行动揭露了狱方单独隔离囚禁的可怕状况——等同于酷刑。而且囚犯的正义要求得到了广泛支持。
在囚犯宣布将再度绝食后，监狱当局发出了两个公告给165,000囚犯，警告他们不要行动，声称狱方正在做出改变。 戒律警告也发给了成千上万的绝食者。 一些绝食行动的支持者报告说，许多人失去了工作，作为对其支持7月绝食的惩罚。一些人收到了戒律惩罚通知书，一些参与谈判的囚犯被单独挑选出来，威胁要转移监押，监舍也受到强制搜查。
狱方负责人Matthew Cate在9月27日受到伯克利的KPFA电台采访时说，“我们不容许媒体接近绝食囚犯。”
After prisoners announced the strike would be resumed, prison authorities issued two memos to 165,000 prisoners—warning them against going on strike, claiming they were making changes. Disciplinary warnings were issued to thousands of hunger strikers. Supporters of the strikers report that a number of prisoners lost their jobs as punishment for supporting the strike in July, that some received punitive disciplinary write-ups, and some prisoner negotiators were being singled out and threatened with transfers and subjected to cell searches.
Matthew Cate, Secretary of CDCR, interviewed by Berkeley’s KPFA radio on September 27, said that the media are not allowed access to the prisoners on strike
狱方当局CDCR在7月29日曾经专门针对群体性有组织的绝食抗议，发布了医疗政策和程序的修订案，包括给犯人强行喂食的标准。 这意味着CDCR计划强行喂食囚犯，以打破绝食斗争。美国“公民自由联盟”已声明说“填鸭式强制喂食违反了美国国内法和国际法，并被普遍认为是一种残忍的、不人道的和有辱人格的手段”。
On July 29 the CDCR released a revision to its Medical Services Program Policy and Procedures regarding a mass organized hunger strike—including criteria for when the force-feeding of inmates will take place. This could mean the CDCR plans to force-feed prisoners to break the hunger strike. The American Civil Liberties Union has written that “force-feeding contravenes U.S. domestic and international law and is universally considered to be a form of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.”
参加绝食的囚犯的家庭成员探访也被取消了。“囚犯绝食联盟”报告，Carol Strickman 和 Marilyn McMahon两位律师，对于绝食调解中间人小组的和去直接调解囚犯的两项合法访问，都被监狱当局禁止了。 这是当局为了进一步竭力隔绝囚犯，防止囚犯处境的真相暴露于监狱围墙之外。 （“CDCR禁止律师采取新行动”，2011年9月30日）
Family members of prisoners participating in the hunger strike are having their visits cancelled. And the Prisoner Hunger Strike Coalition reports that Carol Strickman and Marilyn McMahon, both attorneys who have served on the hunger strike mediation team and have coordinated legal visits for prisoners in the SHU, have both been banned from prisoner visits by the CDCR. This is a further effort to isolate the prisoners and prevent the truth of their situation from being known outside prison walls. (“CDCR Bans Lawyers: TAKE ACTION NEW!” Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity, September 30, 2011)
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