HOW YOU CAN HELP:

1. Stay on top of what's going on behind the walls. Listen to letters received from behind the walls HERE.

2. ORGANIZE and/or PARTICIPATE IN DIRECT ACTIONS

List of other Bay Area Protests 

3. Join CPF/KAGE Universal's Agreement 2 Come Home project and collective. Learn more about it by attending or calling into CPF's monthly Artivist Meeting on the first Tuesday of every month. See CPF's volunteer page  or  events calendar for details. 

The Agreement 2 Come Home includes 5 Core demands based on the Prisoner Human Rights Movement Blueprint, and developed in collaboration with it's founders behind the walls. The following demands rely on the development of a Strategic Community Release Board, which needs to be at the forefront of all parole-related public safety decisions. 

DEMAND #1. Any prisoner 60 or more years of age be considered for expedited release, immediately, by the SCRB in the interest of justice.

DEMAND #2.  Any prisoner that has suffered an ailment that could lead to their death be considered for expedited release, immediately, by the SCRB in the interest of justice.  

DEMAND #3. Any prisoner who has been incarcerated 25 to 30 years be considered for expedited release, immediately, by the SCRB in the interest of justice.

DEMAND #4. Any prisoner subjected to indefinite punishment based on rule violation reports, which are treated as felonies by the Board of Parole Hearings - who have suffered the consequences of this double jeopardy - be considered for expedited release, immediately, by the SCRB in the interest of justice.

DEMAND #5.  An end to civil death by indeterminate sentencing (Life sentences, with or without the possibility of parole). Indefinite sentencing is a punishment that never ends, and leads to a civil death. This is a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution, falling under cruel and unusual punishment. We demand that individuals with life sentences that meet any of the above four demands - especially those who have a solid parole plan, including a support system, adequate housing, and/or a job - be considered for expedited release, immediately, by the SCRB, in the interest of justice. 

Supplemental Demands that CPF sent to CA. Governor Newsom: 

1. Release to the public updates on the existing plan and procedures in place to address COVID-19 and how adequate care will be provided for all who fall under the Coleman and Ashker Class Action Settlements. 

2. Provide free tablets within all CDCR institutions and facilitate email communication through Corrlinks services to support prisoners in the establishment and maintenance of family ties and bonds. This is needed to mitigate the closing of all visitations at CDCR institutions which adversely impacts family communication and bonds.

3. Support Nancy Skinner’s Senate Bill 1064, prohibiting an employee of, or private entity under contract with, the department from finding any state prisoner guilty of a rules violation if that finding or decision is based on, or relies on, in whole or in part, any uncorroborated information from an in-custody confidential informant.

4. Create transparency regarding the application of AB 1448, Prop 57 and other California resentencing laws so that they may be applied as intended.

5. The right for the signers of The AEH, the members of the Ashker Class Action and all 2011 and 2013 hunger strikers to be safe from retaliation as a result of these demands, including further torture, isolation, or, as laid out in the Prisoner Human Rights Movement Blueprint, from being coerced, threatened and blackmailed to betray fellow prisoners with false accusations.

6. DROP LWOP

7. Reduce jail admissions by reclassifying misdemeanor offenses that do not threaten public safety into non-jailable offenses and diverting as many people as possible to community- based mental health and substance abuse treatment. 

8. Eliminate parole and probation revocations for technical violations for behaviors that would not warrant incarceration for people who are not on parole or probation.

9. Shut down immigration detention centers.

10. End police brutality, inside prisons and out.

3. Support the signers of the Agreement to End All Hostilities (AEH) by volunteering with California Prison Focus. These individuals continue to endure retaliation by CDCr guards and administration in response to their organizing and solidarity-building efforts. Currently, only two of the 16 signers of the Agreement have been granted parole, despite the fact that the majority of them spent more than 2 decades tortured in solitary confinement and have been eligible for equally as long. (See chart below)  Make a difference by advocating for these individuals, by promoting the AEH and using it as a tool to empower people on both sides of the prison walls, and/or by participating in any number of CPF and KAGE Universal programs and projects. 

Signers of the Agreement to End Hostilities continue to be retaliated against for their organizing efforts.

Compiled Fall, 2020:

Name, CDC #	Age	Admission Date	Eligible since	Parole Denials	Yrs in CA SHU solitary conf.	Post SHU Syndrome
Todd Ashker, C58191	56	1985	2005	3	28	Y
Arturo Castellanos, C17275	59	1980	2000	3	26	Y
Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (Dewberry), C35671	61	1981	1997 Medical Release!	5 (Received medical parole June 2020.)	32	Y
Antonio Guillen, P81948	55	2000	2023		over ten	Y
Danny Troxell, B76578	66	1979	1996	4	over ten	Y
George Franco, D46556	54	1989	2000	4	over ten	Y
Ronnie Yandell, V27927	57	2004	2026		over ten	Y
Paul Redd, B72683	63	1976	1982 RELASEASED!	22 (Released in June 2020 after a resentencing hearing determined that he should have been released in 1992)	over thirty	Y
James Baridi Williamson, D34288	56	1986	2016		26	Y
Alfred Sandoval, D61000	62	1987	LWOP		over ten	Y
Louis Powell, B59864	68	1986	1999	4	over twenty	Y
Alex Yrigollen, H32421	50	1992	2004	2	over ten	Y
Frank Clement, D07919	53	1985	1998	3	over ten	Y
Raymond Chavo Perez, K12922	Died in prison				18	Y
James Mario Perez, B48186	66	1978	1984	9	over ten	Y
Average	59 yrs old

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