Amy Goodman
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Mother of CA Prisoner On Hunger Strike: The System Is Designed to Create Suicidal Tendencies
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5:20Now PlayingSee the full interview at As prisoners in California enter the 10th day of their hunger strike, Dolores Canales with California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement describes the impact of prison conditions on her son, John Martinez, who has been held in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay for more than 12 years and has not seen natural light in more than two years. She also refers to the impact it has had on herself, noting that, "I feel myself at times as if I'm buried alive ... I just imagine what its like to be entombed day in, day out, in a cell like that."
Canales says: "My son is housed maybe in a cell where the prisoner there before him might have took his own life or went mad. My son is housed in a cell that, just as Jules Lobel was saying, there is no window, you don't know when day transitions into night. You just go by the food tray they slide to you, if it's a breakfast tray or a dinner tray, and to know that even their yard, it just exists of another cell. They bring them out and put them in another cell surrounded by 20 feet brick walls and the sky covering covered in plexiglass."
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