Trailer | The Strike
Preview: Season 26 Episode 10 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
A hunger strike against solitary confinement at Pelican Bay prison became a massive feat of unity.
The high-security Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a decade or more, and with little due process. In 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on a hunger strike that spread into a feat of unity across California prisons. The Strike follows these solitary survivors who fought to abolish indefinite isolation.
Trailer | The Strike
Preview: Season 26 Episode 10 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The high-security Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a decade or more, and with little due process. In 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on a hunger strike that spread into a feat of unity across California prisons. The Strike follows these solitary survivors who fought to abolish indefinite isolation.
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And you have no way of creating new ones.
[♪♪] - Being subjected to long term sensory deprivation.
- We were placed in solitary confinement for decades.
[♪♪] - Folks inside started thinking about ways to protest.
- Let's do a nonviolent act.
Let's do a hunger strike.
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