A Call for Community Support on the Issue of Domestic Torture

Statement by a New Afrikan political prisoner at CSP-Lancaster, written on April 2, 2025, weeks into CDCr’s previous statewide lockdown.
Reissued and shared by them in solidarity with the current hungerstrike at SVSP against the lockdown.

Since February 28, 2025, we prisoners that are interned at CSP-Lancaster have been arbitrarily subjected to race-based domestic torture. This practice stands in direct violation of several class action lawsuits, in particular, Richardson v. Runnels, (594 Federal 3rd, 666, 9th Circuit, 2009, wherein the court concluded defendants have failed to carry the burden on the prisoner’s equal protection claim because they have made “no evidentiary showing at all concerning the basis for regarding all African Americans as a security risk when one or a few African Americans were responsible for a violent assault.”

Sixteen years later, CDCr administrators have violated this clearly established law wherein the CDCr secretary has authorized a statewide lockdown of all Level 4 slave camps based upon the violent acts of a few individuals.

In addition to this lockdown being race-based, it is also punitive in nature as it amounts to genocidal-based torture as we prisoners are deliberately being deprived of our essential human right to outdoor exercise wherein fresh air can be obtained which is essential for all human beings to live according to several scientific case studies.

For the past 34 days, CSP-Lancaster prisoners have been subjected to the following human rights abuses and or deprivations:

1. Locking ourselves up 24 hours a day. 
2. No telephone calls. 
3. Sporadic showers if we lucky to give one at all.
4. No canteen and or packages. 
5. No visits. 
6. No outdoor exercise and/or dayroom activities. 
7. No access to rehabilitative programs, in particular self-help groups and/or vocational training that is essential for our liberation.

There is no other way to view this than for what it is, and that’s genocidal-based domestic torture. That’s where being punitively punished as a matter of course, as CDCR has not produced any evidence that would indicate a statewide conspiracy to begin murdering prisoners within CDCR is in effect. Thus, the people are urged to voice their outrage through the powers that be in Sacramento and demand an immediate end to this human rights abuse.

All Power To The People