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Criminal justice activists seek to abolish incarceration policies they say discriminate
By Samantha Kennedy • Bay City News
Between 2011 and 2013, while serving time in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation system, Minister King X was one of several inmates who helped organize hunger strikes that rippled through the California state prison system in a fight for better conditions.
Involving more than 30,000 prisoners, the strikes took place to protest conditions that included indefinite solitary confinement in some cases. They spurred statewide changes in 2015 that seemed to put an end to the indefinite solitary and to lockdowns viewed as racially discriminatory.
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