Current Events in CA Prisons

As i’ve indicated in my previous writings on the subject, the California Department of Corrections and “Rehabilitation” (CDCr) thoroughly co-opted the momentum of the hunger strikes and the B.S. multinational Agreement to End Hostilities (AEH), so i won’t repeat all that here, but a few points must be reiterated.

Firstly, CDCr had no choice but to “compromise”, but used the watered down “5-core demands” and its self-imposed leadership to initiate a pacification and disruption program. Not only was solitary whittled down and trinkets issued en masse, but gang (so-called STG) leadership was empowered in a direct CDCr/STG collaboration to help police other prisoners and distinguish between good and bad prisoners, etc.

Secondly, CDCr/CCPOA “rebelled” and did its best to undermine these “reforms”, and the scrutiny they felt. This looked like allowing inmates to assault each other with virtually no consequence and even going so far as to allow inmates to sign “mutual combat chrons” even when it was an obvious assault i.e. 5 on 1, sneak attacks, dope fiend moves etc. etc., and of course real mutual combats.

Usually prisoners that are as “tough” as we are would sign the chrono which served 2 purposes for the pigs: 1. they didn’t have to write “enemy” or “separation” chronos and, 2. they didn’t have to inform Sacramento of these new wave “Gladiator Fights” and especially assaults which would’ve shown the public how untenable CDCr is.

Lastly here CDCr allowed and brought in boatloads of drugs, so that K2/Spice flooded the “market.” This was/is especially what connects prison gangster leadership to CDCr and perhaps the main thing that gets them to be used as mouthpieces of CDCr. [MIM(Prisons) adds: we’ve been documenting this across the country’s prison system for years, and California was late to the game here.]

Anyways, there’s been 2 murders here within a few days: one on my yard and one on another facility. Someone off the row is reported to have had a dead cellie (undetected) in the cell for 2 days – so much for welfare checks huh?

The next day someone overdosed on spice and died. They put the entire prison on lockdown (for their failures). No canteen, yard, etc. over here. i tried to get some unity to address at least the canteen since it had shit to do with this yard and address the contradictions this exposed for CDCr and its dirty hands and inability to “rehabilitate” shit. But this new culture is too ingrained for much unity , sadly most are big-ass cry babies since drugs/liquor etc. is always right around the corner and most don’t see CDCr (as a whole) as an opposing force.

Shit i was even told i shouldn’t disparage all C/O’s as pigs and this contradicts my previous point that we can’t make blanket condemnations against “our” own people like “nigga’s ain’t shit!” i was trying to draw from BLA-CC collected works on the “class” point there. But the self-hatred is palpable in 2025. Here we’re so warped even Euro-Amerikans say nigga nigga nigga to refer to themselves and others. Latinos tho got it super bad and this new New Afrikan gang culture encourages our self-hatred. It’s pretty bad.

Anyways, not only was i screamin’ in the wind soon as we came up 3 prisoners assaulted another one and the “pigs” encouraged them (per usual) to sign mutual combat chronos so no one was separated, etc. Usually if one wants to retaliate it’ll just be written as another mutual combat but this cat came out with a knife and laid one out right in front of the pigs – DOA.

Now we’re on lockdown (which means shit to the propped up leadership CDCr was empowered as they’re always out). But the news says Lancaster has heightened security due to “a surge of violence.” This may prove to be a nodal point as CDCr must not only justify its actions but it will use this to “take their prison back”. i’m told all Level 4’s are affected and even tablets will be taken.

All that most people see is a lockdown “period” so until CDCr begins to reconfigure prisons – which they’re doing right now. i don’t see much mass consciousness, but i’ve made a few solid connections and hope this is something that pulls us forward. We’ll see.